He doesn’t love LA.
Los Angeles has been named among the worst places to visit over the holidays, according to a well traveled critic Who has visited more than 76 countries.
“There’s no doubt, if you’ve got big money you’ll have a good time,” sniffed Daily Mail travel editor Mark Palmer in his rapid evocation of the City of Angels.
Otherwise, you can easily feel lost and isolated. A city with motorways running through it is never the most comfortable,” he said.
Palmer derided the local bus tours “where you are shown where the big names of Hollywood live”, which actually included “high walls with barbed wire”, and described Venice Beach as “Poser and ‘Love Island. ‘Said to be Mecca for the lovers.’
Also on the connoisseur’s no-fly list is Dubai – a place he visited only “once” and never again, despite the “amazing feat of engineering” that is building a metropolis in the middle of the desert .
Honeymoon dream spot the Maldives, he said, wasn’t worth the trip – they “didn’t” get the promotion.
“Those ‘pleasant’ atolls have no culture; You don’t see anything at night; The sea is often only waist deep; The local bar is no place for a drinker to get down to the street; You see the same people at breakfast, lunch and dinner,” he wrote, adding that the price of the cheapest wine is still incredibly high.
Next place on the chopping block is Mykonos – A destination that other avid travelers have criticized as too expensive,
“Must have been blissful 20 or 30 years ago. Now it’s all style rather than substance,” wrote Palmer, criticizing the lavish sun lounger, which cost a pretty penny.
“When a cruise ship comes the main city is destroyed and becomes impenetrable. “It’s all a far cry from what a traditional Greek island should be about.”
He would also avoid Barcelona – where there are lots of tourists, and Malta – which is much more developed, he said.
Instead, some of his favorites are the “lush Caribbean island” of Grenada, for its “gentle, open, warm and infectiously delightful” people, or the Italian city of Lecce.
There, Palmer said, visitors can marvel at “its grand courtyard palaces, grand squares, huge amphitheatres” and much more, adding, “It’s no wonder people call it the ‘Florence of the South,'” without Of the crowd.
He also recommends Morocco, Rwanda, Iceland, Japan, Venice and Stockholm in the winter time.
“The streets of Sweden’s capital are very clean; Parks and forests are within easy reach of the city; Water is everywhere,” Palmer gushed.
“It has one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world; Stately boulevards, exquisite narrow streets in the Gamla Stan (old town) and the constant movement of seaworthy vessels of all kinds.”
