How many European capital cities have you

[Genau]

Not as long a list of capital cities as some but it does include an uncommon one - Vaduz:

London
Edinburgh
Paris
Brussels
Rome
Bern
Bonn (back when it was a capital city)
Amsterdam - gets into the list on a technicality. It is the capital and The Hague is the seat of government
Vaduz

Handy tip when travelling to Vaduz - it closes for lunch. Quite pleasant though.

 

[jugglingphil]

Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh, London
Amsterdam, Bern, Copenhagen, Dublin, Monaco, Paris
Don't think I've cycled in any of them! Must have been the only person not cycling in Copenhagen or Amsterdam!

 

[robjh]

Amsterdam - gets into the list on a technicality. It is the capital and The Hague is the seat of government

In that case I'd better add Amsterdam to my list.

I could also add the Vatican, but I find it hard to accept one city block with a church as a country, although I guess that under international law it scrapes into that category.

Handy tip when travelling to Vaduz - it closes for lunch. Quite pleasant though.

And probably Vaduz - I hitchhiked right through Liechtenstein in 1981, and suppose the road went through Vaduz, but I can't say I really noticed. Maybe it was closed.

 

[vernon]

I like Copenhagen - but it is bloody expensive! No wonder the Danes drink and get so morose...

I thought that I was in Copenhagen once but the Amsterdam coffee shop's product was stronger than I'd counted on.

 

[EltonFrog]

London, Edingburgh, Paris, Dublin, Olso, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Bern, Brussels.

Not as many as I thought, I've bee to more European countries, but not to the capital cities.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Given how much I hate towns and cities and can't even cross the road in London, how I have managed to visit 16 capital cities is beyond me.

Athens, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, Lisbon, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vilnius

 

[Brandane]

State capitals ; London Paris Madrid Lisbon Rome Brussels Luxembourg Bern Vienna Berlin Prague Budapest Bucharest Ljubljana Warsaw Moscow Zagreb Belgrade Sofia Athens Riga Vilnius Tallinn Helsinki Stockholm Copenhagen San Marino Sarajevo Podgorica Valletta
+ capitals of large 'national' regions that are not states: Barcelona Bilbao and Edinburgh, and Cardiff (transit only)

Also maybe some should count twice: Berlin as capital of the GDR and united Germany, Belgrade as capital of Yugoslavia and Serbia, and London as capital of the UK (a state), and England (a non-state 'country').

WTF?

Scotland and Wales (and England, and Northern Ireland) are separate countries within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They have their own capital cities, and that was the question: "How many European capital cities have you visited?"

 

[robjh]

WTF?

Scotland and Wales (and England, and Northern Ireland) are separate countries within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They have their own capital cities, and that was the question: "How many European capital cities have you visited?"

We've got a bit of a UK-centric view here. We conventionally refer to England, Scotland and Wales as countries, but by applying definitions that we wouldn't use anywhere else in the world. Barring a bit of recent devolution, there is only one government, one passport, one internationally recognised border and only one seat on the United Nations. Scotland and England were merged by the Act of Union in 1707, Wales and England by stages somewhat earlier. A bit of objectivity doesn't hurt.

Anyway, I included them as capitals here because everyone else has, but their status is different.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

If you.go to Wien then make sure you get the right u bahn karte .

I got arrested and fined by some little Hitler for having.bought the wrong zone or something.

It's an ok place but go to Salzburg it's nicer.

Yeah - I got that wrong too. Fortunately I didn't get challenged

 

[BrumJim]

Someone had better tell the Council of Europe, as Turkey's been a member since 1949. Your pathetic attempts to find fault in anything I post are making you look stupid again...

Turkey is a country that is in Europe, both geographically and politically.

However Ankara is in Asia, geographically, therefore arguably is not a European Capital. However I agree that we really are being picky here.

Visited properly:
London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast (not including St Peter Port, Sark or Herm, as this would be getting a little silly)
Dublin, Paris, Budapest, Bucharest, Prague, Berlin (10 in total)
Passing through:
Vienna (always nightmare traffic), Copenhagen, Stockholm, Amsterdam (all in transit in airport, although I am confused re The Hague/Amsterdam as to which is the capital).

Difficult to call a favourite, but Edinburgh is hard to beat, Budapest is well worth a visit, and Prague would be fantastic if it hadn't been found by so many other people too.

 

[rich p]

Jesus fecking Christ - it's a light-hearted thread. Some of you people are just making tits of yourselves.

 

[Amanda P]

Hmm. London, Paris, Helsinki, Brussels, Madrid, Stockholm, Dublin, (Edinburgh, Cardiff), Amsterdam.

I've been around a bit, but as my job's connected with farming, there's not usually much call to visit capitals for that.

Which one would I like to revisit? Er, can I have Copenhagen - even though I've not been there yet?

 

[Brandane]

Jesus fecking Christ - it's a light-hearted thread. Some of you people are just making tits of yourselves.

Sorry - but there's national pride at stake here!

 

[Durian]

42 European capitals visited. Favourites would probably be London, Rome, Tallinn, Prague and Budapest.

Would love to visit Moscow at some stage.