Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Jordan from the Discord server, and yes, I do have a Discord server, asks, In your travels, what’s your favorite place you’ve spent less than 48 hours in? What’s your favorite place you’ve spent at least two weeks in?

For a place where I’ve spent less than 48 hours, I’ll probably have to go with Macau. I visited Macau on Christmas Day 2007. I took a very early ferry from Hong Kong and spent the entire day exploring Macau. Macau isn’t very big, and I visited most of the major attractions while I was there. I ended up taking the last ferry back to Hong Kong, which was an extremely full day, but it was only one day.

There are several places where I’ve spent more than two weeks. By that, I’m only counting locations where I stayed at the same accommodations in the same city for at least two weeks straight. That would include Melbourne, Bangkok, Saigon, and Apia, Samoa. However, I’d have to say my favorite place was Girona, in Catalonia, Spain. Girona is about an hour north of Barcelona, and I spent three months there.

Girona was used as one of the shooting locations for Game of Thrones, and it is a very overlooked city, mostly because of its proximity to Barcelona.I was able to get to know the city quite well and was there long enough to become a regular at some pubs and restaurants.

If you are in Catalonia, I highly recommend visiting Girona.