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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 5955127" data-attributes="member: 37277">Caveat - most of my "travel" was courtesy of the USS Cape St. George (from Oct 2001 - Dec 2004), but not all of it.Marmaris Turkey stood out as one of my favorite places to visit.Gdynia Poland and Kiel Germany were fun and entertaining (particularly Kiel during Kiel Week).Malta was interesting, but I'm not much of a gambler and the main thing to do vacationwise was gamble.Edinburgh and Glasgow Scotland were a blast. Even the tourist trap like stuff along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh (the ghost tours through Queen Anne's Close and around the castle were kind of fun, with the best part being the shot of whisky and conversations with the guides and other tourists at the end of the tours).In the US, Pensacola Beach was pretty nice, and Daytona at Spring Break (which also coincided with Bike Week the year I went) was awesome. The Florida Keys were great, but the best experience was the two days we rented a boat and camped out on some unnamed mangrove island key. Savannah Georgia during St. Patrick's Day was the most uninhibited (read: inebriated) I think I've ever been.But the all-time greatest vacation I went on was one that was actually a vacation--St. Lucia. We stayed at Anse Chastanet in Soufriere when a friend had a destination wedding. The entire experience was awesome. Personal cabin near the beach, food and drink on demand, boat rides and snorkeling along coral reefs, etc. And the food was excellent. Not to forget the tour and free unlimited tasting session at the rum distillery.My favorite times in all of those places, though, was going away from the tourist locales and hanging out where locals hung out. There was a nice little bar near the beach in Gdynia where I drank vodka and beer with Poles. Walking through the open air market in Castries in St. Lucia mirrored some of the awesomeness of the bazaars in Turkey.</blockquote>

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