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Best city you have ever visited....

112 replies

plymgary · 27/08/2010 16:00

My favourite city would be Istanbul. It's got amazing culture, is cheap and, the people are amazingly friendly.

Me and my ex managed to get an apartment for the week...and it was only £300. Bargain!

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ttalloo · 27/08/2010 17:03

New York, Paris, Prague & Moscow.

And London, but I live there so it doesn't really count!

Not keen on Istanbul, and I didn't like Barcelona.

UnseenAcademicalMum · 27/08/2010 17:04

Paris is my favourite, without a doubt.

I was quite disappointed by Barcelona.

MinaTannenbaum · 27/08/2010 17:07

Paris is great
but I have also really liked

Tallinn
Lille
Palermo
Amsterdam

Have somehow not made it to Rome or Barcelona yet Shock

Saladbomb · 27/08/2010 17:08

lucy kate what jacckgrannie said but also montjuiac (sp?) by funicular and the olympic village is worth a visit, there is also the museum of modern art up there if you are into that kind of thing.

there are LOADS of tapas restaurants but this one in barrio gothic became our favourite, every dish was a winner, its not that far from the picasso museum if you are going down that way...

plus the beach at the end of barcelonetta is worth a visit as you can walk down past the marina. (or take the cable car from the bottom of montjuiac.

sorry for the thread hijack OP!

UnseenAcademicalMum · 27/08/2010 17:12

Amsterdam is nice, but I prefer Delft - it's a bit like a mini Amsterdam in character, but a bit friendlier.

RatherBeOnThePiste · 27/08/2010 17:12

San Fransisco tied with Edinburgh tied with London!

prettybird · 27/08/2010 17:12

I also liked Venice when I went there interailing as a student.

Always wanted to go back and stay somewhere romantic and luxurious and splash out on a gondola (only if I had more money than sense)

gorionine · 27/08/2010 17:17

London

I loved Barcelona too but somehow London wins it for me.

spamm · 27/08/2010 17:21

Rome
London
Washington DC
Florence

I have lived in all four now and I loved them all.

I dislike Paris, love Lisbon.

Do not like NY, I always feel overwhelmed there and run away to one of the ferries or the park, but it is still a great place for what is available to see and do.

plymgary · 27/08/2010 17:29

Haha, usualsuspect...Sure am, just trying to work out if my savings will cover the purchase of New York first though! Wink

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missmoopy · 27/08/2010 17:33

Berlin. Amazing place.

plymgary · 27/08/2010 17:35

I did actually book a flight to Berlin once. Then realised I couldn't afford the accommodation so didn't go. Sad

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TooPragmatic · 27/08/2010 17:38

New York, Hong Kong, Barcelona I think.

sweetnitanitro, your post made me laugh. Just shows how we're all different - I really love NY but your choice, Toronto, makes me go like this: Hmm

To each their own and all that, eh?

sailorsgal · 27/08/2010 18:15

Buenos Aires,

Havana

Boston

mazzystartled · 27/08/2010 18:18

Lisbon

also love Helsinki, Rotterdam and Berlin

Would love to go to Istanbul

plymgary · 27/08/2010 18:27

Mazzystartled, I went to Helsinki in July. That's my second favourite city! :)

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lucykate · 27/08/2010 23:29

thanks for the barcelona tips, will bear in mind the mugging thing.

DandyDan · 07/09/2010 22:57

Paris
Philadelphia
Helsinki

Linnet · 07/09/2010 23:00

Toronto and London

maggiethecat · 02/10/2010 01:23

TooPragmatic, been to your top three and just got back from the mutually dubious Toronto and the funny thing is that altho I liked your favourites too I thought to myself 'hmmm, London is special'.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 02/10/2010 01:56

marking place - how is the street hassle in Istanbul?

mrsfudgely · 02/10/2010 10:13

Stockholm- preferred it to Helsinki.
Rome would me other favourite.

Sinkingfeeling · 02/10/2010 10:27

I love Dublin and Boston.

Francagoestohollywood · 02/10/2010 10:33

New York City, even if I think that the most beautiful city in the world is Venice.

truffleshuffle · 02/10/2010 10:37

Rome.
I would love to go to New York and Berlin

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