the best city you have ever visited

[cacian]

around the world is the best city for me
so
what would you say is the best city you have visited and why ?:)

[Danik 2016]

Far and wide
to visit and hide
to laugh and cry
to live and die
By weather
fair, wet or dry
I chose the city of London.

[cacian]

London fantastic!!! ;)
and what a beautiful poem you have here
may I ask why London?

[Danik 2016]

Thanks, Cacian!
I visited London only once in my life, and it was wonderful. You breathe History and Literature in London. I remembered the names of the places und specially the tube stations because of the books I had read. The tube was an experience in itself with the stations buried deep down under the earth.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

London or Copenhagen. Do love that Copenhagen.

[YesNo]

I haven't found any better place to live than where I am right now in the towns along Chicago's north shore. I can walk or bicycle to a large library, a botanic garden, a huge--like really huge--lake. There are large forest preserves nearby. The services are reliable. It is not going to flood any time soon like the tourist traps we've visited in south Florida. I don't have to learn a new language as I would in Paris, Beijing or Barcelona.

[Lokasenna]

Hmm... for me it would be a toss up between Kraków and, when it isn't being ruled by a nutter, St Petersburg.

I love going on holiday to cities - I've been to Rome more times than any other place, and also have an abiding love of Vienna and Budapest.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Hmm... for me it would be a toss up between Kraków and, when it isn't being ruled by a nutter, St Petersburg.

I love going on holiday to cities - I've been to Rome more times than any other place, and also have an abiding love of Vienna and Budapest.

I share your passion here, Lokasenna. I would love to see St. Petersburg--talk about romantic and historic. The art alone. Krakow if, as you mention with regard to Russia, I wouldn't get killed there. Vienna, too, is probably lovely, as are the Alps around there, and Bavaria as well. Budapest, well, the idea of it used to attract me, then I learned more about Eastern Europe and the people who live there.

[Jackson Richardson]

Edinburgh is wonderful. A major city where you can see the sea and mountains from the centre. All the things of London (palace, castle, crown jewels, museum, parliament, National Gallery, law courts, major church) but on a smaller scale and so much easier to get around and less crowded.

I also enjoyed visiting Bucharest.

[OrphanPip]

I quite like New York City and have a soft spot for Philadelphia. My least favourite destinations I've been to are Bangkok and my current home of Kuala Lumpur. Bangkok because you can't go to most areas without being accosted by prostitutes or someone trying to sell something. Kuala Lumpur because apart from the polished up city centre it's a putrid, stinking, rat infested, slummy, **** hole run by dictatorial thieves that use racial and religious persecution as a means of controlling the masses, it's also boring. Singapore is nice on the surface but the prevalence of signs advising you of the numerous infractions for even minor public indiscretions is a bit off putting. Tokyo is nice but crowded.

[MANICHAEAN]

I was born in London, so that will always tug the heart strings upon returning. Too many memories of childhood.

Favorite, I'm not sure as I have traveled and lived abroad so much over the last 35 years:

Dangerous, but exciting cities: Kingston Jamaica, Lagos Nigeria, Joberg South Africa, Port Moresby Papua New Guinea.
Romantic cities: Rome, Paris, Istanbul, Vienna, Madrid, Montego Bay
Boring: Fort McMurry Alberta, Zurich,
Without Substance: Miami, Tehran, Riyadh, Doha
Great Social Life: Manila, Bangkok, Jos Nigeria, Cork City Ireland, Athens,
Different but interesting: Yokohama, Hanoi, Durban South Africa
Still on the bucket list: Rio, Havana ( before it gets spoiled), Caracas, St Petersburg.

[The Comedian]

Aladdin, Wyoming. The kind of city that keeps its mouth shut, the kind of city that lets you get through it without any hassle, the kind of city that if you blink, you'll miss it.

[Sancho]

I rate cities based on their walkability. City hiking is one of my favorite pastimes.

West coast - San Francisco (heart-rocking hills)

East coast - New York (no need to pack a lunch, they have pizza-by-the-slice)

Europe - Paris (it's a movable feast, also it's Paris)

I can't afford to live in any of those cities, but I think I'd be happy being a homeless dude thereabouts. Picture El Sancho: dirty, unshaven, disheveled, malodorous, crouching in an alleyway, with his hand out, wearing a sh*t-eating grin, hitting you up for spare change - "Aye-Aye-Aye, purdy lady, I like you, gimme a dollah!"

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Picture El Sancho: dirty, unshaven, disheveled, malodorous, crouching in an alleyway, with his hand out, wearing a sh*t-eating grin, hitting you up for spare change - "Aye-Aye-Aye, purdy lady, I like you, gimme a dollah!"

That is how I picture you.

[Sancho]

Sh*t-eating :)

TC, in over twelve years of visiting this web site, that's the nicest think anybody's ever said to me

[MANICHAEAN]

Oh, they have lots more if they really put their mind to it!!

[Pensive]

I had a good time in Vilnius but perhaps that was mainly because of large number of vegetarian places I was constantly stumbling across. Also a beautiful old town and narrow streets of cobblestone.
I liked Poznan. The old town was particularly beautiful and people seemed really friendly. The Christmas season might have been contributing factor to Polish friendliness. I do not know.
I was visiting a friend in Gottingen and it was a nice student town and so was Tartu where I spent three wonderful years of student life.
Stockholm was breathtakingly beautiful.
Beijing is if you want shock and interesting.

[Alex White]

New York City, for the food, the theaters, museums and New Yorkers. You could be walking a llama on a leash and New Yorkers wouldn't give you a second look.

In case you think I'm kidding: I was taking a cab in Manhattan and saw a man on a streetcorner waiting for the light to turn green...with a full-grown llama on a leash. Everyone else standing on the corner ignored him and his llama with an attitude of "..so? You see everything here."

New York has some beautiful architecture and everything else, but the born-and-raised New Yorkers make the City.

[WhiteRabbit24]

I visited New Orleans this year. It seemed like a daring city with such a rich history. There was so much to see and so many little shops to visit (referring to the French Quarter). And, I loved that there was always some kind of event to go to! The city never slept!

[glympsy]

Manali in Himachal pradesh in India is best place i have visited yet..covered with mountains and and snow...

[Diggory Venn]

I have been to New York City, Rome, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, London, and countless other European cities - all too busy and cosmopolitan for me. I much prefer England`s ancient cities like Bath, Lincoln, Salisbury, Chester, and York, to give a few instances. I suppose I would name Oxford as my favourite - for its sheer unadulterated architectural beauty. I think I read somewhere that during WW2 Hitler gave orders that it was not to be bombed, as he had visited (and studied ?) there, and that he intended to use it as his capital when ?! he had invaded England...
Interestingly, all the places I have named, (in England) were Roman towns, themselves built upon Celtic settlements, bringing to mind the famous Monty Python quote - "what have the Romans ever done for us ?" The answer being; to destroy my ancient culture and heritage....!!

[Pushka]

Krakow, Dresden...

[mtpspur]

Winnepeg Canada. Certainly the cleanest city I ever saw but watch out for the bus drivers they will NOT move over even if you're already IN the lane. Home of Comics World if I recall the name correctly and the only time I ever saw a genuine copy (under glass) of Batman #1 from 1940.

[Nattikur]

London. Always London. There is no place greater.

I love the old architecture, mixed with the new - the beautiful old buildings, standing right beside the glass skyscrapers. I love the history embedded into every street, every corner, every sign.

Being a Londoner, I bypassed the tourist layer - the big named buildings that are marked on maps and handed out at the main stations. It's the small things - the decorations on Baker Street underground station; the beautiful moment you walk past a building and notice a plaque, only to discover that some great mind once lived there. It's the ancient, ancient history that's embedded in this city that makes it beautiful. When tourists visit, they will visit Buckingham Palace or the House of Commons and treat them as if they are preserved relics of the past, but it's not like that - they are still used, still such a passive part of our society. It's that history, the never-changing-ness of it, the everlasting pride us British people feel when presented with our past and heritage, that makes this city, and this whole country really, so darned beautiful.

[Pensive]

I recently visited a nice small Latvian town Sigulda. Also known as Baltic's Switzerland, was breathtakingly beautiful.

[papayahed]

I only got to spend a day there but so far I would say Seville, Spain.