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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Very tragic not to see Berlin on that Top 30. Tokyo is easily my favorite city in the world. London, Sydney, Seoul, and Berlin round out the Top 5. I can get through 20 without considering an American city.

    I'm hoping to visit Berlin and Warsaw in the Spring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Very tragic not to see Berlin on that Top 30. Tokyo is easily my favorite city in the world. London, Sydney, Seoul, and Berlin round out the Top 5. I can get through 20 without considering an American city.
    Berlin's legit—but I think any Top Five without Prague is a mistaken take. Copenhagen's up there for me, too, but probably just outside that first five.

    Prague
    Montréal
    Chicago
    Venice
    San Francisco

    in some order where Prague is first; then maybe

    Copenhagen
    Yangon
    Marseille
    Bologna
    Shanghai (in a sort of perverse but ineluctable fascination)

    (And I'm going with larger cities here, eliding any of the towns—or even smaller-sized cities, like Santa Fe or Pula—that I love.)

    I feel like there are some cities in Sudamérica (Buenos Aires, La Paz) that might challenge for the list, once I finally get down there; would also like to check out some African cities other than Johannesburg and Pretoria, and see where those might end up. But the next extra-US trip I'm hankering for at the moment is a Baku–Tbilisi–Yerevan circuit.
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    After some consideration, my top 30:

    1. Tokyo
    2. London
    3. Berlin
    4. Seoul
    5. Sydney
    6. Paris
    7. Montreal
    8. Athens
    9. Moscow
    10. Amsterdam
    11. Tel Aviv
    12. Taipei
    13. Warsaw
    14. Nagasaki
    15. Oslo
    16. Split
    17. Prague
    18. Charleston (hometown favoritism)
    19. Shanghai
    20. Boston
    21. Stockholm
    22. Hong Kong
    23. Busan
    24. Anchorage
    25. Bangkok
    26. Reykjavik
    27. San Francisco
    28. Rotterdam
    29. Venice
    30. Kuala Lumpur

    Honorable mentions: Quebec City, Las Vegas, Hamburg, Singapore, Budapest, Zurich
    Places I want to go: Tehran, Johannesburg, Odessa, Tallinn

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    After some consideration, my top 30:

    1. Tokyo
    2. London
    3. Berlin
    4. Seoul
    5. Sydney
    6. Paris
    7. Montreal
    8. Athens
    9. Moscow
    10. Amsterdam
    11. Tel Aviv
    12. Taipei
    13. Warsaw
    14. Nagasaki
    15. Oslo
    16. Split
    17. Prague
    18. Charleston (hometown favoritism)
    19. Shanghai
    20. Boston
    21. Stockholm
    22. Hong Kong
    23. Busan
    24. Anchorage
    25. Bangkok
    26. Reykjavik
    27. San Francisco
    28. Rotterdam
    29. Venice
    30. Kuala Lumpur

    Honorable mentions: Quebec City, Las Vegas, Hamburg, Singapore, Budapest, Zurich
    Places I want to go: Tehran, Johannesburg, Odessa, Tallinn
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    my daughter has spent quite a bit of time in Berlin and raves about it...havent been myself
    From what I’ve managed to glean of you from the style of your posts and the personal bits you’ve shared here and there, I believe you would find the city enchanting and likely appreciate it more than most. Berlin is very unique. While it lacks the raw charm of Paris it has its own brand of cerebral intrigue. It wears its darker history with a kind of subtle pride and is surprisingly diverse and fiercely progressive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BedellBrave View Post
    I'm hoping to visit Berlin and Warsaw in the Spring.
    You won't regret it. Warsaw is severely underrated and Berlin makes an excellent primer for a journey further East.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    From what I’ve managed to glean of you from the style of your posts and the personal bits you’ve shared here and there, I believe you would find the city enchanting and likely appreciate it more than most. Berlin is very unique. While it lacks the raw charm of Paris it has its own brand of cerebral intrigue. It wears its darker history with a kind of subtle pride and is surprisingly diverse and fiercely progressive.
    I know I would...unfortunately at the time I was traveling to Germany for work Frankfurt was the place I got sent to and that is a pretty ugly soulless city...the Germans explained to me that the British and American air force's were very thorough and they had to rebuild on the cheap
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    You won't regret it. Warsaw is severely underrated and Berlin makes an excellent primer for a journey further East.

    I've got missionary friends who live and work in both so it's a trip that I need to really get in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    I know I would...unfortunately at the time I was traveling to Germany for work Frankfurt was the place I got sent to and that is a pretty ugly soulless city...the Germans explained to me that the British and American air force's were very thorough and they had to rebuild on the cheap
    All I cared for in Frankfurt was the old city center and it doesn't take one long to see...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Tallinn
    Another high on my "soon" list. One of my closest friends / most frequent travel companions hung out there a bit, before we met in Copenhangen a few years ago, and spoke glowingly of the city and Estonians in general.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpx7 View Post
    Another high on my "soon" list. One of my closest friends / most frequent travel companions hung out there a bit, before we met in Copenhangen a few years ago, and spoke glowingly of the city and Estonians in general.

    I've been to Vilnius (really liked) and other smaller cities in Lithuania. Really would like to see Latvia and Estonia before the Russians retake them one day.

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