BedellBrave
It's OVER 5,000!
I'm hoping to visit Berlin and Warsaw in the Spring.
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I'm hoping to visit Berlin and Warsaw in the Spring.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
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.
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
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
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Go DAWGS!
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.
You won't regret it. Warsaw is severely underrated and Berlin makes an excellent primer for a journey further East.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
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
BedellBrave
It's OVER 5,000!
I've got missionary friends who live and work in both so it's a trip that I need to really get in.
BedellBrave
It's OVER 5,000!
All I cared for in Frankfurt was the old city center and it doesn't take one long to see...
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
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.
BedellBrave
It's OVER 5,000!
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.