I lost my heart in.....

[Cavalcadeus]

Ottawa:
It has alot of green spaces in the city. There are lots of museums, and things to do. The people are great and with the Senators there is no shortage of hockey games all winter. Not to far of a drive from Montreal either. The surrounding area is beautiful with lots of forests and lakes that have been untouched by urbanization.

Boston:
I haven't been to Boston for a long while but I remember it as the best American city I have visited. A lot of museums and historical sites to visit. I spent out alot of time around Cape Cod too. An amazing area with great sea food.

[Verres]

Sorrento (Italy).

Dont know why i love it, but i do.

[Paul Hanson]

Belgium in general.

It's f*cking fantastic.

[Uncle Sparky]

Halifax, NS, Canada - Beautiful small city, nice harbour, friendly people. Old by NA standards, good pubs, easy to walk around.

Helsingor, Denmark - Good combination of old and new. Hamlet castle. Really good saunas & pools. Good restaurants.

Kiev, Ukraine - Old city one of the nicest in Europe. Cheap locally made vodka, friendly people, ancient cathedral and catacombs.

Canterbury, England - Nice people, good pubs, old buildings. Nice Cathedral.


Generally, I dislike larger cities. Sometimes I'll find interesting communities in them. While I've never lived in a city with less then 500,000 people, I generally prefer to vacation in smaller cities/towns.

[aaglo]

Montreal: very nice old town area

Berlin: in my experience, the cleanest city in europe

Mo I Rana (Norway): the most beautiful city for to have a steel plant - absolutely adorable place, if you like rain

[Sikander]

I really like Pacific Grove, California. It's fantastically beautiful and the weather is just about perfect for my tastes. All I need is about $600,000 to get a house there.

My favorite U.S. city is San Francisco, which incidentally is only a few hours away from Pacific Grove.

In Europe I really liked Strassbourg and Cologne and Amsterdam. There are probably many more cities that I would like, but infortunately I haven't spent that much time travelling in Europe. There a so many places that I haven't been to yet.

I'm heading to Okinawa, Japan next autumn if things go as planned. I'm going with my dad to visit the place we lived for 6 years, and left 34 years ago. I really loved that place in 1969, I hope that I still feel that way in about a year.

[aaglo]

Oh yes... and
Ottawa/Hull: very nice parks (Gatineau), a beautiful city on a beautiful river

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Norton-St-Phillip.

A small village in the middle of nowhere up the Mendip hills, with my favourite 700 year-old pub.

[Uncle Sparky]

Originally posted by aaglo
Montreal: very nice old town area

Berlin: in my experience, the cleanest city in europe

Ottawa/Hull: very nice parks (Gatineau), a beautiful city on a beautiful river

Montreal and Berlin are two cities I prefer to avoid.

Montreal is full of French Canadians.

I must admit, though that the last time I was in Berlin, The Wall had just been torn down. The whole place was a bit chaotic, especially the eastern sector where I spent most of my time. It might be nicer now.

Ottawa is quite nice, but everything closes at 10 pm (including the pubs ). Hull is one of the ugliest non-industrial/mining cities I've ever been to.

[aaglo]

well.. yeah, I had to put the Hull in because of the Gatineau...

I visited Berlin 1,5 years ago, and it was quite nice place in the spring. Propably there still are some ugly parts, but generally it was very nice.

[Skanky Burns]

I lost my heart in.....

... a poker game. Dammit, I was on a winning streak too.

[Pekka]

New York: But mainly becuase of the opportunities and diversity it offers. I also kind of lost my lunch the same place because it was very dirty everywhere. But anyway, I fell in love with the city.

Portland (OR), well.. this place however is nice AND clean. Nice atmosphere, and great sporting possibilities.. you can go really hiking (mountains), there are beautiful sceneries, what ever you want to see is in one hour drive away except maybe the desert. Well maybe even desert is only one hour if you really hit the gas pedal.
Ocean access, and GREAT snowboarding opportunities, has many locations near from Mt Hood to Whistler.
You can get fast to other nice cities like Seattle, San Francisco which are both in few hours drive away, and if you want to go to Vancouver (Canada), it's not that far either. Also, this is the place for Columbia cloathing, which I like very much. All in all, a place to fall in love with. Go Portland! See you soon again!

I guess I lost my heart in the US.


Well anyway, there are tons of beautiful places in Europe as well. In Austria.. let me tell you about that, we drove kind of through it, but it was so beautiful you could just think you're in a fantasy movie. Especially summer time.. it's very beautiful.

[molly bloom]

Manchester- went to university there, met my significant other there, properly came out there, made many friends there. Manchester, so much to answer for...Was briefly a Rusholme ruffian (well, actually Victoria Park, but it’s right next door)....fantastic food- the Rusholme curry mile, the best Chinatown in Great Britain (if you’ve never eaten at the Yang Sing you should), Ho’s Bakery and their delicious honey buns...
The football teams, the parks, the beautiful Victorian and Edwardian architecture, close to the moors, close to the sea, Alderley Edge nearby...

Porthgwarra in Cornwall: population about 10. About 4 miles from Land’s End, a gorgeous cove near the Minack open air theatre, with stone circles and sarsens and quoits close by, it feels like you're in another, golden country, separate from the rest of Great Britain. It looks out on the Atlantic, you can stand in the garden and watch foxes walk across the heather, or raptors swoop down on unsuspecting prey. Seals and dolphins come to visit the cove too, and basking sharks....

Vancouver- like Seattle, but finished and clean. Handsome men, great eating out (best Viet Namese food I’ve had anywhere) beautiful Stanley Park, and Science World (the s & m marshmallow), Dr Sun Yat Sen’s Gardens, Canada Place, the charming announcements on Skyrail (the next station is Burr-ARD!, the next station is Waterfront! said with what sounds like delighted surprise...), Grouse Mountain half an hour away, and lovely laid back Wreck Beach, where wearing clothes is weird....

Amsterdam- walking down Prinsengracht, taking the boat tour around the canals, staying in a Dutch East India Company’s captain’s house and climbing precipitous stairs, huge Dutch pancakes for breakfast with maple syrup, black coffee and speculaas in the brown houses, seeing Mathilde Santing sing, visiting the Museum of the Dutch Resistance and meeting a member of the resistance, buying chocolates from the shops near Central Station, eating huge rijstafels in the Indonesian restaurants, the Rijksmuseum and the Concert House, and everyone so friendly and charming...

San Francisco- loved Market Street, loved Coit Tower, loved the park near the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the Museum of Modern Art, the De Young Museum, the cinema on Castro, eating huevos rancheros in the Mission District, going to Mission Dolores, the painted lady houses, the street cars, the cable cars....the early morning fogs, the opportunity to ask someone do they know the way to San Jose?....great bookshops, record shops, the Church of John Coltrane....

Melbourne. Loved it the first time I came here, five years ago. Very laidback, very green, very European in feel. Close to the mountains, the country, with lovely parks and open spaces, Old Melbourne Gaol and Ned Kelly, the best places to eat out in Australia (well, some of the best), Australian Rules football (and footballers! yum yum !), the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Richmond for Viet Namese cuisine, Carlton and Lygon Street for Italian, Brunswick Street for Lebanese, St Kilda and its delicatessens, East St Kilda and the bagel shops and Jewish delis...

[dannubis]

My home town Ghent

Paris is very nice too

Trondheim and stockholm in Scandinavia

Vancouver on the other side of the Atlantic

[Bereta_Eder]

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