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What's your favorite city in the world?

Posted by msculit • 4/15/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: city, favorite city, Place, travel, travel bug, world

Some of us has this travel "bug" syndrome and sometimes we cannot help but "fall in love" with a certain place. Here are mine:

PARIS
MANILA
BANGKOK
ISTANBUL

What's yours? You can cite as many as you want.

User Comments

4/15/08

Onchong

hmmmm.... i think.... i'll go for tondo city uggghhhhh dyowk dyowk dyowk! New York, Paris, Barcelona, Athens, Milan. Can't name them all!

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1. 4/15/08
  
  msculit
  
  Uncle,
  
  I'm aiming for a Barcelona trip next time and NYC too. Let's go one of these days and take the whole family along!
4/15/08

okater

lol, never been to any of these, love Copenhagen! Dreaming about Barcelona and NY

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1. 4/15/08
  
  msculit
  
  Hi Okater...
  
  I would looooveeee to see Barcelona and NYC too. Gotta save more money though to finance this travel-bug-syndrome thing that I have.
  
  Have a great day!
4/15/08

sayzlim

I would like to go northpole,
Japan... and deep under the sea...
perhaps outer the space?

www.sayzlim.info

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1. 4/15/08
  
  msculit
  
  Isn't there in the pipeline talks about galactic tourism?? Hmmm...Guess I read it somewhere.
  
  Thanks for the reply. You sure have an interesting choice between the deep sea and outer space.
  
  I am keen to visit Japan too one of these days. It's in my list of "places to see..."
4/15/08

growhappy

I love Tokyo. I'd like to do Paris and Marrakesh.

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4/15/08

Ambrya

Charleston
Boston
Little Rock

Ambrya
www.ArkansasFamilyFun.com

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4/15/08

Donlewis

St. Maries, Idaho. Pop. about 1000 on a good Saturday night.

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4/15/08

msculit

Growhappy - Yup, Tokyo is a sure place for me to visit...someday. Paris is remarkable. Even my daughter fell in love with the place and even suggested we buy a house there.... =) Marrakesh is a nice place to visit esp. when you go to the souks (flea markets) bec. they have nice spices, carpets, lanterns, leather goods...etc.

Ambrya - I have yet to get my U.S. visa and when I do, USA...here WE come!!!

Donlewis - It must be very awesome to bump into someone you know, and then call out to someone on the other side of the street and say hello to your next door neighbor - all in one town. Nice!

Thanks for participating. And if in case you want to add more on the list, please be my guest. The more, the merrier! Have a nice day!

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4/15/08

blastyle

My favourite cities:

1.Cracow
2.Paris
3.Copenhagen

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4/15/08

Theresa111

New York City
London England
Washington, DC

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4/15/08

mattclark

Berlin
Rome
Edinburgh

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4/15/08

creative666

Venice
London
Cape Town < -- Where I currently live
Exeter < -- Where I was born

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4/15/08

jmarzo

Anyone like Toronto here? I like Toronto.

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1. 5/17/08
  
  lordiwanttobewhole
  
  I was born outside of toronto, brampton. YAH Toronto!!!
4/15/08

TimMc

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Tokyo. It's an awesome city. Haven't been to Europe since I was a kid...so I can't nominate anything there. London's fun and easy to get around...lots to see. NYC is interesting.

So many places that I still need to visit...

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1. 4/15/08
  
  Sylvia
  
  I do I do, but I live in Toronto
  
  EDIT: opps I was responding to jmarzo
2. 4/15/08
  
  jmarzo
  
  Nice. I'm from Toronto as well. I wonder if we're neighbours. LOL
3. 4/16/08
  
  msculit
  
  Check out nice places in the South East Asia...like Manila....eherrrmmmm (I'm from that place) and Bangkok. Nice places to shop around too.
4/15/08

offendedblogger

I am not a fan of cities but I love San Francisco and Seattle, as far as cities go they are my favorites.

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1. 4/15/08
  
  TimMc
  
  I'm definitely not a 'city dweller' too. I like to visit and then leave, haha. Seattle is a great place to visit (Pike's Place, Space Needle, EMP, and that fountain (can't remember the name of it)).
  
  San Fran is cool too. Ghirardelli's....YUM.
4/15/08

Sylvia

I love Venice, Italy

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4/15/08

ivanpw

Edinburgh, Scotland
Paris, France
Wolverhampton, England
Auckland, NZ

That's it I think

Ivanpw
www.noobpreneur.com - resources for entrepreneur
www.englishfair.com - PR5 bidding web directory

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1. 4/15/08
  
  msculit
  
  They say it's very pretty in Edinburgh.
4/15/08

aorspectacles

Philadelphia, the fifth largest in US, been there for so many times. One time, was able to attend Philippine Independence-Sunday Mass in 1998 at St. Augustine Church(City Center). It was so very memorable because the Philippine Flag and the American Flag was standing side by side on the pulpit just a couple of meters behind the podium. The center end of all the benches--left and right, were pegged up of Philippine flaglets. The priest who officiated the mass was an American Priest but wearing the Barong Tagalog. The choir sang all the hymns in Tagalog. The ushers who gave us the pamphlet program were also Pinoys as well as the majority of the attendees, I can really feel the Filipino environment. To tell everything about the city, Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Chinatown, Italian market, riverside sceneries, etc. will take so many blog entries. I've been also in Camden, New Jersey, at the other side of the river passing the Walt Whitman Bridge.The last time I've been there was 2005.

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1. 4/15/08
  
  msculit
  
  I miss MANILA!!!! Kabayan.... =)
4/15/08

kestrelllp

1. Barcelona Spain
2. anywhere in Brasil
3. and my new dream... Costa Rica

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4/15/08

dettox

1) Seville
2) New York
3) Rome

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4/15/08

msculit

Okay....keep the ball rolling! Thanks for the participation...keep the list going.

Oh, I forgot, I would like to visit:

Sao Paolo
Copenhagen
Munich
Hamburg
London
Tokyo
Auckland
Seoul

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4/15/08

crazyeddie

For me it's a tie between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Heidelberg, Germany

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4/15/08

thunderdan

Tokyo, Kyoto - Japan
Florence - Italy
Hong Kong

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4/15/08

daniel23

The one I was born in. Rotherham.

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4/15/08

Shiley

I live in Charleston, WV not really a fan If I could have Cleveland, OH plopped into the small town of Spencer, WV www.cityofspencer.com/ that would be perfect. The picture is litterally how big the town is.

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4/15/08

0xf

Sydney, Scotland, Christchurch and NY

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4/15/08

mugshot

Plovdiv, Bulgaria one of the oldest cities in Europe.

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4/15/08

MarkPogue

Wuerzburg, Germany
St. Charles, MO.

I'd like to visit Montreal, and possibly relocate there.

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4/15/08

pchaus

Rio de Janeiro!!!

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4/15/08

filmasia

Melbourne!

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4/15/08

iconic

Auckland
Sydney
Cape Town
Rio De Janeiro
Buenos Aires
New York
Honolulu
Neiafu (Tonga)
Mumbai
New Delhi
London
Stockholm
Paris
Copenhagen
Rome
Las Vegas
Berlin

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1. 4/16/08
  
  msculit
  
  Wow, nice list you have here. Try places in the South East Asia too. Thanks for the list and now I have added more in my places to see.
4/15/08

TimMc

Durban, South Africa (It's been 19 years since I've been there and I'm always ready to go back). It's right on the Indian Ocean...it was a beautiful place (I'm sure it still is).

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1. 4/16/08
  
  msculit
  
  I'd like to visit Johannesburg in the future and Cape Town too. They say these places are magnificent! I know a lot of pilots who are South Africans and are encouraging me to check the place. Maybe someday.
4/16/08

kirewass

Stockholm ('Venice of North')

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4/16/08

ender

austin, texas. definitely.

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4/16/08

msculit

Kirewass - Wow, Venice of the North... Lovely place.

Ender - Nice place!

Thanks!

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4/16/08

msculit

Thanks to all...please feel free to make the list long! Have a wonderful day!

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4/16/08

zenobia

New York. That's my blog.
Austin, Texas
Venice, Italy
Paris, France (Paris, Texas is nice, but not the same)
Taos, New Mexico
Marfa, Texas

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1. 4/24/08
  
  crazyeddie
  
  I drove through Marfa, Texas once. Sadly, I don't remember a single solitary thing about it.
4/16/08

chicky401

NYC is cool, used to go there a lot.
London was very nice would like to go back.
Always wanted to see Paris, France.
I wouldn't want to live in a city though

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4/16/08

Miragebabe

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Reno, Nevada
San Fransisco, California
Miami, Florida

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4/17/08

msculit

Wonderful choices of cities you all have here. Let's keep the list longer. Please feel free to add more!

Have a great day!

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4/17/08

kristilinauer

Istanbul, Turkey

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1. 4/18/08
  
  msculit
  
  Hi Kristilinauer!
  
  Istanbul is such a great place to visit esp in the months of Sept - Nov when it's not so snowy. I love the Great Bazaar and had wonderful time. I would love to be back in Turkey someday and visit Capadocia.
4/17/08

girlforallstatus

provence, france
positano, italy
cebu city, philippines

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1. 4/18/08
  
  msculit
  
  Nice places! Esp. CEBU, PHILIPPINES where the nice "dangit, preserved mangoes, sweet mangoes" can be bought! Oh, I miss Philippines so much!!!
  
  Viva Italia! Oi Paris! Looking forward to visit Italy this August and I'll try to squeeze in Positano in my itinerary! Thanks for sharing you fave cities.
4/17/08

chrissred

Mine would be
Tokyo, Japan
Baguio City, Philipines
San Francisco, Calif
LA, Calif
London, England
Frankfurt, Germany

Places I'd like to visit someday: Milan, Paris, Bangkok, Honolulu, Sydney,Vancouver

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4/18/08

ShanLeeCook

Roanoke, Virginia
Myrtle Beach, SC

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1. 4/21/08
  
  VirtuallySweet
  
  Hmm..you must not live too far from me. Either that or that or you'd like where I live! What do you love about Roanoke?
  
  We are frequenters of Myrtle Beach.
4/18/08

msculit

Hi Chriss!!!

Haven't heard from you for a while...Thanks for adding me in Facebook too =) Tokyo seems to be a fave of most pips! My hubby's going to Frankfurt this April enroute to Oslo, Norway. Any nice places to visit in Frankfurt you can suggest?

Oh Baguio! Last time I've seen the place was 1987!!! I could not imagine how it looks now.

Hi ShanLeeCook!

Any suggestions on good tourist spots to visit in those 2 cities you mentioned?

Kind regards to all!!!! Add MORE!

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4/21/08

chrissred

Hi Ria!

Typical of me to reply just now... sorry been busy and just clicked away to blog-hop without any report.. but I had to join the discussion, so first of all Frankfurt has so many places to see. there are plenty of museums like Liebieg House and the Natural museum. And the opera is a must-watch. but simply being there is great even the open squares.

Baguio City is closest to my heart, two hours away by bus from our place. And it looks so much better now and urbanized. A new place to see is the Tam-awan Village and where you can learn and experience a bit of the Ifugao culture.

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4/21/08

uniquelog

Small himalayan kingdom of Nepal, Kathmandu you are welcome

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4/21/08

CaesarRomaus

Noumea, New Caledonia
Apia, Samoa
Hiroshima, Japan
Queenstown, New Zealand
Cairns, Australia
Singapore

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1. 4/21/08
  
  msculit
  
  I like your choices of cities...and I like your photo with the giant head totems of Easter Island as the background. I would loooovvveeee to see that place someday!
4/21/08

aningeniousname

Singapore for food, Amsterdam for art, hookers and drugs.

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1. 4/21/08
  
  msculit
  
  =) interesting!
4/21/08

kinsey88

There are so many beautiful cities on this planet. For energy and excitement it would have to be Hong Kong.

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1. 4/21/08
  
  msculit
  
  I love Hong Kong too. I never get tired visiting the place...
4/21/08

msculit

Such a lovely place - the Himalayas...

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4/21/08

cayasm

New York
Sydney

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4/21/08

VirtuallySweet

Well, there are still a lot of wonderful places on my list to visit, but so far some of my favorites:

United States: NYC and Los Angeles
Europe: Istanbul, Paris and Rome

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4/22/08

Lubel

I love to travel and blog about them but I just don't have enough funds. I hope you'll visit my site, so far I have posts about my favorite countries:

Greece
Singapore (not really about the place)

My last post includes Taytay, Rizal. idontwant2retire.blogspot.com

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4/24/08

muralidharanj

Geneva
Paris
Rome
New York
LA
Athens

In that order. I lived in Geneva. It is a fantastic and safe place.

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4/24/08

acousticguitarist

kathmandu

copenhagen

sydney has a beautiful harbour

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4/24/08

Sand

London, UK
Especially on a gloomy, rainy day!

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4/24/08

msculit

Wow, great choices there!

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4/24/08

dreesyach

Bandung, Bali, Lombok - Indonesia

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1. 4/24/08
  
  msculit
  
  I would love to see Bali one day and book myself in a nice spa resort...heaven!
4/24/08

ccRicers

Chicago
Xela, Guatemala

I don't travel much so this is hard for me to answer.

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1. 4/24/08
  
  msculit
  
  Hi ccRicers,
  
  No worries. Your choices are good! Have a great day!
4/24/08

urikalish

Probably a city in Italy. Rome, Florence, Venice or Siena.

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1. 4/24/08
  
  msculit
  
  Hi Urikalish,
  
  My family and I will be in Italy this August for a week-long vacation to see famous scenic places in Rome, Milan, Venice, and hopefully parts of Tuscany and Naples. If time permits though...
2. 4/24/08
  
  urikalish
  
  Italy is my favorite country from all the countries I visited (Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Greece, Thailand, Turkey, and the USA).
4/24/08

BudgetBride

Great question!!!

San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Toronto, New York, Chania on Crete and Athens. Would love to go to Istanbul and Cairo now that I am learning their dance.

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1. 4/24/08
  
  msculit
  
  Wow, you're learning belly dancing? That's great! Love you choices of cities too!
4/24/08

musampa

Grozno (Capital of Chenchya)

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4/24/08

SteveRebooted

Seattle, London, NYC, Sydney, and Austin are my favorites

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4/24/08

bharath876

Mumbai,Chennai-India are my favorites

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4/24/08

machinehuman

Rio
Florence
NY
Manila
London
Berlin
Barcelona
Paris
I would love to visit Tokyo

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1. 5/17/08
  
  msculit
  
  I see Manila on your list. Wow! I am from that place and I'd always save a special place in my heart for Manila... Good choices =)
4/24/08

andydepalma

rome in spring, sydney always, los angeles in summer, tokyo in spring

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4/24/08

nardeeisms

San Francisco, CA
Corolla, NC
Williamsburg, VA
New York, New York

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4/25/08

Carrizo

There are many, but I say: Paris.

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1. 5/17/08
  
  msculit
  
  Ah....moi Paris...I will always love that place.
4/25/08

genopianist54

Thousand Island, Indonesia
I love to swim and dive so, there are 1000 islands there.. i'll be living in paradise if i have my own just 1 island there, just tini tiny island

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4/25/08

SilverSpikes

Wellington - New Zealand - anytime - great alternative theater
Capetown - South Africa - beautiful
Rome - Italy - yip in Spring sounds good - love the architecture
Venice - everything anytime

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1. 5/17/08
  
  msculit
  
  Saving up for a Kiwi trip with the family, hopefully next year.
4/25/08

chrissymarie321

Rome - Italy, I love the atmosphere
Paris - it has so much style
and for a day out locally - Chester, England

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1. 5/17/08
  
  msculit
  
  Rome is climbing up the charts in one of the fave places. I'll see why when I visit with my family this August...Yey.... Viva Italia!!!
5/17/08

Lucyvp

Paris, then London, although I have Rome and Venice on my list of places I want to go to but haven't visited yet. I suspect they'll then make the top of my list.

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5/17/08

DayKevi

I have been to Sydney, Parish & wishes to visit New Delhi, India soon.

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5/17/08

OzScot

Glasgow Scotland and Brisbane Australia - always wanted to go to Chicago though.

Ben

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5/17/08

janeycatte

I would have to say San Francisco and Aberdeen, Scotland.

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5/17/08

vj0223

Hokkaido, Japan

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5/17/08

linmei

Rome, Italy for the history.
Venice, Italy for getting lost in. It smells much better when it is not summer though...
Barcelona, Spain for Gaudí and crema catalana.
Lijiang, China for the rare glimpse of blue sky and the illusion of being in a small town in China.
Melbourne, Australia (and I'm a Sydneysider!). Great food and lots of events happen there.
New York, USA. You think of the shiny veneer of the city skyline but, at the street level, life is nothing like the clean and hermetically sealed skyscrapers. Lots of colour, bustle and character on the ground floor.
Strasbourg, France. Gorgeous during an Autumn visit.
Paris, France - because it's Paree!

TBH, I don't think there has been a city I've been to that doesn't have something to love...excepting Phoenix, Arizona - OK I admit that I just passed through but even that visit was too long...seriously, it was only an impression.

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1. 5/17/08
  
  janeycatte
  
  You're not the only Sydney~sider who'd rather live in Melbourne.
  I can't wait until WonderHubby gets a transfer!
2. 5/17/08
  
  linmei
  
  That's amazing, janeycatte! My hubby got a job in Melbourne a couple of years ago and we stayed there for a year-and-a-half. We're back in Sydney now but it was a blast.
5/17/08

gosmelltheflowers

Its gotta be San Fran!

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5/17/08

lawrencevon

MAKATI!

foblow.blogspot.com

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5/17/08

wpayton

Balsam Grove, NC

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5/17/08

kwksdvmsl013

Singapore
Rome
London

Thank you. Happy surfing!

Best Regards,
kwksdvmsl.blogspot.com

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5/17/08

robertstevenson

Lagos, Portugal
Brindisi, Italy
Ayana, Greece
York, England

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1. 5/17/08
  
  linmei
  
  York is lovely - was thinking of adding it my list but the list was already too long. Charming black and white buildings cosily set next to each other. I distinctly remember trying to dine on pudding but being constantly thwarted by my parents.
2. 5/17/08
  
  robertstevenson
  
  I was there Christmas time. Snow, an outdoor cart with roasted chestnuts, thached roofs. I thought I was in a fairy tale.
3. 5/17/08
  
  linmei
  
  OMG! Roasted chestnuts is one of my must-haves in a fairy tale. Also, one of the main reasons that Strasbourg was in my list.
5/17/08

katarokkar

a tie between Boston and San Fran.

However I've never been overseas...so check back with me later...or I'll check back later...I'll probably forget though...I'm an idiot.

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1. 5/18/08
  
  msculit
  
  It's ok if you haven't been overseas. You can put your "wish list" here... =)
5/17/08

PigeonProject

chang rai
darwin.... australia
san diego
paris
warsaw

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5/17/08

roentarre

My favorite city in the world is Melbourne!!!!

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5/17/08

AmmoBob

Frankfurt, Tel-Aviv and Florence

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5/17/08

Turmoyle

Ahhhhhh.......Venice!!!!

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1. 5/18/08
  
  msculit
  
  Can't wait for August.......... I'd love to see Venice and ride the gondola or to just simple be there.
5/18/08

msculit

Let the list go on pals!!! It's fun to read all your list with the comments on the side. Makes me re-think my own list... =) I'll be checking out Italy this August with the family and hopefully, I'll add up to the list of more Italian cities to conquer.

Great list we have here! I'm so happy.... Keep the ball rolling and I don't mind if you have a very, very long list. The more the merrier, right? Great day to all!

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5/18/08

lulubelleb

For me it would be
> New York City
> Florence Italy

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5/18/08

myriadlife

Norwich, New York, Sydney, London, Cambridge are all my favourites. Didn't like Melbourne Aus, couldn't understand what all the fuss is about that place.

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5/18/08

jeremylong

Paris
Miami
New York / San Francisco
Rome
Istanbul
Zurich
London
Oslo
Vienna
Goteburg

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5/18/08

carlgalloway

Berlin

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