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Topic: Favorite City Posted: 29-Sep-2004 at 20:07 |
What is your favorite city?
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JanusRook
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Posted: 29-Sep-2004 at 20:17 |
Cincinnati, OH, "The Queen of the West" dubbed by Winston Churchill as , "the most beautiful of Americas inland cities."
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Posted: 29-Sep-2004 at 22:03 |
Utrecht, because i miss it.
Bern, because i know its beautifull.
Samarkand, because i want to go there.
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Posted: 29-Sep-2004 at 23:29 |
New York!
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Posted: 03-Oct-2004 at 16:38 |
Originally posted by JanusRook
Cincinnati, OH, "The Queen of the West" dubbed by Winston Churchill as , "the most beautiful of Americas inland cities." |
hy would that be your favorite city in the world? lol, midwest.
I vote Samarkand despite never have been there, and for cities I have been to, Seoul is the best.
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Posted: 04-Oct-2004 at 09:20 |
Lisbon
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Posted: 04-Oct-2004 at 11:44 |
Prnu. The city of the right size, which is 43000 people and great in any other perspective aswell.
Tartu gets the second place.
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Posted: 04-Oct-2004 at 15:32 |
hy would that be your favorite city in the world? lol, midwest.
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Because it is my hometown, because it's waters flow in my blood, it's air flows through my lungs and the city itself shines in my memories.
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Posted: 04-Oct-2004 at 17:41 |
Vienna, Budapesht.
It's funny how the Austro-Hungarian Empire let so many places develop culturally and aesthetically.
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Posted: 05-Oct-2004 at 13:03 |
Beijing - forbidden city
shanghai - dynamic and unique blend of east and west.
tokyo - high tech
toronto - muti cultural
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 14:23 |
From the cities ive been to:
Dublin - been there a few times, nice scenery, cool people and good beer.
Yerevan - Armenian capital, one of the richest histories. Great vodka.
From what ive seen in pictures and want to visit:
In no particular order, Paris, Rome, Athens, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Beirut, Cairo, Isfahan, Tabriz, Shiraz, Tehran, Jerusalem, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Prague. Much more but those are the main ones.
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 18:01 |
Originally posted by Cywr
Bern, because i know its beautifull.
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Bern is indeed beautiful, especially if you are fond of small towns.
It's very well organised, has charming old buildings and fountains and
of course the mother bear and her cubs. Although I must say everytime I
was there I had felt sorry for the bear family, they live in a rather
small and shabby cave/pool in the middle of the city. Not sure if
they're let out.
My favorites go as;
Geneve, because I miss it and have great memories of it.
Istanbul, for the same reasons even though actually living in Istanbul sucks most of the time (traffic and crowds)
Bercelona, because it feels like it's out of a story book with all that Art Nouveau
Vienna, melancholic and pretty
Florence, breathtaking
and New York, because I live here and it's pretty damn cool even though
I hate, hate, hate its winter when it goes down to -30C and the
windchill strikes!
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 18:54 |
its winter when it goes down to -30C |
Isn't that a bit much? Compared to Europe, New York is around
where Switzerland and Austria are in longitute right? It seems a
bit much...
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 19:04 |
Its where Rome is, lattitude wise.
But it gets the full continental treatment, with no warm mediteranean or gulf stream to spare it the worst.
I never got to see the bears in Bern in the end, oh well, an excuse to go there again
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 19:10 |
My favorite is Paris. So beautiful and they've managed to embrace the present and future and never lose the past.
New York, Rome, London and San Francisco are up at the top of my list too.
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 19:26 |
Originally posted by Kubrat
its winter when it goes down to -30C |
Isn't that a bit much? Compared to Europe, New York is around
where Switzerland and Austria are in longitute right? It seems a
bit much...
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It is a bit much, if you ask
me. The thing is, as Cywr says, there is no Gulf Stream or
Mediterranean to warm things up and yet it is right by the Atlantic
Ocean. What's more, in Manhattan, because of the way the city was built
you get the worse corridor effect from the Hudson River to East River
once the windstorms start and it's the windchill that does you in
rather than the cold. New York is cold and humid, you really feel it to
your bones. Last year the -30C days were more than 10 days at least. I
saw the temperature below 0 in Fahrenheit, it was unbearable. For three
days my school was out because of the cold, because the windchill was
lethal to people with weak lungs (asthmatics etc.) New York gets colder
than Reykjavik, not on average but in minimum temperature.
I'm hoping it won't be as cold this year but the way it's going it's not promising.
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 20:38 |
Wow.. never knew that about New York... One reason not to go there in the winter .
Its where Rome is, lattitude wise. |
Ah.. and you know I meant to say latitude, right?
My favorite is Paris. So beautiful and they've managed to
embrace the present and future and never lose the past. |
Yes, it's a magnificent city. The only thing I don't like is that
solitary tower in one section of the city, I forget what it is
called. I heard they were going to knock it down, is that true?
(Hope you guys know what I'm talking about)
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 21:05 |
Originally posted by Kubrat
Wow.. never knew that about New York... One reason not to go there in the winter .
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Smart move. It's beautiful in the spring though!
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 21:05 |
Paris si so dirty and smelly, everyone smokes and theres more filth than a New Jersey city, but historically, yes a very fabulous city anyway. I dont like very clean cities anyway, they have less personality.
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Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 21:13 |
Ah.. and you know I meant to say latitude, right? |
Of course, slip of the finger
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