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The most beautiful city in the world
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Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Rev Eli Jenkins in Under Milk Wood summed it up for me
..I know there are
Towns lovelier than ours,
And fairer hills and loftier far,
And groves more full of flowers...
...Our Heron Head is only
A bit of stone with seaweed spread
Where gulls come to be lonely.
A tiny dingle is Milk Wood
By Golden Grove 'neath Grongar,
But let me choose and oh! I should
Love all my life and longer
To stroll among our trees and stray
In Goosegog Lane, on Donkey Down,
And hear the Dewi sing all day,
And never, never leave the town.
That's how I feel about Brighton.
..I know there are
Towns lovelier than ours,
And fairer hills and loftier far,
And groves more full of flowers...
...Our Heron Head is only
A bit of stone with seaweed spread
Where gulls come to be lonely.
A tiny dingle is Milk Wood
By Golden Grove 'neath Grongar,
But let me choose and oh! I should
Love all my life and longer
To stroll among our trees and stray
In Goosegog Lane, on Donkey Down,
And hear the Dewi sing all day,
And never, never leave the town.
That's how I feel about Brighton.
father_and_son
Well-known member
This... Barcelona is full of beautiful buildings courtesy of Gaudi (the Cathedral is just breathtaking) and Rome (there during the disastrous playoff game) is so full of fantastic history & architecture that they have more than they can possibly protect. Wander out of town a little and there's loads of old viaducts and other ruins that make the place so interesting.
Sex shops and Coffee bars aside, wandering beside canals in Amsterdam is also wonderful.
somerset
New member
Abroad - Lisbon and Bruges
UK - Cambridge
UK - Cambridge
Marlton & Hove Albion
New member
Bolzano - Really? - I was there a week ago and I was really surprised How nice it was. Did you go to the Bozer Brewery by chance and go and see Otzi?
Bruges is beautiful. As are Stokholm, Melbourne and BATH.
Not Andy Naylor
Well-known member
Good point - Lubljana is a hidden gem. I also hear good things about Dubrovnik, bit I've never been.
KingstonSeagull
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San Francisco any day of the week...
Seagull kimchi
New member
Bhaktapur - Patan - Pokhara - Kaza - Leh - Srinagar - All nestled among the mighty Himalaya - Never been, but Thimpu is probably a bit special.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
Paris
London
Brighton
all have there undoubted faults
and if I were to be pushed
PARIS
if you were to ask me where would I like to live .....30 years ago it might have been Alexandria Egypt
London
Brighton
all have there undoubted faults
and if I were to be pushed
PARIS
if you were to ask me where would I like to live .....30 years ago it might have been Alexandria Egypt
joeinbrighton
New member
I'm not as well travelled as some on here, but of the cities I have been to, Prague would get my vote just ahead of Stockholm. Both have some very beautiful architecture and historical buildings. Only drawback to Stockholm was it was quite expensive, as Scandinavia tends to be in general. Also, Madrid was a good place and I'd like to go back there and explore a bit more. The last time I was there, I didn't really get the chance to explore it 'culturally' shall we say. I did get to look round the Bernabeu, mind you. Also, I have been to a few cities in France and would recommend a visit to any of Saint Malo, Rouen, Bayeux or Amiens, all of which have some attractive architecture and Saint Malo has coastline where you can see out as far as the Channel Islands on a clear day.
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Agree with this 100%
The Large One
Who's Next?
Really? I was there the same time as you and, aside from finding the locations of The Italian Job, I found it a bit underwhelming.
I'd happily re-visit this place, though - as would you, I suspect.
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
Turin
SPENT 5 DAYS THERE FOR THE EURO'S IN 1980 HAD KNIVES PULLED ON US EVERY DAY,EVEN HAD A GUN PULLED ON US,WOULD LIKE TO REVISIT DURING MORE PEACEFUL TIMES
grubbyhands
Well-known member
Christ Mate. I know you live in Oz and you must know it better than most on NSC but in the short time I visited,albeit in1998,I dont think I saw a dog end, a dog sh*t, a discarded coke tin or any rubbish. Just a brilliant ,clean ,friendly,cosmopolitan,melting pot of all nationalities getting on famously. I guess things change but from my memories it would be up there. My number one for what it's worth...Christchurch NZ, not for the buildings but for the immediate scenery and the recent memories.
daveinprague
New member
Turin
I remember the 'Turin was a gas' T-shirts after it...
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
A bit of a mare tbh,at one point we had the wardrobe pushed up against our hotel room door for added insurance,the owner of the hotel refused to call a cab because he said we would not make it from the hotel door to the taxi
- Jan 3, 2012
- 16,600
Sunderland is nice..... well, maybe not.
A lot of good mentions above, particularly Siena.
But I really like Nice - much more interesting and historical than most of the other French Riviera resorts, Avignon, which is stunning, and (as already mentioned above) La Rochelle.
And We visited a friend in Copenhagen a couple of years ago. Very pleasant.
A lot of good mentions above, particularly Siena.
But I really like Nice - much more interesting and historical than most of the other French Riviera resorts, Avignon, which is stunning, and (as already mentioned above) La Rochelle.
And We visited a friend in Copenhagen a couple of years ago. Very pleasant.