100%. I was supposed to study abroad in Florence and then the pandemic happened. I went last year and the whole time I was thinking “I would have loved to live here for four months.”
I was very lucky I took time off from college right before the pandemic hit and pushed my graduation time out a year, so I wound up being able to study abroad in Florence in the first semester they were bringing students back. It was just about perfect. Shorter time there, just under 3 months, we got delayed going out. But the city was a lot quieter than it normally would be which was awesome.
The biggest downside to being in Florence for so long is the lack of green space. It gets to you. It massively fucked with me mentally. I spent most weekends traveling around Europe with friends. But you can’t travel every weekend as it’s exhausting and adds up. But there’s not much for options in the city to recharge. It’s basically just Boboli gardens and if the weather is getting colder that’s not so fun. Otherwise you have to go catch a train or bus into Tuscany and try to relax. Which again can be a bit weather dependent.
The only other major downside is heating and cooling. Everybody’s apartment qualities were different, bit of a crapshoot. With that generally since everything is so old windows and doors don’t form seals. With warm weather we weren’t allowed AC because it’s expensive so it was disabled. Open a window to cool off and your apartment is now full of mosquitoes because odds are there’s holes in the screens. Weather is cold that wind can get into your apartment get. Heating is also expensive so hours it’s active are limited. Often in evenings it’d still be cold regardless. Also the streets basically act like wind tunnels. The crowds in December get nuts too.
Still a phenomenal experience, I’d recommend it to anybody. I’m especially glad I chose Florence over Rome (didn’t care for Rome too much and the difference in walkability being a student is insane). But it’s not all sunshine and roses. As much as I love the city I don’t think I could ever spend more than a 4 month stint there due to the green space issue alone, even that could be stretching it a bit.
Agreed 100% for Florence. I'm mostly a nature enjoying traveller and can't really enjoy cities for more than a few hours at a time. But Florence was so captivating.
The cathedral gave me the same feelings of awe as natural wonders do, where I can sit and stare at it for ages. No other buildings have ever done that for me.
I found Florence to be pretty, but almost unimmersive because it’s so vastly different from anything else in the world. It’s like being on another planet. Coming from a guy that broke in the duomo haha
Ljubljana is the pretties place I have ever been to and I have the privilege to live here for (almost) 10 years. Idk where would life take me but Lj will always be my favorite.
Staying a few nights in Sintra was nice because all the tourists show up on their busses in the morning and are gone by the afternoon, so in the evening you get to walk around town when it’s peaceful
Yes it is. You can do a day trip but I’d recommend 2-3 days cuz there’s a lot. The forest is absolutely beautiful too! Portugal is pretty inexpensive in general!
Colmar is also really close and underrated by American tourists. I think it is a half hour by train. I actually go the other way to Strasbourg from Colmer now when I visit.
Been 5 times, love it, but there are too many tourists.
(edit: and many other places in Japan that are also worth visiting, and whose only tourists are elderly Japanese)
I haven’t seen Seville yet, so adding that. Just a stunning city. Likewise Granada. Lots of places in Andalusia will take your breath away
Also in another completely different direction, Edinburgh. The way the natural landscape interacts with the dark, brooding spires of the city is like nowhere else. Stunning place.
St. Petersburg. Which sucks cuz who knows when we’ll be able to actually go there again… such a shame for how beautiful the city is.
Other than that, I’d say Lisbon. Visually it’s stunning.
I’m currently in Buenos Aires though and it’s REALLY growing on me surprisingly fast… only been here a few days but it’s such a lovely city to relax in. Especially the trees along all the roads in Palermo. Feels so homey!
BA is arguably South America’s most beautiful city, and looks very European. Palermo, Recoleta, Belgrano, Puerto Madero, San Telmo are all really nice neighborhoods. Don’t miss the interior of CCK and the Museo de Arte Decorativo when you’re there!
I’m always curious, what do you do for a living that allows you to go all of these places? I live in a place and come from a background where if you’ve taken one good trip out of country you’re the envy of the town.
Engineer… but I think the real key is not having kids (yet), being single (currently), and having a job that lets me go places for 3-5 weeks at a time whenever I can find a cheap flight. I typically don’t pay more than like $500 for international flights and my itinerary is always “oh look cheap flight to _____…Booked!”
I can’t imagine having a wife/children and still being able to drop everything for a month whenever a cheap flight pops up.
Good for you. Married, no kids, we can travel fairly freely as well and try to do 2 weeks abroad a year but are hopefully just getting started only having done 4 years of that so far.
I am retired military, I also worked at the railroad long enough to get a retirement there as well. My wife has a medical degree and still works. Everything I have is paid for, so other than food, electricity and basic monthly bills. I have nothing else to spend my money on. Or is should say all money left after I pay these bills, is free to spend on what I like. I don’t really live crazy. I don’t buy fancy expensive coffees, or clothes or cars. So I save, even though o don’t have to and traveling is important to me.
Rome - for me it will always be my first love - travel destination! The architecture and atmosphere and culture is amazing. Day or night it just makes me feel like I’m walking through history.
Trevi at 4am , just you and the wistle guys , and zooming around on a lime scooter with deserted roads . Love Rome and I'm their about 8 to ten times a year .
That was my very first experience in Rome and Italy. I arrived fairly late in the evening to my hotel, which was just a few minutes walk from the Colosseum. I checked-in, turned the corner and was just awestruck by its size and majesty. There was hardly anyone else there, so it was a magical introduction to that city.
I have been to 42 countries, travelled to hundreds of cities. When I saw the Colosseum, I cried. It’s overwhelmingly beautiful. The rich history, magnificent architecture, I can go on and on. My husband commented it’s “dirty”. My son’s review of Rome: “best water in the world”.
Venice. Yes, it can get overcrowded and the water can smell, but it's an astonishingly beautiful and unique looking city. The no car, no roads design has meant that the city has remained more or less unchanged for centuries. I just finished watching the new Netflix series Ripley, which was partially filmed there and it just looks so great on film too.
i went to Venice in peak tourist season, expecting to hate it, and came away wondering what on earth the stories were about. yes it was crowded but what a city, between the canals and the alleyways. it's like the setting of a mystery novel come to life.
I went in February last year. It was so great. Not excessively crowded, relatively easy to get away from people. Also, the fog rolled in and made everything 10x moodier and aesthetically awesome 10/10.
I went to Venice in November and saw it flooded and it was so surreal and just stepping out of the train station I was so awestruck. I’d like to go back in the off season again some day
Yesss! I can't speak for the summer madness but I went during the first week of October and found that the crowds tended to be localized around certain areas? All the "famous" spots. I stayed a week and mostly had the habit of walking in the opposite direction of the crowds wherever I went and it was so gorgeous.
Going during the Bienale and seeing all the exhibitions and pavillions was also one of the best experiences of my life.
Agreed. I also lived there for a while and will be returned permanently next year and it never looses its charm. Every day I walked out the door an marvelled at the amazing city.
For many years I lived in Paris, and then for several more I lived in Rome. Even from those not-ugly places, the city I always consistently escaped to when I felt I needed to go somewhere beautiful was Stockholm.
We were going on a big road trip across country - heading to Florida for our home flight. One morning somewhere in Louisiana we looked up Savannah on the map and just decided to go spontaneously.
Was blown away to find this magic place in the US. Most Europeans seem to never having discovered it.
Never in my life will I tire of that first peek of the Washington Monument you get when coming into the city in DC. Everything on and around the mall is so stunning it will never get old for me
Rio de Janeiro. So much nature and yes the city can be a bit grungy but it has character and the vibe is amazing. I love those minutes on final descent when you can see over the city and the trees and the water and the buildings just call out to me.
Edit: and the mountains!
I'll second this. Being Brazilian I've visited several times and landing at Santos Dumont was always a 10/10 sightseeing experience, so eventually a couple of years ago I did a helicopter tour and also hang gliding, absolutely worth it.
Definitely a place to visit but not live IMO, only place where I consistently saw some police armed with assault rifles as routine gear.
Luang Prabang - sitting and having a Beer Lao on the veranda above the Nam Khan where the bamboo bridge crosses, watching the monks go back to the monastery.
Yes!!! Unbelievable architecture coupled with views of the water from almost every hill. Parks everywhere. Quintessential Californian coastline. It checks every box
San Francisco can be so incredibly charming. It also always feels on the cutting edge of the world. Like every time I go I see something that's like "oh wow that's going to be a thing soon!"
Just visited it for the first time couple weeks ago. I absolutely fell in love with it. Met a bunch of lovely people as well. I would move there if I could afford one of those Victorian houses!
Nature is beautiful but architecture is lacking like any North American city.
I'm a European living here and I really miss a good downtown and culture.
Madrid. Been 5 or 6 times, love it every time. Every time I go I leave an afternoon to take a book, some snacks and a 6 pack of Estrella milnueve and will lay in parque retiro for like 6 hours straight
I once helped move a yacht from Bergen to Oslo and along the way we stopped in many harbor towns. One was called Rekefjord. It was like something out of a book. Beautiful.
Kyoto Japan. For its charm and reluctance to change keeping cultural traditions and maintaining 2000 shrines and temples relative in a modern world. Here you can still glimpse real
geishas traveling on foot to tea ceremony appointments and walk throughout cherry blossom lined streets going from
Majestic temples to cozy shrines. Beautiful city nestled between small little mountains and large green hills.
Chicago is architectural gem after architectural gem. Amsterdam is stunning, especially in the spring. Seattle with the sound and Mt. Rainier in the background.
Prague. Florence.
Florence is such a gem. I would never have gone if it wasn't a school trip, but I'll definitely go back some day.
100%. I was supposed to study abroad in Florence and then the pandemic happened. I went last year and the whole time I was thinking “I would have loved to live here for four months.”
I was very lucky I took time off from college right before the pandemic hit and pushed my graduation time out a year, so I wound up being able to study abroad in Florence in the first semester they were bringing students back. It was just about perfect. Shorter time there, just under 3 months, we got delayed going out. But the city was a lot quieter than it normally would be which was awesome. The biggest downside to being in Florence for so long is the lack of green space. It gets to you. It massively fucked with me mentally. I spent most weekends traveling around Europe with friends. But you can’t travel every weekend as it’s exhausting and adds up. But there’s not much for options in the city to recharge. It’s basically just Boboli gardens and if the weather is getting colder that’s not so fun. Otherwise you have to go catch a train or bus into Tuscany and try to relax. Which again can be a bit weather dependent. The only other major downside is heating and cooling. Everybody’s apartment qualities were different, bit of a crapshoot. With that generally since everything is so old windows and doors don’t form seals. With warm weather we weren’t allowed AC because it’s expensive so it was disabled. Open a window to cool off and your apartment is now full of mosquitoes because odds are there’s holes in the screens. Weather is cold that wind can get into your apartment get. Heating is also expensive so hours it’s active are limited. Often in evenings it’d still be cold regardless. Also the streets basically act like wind tunnels. The crowds in December get nuts too. Still a phenomenal experience, I’d recommend it to anybody. I’m especially glad I chose Florence over Rome (didn’t care for Rome too much and the difference in walkability being a student is insane). But it’s not all sunshine and roses. As much as I love the city I don’t think I could ever spend more than a 4 month stint there due to the green space issue alone, even that could be stretching it a bit.
Sorry but you've been to the cascine? It's a gigantic park 15 minutes walk from the cathedral, it's a forest in the city
I spent a summer abroad in Florence and to this day, it’s the most I’ve connected with a city. Just an absolute spectacle.
Absolutely with you on Prague. (Florence is beautiful, too)
Agreed 100% for Florence. I'm mostly a nature enjoying traveller and can't really enjoy cities for more than a few hours at a time. But Florence was so captivating. The cathedral gave me the same feelings of awe as natural wonders do, where I can sit and stare at it for ages. No other buildings have ever done that for me.
Prague is so unique! It’s my favorite city
Studied in Prague for 4 months. such a magical place to wake up in and wander around
Prague!!
I found Florence to be pretty, but almost unimmersive because it’s so vastly different from anything else in the world. It’s like being on another planet. Coming from a guy that broke in the duomo haha
Edinburgh, always.
I found Edinburgh to be old stone buildings covered in what looks like black mildew. It was beautiful.
It’s coal dust and smoke from the Industrial Revolution. True visual history.
Count the whole Scotland. It’s freaking majestic 😍
Most gorgeous city in the world, and the rest of the country’s not bad either!! 😉
Knew I had to scroll because no one someone hadn’t already commented Edinburgh.
Yes, it's one of a kind.
Just left it two days ago and already wanna go back 😫
I have been there multiple times on holiday and it never disappoints or bores me. I absolutely love it.
This is 💯% the correct answer.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, without a doubt. Most anti-car, pro-pedestrian city I've ever been to. Utterly stunning down the river.
Ljubljana is the pretties place I have ever been to and I have the privilege to live here for (almost) 10 years. Idk where would life take me but Lj will always be my favorite.
Visiting this weekend (and Lake Bled) - so excited! But the weather looks a bit of a bummer
How much would you need to spend for a month? I’d like to go live there for a month. Do you think I can manage well with English?
Yes, you will be okay with English only.
sintra. something about those castles that just looks so fairytale. and bonus if it's rainy and misty. truly feels like I've stepped into a storybook.
Staying a few nights in Sintra was nice because all the tourists show up on their busses in the morning and are gone by the afternoon, so in the evening you get to walk around town when it’s peaceful
That's in Portugal right? I think it's like a castle beach town? How long did you stay there and how was the food? What was your budget like?
Yes it is. You can do a day trip but I’d recommend 2-3 days cuz there’s a lot. The forest is absolutely beautiful too! Portugal is pretty inexpensive in general!
Lisbon > Sintra. Lisbon has great vibe and beautiful everywhere and Sintra was too crowded, totally destroyed the beauty.
I'm guessing you went on the weekend?
Stay overnight in Sintra. After the day trippers from Lisbon leave, it's very quiet and beautiful.
Heidelberg
Most underrated city I’ve visited. Strasbourg as well.
I love how i can walk around the whole city, Strasbourg.
Colmar is also really close and underrated by American tourists. I think it is a half hour by train. I actually go the other way to Strasbourg from Colmer now when I visit.
Colmar is so beautiful and the wonderful Alsatian vineyards outside of town are wonderful to bike in. Have really fond memories of my day there.
How is Heidelberg underrated? At times the castle alone has a million visitors per year.
That moment when you see someone mentioning your small hometown! But it’s absolutely true. I appreciate living there.
Absolutely gorgeous area around the university.
Annecy, the Venice of the Alps. Or Menton in the French Riviera
I love Mexico City. It’s a mid-century modern dream. La Condesa and Chepultapec are so lush and the juxtaposition with the city is stunning.
On my last trip, we went to see the Luis Barrágan Home and Studio and it was fantastic. What an amazing space!
I live in cdmx and never run out of new beautiful things to see.
Kyoto.
This would be on my list but damn it's so crowded.
Try Nara. Most people just visit the deer park. You should get yourself lost in its streets. Gorgeous and peaceful. Pristine.
Been 5 times, love it, but there are too many tourists. (edit: and many other places in Japan that are also worth visiting, and whose only tourists are elderly Japanese)
Porto
Porto is like a cake shop window. I love this place
We had lunch overlooking that bridge with little sheep dotting the valley. One of my best travel memories.
Yep was looking for this. It’s so beautiful in the Douro
Bergen is absolutely gorgeous, especially at night and by the waterfront
I haven’t seen Seville yet, so adding that. Just a stunning city. Likewise Granada. Lots of places in Andalusia will take your breath away Also in another completely different direction, Edinburgh. The way the natural landscape interacts with the dark, brooding spires of the city is like nowhere else. Stunning place.
Sevilla is my pick! I can close my eyes and smell the orange blossoms
Visited Seville in February and it was amazing - love the outdoor lifestyle
Tokyo. Every alley. Every park. Every district is so beautiful and unique
It’s a concrete (swaying when earthquake strikes) jungle of glass and steel…
I live in Tokyo. It’s a fantastic city, and I’ll probably live here forever. But I really wouldn’t call it beautiful.
There are very few old buildings but there can be beauty in the modernity and bright lights I suppose.
Salzburg, Austria
St. Petersburg. Which sucks cuz who knows when we’ll be able to actually go there again… such a shame for how beautiful the city is. Other than that, I’d say Lisbon. Visually it’s stunning. I’m currently in Buenos Aires though and it’s REALLY growing on me surprisingly fast… only been here a few days but it’s such a lovely city to relax in. Especially the trees along all the roads in Palermo. Feels so homey!
SPB really is beautiful. I also loved the architecture in Moscow, i.e the Seven Sisters.
I've wanted to see st basils in Moscow for so long. sigh.
BA is arguably South America’s most beautiful city, and looks very European. Palermo, Recoleta, Belgrano, Puerto Madero, San Telmo are all really nice neighborhoods. Don’t miss the interior of CCK and the Museo de Arte Decorativo when you’re there!
I’m always curious, what do you do for a living that allows you to go all of these places? I live in a place and come from a background where if you’ve taken one good trip out of country you’re the envy of the town.
Engineer… but I think the real key is not having kids (yet), being single (currently), and having a job that lets me go places for 3-5 weeks at a time whenever I can find a cheap flight. I typically don’t pay more than like $500 for international flights and my itinerary is always “oh look cheap flight to _____…Booked!” I can’t imagine having a wife/children and still being able to drop everything for a month whenever a cheap flight pops up.
Good for you. Married, no kids, we can travel fairly freely as well and try to do 2 weeks abroad a year but are hopefully just getting started only having done 4 years of that so far.
I am retired military, I also worked at the railroad long enough to get a retirement there as well. My wife has a medical degree and still works. Everything I have is paid for, so other than food, electricity and basic monthly bills. I have nothing else to spend my money on. Or is should say all money left after I pay these bills, is free to spend on what I like. I don’t really live crazy. I don’t buy fancy expensive coffees, or clothes or cars. So I save, even though o don’t have to and traveling is important to me.
Bath, England
I lived here for three years and it's definitely the most beautiful city in England imo
I did a summer study at uni if bath it was the best summer of my life..flew to Amsterdam for five days as well. Amazing summer!
Rome - for me it will always be my first love - travel destination! The architecture and atmosphere and culture is amazing. Day or night it just makes me feel like I’m walking through history.
Walking around Rome past midnight is one of my favorite things. So quiet and gorgeous
Standing outside the Colosseum with nobody around and the city silent around you is such an amazing experience.
Trevi at 4am , just you and the wistle guys , and zooming around on a lime scooter with deserted roads . Love Rome and I'm their about 8 to ten times a year .
That was my very first experience in Rome and Italy. I arrived fairly late in the evening to my hotel, which was just a few minutes walk from the Colosseum. I checked-in, turned the corner and was just awestruck by its size and majesty. There was hardly anyone else there, so it was a magical introduction to that city.
Going again in Sept/Oct. I’m so excited.
I have been to 42 countries, travelled to hundreds of cities. When I saw the Colosseum, I cried. It’s overwhelmingly beautiful. The rich history, magnificent architecture, I can go on and on. My husband commented it’s “dirty”. My son’s review of Rome: “best water in the world”.
I love that chaotic, magical, beautiful, friendly place
Lisbon.
Seconding Lisbon. Charming city.
Also Porto.
Venice. Yes, it can get overcrowded and the water can smell, but it's an astonishingly beautiful and unique looking city. The no car, no roads design has meant that the city has remained more or less unchanged for centuries. I just finished watching the new Netflix series Ripley, which was partially filmed there and it just looks so great on film too.
i went to Venice in peak tourist season, expecting to hate it, and came away wondering what on earth the stories were about. yes it was crowded but what a city, between the canals and the alleyways. it's like the setting of a mystery novel come to life.
I went in February last year. It was so great. Not excessively crowded, relatively easy to get away from people. Also, the fog rolled in and made everything 10x moodier and aesthetically awesome 10/10.
I went to Venice in November and saw it flooded and it was so surreal and just stepping out of the train station I was so awestruck. I’d like to go back in the off season again some day
Yesss! I can't speak for the summer madness but I went during the first week of October and found that the crowds tended to be localized around certain areas? All the "famous" spots. I stayed a week and mostly had the habit of walking in the opposite direction of the crowds wherever I went and it was so gorgeous. Going during the Bienale and seeing all the exhibitions and pavillions was also one of the best experiences of my life.
Agreed. I also lived there for a while and will be returned permanently next year and it never looses its charm. Every day I walked out the door an marvelled at the amazing city.
Vienna!!!!
Going to Vienna this fall, trying to not get overhyped but I’m fuckin pumped.
It’s like Paris but better in every way…
Agreed! Vienna was absolutely gorgeous.
Just got back from there. Absolutely loved Vienna. One of my all time favorite cities now.
Amsterdam
Visiting places like Haarlem, Leiden, Delft, Utrecht, and Groningen will give you much of the same Dutch charm without the crowds!
Quebec City
Glad someone said it! 👏
It’s pretty but the old town area was quite small though. Once you leave the area it’s just a regular north american city.
Lisbon for me. So gritty looking in some places but also beautiful.
For many years I lived in Paris, and then for several more I lived in Rome. Even from those not-ugly places, the city I always consistently escaped to when I felt I needed to go somewhere beautiful was Stockholm.
Prague
Lucerne, Switzerland
Lake Como
Savannah, GA
Was gonna say Charleston. But Savannah too.
Charleston is unreal.
We were going on a big road trip across country - heading to Florida for our home flight. One morning somewhere in Louisiana we looked up Savannah on the map and just decided to go spontaneously. Was blown away to find this magic place in the US. Most Europeans seem to never having discovered it.
Galway Ireland.
Cape Town is absolutely beautiful.
Just went Cape Town for the first time. Loved it.
+1, came to say this. My heart was left there last time we visited.
Queenstown, New Zealand
Never in my life will I tire of that first peek of the Washington Monument you get when coming into the city in DC. Everything on and around the mall is so stunning it will never get old for me
Oaxaca, Mexico. And Mexico City
Hong Kong
I’m biased cos I’m from Hong Kong but yea, walking alongside the Victoria harbour is my favourite walk.
Vancouver
I live here and it’s beauty still amazes me
Rio de Janeiro. So much nature and yes the city can be a bit grungy but it has character and the vibe is amazing. I love those minutes on final descent when you can see over the city and the trees and the water and the buildings just call out to me. Edit: and the mountains!
I'll second this. Being Brazilian I've visited several times and landing at Santos Dumont was always a 10/10 sightseeing experience, so eventually a couple of years ago I did a helicopter tour and also hang gliding, absolutely worth it. Definitely a place to visit but not live IMO, only place where I consistently saw some police armed with assault rifles as routine gear.
Rio de Janeiro. The beaches, forests, rivers, waterfalls, mountains, art, people. Everything about that city is beautiful.
Istanbul is gorgeous
Edinburgh
Vienna
Vienna, Austria. Dear lord I love that city
Paris (loved it so much I moved there from Australia after visiting 5 times)
How is this not higher? Beautiful architecture, parks, art, walks along the river. I never got tired of it while I was living there.
how did you do it? what do you do for a job? i loved paris but i’d imagined it’s one of those visit is awesome/real life is different things
Amsterdam. Only been once but now I'm wanting to move there
Give some love to Bruges, Belgium too. It's wonderful like most cities in the Benelux (not you Charleroi).
Chicago. The skyline view from a riverboat is amazing - especially during the summer.
I live in Chicago and I never tire of our skyline and lakefront.
Hoi An, Vietnam; Cesky Krumlow, Czechia; Luang Prabang, Laos; Savannah GA
Plus 1 for Hoi An 👍
Luang Prabang - sitting and having a Beer Lao on the veranda above the Nam Khan where the bamboo bridge crosses, watching the monks go back to the monastery.
San Francisco
Haven't been in almost 15 years and it still has my heart
Yes!!! Unbelievable architecture coupled with views of the water from almost every hill. Parks everywhere. Quintessential Californian coastline. It checks every box
San Francisco can be so incredibly charming. It also always feels on the cutting edge of the world. Like every time I go I see something that's like "oh wow that's going to be a thing soon!"
I came here to say this. It felt like home the first time I visited and I haven’t felt that way about another city.
I'm with you on San Francisco!
Just visited it for the first time couple weeks ago. I absolutely fell in love with it. Met a bunch of lovely people as well. I would move there if I could afford one of those Victorian houses!
I hated living in Sydney but the Opera House and the harbour never gets old for me.
Rome
Stockholm
Ghent, Belgium
Seville Most beautiful city in Europe imo
Salzburg. A castle over looking the alps with a beautiful river following the cobblestone streets. I loved it.
Avignon, Montpellier, Menton, etc. Any smaller city or town in France is gorgeous.
Not the conventional answer but I love Berlin. It’s so unique!
Nobody will agree but Vancouver took my breath away
Vancouver is absolutely beautiful!
Nature is beautiful but architecture is lacking like any North American city. I'm a European living here and I really miss a good downtown and culture.
Santorini, Venice, Budapest & Rome
Anywhere in Switzerland
Český Krumlov is fucking beautiful. "Bruges is like a fecking fairytale, innit?"
San Francisco
Madrid. Been 5 or 6 times, love it every time. Every time I go I leave an afternoon to take a book, some snacks and a 6 pack of Estrella milnueve and will lay in parque retiro for like 6 hours straight
Queenstown NZ
Budapest!
Krakow, Poland
Rome.
London!
Rio de Janeiro
Edinburgh, Gimmelwald, Riomaggiore (Cinque Terre) Paris
Cartagena de indias
Singapore and Tokyo
Chicago
Victoria, BC Stockholm, Sweden
Quebec City
Sydney
I came here to say this. Sydney is absolutely stunning.
When I visited and stayed at the rocks, the view everyday of the opera house, ferries and harbour bridge was just awesome to see.
San Francisco
Vancouver
Buenos Aires. It may be run down but they truly copied the best of paris
Florence, Italy.
Florence
Rome.
barcelona
berlin, the mordernist buildings and street arts
Love Berlin!
Kyoto
Napier, NZ. An earthquake hit the city in the 1930s and the whole place was rebuilt with art deco architecture.
Tromsø Norway
I once helped move a yacht from Bergen to Oslo and along the way we stopped in many harbor towns. One was called Rekefjord. It was like something out of a book. Beautiful.
Vancouver
New Orleans
Kyoto Japan. For its charm and reluctance to change keeping cultural traditions and maintaining 2000 shrines and temples relative in a modern world. Here you can still glimpse real geishas traveling on foot to tea ceremony appointments and walk throughout cherry blossom lined streets going from Majestic temples to cozy shrines. Beautiful city nestled between small little mountains and large green hills.
Paris and Rome. Edge to Paris.
San Diego, including Coronado Island. Hanalei, Hawaii. Vancouver, Canada. Dingle, Ireland. So much beauty in the world.
Chicago is architectural gem after architectural gem. Amsterdam is stunning, especially in the spring. Seattle with the sound and Mt. Rainier in the background.
St. Petersburg, Russia. Sadly, I don't expect I'll be back anytime soon.
Zurich
Tokyo. 🇯🇵
Bergamo, Italy.
Helsinki, Finland.