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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Hightop wrote: |
| Van Islander, are you sure your Sapporo pics are Sapporo? Not Harbin, China?... Sapporo does not seem to have an Olympic ice festival but this year in Harbin the Snow and Ice festival has an Olympic theme |
Uh, the Olympic theme in Sapporo is from the Winter Olympics they hosted in 1972! It remains forever an Olympic city. Not Harbin pics.
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| VanIslander - I'm from Santa Fe... |
Recommend three great restaurants! I'll write them down.
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| it's a great place but it's really going downhill fast. It's becoming a retirement community - I go into the grocery store and I'm usually the only person under 50. Urban sprawl is taking over, like everywhere else in the states, and the city is quickly loosing it's charm. Best to visit when it's warm too. |
Hmmm.. Albuquerque? I'm pretty set on goin' to New Mexico. What's your fav town in the state? I'd do the air balloon festival if it's warm then:
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| I'm a country boy and i found i had more in common in many ways with villagers in india than i have done with people in london. vanislander, some very nice photos. |
Thanks. I'm more of a small city/town boy: goin' into the big city once in a while, not like those suburbanites and their daily commuting.
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| shimla i don't think is a city is it? I know its the state capital but its only the length from kyobo bookstore to chongno 3 ga. There are several layers of terraced streets though. So there is a bit of a sprawl. |
K, I'll take Shimla off of my top-10 list and include....
Havana for the jazz music festivals, dancing, food, rum drinks (Cuba Libre!) city architecture, people in the old part of the city, variety, history, Hemingway, beaches, just about everything. Everyone back in Canada I know who have been there have said it was soooo worth it! In my university days it seemed like I was the only one who hadn't gone.
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| Great thread. Just bookmarking. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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top one's I've visited/lived in:
New York
Capetown
Saigon
San Francisco
Denver
Cairo
Bangkok
Shanghai
Kyoto (much better than Osaka IMO)
Chicago
Taipei
one's I want to visit
London
Istanbul
Casablanca
Paris
St. Petersburg
Rio
Santiago
Buenos Aires
Tokyo
Beijing
for the New Mexico lovers - I lived in Las Cruces a while - is quite picturesque but you have to go into the older sections - I really love Latin America and do hope to tour from Mexico all the way down to southern Argentina and Peru some day. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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Amsterdam
Athens
Cuzco
Guatemala City
Hanoi
Istanbul
Kabul
Kandy
Kathmandu
La Paz
Varanasi
Sticking to relatively major cities these ten have all left indelible impressions with me. But I have more & better memories from towns & countrysides surrounding them. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:00 am Post subject: |
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These days..
Tokyo, Japan
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Shanghai, China
Saigon, Vietnam
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| soviet_man wrote: |
soviet_man's Top 10 cities:
1. Esfahan (Iran)
2. Moscow (Russia)
3. Pyongyang (DPRK)
4. Kuwait City (Kuwait)
5. Murmansk (Russia)
6. Casablanca (Morocco)
7. Islamabad (Pakistan)
8. Van (Turkey)
9. Tunis (Tunisia)
10. Sochi (Russia) |
Curious, why those arab cities? I liked tunis but don't think it is that amazing. Casablanca was my least favorite large city in Morocco. And Kuwait city? seems random. I personally would suggest Sanaa Yemen, Damascus, and Rabat over those cities. Marakesh and Fes as well. Cairo is the ultimate city in the Middle East, but it is a place many people hate for valid reasons (too polluted, dirty, crowded, etc).
Anyhoo, i too would love to go to esfahan, Iran someday. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:40 am Post subject: |
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In no order:
Cuzco, Peru
Chengdu, China
Guilin, China
Qingdao, China
Bilbao/San Sebastio, Spain
Budapest
Istanbul
Oman
Florianopolis, Brazil
Baltimore, the home of Bunk Moreland. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Top 10 cities I have not yet visited but would like to in the future (no particular order except for the first one):
Buenos Aires
Rio
Capetown
Vienna
Barcelona
Florence
Munich
Berlin
Stockholm
Beirut
Top Ten I've visited:
1. New York
2. Paris
3. Hong Kong
4. Singapore
5. Sanaa
6. Damascus
7. Bangkok
8. Tokyo
9. Porto
10. Cairo |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Cities I have lived in and/or visited and recommend at least visiting (in alphabetical order):
Boston
Buenos Aires
L.A.
Las Vegas
Miami
Rio
Salvador (Bahia)
San Diego
San Francisco
Santiago |
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slow_life
Joined: 29 Dec 2006
Location: here
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject: biggpoppa |
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| Most definitely, go to The Maldives. It's fabulous. Each tiny island has it's own resort complex and there really is no need to leave your little slice of paradise other than to venture out to sea. Enjoy!! |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
Baltimore, the home of Bunk Moreland. |
Yes!  |
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genezorm
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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my top 10
1) St. John's Newfoundland
2) Halifax Nova Scotia
3) Dartmouth Nova Scotia
4) St. John New Brunswick
5) Moncton New Brunswick
6) Sydney-Glace Bay Nova Scotia
7) Charlottetown PEI
 Sackville New Brunswick
9) Fredrickton New Brunswick
10) Antigonish Nova Scotia |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| samd wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
Baltimore, the home of Bunk Moreland. |
Yes! |
Remember when Bunk got drunk and burned his clothes? Good ol' Bunk.
Also, I'll add Kamchatka Peninsula and Torres del Paine, Chile. |
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