Wonderful Cities of the World

We're going to Gdansk in a couple of weeks time, Granjen, so I'm pleased to see the endorsement! Any must sees?

I love to visit Cities. Difficult to choose favourite.

Budapest is a great City to walk around, love Paris and London too,
and Naples floats my boat, but probably only in daylight hours!
I could go on and on

We loved Krakow (I was there in February, wrapped in pretend furs), so I'm hoping it's similar.

It's got to be Venice, the most beautiful city in the world

When we lived in Holland, we went to Liege a couple of times - once by boat from Maastricht - and I absolutely loved Liege. A fascinating mix of old and modern with the biggest outdoor market I've ever seen, where you could buy just about anything. I also like Amsterdam, Cologne, Granada, Cambridge, York, and the smallest city in Britain, St. David's!

My heart belongs to London. When I get on the train and make that 4 hour journey I know I am going to have a wonderful weekend. I don't mind if I am revisiting places i have been to many times before or, discovering somewhere new, I just love London

Venice every time, but preferably in winter so we don't have to queue for everything.

I loved Rome and Florence here I like York Leeds

Near to home, Amsterdam but the one place I keep going back to is Luang Prabang in Laos, every year. Beautiful old colonial buildings built by the French with a large amount of Lao temples and orange robed monks. It's also very safe and on two rivers. Love it.

Rome, Lisbon, Helsinki, Stockholm, Boston, Wells, Glasgow, Lincoln...to name just a few of my favourites

I really don't see the attraction of cities and positively dislike London.

I liked Venice, Bath and Havana; though for short periods of time only.

Los Angeles. Fascinatingly strange and soulless, with stunning coastline.

St Petesburg. Beautiful - Hermitage is fantastic, particularly the Monets.

Rio. Just stunning.

New York. 'nuff said.

I love London. In general I prefer coastal cities. Liverpool is great. Cardiff is quite little and friendly; Swansea is a mix of downbeat and picturesque. Bristol is edgier.

Current favourite UK city -Brighton! Edgy, vibrant, bonkers, decadent, wealthy, poor. Never dull.

I like a lot of cities in the UK, including: London, Cambridge, Wells, Brighton, Truro, Edinburgh, Salisbury, Cardiff. I've never been to Newcastle, Shrewsbury or St David's, and hope to get around to visiting them one day. I think the UK has some wonderful towns and cities.

I haven't been to that many cities abroad. I really liked Dubrovnik and Granada. I quite liked Paris and Barcelona. I didn't like New York or Orlando.

I would like to go to Lisbon, Bruges and Prague.

I'd forgotten about St Petersburg. I stayed there for a month in the early 70s when it was Leningrad and full of drunks. You'd to queue up with the babushkas for hours for fresh fruit, but vodka and Russian champagne flowed freely. Beautiful buildings though. I'd love to go back and see how it's changed.

I'm very lucky to live in Paris, though I hate the dog mess. As for the UK, one of the best kept secrets has to be Cardiff, a beautiful, buzzing, city of cultural delights. Internationally, I'd find it hard to improve on Sydney, which is simply breathtaking and where the coffee is the best I've ever tasted (unlike Paris where other than espresso they haven't a clue!).

Oh I loved Vienna Jingle! No cake?? Didnt you have sachertorte there?
Ive been to most of those mentioned but notBerlin. Dubrovnic is great too. And Budapest.

Like Pollyperkins, I love Vienna too - the edgy Harry Lime Sewer Tour is a must, a ride on the Prater Big Wheel, plus the lounging chairs in the Museum Quarter that encourage you to lie down and sky-gaze. And of course the cake ....

I don't like Paris much but love Amsterdam, Bruges, Munich, San Diego, Sydney, Glasgow, Brighton, Oxford, Winchester and my born-and-bred city, London.

Posts on here have got me enthusing about a trip to Cardiff, it sounds brilliant!

Off to Seville next week then Granada

Do come to Newcastle Eleothan we have some amazing things. Including a castle, a small cathedral, a Matcham theatre and the remains of the Town Walls. And of course Grey Street once voted the Best Street in England by Radio 4 listeners. Can you tell I'm a City Guide and passionate about Newcastle?

Newcastle is my favourite too - so many memories there.
I don't think anyone has mentioned Jerusalem. I first visited there in 1983 and was completely overwhelmed - so much history! And a sort of mediaeval feel.
Since then we've been back a few times and it has changed a lot . Too many tall blocks of flats, and the whole place has become more commercialised and 'Americanised'.
A lot more racial hostility as well, which is a shame, I would be afraid to walk in the markets now (even if we could afford to go!)

polly I'm not fond of dark chocolate. DD gave in to temptation though.

Ooh, I've still got lots to get through! (Will NOT do long haul though, no matter how much persuasion I get from a certain quarter)

I would love to see the Holy Land, both Israel and Jordan, but too scary now! And, I guess, too commercialised.

Jings - you should do a Holy Land tour. You should be quite safe in an organised group, they wouldn't take you anywhere dangerous.There are many Christian tours.
We went independently and wandered all over, hired a car.
Once I went to see DD1 who was working on a kibbutz and that was exciting.
I would love to go again.

Bergamo in northern Italy is a fantastic city to visit and close to Lecco, a lakeside city. I also love Valencia, Porto, Lisbon, Madrid, Munich and Paris.

I'd like to go to Munich and Berlin I love Germany and it's people. Which one first? What'd you think?