In response to Lauren@Salt Says and her post about favourite cities, I thought I’d do a little post-let.

I did a bit of this before in this post https://charliebrown888.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/destinations/ but now I’m going to do a little one line review of each of these cities to help you all with your holiday plans 🙂

1. Glasgow:  interesting, Scottish, incomprehensible, wet, grand, historic
2. Aberdeen: grey, cold, wet.  did I mention wet?
3. Belfast:  under-rated, lively
4. Paris:  mad, smelly, never drive a car there, excellent food, cafes, history, grand.
5. Annecy:  Lovely, beautiful, touristy, traffic, amazing lake, scenery, climate, food
6. Munich:  stoic, German, impressive, food and beer
7. Frankfurt:  historic, modern, boring
8. Amsterdam:  chilled, relaxed, pretty, good culture, friendly
9. Berlin:  Cool, trendy, cheap, East is very trendy now, but little English
10. Düsseldorf:  pretty, small, nice food, friendly people
11. Gothenburg:  amazing food, expensive, lovely in Summer, cold and wet every other season
12. Trondheim:  unspoiled on the fjord, midnight sun, expensive, lively, friendly
13. Prague:  historic, cobbled, touristy, awful chavvy stag parties, interesting, music
14. Venice:  amazing, stunning, old, startlingly expensive, must see
15. Rome:  crazy, noisy, history, food, religion, fashion, art.
16. Geneva:  boring.  old Geneva is lovely with amazing restaurants.
17. Stockholm:  quaint, trendy, expensive
18. Milan (Lugano, Switzerland):  Milan is nuts, crazy bonkers with style
19. Krakow:  amazing, beautiful square in the centre, underground bars and clubs
20. London:  huge, complex, busy, epic history, good food, easy to travel about, expensive
21. Barcelona:  beautiful, tree lined boulevards, architecture, Gaudi, cool subculture
22. Toronto:  CN Tower, shops, boring, cold in winter, hot in summer. Good clubs and restaurants.
23. San Diego:  warm, sunny, gaslamp district is very cool, good living
24. San Francisco:  quirky, hilly, eccentric, beautiful, artistic with a big bridge
25. San Jose:  dull, industrial
26. Perth:   small, quiet, boring, has potential, lovely river front. beautiful, restaurants.
27. Melbourne:  arty, laneways, food, chinatown, trams, winebars
28. Sydney:  icons, restaurants, green, trees, skyline, coffee

Lord knows where else I’ve been, I’d need to look at a map and work it out..

Places to go – Melbourne, Krakow, London, Barcelona, San Francisco, Rome, Venice, Annecy