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Winnipeg
Jan 1970
time: 23:32
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Halifax, NS, Canada - Beautiful small city, nice harbour, friendly people. Old by NA standards, good pubs, easy to walk around.
Helsingor, Denmark - Good combination of old and new. Hamlet castle. Really good saunas & pools. Good restaurants.
Kiev, Ukraine - Old city one of the nicest in Europe. Cheap locally made vodka, friendly people, ancient cathedral and catacombs.
Canterbury, England - Nice people, good pubs, old buildings. Nice Cathedral.
Generally, I dislike larger cities. Sometimes I'll find interesting communities in them. While I've never lived in a city with less then 500,000 people, I generally prefer to vacation in smaller cities/towns.
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Pekka
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em seu burro dos pais!
Feb 2002
time: 07:32
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New York: But mainly becuase of the opportunities and diversity it offers. I also kind of lost my lunch the same place because it was very dirty everywhere. But anyway, I fell in love with the city.
Portland (OR), well.. this place however is nice AND clean. Nice atmosphere, and great sporting possibilities.. you can go really hiking (mountains), there are beautiful sceneries, what ever you want to see is in one hour drive away except maybe the desert. Well maybe even desert is only one hour if you really hit the gas pedal.
Ocean access, and GREAT snowboarding opportunities, has many locations near from Mt Hood to Whistler.
You can get fast to other nice cities like Seattle, San Francisco which are both in few hours drive away, and if you want to go to Vancouver (Canada), it's not that far either. Also, this is the place for Columbia cloathing, which I like very much. All in all, a place to fall in love with.  Go Portland! See you soon again!
I guess I lost my heart in the US.
Well anyway, there are tons of beautiful places in Europe as well. In Austria.. let me tell you about that, we drove kind of through it, but it was so beautiful you could just think you're in a fantasy movie. Especially summer time.. it's very beautiful.
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
time: 15:32
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Manchester- went to university there, met my significant other there, properly came out there, made many friends there. Manchester, so much to answer for...Was briefly a Rusholme ruffian (well, actually Victoria Park, but it’s right next door)....fantastic food- the Rusholme curry mile, the best Chinatown in Great Britain (if you’ve never eaten at the Yang Sing you should), Ho’s Bakery and their delicious honey buns...
The football teams, the parks, the beautiful Victorian and Edwardian architecture, close to the moors, close to the sea, Alderley Edge nearby...
Porthgwarra in Cornwall: population about 10. About 4 miles from Land’s End, a gorgeous cove near the Minack open air theatre, with stone circles and sarsens and quoits close by, it feels like you're in another, golden country, separate from the rest of Great Britain. It looks out on the Atlantic, you can stand in the garden and watch foxes walk across the heather, or raptors swoop down on unsuspecting prey. Seals and dolphins come to visit the cove too, and basking sharks....
Vancouver- like Seattle, but finished and clean. Handsome men, great eating out (best Viet Namese food I’ve had anywhere) beautiful Stanley Park, and Science World (the s & m marshmallow), Dr Sun Yat Sen’s Gardens, Canada Place, the charming announcements on Skyrail (the next station is Burr-ARD!, the next station is Waterfront! said with what sounds like delighted surprise...), Grouse Mountain half an hour away, and lovely laid back Wreck Beach, where wearing clothes is weird....
Amsterdam- walking down Prinsengracht, taking the boat tour around the canals, staying in a Dutch East India Company’s captain’s house and climbing precipitous stairs, huge Dutch pancakes for breakfast with maple syrup, black coffee and speculaas in the brown houses, seeing Mathilde Santing sing, visiting the Museum of the Dutch Resistance and meeting a member of the resistance, buying chocolates from the shops near Central Station, eating huge rijstafels in the Indonesian restaurants, the Rijksmuseum and the Concert House, and everyone so friendly and charming...
San Francisco- loved Market Street, loved Coit Tower, loved the park near the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the Museum of Modern Art, the De Young Museum, the cinema on Castro, eating huevos rancheros in the Mission District, going to Mission Dolores, the painted lady houses, the street cars, the cable cars....the early morning fogs, the opportunity to ask someone do they know the way to San Jose?....great bookshops, record shops, the Church of John Coltrane....
Melbourne. Loved it the first time I came here, five years ago. Very laidback, very green, very European in feel. Close to the mountains, the country, with lovely parks and open spaces, Old Melbourne Gaol and Ned Kelly, the best places to eat out in Australia (well, some of the best), Australian Rules football (and footballers! yum yum !), the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Richmond for Viet Namese cuisine, Carlton and Lygon Street for Italian, Brunswick Street for Lebanese, St Kilda and its delicatessens, East St Kilda and the bagel shops and Jewish delis...
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Bereta_Eder
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Brussels, 6 years from 11 to 17 years old. My second home.
Leuven, 2 years beautiful city and the best time of my life so far.
Bruges, go once you want to come back.
Paris, (my personal love), went 22 times IIRC.
Bologna, went first time at 17, stood drooling over the girls.
And apart from that
Copenhagen is beautiful, Amsterdam dirty and scary, London morose and dark, Venice is heaven but on decay, Rome is Athens, Berlin (before the coming down of the wall) was problematic (the western part), paradise (the eastern part), Cologne was scary and alien, Luxembourg is so rich everyone's committing suicide out of boredom, Belgrade is ok, Zagreb, beautiful, Lubliana nice, Skopje dirt poor, Budapest pretty nice, Constantinople/Istanbul filled with history and remains the City but quite poor at someparts, Vienna a little gem and I'll have to stop here.
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Bereta_Eder
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No you're (more or less) right about the architectural history between the two cities. But both cities are overbuilt, have horrible drivers and pretty much the same people. They also seem to be built in an anarchistic fashion despite some very good spots in Rome, that's why I said they have the same "vibe". 
Last edited by Bereta_Eder on 28-11-2003 at 00:24
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cinch
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jul 2002
time: 22:32
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I think my heart is still here in Edmonton, though only because of my lack of worldliness. I mean, I'm not kidding myself: I know it's an industrial city, but it's got quite a few redeeming features (the people, the river valley, little crime, etc.).
I also like Vancouver quite a bit. It's got a lot more crime and seediness, but there're also many beautiful areas scattered about.
Toronto and Calgary are just pure crapholes, obviously. 
Los Angeles was fun, but scared the hell out of me at times. The morning-smog-cover-giving-way-to-blinding-heat didn't exactly turn my crank, either.
Orlando was boring, but Cocoa Beach was quite nice. Excellent climate they have down there in Florida.
But if I had to choose a place where I left my heart, it'd have to be the Rockies. Banff is overcrowded, Canmore's nothing special... but stick me in a little shack in Jasper or Radium or Panorama (!!!), and I'll be happy. I've never been more at peace than the day I drove from Radium Hot Springs, through Invermere, and on to Panorama, while listening to my Eels cd over and over again. The deciduous trees were turning yellow and they were scattered about in the sea of evergreens. It was like a painting.
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27-11-2003 11:36
- absolutely adorable place, if you like rain 
). Hull is one of the ugliest non-industrial/mining cities I've ever been to.
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Great architecture, great alcohol.
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