Favourite City

Helsinki is just great.

Copenhagen is fun as well.

Biased having lived there for a while but Gothenburg is a nice size, great atmosphere all summer, strong but expensive beer culture, whole range of great views, friendly Swedish culture, excellent MTB 15 minutes out from the centre, ferries all the way out to the archipelago covered by the (excellent) local public transport card. Converse to a previous poster I think Sheffield is nice but it’s got way too much of a car problem to top any city lists.

Napoli! Again, all the cliches are true! It is so unlike the northern Italian towns; more a south east asian town just dumped there and left to get by the best they can…
Also where I had my heart broken and found the love of my life in a couple of weeks…

Venice, probably the most beautiful city in the world!

Bologna, The food, the market, more food….

Siena, Dragging itself into the 16th century…

Seville, The orange blossom, Flamenco…

Bruges, The warm embrace of the waterside pubs on a weekend where the temp never rose above -5…

Coventry

Love Paris, love Barcelona, love Amsertdam  (even if you take away the naughty stuff). Went to Rotterdam recently and thought it was a great place.

Only ever been to Germany once and stopped off in a place called Karlsruhe, was really nice.

I’ve not traveled much at all but I did get a couple of trips to Zurich with work and really liked it there. Maybe helped that the weather was nice.

A city I haven’t yet been to, but looks absolutely amazing, is Gdańsk. I tend to be very interested in former Hanseatic cities, and Gdańsk looks a notch above the rest.

I love Lubeck “Queen of the Hansa” (well the old city anyway), but I’m biased as it was my Mum’s home town and I’ve spent time there having a great time with the German side of the family.

Also, I retain a soft spot for Sheffield where I spent my hedonistic student years.

I’ve enjoyed visiting
Firenze
Praha
Sienna
Grimsby (not really)
St David’s
Mulhouse
Annecy

But I’ve never been to Scandinavia and I reckon I’d like it.

Outside Europe I love Hobart.

I lived in Helsinki and whilst I loved my time there there’s not actually that much in the city. Finland itself was more my thing, I spent all my time getting out into the countryside. As a tourist I enjoyed Tallinn more.

I’m not a city person but I’d have to nominate London.

Innsbruck. Beautiful, small city and the mountains on the doorstep.
Grenoble. Again, door step to the mountains and a lovely chilled place with great food.
Rome. Amazing place to stroll around, though can be a bit busy in the peak season.
Birmingham. Yeah, laugh as you wish, but there’s no place like home and the changes in the last 10 years have made it a wonderful place.

Edinburgh will always win

Its not even the best city in Scotland!

Barcelona for me , for towns I love Nerja east of Malaga as well.

Innsbruck for me I think. Lovely city centre with great shops and bars, mountain backdrop and you can get the funicular from middle of town and be skiing within half an hour. Or mountainbiking, depending on time of year!

Also love Cologne – happy to see EasyJet offering it from LGW once again 👍

Cordoba & Granada are beautiful small cities. Good mix of history and relaxed nightlife.

And as said before Seville is nice, maybe not so in July/August though.

St. Asaph, tiny city but not far from some wonderful outdoor places to visit.

London’s got a lot going for it but Girona and Malaga have too. I guess the place I’ve been to most though in the last few years is Tarifa. Touristy, but in the right way – surrounded by people with a common purpose. Wind, sea and bikes. Oh, and bluefin tuna (one of the only places in the world where it’s officially sustainable).

Tarifa is a great little town especially in the old town. Great little maze of streets, bars and shops and all within a short walk of the beaches.

Paris for me too. I get that the French hate Paris etc, but I lived and worked there in my late 20s when I had money and no commitments, so I had a ball. I like the variety in Paris. You can change lifestyle easily from one day to the next, whether it’s going clubbing, sitting in a cafe watching the world go by or reading a book in the park. Plus you can walk all day and it’s never boring. I worked in the Latin quarter and had friends from all over the world. I do think that your circumstances at the time (e.g. visiting vs working) have a big influence on how you view somewhere though.

Edit: plus my nearest bakery sold ‘flan’. 😛

My top 3

Vegas – but I can’t tell you why
Rome – but go off season
Liverpool – do a walking history tour

If we’re choosing on where you’d like to live then: Vancouver.

But like like many of these, i suspect you’d need a bunch of cash to make it bearable.

European: Bruges, or two in France; Dijon, or Montpellier I’d have to say are the ones I’d be happily visit again

And do try to get to Hanoi before the 20th century catches up with it.

In no particular order; Utrecht, Stuttgart, Dublin, Gent, Innsbruck, Edinburgh.

Europe Granada or Bergen.
Further afield Melbourne or Christchurch.
UK none of them.

If we’re choosing on where you’d like to live then: Vancouver.

But like like many of these, i suspect you’d need a bunch of cash to make it bearable.

Yep. Been here (well, just over the inlet in North Vancouver) 15 years now and property prices are eye-watering and salaries don’t really compensate.

Obviously, it’s an “outdoor mecca” but if it’s architecture, culture or history you’re after, look elsewhere…

Oh yeah, Bergen is awesome. Also, to live, I’d love Sundsvall in Sweden.

+1 for Tarifa. Followed by Bodrum. And if we’re stuck with Europe then I have a soft spot for Oxford and Cardiff.

Salford

To live would be clermont ferrand. Not sure about visiting.