What city would you like to visit? I'd love to see New Orleans during Mardi Gras even

[applegrove]

though I don't drink. I'd just like to see some of that acadian culture. I'd also like to visit Frank Lloyd Wright's best works so that means Chicago, right? Is the a FLW museum there?

[OriginalGeek]

1. Been to New Orleans but I don't remember much

That's how I know I did it right.

I wanna go back.

I'd love to visit Chicago again too - was only there for about 4 hours.
Still want to see NYC
and LA
and London and Dublin and Glasgow and all points between.

Amsterdam is on the list as is lots of Germany, Italy and France. Brussels for sure and anyplace in Belgium that brews trappist ale. And probably some places in Poland and Czechoslovakia and Russia (and all that entails even if it's no longer called Russia).

[fizzgig]

13. nyc is my favorite city

amsterdam is hazy for me. i got drunk, lost, then propositioned in glasgow. i was in london during world cup and that was crazy. wish i'd had more than a day in brussels.

a lot of great cities on that list, good luck

[femmocrat]

2. Paris.

Just Paris.

[applegrove]

4. I've been there twice. The second time my friend and I stayed in an apartment

and we shopped every day like the french do. So fresh. So good. Some day I'll go back.

[femmocrat]

6. It's my life-long dream.

I'll probably never get there, though.

I hope you get to go back.

[applegrove]

7. We walked home from the left bank and stopped into Notre Dame on l'isle de la cité just

as some opera singer was singing Ava Maria on a balcony inside. Beautiful.

[RiffRandell]

14. Me too. n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. Been to NO, NYC, LA, Chicago, Paris, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Geneva just to name a few.

Would love to get back to Paris, and then maybe London, Berlin and Vienna. Rome would be interesting, but I have heard so many stories about crime. Cairo would be interesting as would Rio.

[rurallib]

5. Montreal and Toronto

and if they gave me healthcare, I might just stay.

[applegrove]

8. Toronto is cool for all the ethnic neighbourhoods. Montreal is great for its old world charm and its

joie de vivre. Lots of metrosexuals in Montreal. Lots of open displays of affection. Definitely the most european of North American cities.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. I got the impression that Quebec City was much more European than Montreal

At least, it was much more "Old French"

[applegrove]

10. At one time, one of the largest ethnic groups on Montreal Island was the Irish.

And they spoke english. But it has since gone back to french. Montreal is like a New York City with its waves of differing immigrants. When I worked in Montreal in 2005/6 there were lots of North Africans and Haitians among the newly immigrated. Quebec City is french canadian through and through which means old french, people whose families immigrated to New France before 1763, as you find elsewhere in Quebec. I some ways the language spoken in Quebec is more archaic than the french spoken in France today. They use "char" for car. Which of course comes from the word chariot.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. Interesting

I ate my first poutine at a fast food place in Montreal, and the city seemed very North American to me. Perhaps I didn't visit the right places? At any rate, the rest of the province I visited did seem to have a very "Old World" atmosphere to it.

That visit was around the time of the Meech Lake debates. After a long day's drive, I decided to stop at a roadside hotel outside of Cherbrooke. I asked the young guy at the front desk in English if they had any rooms available, and he said "Yeah, we have lots of rooms available". Then I heard some guy in another room mumble something unintelligible to the desk clerk in French, then the desk clerk said, "Sorry, we don't have any rooms". There seems to have been a lot of francophone-anglophone friction in those days.

[Behind the Aegis]

11. Go to NOLA for one of the many other events...JazzFest for one.

I just moved back to OK from NOLA, after five years. I wish it wasn't so expensive to live there, but it is a beautiful, and fun city.

Personally, I would like to go to Athens, Greece (actually several spots in Greece); Brazil; Rome, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid and Barcelona, Spain; Tel Aviv, Israel; Costa Rica (I hear anywhere there is outstanding); Kenya; New Zealand and Australia..oh and London and Cardiff, Wales (I watch lots of BBC).

[HopeHoops]

15. Seattle

[hobbit709]

16. The best time to go to N.O. is NOT during Mardi Gras.

[raccoon]

17. Minneapolis-St. Paul. Also Birmingham, AL to see Vulcan's moon. nt