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Cities you'd always return to.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Cartagena, Colombia
    Havana, Cuba
    Vancouver , Canada
    Antigua, Guatemala
    San Cristóbal, México
    Budapest, Hungary
    Cascais, Portugal
    Rio, Brasil
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Hanoi, Vietnam


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 259 ✭✭Dep!


    Cartagena, Colombia
    Havana, Cuba
    Vancouver , Canada
    Antigua, Guatemala
    San Cristóbal, México
    Budapest, Hungary
    Cascais, Portugal
    Rio, Brasil
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Hanoi, Vietnam

    Thinly veiled "Ive spent a lot of money with trailfinders.ie/gohop.ie" post :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Manchester, superb city.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Galway, because it rocks ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin, New York

    I have a tendency to return to cities I like, which means I get to visit less new cities :(

    On the to-do list: Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Munich, Vienna, Istanbul


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    Paris, Rome and New York. delighted to see Berlin getting a few mentions as we're heading there next week..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭The Wild Bunch


    I was in Venice for a week last month and couldn't recommend it highly enough.

    Cost an absolute fortune but well worth it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Menas wrote: »
    New York. LA. Paris. Beijing. Prague. St Petersburg.

    What's Russia like, is it safe to go there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Paris, New York, Barcelona, Vienna, Galway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I really should have started that list;
    London, New York, Paris...
    (I've never been to Munich)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭RaRaRasputin


    Rome, Florence, Mt St. Michel, London, Chicago, Toronto

    Whoever hasn't been to Mt St Michel ...it's difficult to describe but it's just beautiful


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Bangkok - its like a drug,always go back trying to chase the first time

    New york- was illegal there for many years,left a bit of my soul there

    Toronto - expensive, but I had a ball there

    Phnom Penh - just for the madness of the place


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    Kilkenny, Edinburgh, Dublin, Cork, London, Brussels, Bath and Paris. I could write a heap about them all but have always had a great time in them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Dublin. I live here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    Berlin. It's not the prettiest city in the world, but it makes up for it by being so alive and vibrant. Berliners are lovely people as well. Wonderful art galleries, museums, walking tours, districts, coffee shops, bars and restaurants. The most exciting and contemporary European capital.

    I haven't lived in Dublin for almost 10 years, but it's a city I do like. Again, it has a wonderful gritty charm. It's got that mixture of the old and the modern. And despite what you read online; the Irish are making a real go of things. There's an excitement in the air. Some wonderful new places to eat, good bars, close to the sea and the mountains, great history, relaxed vibe.

    I might even move back there!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 hightide


    Has to be Barcelona.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    London, Porto, Rome

    London, there's so much happening there, been three times and still have things I'd like to go back to see.

    Porto, it's a lovely little place. have been for Sao Joao twice and will go back again another time hopefully, would highly recommend this for anyone to experience. It's a small enough city, but so nice and homely. and so much port.

    Rome, it's the feeling of the place, it's such a holiday feeling, warm, nice architecture, different people, different food (though I wasn't mad about the food), and the history.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    And despite what you read online; the Irish are making a real go of things.

    What an odd thing to say in an Irish forum.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Cape Town - absolutely stunning city and there's so much to see and do relatively close to it as well.

    Montreal - had a ball the time I was there, totally different feel to any other North American city I've been to.

    New York - to paraphrase Samuel Johnson - when a man is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

    Barcelona - so much to see and do there that it's impossible not to have a good time.

    Rome - it's just a beautiful city and everything you want to see is within walking distance. Plus I proposed to my wife there so it'll always be a bit special.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    But Montreal is in Canada


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Crumpets


    Prague is an absolute gem IMO. Small, beautiful and cheap. Dying to go back.

    Vienna is another one I miss. Beautiful city.

    Copenhagen. Had an absolute ball there. Great atmosphere. Loads of little jazz clubs scattered around.

    Berlin aswell. Mighty craic altogether!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,678 ✭✭✭VG31


    Munich

    Beautiful city with lots to do. The public transport is superb and the city is very cycle friendly with cycle lanes on almost every footpath.
    Munich reminds me a lot of Ireland with all the lush greenery. I love how there is an abundance of parks and green areas.
    A short drive will take you to the beautiful Bavarian countryside.
    There are plentiful cafés and bakeries with lovely cakes like nothing you'd find here (much cheaper than here also). The beer gardens and sausages are great also.
    If I were to live in a foreign city I'd pick Munich. People there seem very relaxed unlike London which although I do like, is very fast-paced and stressful.
    Munich is a highly underrated city in my opinion.

    I have seen Berlin mentioned a lot here and having visited Berlin and Munich, I prefers Munich.
    I imagine Vienna is nice as well although I have never visited there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    I'm generally someone who doesn't like trying to repeat things so I'm a bit averse towards revisiting anywhere but,yeah, gotta be Berlin over and over and over and over. So much going on there and it really feels like it's evolving like crazy, the kind of place that's gonna be quite different each time you go back for a for a good few years yet too (not necessarily in a wholly positive way, mind).

    Pretty sure I decided that I'm going to be moving there next within a few minutes of arriving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭nuac


    Berlin, Galway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭nervous_twitch


    Montreal also. Great town. Paris. Seville.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Rome is great, I would like to go back to Berlin because I haven't been so long (96 or something), I tend to go back to Venice for different reasons and sometimes it feels nice and other times it feels like a complete kip. Ljubljana seems to get better every time I visit but I could be a bit subjective there.

    Montreal for non annoying French vibe, Mexico City because I had great time there but I suspect I could be disappointed next time and NY because there is so much left to see.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    But Montreal is in Canada

    Hmmm...

    Just in case you are serious, Montreal is indeed in Canada, which is part of North America.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Zaph wrote: »
    Hmmm...

    Just in case you are serious, Montreal is indeed in Canada, which is part of North America.
    Nouvelle France :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,181 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    Olhao, Portugal - so laid back, by the sea, coffee, bars, seafood.

    Chefchaouen, Morocco - mountains, scenery, food.

    Berlin. Barcelona. Nurnberg.


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  • Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cork.

    Paris.

    Rome.


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