Say, OH YEAH! Then tell us interesting places you've been. :)

Nova Scotia rocks, baby. Beautiful beaches, sea life - alive including star fish (I actually held a live one in my hand, it was sooo cool!), we saw the cutest little seal but I think it was lost cause it was small and roaming around aimlessly, whales and dolphins! And yummy lobster!

Getting to see different ships including the Bluenose II, the Picton Castle and all the tall ships. As well as the Halifax open market on the harbour. The Lunenburg harbour where you can sit down and eat while looking out on the bay. Black rock beach where you can loose 10lbs cause you have to jump from rock to rock to get around, not to mention the crab that actually walks sideways and likes to snap at my fingers when about to pick up a shell.

All together it is an awesome place!!

Nova Scotia rocks, baby.
Funny you should say that, I've always wanted to take a drive up there and go to Halifax and maybe drive to P.E.I. while there. Looks like an absolutely gorgeous place. Nova Scotia has always intrigued me. You've just sealed the deal. :nice:

Gotta save money for my Germany/Holland trip though.

Too many!

The coolest was a jeap trip in the mountains of Romania!

Bordeaux, France

It's one of the coolest cities I've been to. It's not touristy at all. There's a huge pedestrian street with shopping as far as you can see.. I'm not a big shopper but I have to say it was quite a sight. Also, the area around the main train station is a magical sight. When you walk out onto the streets, it looks like a fairytale movie set with neon lights everywhere, outdoor cafes, cobblestone streets, canals, etc. At first it doesn't look real, it looks too perfect. Needless to say, I wanna go back as soon as I can. Oh, and who can resist the wine!!

Vienna Austria was an interesting place. It has lots of palaces and stuff. I visited the Hoffenbrau, this Palace at the center of the city. I got a tour of the place. This was the imperial palace of the Empress Maria Theresa. She collected all kind of furnature and stuff. There were sculputres and ornate chandaliers. My favorite room was the "Chinese room" which had everything brought from China. Her son, Joseph II, who was Austrias greatest and most loved emporer had a seperate Palace, the Shoenbrunn. I did not see inside but I did walk through the gardens and it was so romantic. I can see why the great composers were attracted to Vienna. I also saw the Spanish Riding School and the Opera where Mozart's Operas first primiered. The city still retains its Baroque heritage inspite of being a battle ground in WW 2. Incidently there remains a monument to the "liberation" of the city erected by the Red Army. Its the only place in Vienna you are not allowed to approach as it is guarded by the Austrian police who in turn guard the Russian Honor Guards.

BTW the liberation of Vienna was a joke. The Nazi party was active in Vienna even before its forced incorporation into the Reich. In fact, as my tourguide told me, more Austrians were members of the Nazi Party per capita than any other region of the Reich and many prominant Nazis were Austrian.

I would add that while its a wonderful city to visit, I spoke to many people who lived there including my wife and was told it was not a pleasant city to live. It is poor by central European standards, has a huge immigrant population and a high unemployment rate. The youth of the city is attracted to extremist groups, both left wing and right wing. Nazi-like skinhead groups are a problem and target racial and ethnic minorities.

All the same I did not see any of it while visiting.

I put some pictures in this thread (http://www.discussanything.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78078).

My list:

Amsterdam: Very cool, laid back. The people are friendly and don't make you feel out of place. The city is very old, and hasn't changed much in the last few hundred years. You can walk anywhere, but the way to see it is on a bicycle. The things I remember it most for are the canals, brick roads, bicycle and pedestrian traffic, perfect coffee and Dutch girls.

Paris: Not very friendly, but very cool. So much to see and do. The subway is a little complicated, but if I can manage it, so can you, so mobility is easy once you learn to read the subway map. I mostly remember it for food, history, and French women.

Versailles: Nice little town. Friendly people. The palace is incredible, and the Notre Dame cathedral is really pretty neat, too.

Florence/Firenze: Very nice place. Everyone rides scooters. You can walk anywhere, as it's not a very big town. The cathedrals, and there are quite a few, are breath taking. Mostly remembered for the scooters, cathedrals, galleries, food, and stylish Italian women.

Rome: Dirty, ugly, scary, but the ruins and the Coliseum are something you should definitely do at least once in your life. It's really kind of chilling standing there in the Coliseum and thinking about how long it's been there, and how many people have been through it, and imagining the cheering crowds watching the Gladiators and knowing the Caesar himself was there. I didn't get time to see the Sistine Chapel or go into Vatican City, sadly. Mostly remembered for how dirty it was, for the ruins, and for nasty old Gypsy beggars.

London: Nice place. The subways is extremely clean but not extremely useful. I mean, it'll get you to any part of town you want, but you have to walk from there. It's not like Paris or New York or anything. Lots to see and do, a safe, clean, fun town, at least in the District, with lots of good cuisine (because no one serves English food there). It's probably the only place you can order authentic Indian food in English knowing that the food wasn't washed in a river full of bathing lepers or anything. Mostly remembered for the underground, for being an English speaking country, and for hot Indian girls.

US Virgin Islands: Very beautiful. St. Thomas is the largest one and the main tourist spot, while the other two are basically rural. St. Thomas is extremely difficult. The traffic is insane. I mean, it makes Chicago, San Francisco, New York and D.C. seem pretty reasonable. It's a pretty small island, only a few miles across, but there's SO MUCH traffic. I don't know where they put all the cars. There's also NO public transportation. All the "busses" are also the "taxis" which are actually pickup trucks with a canopy installed over the bed and bench seats installed in the bed. They're a nice ride, mind you, but that's all you get. They're all privately owned and they charge not per mile, but on a fixed rate. Like, to get from Coki Beach to Sapphire Beach costs a fixed fee, no matter where in the Coki Beach area you get picked up or where in the Sapphire Beach area you get dropped off. It's also very poor. Booze is cheap, though, and getting drunk on rum is the official past time of the Islands. That being said, the people are very, very friendly and warm, but the sun is blistering hot. Mostly remembered for the beautiful beaches, blistering sun, bizarre traffic, and beautiful young native girls.

Chicago: Busy, bustling, but fun. Lots to see and do, just don't get on the wrong L train. There are a lot of dangerous places there. Mostly remembered for the dangerous places there.

D.C.: Yuk. I mean, the Smithsonian is great, especially the Air & Space museum in town, and the monuments are neat. Something you should see in life, walk on the Mall and whatnot, but, all in all, not an impressive place. Mostly remembered for heat and traffic congestion. The subway system is a joke, by the way.

Pittsburgh: Kind of a neat city. A bit run down, a bit rusty, but all in all not bad. The areas around CMU and the Pitt are nice enough. Lots of shops, cafe's, restaurants, and college girls.

New York: OMG! All of the above, all rolled up into one place. The freakish thing is that, everywhere you go, you pass the hottest woman on Earth. I mean, the place is crawling with beautiful women. It's nuts. I'm not sure I could live there, because I'd keep walking into walls and stuff. It's almost freakish how many super hot women live there. It's probably the babe capital of the whole world.

San Francisco: Fun, but dirty. Lot's to do there, but the best thing is to sit at a sidewalk cafe and just sip nasty coffee (all the coffee in the whole city is nasty) and watch the freaks go by. It's freak central. On a per capita measure, there are almost as many freaks in SF as there are gorgeous women in NYC. Mostly remembered for the freaks.

Salt Lake City/Park City: Very, very clean and nice place. Everyone is blonde, blue eyed, and pretty (even the men), but there's really not much to do besides ski or climb rocks. It's a really nice place to visit and then leave and don't go back. The best part of it is watching the tricks the few nightclubs and bars use to try to skirt the insane drinking laws they have.

Cincinnati: If the Midwesterners were to get together and dream up what a city should be, this would be it. I have family there, so I spent a big part of my childhood there, so I like it for that reason. That and the chili. It's the only place in the world you can get a 4-Way and a Cheese Coney done correctly.

Indiana: Cornfields.

Florida: I grew up there. Mostly redneck central and the only reason the mobile home market hasn't crashed, but it's also extremely humid and hot. That's not all, though. There are also snakes everywhere, gators in most creeks, lakes and rivers, and mosquitoes that are large enough to devour a small cat, and giant flying cockroaches. Oh, and mildew. The keys were really nice until they were over-developed, and Miami is a good place to learn Spanish, but St. Augustine is a nice weekend getaway. Daytona is good for bike week, and Orlando is good for robbing German tourists. The Gulf side is pretty good for scuba diving, and the rest of the state is pretty good for going to oyster bars or pool halls and getting drunk on warm beer then starting fights. Mostly remembered for I-95 North.

Georgia: Florida without a tourist economy.

New Orleans/Mardi Gras: I don't really remember most of it, but I'm sure it was fun. Watch out for pick pockets. Mostly not remembered.

Prague: Cool enough place. Czech women are completely hot. It's very touristy, though. There's a lot of neat stuff, plenty to see and do, lots of good, cheap food, and plenty of strip clubs, cabarets, and casinos, if you're into that sort of thing.

Czesky Krumlov (Czech Republic, about 3 hours from Prague): UNESCO World Heritage site. It's basically a Middle Ages town that's barely changed at all since the old days. Very quaint, cheaper than Prague, very authentic. If you like history, this is a good place to go, because you can get a feel for the way people lived at the time.

Krakow: Very nice town. It's a lot like Prague, but without the drugs and caberets, and with more Catholics. It's a very pleasent place, and it's cheaper and less seedy. I really, really, really liked Krakow. It's sort of like a cross between Prague and Florence, with East Europe prices. :)

Warsaw: I only spent a day here. All in all it was nice. I think it gets a bum rap in the tourist guides. It's supposed to be a pretty rough place, but it's definately on the upswing. Lots of shopping, food, and bars & cafes. The Old Town part is also a UNESCO World Heritage site. (It was rebuilt after WWII, but they built it to original specs, so it's probably more like Old Warsaw than old Warsaw was).

Budapest: I went alone just for the experience and for photos, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It would have been better if I'd gone with a group of friends, because Budapest is more like a place to go out partying than to go walking around alone in search of contentment. Krakow was much better for that. Very interesting place, though. It's sort of like what you'd expect Brooklyn to be if World War II had happened there, and then it was left to rot under 60 years of communist neglect. I mean that in a good way, though.

Vienna: Very nice place. It's really pleasant, too, but not very exciting. It's all about culture and history, and not about going out and having fun.