Favorite Places

Where's the coolest place you've ever been, the place you like to be the most, and the thing you like best about your home?

I'd say the coolest place I've ever been was either Rome or Amsterdam, although I really like Newport Rhode Island (It's got some great beaches, I was walking on the beach there one night during a full moon, and it was just really really pretty). It's wonderful to travel to foriegn cities and explore, and I truly hope that I will have the oppertunity to go exlore the wonders of the world. However, there are often so many great places right next to you that sometimes you over look them. I guess you don't really appreciate somethings unless you don't have them available all the time.

I'd say that one of my favorite places to be is the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY NY). I'm one of those interesting individuals that likes to hang out in museums. Actually I really like sitting in the Japenese garden they have.

I don't really know what I like best about my home town... Hmmm... I guess all like about it is the people I know... "I get buy with a little help from my friends, I'm gunna try with a little help from my friends..." 🙂

Rome or Amsterdam, I'm jealous!! 🙂

Okay, let's see here (these are good questions).

"Where's the coolest place you've ever been"

That would be Portland Oregon. It's so nifty. I love that it feels like a small town, but it's an enormous city, and you can choose which way to experience it...kick back and walk around lazily exploring the history of Portland and talking to random people who are always interesting if nothing else, or, you can hit the exciting places and be carried along by the current of...of....excitement. lol. Cobblestone streets, historic buildings, oh, it's heaven. And then there's the Red Light District. Hehehe, I've never been there, but just the fact that there IS one is pretty exciting.

"the place you like to be the most"

I like to be either alone or in one-on-one situations the most, so I guess anywhere where there aren't masses of crowds would be my answer. This is weird, but I kind of like hotel rooms. lol. Not icky ones, but just any average hotel room is kind of exciting for me. lol...

"the thing you like best about your home [town]?"

Hmmm...I like that I have a couple good friends who live in the same city as me. I like that it's a pretty little city. What I like best though is the public library. How nerdy is that. lol. Actually it's not so much the inside, it's the outside with the grass and the big trees and the picnic tables. I also like the big stone steps leading up to the entrance. And I like the statues of famous military men on horses that we seem to have all over the place. And I like that all the shops downtown are pretty much within walking distance of each other, and it's very pedestrian friendly.

I don't know why but I love Den Hague and Rotterdam for party towns. To get away from it all Sardinia of the coast of Italy. Dam you now I want to go on holiday.

Pheonix I know what you mean about the hotel rooms!!! It is really exciting for some reason... I think it's the feeling of adventure just being out there, exploring the unknown. I really like traveling on rainy days too... Hotel rooms on rainy days, I don't know why. I guess it just adds to that feeling of being completely "out there". It's that wonderful feeling of being disconnected from everyday life and out there on the road, it's wonderful!!! I'm a great fan of road trips. There's something so very satisfying about having no particual place to go, no true destination, seeming a million miles from home with no idea what you will find or who you will meet... Now that's living. There will always be room in my private fantasies for a hotel room in the rain in the middle of some unknown part of the world.

the coolest place i've ever been to: is up on this hill and you see the view of the whole city, bright lights everywhere.

the place you like the be the most - no. i'll change this to "the place where i'd like to be most": is the subway

the thing you like best about your hometown: the valley sucks..

Another great place Isle of mann.

Isle of Mann...I like the sound of that. 🙂

This Isle of Men...are they half naked and fanning me with large feathers? Are they fixing me drinks and suntan-lotion-ing me? 😛

Lol phoenix, nice fantisy, mind if I share?

I've always wanted to go to Easter Island to see all the big heads... Errr... Yeah, I've always wanted to be an archeologist, ancient things intregue me.

lol, you can share morgan. The fantasy, not the acual men. lol 😛

Easter Island...I've heard of that, supposed to be very mysterious. Right up my alley, I'd love to go there. Where is it?

acTual (sorry, I was thinking about the men)

lol... I can understand that...

The island I think is somewhere in the South Pacific. I don't think that anyone actually lives there anymore, which made the big giant heads even more interesting when explorers first found the island.

It's all coming back to me now, thanks Morgan. For some reason I thought it was off the coast of New York, but obviously I'm off by a few feet. 🙂

I am sorry the collest place I have ever been is thule greenland

greenland?

Went there many years ago we were looking for you guessed it oil payed good.

wow. I really don't know what to say, except congratulations on the oil money. lol. Tell me about greenland, what is it like? Is it pretty?

I got paied no big money Its Ice mostly. The isle of man is however lots of green and flowers its of the coast of england in the irish sea. Isle of wight is also neat.

did you do any ice skating in greenland?

I did see the ice were it is almost one mile high. or thick we went to a village called dundus by mt dundus it was in summer we had a snow storm in july quite bad. it is 800 miles above the artic circle. no trees just little bushs. cold very cold in winter. The U.S. has a base there the joke is there is a woman behind every tree.

I wish I were on the moon... Or in greenland, greenland I would settle for.

Again.. Just found this post.

I've lived in Naples, Italy, for two years.
Also saw Pompei, some of Rome (nearly pick-pocketed) and the Islands of Ischia, and Capri. (Sophia Loreen & Clark Gable made a movie on one of the islands, and everyone got to ride the same (the only..old..old..old.. trolley car there.)
Also the Island of Guam, 2 years.
San Diego, California, 4 years.

I'd like to see Italy (or heck, Europe, anywhere) again.

I'M jealous of Amsterdam. I don't think you'd have gone to the spots I had in mind tho, Morgan. Uhm. Strike that. Mebbe you would at that. I understand the attitudes are much less restrictive there.

The people of the netherlands are a bit looser than the rest of europe. I like Den Hauge and Rotterdam best in amsterdam. every one gets laid.

hmmm... Well Espernaut, I did go on a family holiday... So no.

But hey, I'm planning on going back. (without the family)

Espernaut you speak Italian? I'd love to live in another country for a while. Although, I'd wind up going to spain (to try out my bad spanish) or some English speaking country.

I don't speak Italian at all. Pidgeon phrases were about the best I could manage. You'd do quite alright though, with Spainish. French, Italian, Spanish are all romance languages, and strikingly similiar.

I know the similarities... when I went to Italy, was able to carry on a conversation pretty well me knowing a bit of spanish and them knowing a bit of english.

Den has a sister who lives in turin in northern Itilly near the boarder she teaches Italian and english at a school there.

I've been told there's actually a class difference in northern versus southern Italy. As in they wish to divide the country. (much like North vs South CA.) Apparently, N. Italy feels S. Italy is low-brow. Sicilly, for example. I've never been there, but I'd go. They like to live.
Re: Den's sister: I wish I had a job like that. I think most Europeans are more cosmopolitan than we are. Smaller countries, closer borders, better need to get along, etc.

Most people in europe must speak two or three different languages to get by in belgium. You need to speak ballon, french, and german. Almost all the younger people speak english. I am like you I speak bits and peices of 7 or 8 different languages. Just enough to get by, can not read any just speak a little, french mostly. Italy I only know tuscany well you have turin , florence and pissa all not to far apart. we stay in a little hill town between florence and pissa. quite nice the people will tell you they are tuscan.

Wish I'd seen this post earlier James.. Enjoy the weekend.

You reminded me of something. I had 2 years of French, and could puzzle out signs and directions fairly well, even in Italian. It's the speaking & recognition of words by others that was my biggest problem. Florence and Pisa would have been great to see. Tuscany has a lot of castles I hear. Those would have been must-see's for me.

The best place I've ever been is to Yamhill, Oregon. I love the country.

I wish I could go to Ireland or Germany or New England. Anywhere but here.

I like Ireland I miss the palm trees and the rodademdrums gring in the woods.

I'd love to go to Ireland someday. Rolling green hills appeal to me.

DisturbedLoner, I've never been to Yamhill but I've heard of it. I like Ashland, Oregon just for the laid-back people, shops, and Lithia Park. Have you ever been there DL?

HEMM james is back on the boards I see, I lived for a year and a half in castelisland Ireland, not far from the the ring of karry and killarney.

Hi Jake - do you post from James's computer?

Phoenix, no, haven't been to Ashland before. But if you like laid-back people Mt.Angel, Oregon is a great place to go, it has some amazing scenery.

I wanna go somewhere to see The Northern Lights. Maybe Alaska.

IBIZA without doubt.....🙂

I want to go to Jamaica--- anyone been there?

RIght.. I'll tell you how Jamaica was.. Ya man! in 2006. Now planning to go to greece(how sexy) and to romania Yep 🙂

btw any of you have been to romania?that would be good info to gather

My favourite places: a bathtub, my bed, the beach, forests, garden on a sunny day, rock concerts in either small clubs or outside where everyone can sit on the lawn, relax and listen to some great music.
The coolest place I have ever been to was Iceland. It was mystic and totally different from anything I had ever seen. There was a big field of gravel covered with moss and after walking for a while there was this small gab in the ground, like 15 ft long, 6 ft wide and when I looked into it, in a depth of like 15 ft, there was hot water coming out of ... nowhere. You could jump right into it and have a bath in warm water. Wow.
BizzMizzz, what are you planning to do in Romania? Hiking in the carpathes and see some wolfes? Just curious...

I am planning to travel the whole country village after village and avoid big towns who are starting to lose their local charm to flashy 'westernisms' - I was amazed and repelled last time i've been there how many mcdonalds and their sorts are in the cities.I'm planning to roam thru the eastern carpathians for about 2 weeks. Their local wine is amazing so I hope to get a bit of that too 😄

In the US...My favorite places are Southbeach Miami and Atlanta.....
Places in US I am interested in visiting: New Orleans and Houston

Places I want to visit outside US: Greece,Egypt,and Australia

Barcelona..
Culture, nightlife, goth quarters..oooh everything..I love it

I Guess England, only in May, June July I am to old for the drizzel and rain of Oct to Apr, Key West in the winter

I'm leaving for London on the 23rd - will most definately bring a raincoat...!

Thanks Jake!

can i go ill keep you warm at night?