Best place in the world you have been.

I put a full stop at the end of it for a reason. Best place, "PERIOD"

Don't get excited this is not a clots thread.


Name yours. Let's get some travel inspiration.

So far .... New York.

But I've only been to England and Wales previously,
so its not really much of a race for my best place

I really liked Canada. I went when I was nine.

I also really like Vermont.

I love Boston (which is where I relocated too) but I'd like it better if I had a job so at the current moment it's kind of sucking. I really really really want to go overseas.

Melbourne.

I haven't travelled ot of Australia yet

I like London for some reasons, but it's mostly people and other stuff
but I like Lisbon

san francisco is aces, venice is pretty neat too

mikerochip tell me about new york, i am going there in may

New York is a lot of fun, you're gonna love it!

sunday green wrote:

san francisco is aces, venice is pretty neat too

mikerochip tell me about new york, i am going there in may

What would you like to know?

What do you want to see while there?

I saw a musical, the sex museum, The Met museum, girl I was with wouldn't come up empire state building so missed that, went to south street seaport which was cool, looked for the comic shop there but it had closed down, but missed the manhattan tour boat boat there :embarassed face: due to eating / idling.

Saw some of the Rockerfeller center, I advise going there, if you want a nice view, its every bit as good as the Empire States Building, and queue's are much shorter (3-4 hours for empire, but pay $30 to go to the front of most queues) or 30-40 mins for Rockerfeller.

Saw Little Italy which was cool.

Saw a tiny part of chinatown.

Visited Soho, did some shopping.
(Well I say shopping, I really mean bag / hand holding)

Visited some expensive shops on 5th Avenue,
but bought nothing there as its waaay too expensive.
(Walked past Tiffany's, didn't bother even going in - no monies)

Saw Greenwich Village, was not exactly nonplussed.
or rather, maybe I was ?
Saw no real attractions to there.
Its supposed to be Gay friendly, but in reality I saw more gay couples elsewhere.
There were about six gay couples both behind and in front of us while we queued for the Musical, for example.
(but its much better at night I hear, when everyone is awake)
(though Chloë Sevigny did walk past us and said hi and Happy New year)

Visited Lush shop in Union square. Which was cool. Was never in one before.
(for presents! and shaving stuffs)

Umm ... what else.

Macys was large! and nice, but just a shopping place really
(Peed there, but if you're gonna pee anywhere, pee in the Rockerfeller center - its coool)

Had fun trying to figure out the Metro/underground to travel on, but managed in after 1-2 attempts.
(and after totally wasting our Metro card- bleh (Which was not my fault!!! :p)

Visited some cool bookshops and comic shops.

Visited Toys 'R' Us, the biggest Toy store in the world (supposedly), which was cool, they have a giant T-Rex and a ferris wheel in the store! and a giant Barbie house

Central Park is exactly as it is in every movie you've ever seen.
(Which was nice!)

I didn't visit The Ground Zero site. (I kinda forgot, and I've no real interest either)

I also never left Manhattan, other than to go to Airports.

But if you're near Southport, you can walk to Brooklyn.
The bridge looks pretty nice.

The statue of Liberty was closed, and I never got to see it because of fog while I was arriving, snow when I was leaving and missing my boat ride (on the last day) while there!

I saw a couple of movies while there also.
Going to see a film with Americans is .... an experience.
They're assholes.
*no one* shuts the fuck up.

Um ....

so.

Thats it

There's more! but thats the basics of what I did

and I loved it! and I want to go back asap!

Central Park is good but the subway smells really bad in the summer

mallory knox wrote:

the subway smells really bad in the summer

It didn't smell all that great in the winter either.

And those mobile Nuts and Hotdog vendors!
Bleh.
Far too stinky.

i haven't been a lot of places, unfortunately, but i thought west virginia was gorgeous even though it has a hillbilly reputation.

Mikerochip wrote:

Saw Greenwich Village, was not exactly nonplussed.
or rather, maybe I was ?
Saw no real attractions to there.

What kind of attractions were you expecting in Greenwich Village? I guess people do make it sound that way. I never really thought about it, but I suppose the main attraction is really historical at this point – you could be openly gay there when you couldn’t pretty much anywhere else, and it’s where the Stonewall Riot happened. The Stonewall Inn isn’t there anymore, I believe, but I think the site is marked. It not being the 1950s anymore, the entire city is reasonably gay-friendly. Chelsea became the hip neighborhood for wealthy gay men a while ago, and Park Slope Brooklyn is at least called the nations Two-Mommy Capital. The West Village also has a lengthy radical political and artistic history. But like the entire rest of Manhattan, actual radicals or struggling artists haven’t been able to afford to live there in quite a while.

I don’t think I’ve traveled enough to say what I think is the best place in the world. I can’t imagine not living in NYC unless I was going all homesteader or moving out of the US.

Wildwoman wrote:

Mikerochip wrote:

Saw Greenwich Village, was not exactly nonplussed.
or rather, maybe I was ?
Saw no real attractions to there.

What kind of attractions were you expecting in Greenwich Village? I guess people do make it sound that way. I never really thought about it, but I suppose the main attraction is really historical at this point – you could be openly gay there when you couldn’t pretty much anywhere else, and it’s where the Stonewall Riot happened. The Stonewall Inn isn’t there anymore, I believe, but I think the site is marked. It not being the 1950s anymore, the entire city is reasonably gay-friendly. Chelsea became the hip neighborhood for wealthy gay men a while ago, and Park Slope Brooklyn is at least called the nations Two-Mommy Capital. The West Village also has a lengthy radical political and artistic history. But like the entire rest of Manhattan, actual radicals or struggling artists haven’t been able to afford to live there in quite a while.

I don’t think I’ve traveled enough to say what I think is the best place in the world. I can’t imagine not living in NYC unless I was going all homesteader or moving out of the US.

Well, maybe I shouldn't have said attractions, plural.

I wasn't really expecting anything from there, but the phrase "gay friendly" was in my head because the girl I went with marked it on the map as "Gay friendly".
She wanted to see that area, and I went too!!
I guess what I wasn't expecting was somewhere that looks exactly like everywhere else.
And while it wasn't exactly a let down, it wasn't really anything special either.
Maybe she got more from it than me?

spain.
i like the culture, the atmosphere, the lifestyle. and it's cheap, compared to other european countries.

Mikerochip wrote:

mallory knox wrote:

the subway smells really bad in the summer

It didn't smell all that great in the winter either.

And those mobile Nuts and Hotdog vendors!
Bleh.
Far too stinky.

CHLOE said Hi to you?

i hate you

cinque terra no contest

sallydearheart wrote:

Mikerochip wrote:

mallory knox wrote:

the subway smells really bad in the summer

It didn't smell all that great in the winter either.

And those mobile Nuts and Hotdog vendors!
Bleh.
Far too stinky.

CHLOE said Hi to you?

i hate you

She said Hi at me? not to me.

oh man I read that wrong. FAIL

I really liked London and New York.

Paris was a bit of a disappointment.