| p>Most folks that write have never experience what | | | | 4--Valetta (Malta) in the heart of the Mediterranean, |
| they write; I have in most everything I've ever | | | | it is unique among all the islands. I been to many |
| written, experienced it first, in one way or another. | | | | islands in the world, and the only other one that can |
| Here are the Top Ten Most Unique Cites of the | | | | compare to this island is Easter Island. The island has |
| world. When somebody writes about something, | | | | its caves and archaeological sites, which seem to be |
| they got to know where they are coming from, | | | | in the backyards in residential areas. The city is a |
| because the writer is always biased. CNN did a | | | | great walled city, and plays a historic roll in the times |
| review on the best places in the world to live a year | | | | of the Crusades, as well as WWII: it has more |
| ago or so, and I reviewed it, and did my own. Why? | | | | churches on it than Rome I believe. Called the |
| Because the person, or persons doing the review | | | | Maltese, which it has three connecting, I also went to |
| were limited in experience to do a proper review. | | | | Gozo. But the city is a gem. My wife would love to |
| Why do I say that, because they picked out | | | | come back here. |
| Geneva, as the best place to live in his world? Their | | | | 5--San Francisco (USA) it is where it all started in the |
| criteria were whatever it was, but Europe is no safer | | | | 1960s, and I was there for a year, 1968-69. It was |
| to live nowadays, than America, or New York City | | | | the city by the bay. With its Golden Gate Park, and |
| was in 2001. Geneva is prone to terrorist attacks just | | | | its Golden Gate Bridge, and it was a time of music, |
| as much as New York City was, or any city that has | | | | and a freedom never duplicated since. It is the most |
| a United Nations in it, or some form of world | | | | quaint and unique City on any coast, of the world. |
| Government. | | | | And it, like Paris, has its landmarks to see. And smaller |
| Another thing is, it is very expensive to live there, | | | | than New York City, it has a sense of bulkiness. The |
| I've been to Switzerland, and it is not cheap. Plus, the | | | | Ocean sweeps into your hands almost, and the turn |
| weather is not all that hot or great, the Mantaro | | | | of the 19th century remains in the city a bit. It is |
| Valley of Peru is much better, likened to Arizona, | | | | where all the musicians go to, come out of, remain. I |
| safer and cheaper to live, with a good hospital near | | | | lived here a year. |
| by Huancayo. I could go on, but my point is, their | | | | 6--Lisbon (Portugal) it has it history, its great Castle |
| selection was bogus to me, simply a way to | | | | on the hill, its iron tower, which I went to a half |
| advertise Geneva so people would go there. So to | | | | dozen times, Eiffel, made it, yes, the very one who |
| be honest about what you write you must | | | | made the tower in Paris. The city has its parks, and |
| experience it. I've traveled for 38-years, over | | | | its monuments, and is liken to Malta, in the since, the |
| 700,000-air miles, to 60-countries, and 46-states. I've | | | | city is almost on top of the Ocean. It was |
| been on seven of the so called, eight continents (the | | | | devastated by an earth quake a hundred years ago |
| eighth being the South Pacific Islands, I yet to go to | | | | or so, and was a world trade port at one time. You |
| Antarctica, then I will have been to all of them. | | | | can see its uniqueness in its architecture, like Havana, |
| Hear is my list of cities: | | | | Cuba. |
| 1--Paris (France), yes I'm also biased, that is my | | | | 7--Kyoto (Japan) City of the Geisha, city in the |
| prerogative though. Paris is my city, not necessarily | | | | middle of Japan, so it seems; and a unique city at |
| its people, if indeed I could put Londoners into Paris, | | | | that; it has its monuments, in the form of temples, |
| and kick out the Parisians, it would become even a | | | | and its historic section called Geon, which I walked |
| greater city in my eyes. But here is a city, deserving | | | | down, and was treated very well by the folks in the |
| or not, that has all the monuments, all the great | | | | guest houses. It has an old aqueduct and a great |
| museums, where all the great writers came, and | | | | tower also in the city. When I think of Kyoto, I think |
| painters, poets, cultures, and so forth and on, and on. | | | | always of the best city in Japan, not huge, but clean, |
| Victory Hugo lived here was senator. Where | | | | with all the taste of Japan rolled up in one city. |
| Gertrude Stein open her doors to the US Military | | | | 8--Sevilla (Spain) this is the city of Hercules, where |
| Men; where Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Picasso | | | | legend says he was born. And where legend says, |
| and Dali, came to paint and write, experience. Notre | | | | Columbus is buried in its cathedral. Here is where |
| Dame, perhaps the most grandest church in the | | | | there are bullfights, and a great night life, singing and |
| world resides here, and the Arch of Triumph remain | | | | playing guitars in the larger clubs. The food is great |
| to be seen, to those of us who can feel victory | | | | here, and the plazas are picturesque. It is a peaceful |
| over war. And of course the renowned Eiffel Tower, | | | | place, with a unique richness, freshness, and it has its |
| which played a part in the 1880s World Fair. I've also | | | | canals in the city liken to Burges. |
| been to Paris four times. It surely is a city of lights, | | | | 9--Burges (Belgium) The greatest medieval city in |
| as New Orleans is a city of Night. | | | | Europe, what more can I say, as my wife said when |
| 2--New York City (USA) I've been to NYC four | | | | she says it: it looks like a fairytale city. Other than |
| times, it is to me, the city of bulk, took my breath | | | | that I'm lost for words, but take a ride in a boat |
| away when I first saw it. And Battery Park, looking | | | | around its channels (like Venice). |
| out into the bay, to the Statue of Liberty, is a | | | | 10--Cusco (Peru) Peru in general is the Egypt of |
| humbling thing. Walking down 5th Ave, and through | | | | South America, but much friendlier than Cairo, for I've |
| Central Park, onto Times Square, and down to the | | | | been in Egypt, and Cairo, and would never return. |
| Empire State Building, is a unique experience. | | | | When I was in Egypt, and Cairo, I always felt |
| Manhattan: engulfs, and traps you. And I found it as | | | | guarded, or needed to be, in Peru, the folks love you |
| safe, if not safer than Athens, Rome, or London. | | | | there, and I really never feel the need to be over |
| 3--Istanbul (Turkey)--it is a unique city near the Black | | | | guarded. I was to Peru 9-times, to Cusco once, to |
| Sea, and its streets, and Mosques (especially the Blue | | | | the Mantaro Valley four times, to Lima, nine. I'm not |
| Mosque), Cathedral, and its towering walls that | | | | sure where you start, to bring out the glory of my |
| stretch up and down the straight, are marvelous. | | | | trips. It is the land of the Inca, and in the Mantaro |
| Here you can shop in the world's largest Bazaar | | | | Valley, the land of the Great Warriors, the Wanka. |
| (open Market), be careful, you can get lost. The food | | | | They have the coast, or ocean by Lima, and Cusco, |
| is good in Turkey, and the people are warm and | | | | has the Andes, and Machu Picchu, and world |
| friendly, be careful if you travel outside of Turkey, | | | | monument. But wherever you go in Peru, are |
| not every city is as friendly as Istanbul. I have only | | | | monuments. To the north of Lima, is the famous and |
| been here once, but would come back a second and | | | | deadly Amazon, which I've been down. So you got a |
| third time, if life and money permits. And very few | | | | city in the mountains, called Cusco, surrounded by a |
| cities do I ever return to. | | | | world called Peru, a unique place, like Cusco. |
