What Cities Do You Want to Visit?

“What Cities Do You Want to Visit?” Hmm, “none,” or so I thought as I initially saw the writing prompt.✍️

I mean, I’m not really a city-visiting-type of person. Or am I? 🤔

Mind you, so far, I’ve visited:

• Amman, Jordan 🇯🇴
• Aswan, Cairo +Luxor, Egypt 🇪🇬
• Dubrovnik, Hvar + Pula, Croatia 🇭🇷
• Paris, Nantes France 🇫🇷
• Catania, Florence, Naples, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Venice, Burano, Bari + Vatican City (all Italy) 🇮🇹
• Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸
• Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹

Does London 🇬🇧 and Valletta 🇲🇹 count? Oh, and Cambridge and St Albans too?

Okay, maybe on the surface, I’m not a city-visiting-type of person. What I don’t like about cities are touristy trappy type of places. You know the one I mean. I like places with culture, character, and a bit of soul—cities that are unique and stand out.

So (finally) here’s my list of Cities I’d like to visit:

• Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
  • Highlights: Seaside city, so plenty of picturesque beaches as well as mountains to explore. The diversity and the influences on the city from traditional music to its foods and eclectic culture. And I’d love to visit just to see the sprawling favelas.
• Chefchaouen, Morocco🇲🇦
  • Highlights: Food, spices, traditional architecture, murals, mountaintops, steep cobbled lanes, markets, and the colour blue.
• Old San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
  • Highlights: Old city, vibrant colourful houses galore, gorgeous street art, traditional foods that specialise in Caribbean cuisine (and of course Puerto Rican) walkable cobblestone city.
    
• Guanajuato, Mexico 🇲🇽
  • Highlights: Baroque architecture, Old churches, historical town, traditional festivals like the flower exchanging Festival of Flower. This city looks super pretty (and colourful) up high in the mountains! (It’s 3000 metres above sea level).
• Busan, South Korea 🇰🇷
  • Highlights: Port city so think beaches, mountains, hiking trails. Then there’s traditional markets, cherry blossom 🌸 Temples and villages draped in swathes of colours.
• Jodhpur, India 🇮🇳
  • Highlights: Rich history (the city dates back to 1452) Thar desert giving it awesome landscape, festivals, galleries, markets and the beautiful colour blue 💙.
• Cartagena, Colombia 🇨🇴
  • Highlights: Technicolour city set on the Caribbean coast. So pristine beaches, palm trees but stunning architecture and a rich culture, too. Oh and cobblestone streets (sensing a theme here). 👀
• Havana, Cuba 🇨🇺
  • Highlights: Joyful looking city, sporting colour, culture, history, wonderful architecture, traditional music, markets and what about those classic cars? 😍

You know what? Maybe I am a city-visiting-type of person after all. A few themes have been spotted. Colour, tradition, and nature. Oh and cobblestone streets 🤭

Anyways, enough about me. The world is your oyster. What cities would you love to visit? 😍