Places I Love

After visiting Bruges last January (wait, does that mean that I've not traveled for almost one year?), I realized almost immediately that the places I love visiting most is where its history is well preserved. And this strikes me odd, because I never liked history during my study years.

I love Prague, Kyoto, Edinburgh, Beijing, Bath, York. And of course Bruges, above pic. And London too, actually. Some of us can't relate London as a historical city (my friend even said to me once she's planning to skip London because she's not planning to spend too much time shopping, like wtf), but when I strolled in London I could feel it, at every nook and cranny. The reason most of us think otherwise is because of how it's being portrayed in films, books, etc. If you haven't been to London, and your idea of that city is just like Singapore where people are constantly rushing to catch their subway train, or spending hours ogling at exhibits in modern museums, or endless shopping spree... well they are true, in fact those things happen on a daily basis in London. But then there's more. Much, much more. Nope, not like Singapore.

So now that I know what kind of city I love visiting, here are the cities I'm now interested to go in no particular order:

1.  Dubrovnik, Croatia
2.  Mostar, Bosnia (my friend told me about this city)
3.  Heidelberg, Germany
4.  Baku, Azerbaijan
5.  Talinn, Estonia
6.  Patan, Nepal
7.  Krakow, Poland
8.  Fez, Morocco
9.  Carcassonne, France
10.  Pingyao, China
11.  Tsumago and Magome, Japan
12.  Bukhara and Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Has anyone been to any of the cities above? And are there other cities that I should probably heed as well?

Don't get me wrong though. I still love modern cities, sceneries, islands. I enjoyed watching people in Tokyo. I love that memorial in Berlin. I still want to witness the aurora borealis, or watch sunset at the Grand Canyon, or drive through the hairpins of Amalfi.