The Most Beautiful City by Night
Oct 31st, 2003 | 06:11 PM
#23
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Au Quai all you Paris at Night lovers. I love Paris but tell me where in Paris I can sit at night and be mesmerized - there are few if any places in Paris not within earshot of boisterous traffic-plagued roads, with ubiquitous boisterous mopeds always disrupting the tranquility. In Venice or Amsterdam I can sit without any such noise pollution and be dazzled by the canals. Tell me, where in Paris should I sit and be dazzled by the city in relative silence! Even along the Seine there is a busy near-freeway, the one Princess Di died on.
Oct 31st, 2003 | 06:13 PM
#24
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Tough question. I think Venice on Christmas Eve with a snowfall was the most beautiful cityscape I ever experienced - I wanted to melt into the pavement and cry it was so lovely. Apart from that, I would have to say Paris because it illuminates itself so beautifully and has arranged itself so nicely along the banks of the Seine. But I do remember thinking Prague was gorgoeus (this was in 1983, before the fall of the wall, etc.) and would look incredible illuminated at night.
Oct 31st, 2003 | 06:16 PM
#25
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Hong Kong was it for me. Our room at the REgent had huge windows right out to the water and I thought I'd never go to bed. I pulled up a chair and spend almost every night just staring at the activity and the lights across the harbor.
Yea, hard to beat Paris otherwise.
Yea, hard to beat Paris otherwise.
