City Life Versus Country Life Or By The Sea
The two most beautiful cities I have visited are Venice and Istanbul.
Istanbul has so many beautiful historical places which are magic, and a wonderful atmosphere. I feel homesick for Istanbul. The Bospherus straits and constant ferry trips and boats, as the views.
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Venice is unique too, however the canals smell in the summer, and its overcrowded, food is at a premium, and hard to find. I fell in love with Venice one frosty misty January. I was in a Pensione next to Rialto bridge, the room rocked as Venice is built on wooden structures that sway with the canal traffic and tides. The room had turquoise walls and a polished wooden floor, and the canal boats passing by the window always a fascination.
Melbourne was the best planned modern city ever, buzzy and exciting, beautiful too with an amazing library and some lanes with antique and jewellery shops.
In recent years, many beautiful cities due to an influx of immigrants and perhaps bad policies, have become dangerous when they were once safe. Although London was once an amazing place, I visited it last year, full of face lifts and flowers. I regarded it as dangerous with people sleeping on the streets, stabbings and rapes were rife.
After living in Western Australia in Albany, the most southern western tip, I never wanted to live in another town or city again, but here I am in a town on a small island again.
The beaches in Australia are out of this world, white sand, blue clear seas, and the wild life and sea life really amazing.
So what are your views on country life, city life or living by the sea?
Would be nice to post music relating to the name of the city or country music, or about places by the sea where you have lived.
Spell check mentioned the camels in Venice LOL, and mentioned read as tinned???!!!
Melbourne
Rialto Bridge
Marc Cohn - Walking In Memphis
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
Frank Sinatra - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
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Lian & Kieran