Does anybody have a favourite city, such as Tokyo, London or even Barnstaple ?
As someone who worked in London for many years, I appreciated its theatres, eateries and history.
However I have a real fondness for Valletta in Malta. To sit at the Cafe Cordina and have a coffee and a pastry 
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Heaven
Amsterdam 
The Van Goghs.
Barnstable isn’t a city according to Wikipedia!
Really not a city person, but if forced in the UK I would nominate Stirling. London I generally detest, dipping in very rarely for an exhibition or similar and then escaping as fast as possible!
In Europe from places I have visited Siena or Bruges (out of season).
Worldwide my pick is Samarkand which I visited in the 90’s. It was magical then, i just hope it still is.
Bruce
Barnstaple was used “ tongue in cheek” following comments on another thread 
Udaipur.
Good call.
Bruce
Havana
An amazing city, I hired an ancient taxi and had a tour of the city , the Museum Of The Revolution was quite an eye opener
Milton Keynes.
We did the same.
The other one I liked was doing the “Hemingway walk” all his bars in Havana with a drink in each 
His house was also fantastic, I’m a bit of a Hemingway fan 
We stayed the first week in the Nacional and the second in a couple of casa particulars.
Went back on my own a few years later and I’m going to splash out for my 60th and properly posh it with a suite and Sinatra’s room at the Nacional
This is a really hard one for me because i have two favourite cities. Istanbul and Baku. If push came to shove probably Istanbul, but only because of the huge variety of nightlife and culture. Baku though without any doubt has the most friendly and hospitable people that i have met anywhere in the world.
London, of course, along with Tbilisi, Helsinki and Budapest.
The city I’d most like to visit isTokyo, or anywhere in Japan. One day, perhaps.
I visited Samarkand back in the mid 1980s when I spent some time in what was then the Soviet Union (Uzbekistan of course being one of the 15 SSRs). It was amazing – if a bit tatty and in need of TLC – then, and so were its sister Silk Road cities Bukhara and Khiva but apparently since the fall of the USSR and Uzbek independence it’s had a bit of money spent on it.
Am hoping to revisit within the next couple of years.
+1 for Siena
Sheffield..Home of Richard Hawley, Pulp, Artic Monkeys, Self Esteem etc.
Tokyo for me
Martin
Newcastle upon Tyne.
Closely followed by New York, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Rome and Vancouver.
The year Mum died I decided to spend Christmas in either a Muslim or Communist country and firmly get away from the Christmas hostilities
Spent Christmas at the Nacional , an interesting hotel with (if my memory is right , a picture of Meyer Lansky as well as the likes of Nat King Cole) . I remember that on Christmas Day both the runner Paula Radcliffe and the actor Christopher Plummer were at the poolside
Certainly one of the most interesting and amazing cities that I have ever been to. Some days I don’t recall even seeing another Westerner.
The LP and CD stores are incredible too.
New York City would have to come high up on my list. Quite a few years since I was last there though.
Another vote for New York, closely followed by London, San Francisco and Glasgow.
