If I were to visit your city, which ONE place, attraction, would you show me and why?

Question

Remember, one place only, to the exclusion of all others!!

What makes that place, thing, person sooooooo special?

Thank you, have a nice day.

Linuxiac: I was smiling from ear to ear when I read your answer. I am the first to admit that I am totally hopeless when it comes to computers, and everything that you described made PERFECT sense - NOT!!

Having said that, the library is still preferable to the other options you mentioned. :)

Thank you for taking the time to explain all.

Answer 1

I live in a coastal city in Southeast Brazil, Lynn, one of the oldest cities of my country.

It's a very beautiful place, with wonderful beaches and surrounded by hills and mountains.

When you come to visit me, I'll show you all, but the one place you cannot miss is a 500 years old convent built on the top of a hill, very near our apartment ~ I can see it just in front of me, from my bedroom's window. We can walk there and walk up or I can drive you, as you prefer. ;)

Only one person lives there, now, to take care of the place, but there are always lots of people going to visit, it's a very beautiful and interesting place!

There are masses at the chapel, every Saturday and Sunday and some other special days.

From up there, you have a wonderful view of the city and other cities around here, the mountains and the beaches. You MUST see it!!

Thank you for asking and have a wonderful weekend! :)

Answer 2

The library room, where we all meet to learn more about Linux, and why Microsoft.com has switched and Hotmail.com has always run it, and why MSN.com has to run it, each on 15,000 servers, when you would think that Google.com running 100,000 Linux servers in clusters would turn Microsoft off to the idea, them being sorta competitors, and all.

http://pclinuxos.com is the Linux I really like the most. thanks for asking! It comes with 5,000 free games, and stuff, and it runs the old junk computers 50X faster than they ever ran on Microsoft's virus magnet!

I would waltz you through the GUI, after witnessing the LiveCDrom booting up, and loading a RAM disc.
You would be amazed at the 20 independant desktops, that can run up to 200 windows, concurrently, in each!

And, there are versions of Linux for the MAC, (32 Live CDroms!)
the Sparc, the DEC Alpha 64 (Have one! 1994!), the Athlon Dual channel Opteron, or the 64 bit Sempron!

Thanks for asking, hope you enjoyed the partial tour!

The other option was the pig farms down South, or, the huge chicken farms next to the states largest Dump, over SouthEast... past the gator farms... Awww, they all stink!

Answer 3

Okay, I'm in NYC... and I guess if I had to pick one thing to take you to assuming you've never been here before, I'd pick Times Square, as much as I hate it... I think there's probably no other place like it (even Ginza in Japan is not the same at all), and there you can see the stores, lots of crazy people, and a Broadway play if you wish.

Answer 4

This would depend on which city I was living in, Lynn. I'm originally from Buffalo, NY (though it's hard for me to imagine you choosing to visit there, lol), having spent the first 25 years of my life there. If there were to be only one place I would be permitted to show you as my guest, it would have to be nearby Niagara Falls, Ontario (yes, the Canadian side is vastly superior to the American side, in all respects). I absolutely love the place and associate many happy memories with this natural wonder.

I currently live in Annapolis, MD and have done for most of the past decade (with two years off in Japan). In this case, were you to come for a visit, I'd have to show you the old, historic part of the city. This would include the harbour, the wonderful shops (shoppes, really), eateries and pubs, as well as the lovely historic buildings (including private homes and government buildings that date back to the 17th century).

Are you planning on venturing over anytime soon? Pray do let me know, mon ami, so I may best facilitate your stay. :)

Answer 5

The local Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina.

It's a beautiful neogothic building, and it has an interesting story. The original cathedral was supposed to have 2 lateral towers, but it stood towerless for many years because the foundations started to sink, and its completion was deemed unsafe.

My grandma took me to play to the park right in front of it when I was little, and I grew accustomed to its unfinished, sort of blunt, outline.

However, It was recently finished! The towers were built and decorated thanks to the new materials available, much lighter than the original ones. However, the brick walls were left uncovered as they had been for years, because they are part of the city now and nobody would have liked to have another "common" cathedral.

So now we have a neogothic building, with face brick, and many of the decorations and gargoyles are images of local fauna (giant extinct birds, alligators, and such).
One of the new towers houses the chimes, and the other has a very high elevator that you can visit. From up there, you can see all the city, and even the river and further on clear days. There is also an underground museum about the story of the building.

This is what it looked like:
http://www.welcomeargentina.com/paseos/catedral_laplata/foto3.jpg
This is it now:
http://www.espanolsinfronteras.com/imágenes/Argentina%20-%20La%20Plata%20-%20Catedral.jpg

Why? Because all my friends from out of town have loved the visit :-) And I'm proud of it, and as I said before, I grew up next to it.

Answer 6

The Fountain County Courthouse - It has murals painted by Eugene Savage. He was a famous muralist in the 1930s.

Answer 7

If you were to visit Daytona Beach..surprise, surprise...I'd talk you to the beach...just when the sun is going down in the summer. I'd take you here because it is SO beautiful and SO relaxing.

Answer 8

Moody Gardens... the butterfly exhibit. How could you not think 20 zillion butterflies, not to mention tropical fish and birds, isn't cool? And they are everywhere, not penned up or anything! (Galveston, TX)

Answer 9

the Great Smokey mountains national park of Tennessee and North Carolina .... The mountains will speak for them self.....

Answer 10

Jack the Ripper experience in London at night to see if it scared you as much as it did me. LOL So spooky !!!