Paris

• Dance around my hotel room to the song La Vie En Rose by Édith Piaf
• Having croissants and steaming cafe au lait in bed for breakfast
• Finally speaking in French
• Watching the street performers in the Place Igor Stravinsky
• Taking photographs of the great architecture
• Listening to music by Juliette Gréco, Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Thomas Dutronc, Yann Tiersen, etc. whilst I walk the streets of Montmartre
• Visiting the museums and art conventions, especially Musee de la Poupee and Musée d'Orsay
• Having picnic with baguette and wine at the Siene
• Meet Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Sous le ciel de Paris s'envole une chanson hmm hmm / Elle est née d'aujourd'hui dans le cœur d'un garçon / Sous le ciel de Paris marchent des amoureux hmm hmm / Leur bonheur se construit sur un air fait pour eux
• Wine, crackers, foie gras, petit fours, croissants, quische, cakes
• Toys at Les Galleries Lafayettes
• Admiring the beautiful decorations on rue Royale and rue Faubourg Saint Honoré
• Visiting _Coco Chanel_’s opulent four-storey apartment at 31 Rue Cambon
• Attend Fête de la Musique
• Visit Musée de la Curiosité et de la Magie, a museum filled with displays of optical illusions, objects that float on thin air, and a box for sawing people in half
• Catch a film at La Cinémathèque Française, which was a meeting place for Nouvelle Vague directors of the 1950s and 60s such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer
• Wearing capes and tights and wool because it's okay to overdress
• Visit Cafe des deux Moulins
• Spend spring in the country garden and wait for the burgeoning of the cherry blossom trees
• Moulin Rouge
• Go to the Cimetière du Montparnasse and take an atmospheric stroll amid the headstones of famous writers: the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir are buried side by side, and Baudelaire, Beckett and Guy de Maupassant can also be found beneath the trees
• Have coffee and pie at Le loir dans la Theihere
• Sit on a bench in le parc des Buttes Chaumont and read a newspaper
• Montmartre in general
• Take pictures at the countryside around Paris
• Visit Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris's most famous cemetery, which provides a home to illustrious corpses galore, from Molière to Morrison
• Watch ballet or opera in Theatre du Chatelet
• Showcase my vintage dress while walking through Versailles along with Isabel with a raspberry mille feuilles on a sunny Sunday afternoon
• Skip stones at the Canal Saint Martin
• Slurp an ice-cream at Notre-Dame
• Visit the high ceilings and long halls of Versailles
• Visit the New Morning, which embraces chanson, blues and world music
• Go to Shakespeare & Co. bookstore and get as much books as I can
• Watching Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen movies in Le Champo
• Get lost at the Louvre
• Visit la belle Tour Eiffel, of course. Take a baguette, pâté and a bottle of red wine to the grassy area beneath the tower for an impromptu picnic

Barcelona

• Try Gazpacho
• Swim in the ocean and visit a museum in the same day, with or without a glass of sangria in hand
• Talk to French people cause there's as much French as there were Barcelonians
• Sip a cocktail on a terrace
• Gaudi’s sublime architecture, a multitude of bustling streets, the aroma of tomatoes and olives and tapas bars all over the place, a port filled with sailboats, and the fantastic shops of El Born, Barrio Gotico, and El Raval
• Have some euro falafels
• Stroll down La Rambla: a gateway to rural Catalonia, the mile-long road bustles with tourists, artists, human statues, fortune-tellers, dancers and musicians
• Visit Museu Picasso, a gallery that records Picasso's formative years

Stockholm

• Attend a legendary music festival and sleep over a stranger's tent
• Take a historic tour through its maze of winding medieval alleyways, small squares, ancient churches and Royal Palace
• Visit Moderna Museet which displays art of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Niki de Saint Phalle
• Collect a bunch of Radar magazines
• Try Fika, which means 'indulge in coffee and chat at leisure'
• Attend Stockholm Fashion Week
• Catch a ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago
• Visit Junibacken, a mini indoor theme park devoted to Pipi Longstocking, ride a fairytale train that crosses miniature fictional landscapes through quaint Swedish houses, and dress up as Pipi and slide down the roof of her house

Amsterdam

• Take a train trip from Paris to Amsterdam
• Eat at a Netherlands-based falafel chain
• Moroccan inspired, eating on pillows, amazing food, belly dancers, tarot card readers and sheesha galore
• Shop at Laura Dols for 1920's dresses, lace blouses and 40's movie-star accessories
• Rent a kayak and tool around the omnipresent canal system or ride a bike around the city
• Visit the Van Gogh Museum and the Anne Frank Huis
• Try pannekoek
• Meet Isabel
• Go to the English Bookshop at Jordaan and buy as much books as I can, enjoy a cappucino and baked scones or cupcakes whilst reading a book
• Catch tenor saxophonist Hans Dulfer and band at the Jazz Cafe Alto
• Shop at Lady Day and scour 60's and 70's wear, sailor's coat and leather jackets
• Visit the De Witte Tanden Winkel (the White-Teeth Shop) where they sell toothbrushes, toothpastes from around the world and brushing accessories you've never heard of
• Dine in Wil Graanstra Friteshuis and ask Wil to do his impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator

Berlin

• Have a Russian tea ceremony and feel like a fairytale princess in Tadschikische Teestube tearoom
• Watch silent movies and art films in Babylon Mitte
• Walk without fear around the city at night
• Attend the Berlin Fashion Week
• Walk what's left of the Berlin Wall
• Tiergarten
• Catch avant-garde theatre
• Visit A-Trane, an upscale bar with concerts most nights and where erbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis and Arthur Blythe used to perform
• Make time for Anna Blume, a café and florist named after a Dada poem by Kurt Schwitters, which serves fantastic pastries to savour on a lovely terrace during the summer time as the scent of flowers fills the air
• Visit Clärchen's Ballhaus in the heart of Mitte where it is common to see a geriatric Fred Astaire-lookalike teaching a young pink-haired artist how to tango

Rome

• Try the hop-on hop-off double decker bus tour
• Listen to Dean Martin's music (That's Amore, On An Evening in Roma, etc.)
• Stroll through the Gardens of the Villa Borghese
• Take a glimpse of the Pope
• Escape the crowds, climb the steep hill behind Trastevere and the Gianicolo, and discover the green tree-filled expanse of the Villa Pamphili Park in the suburb of Monteverde
• Wander through St. Peter's Basilica, admire Michelangelo's stunning frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and visit the famous 'Belvedere Apollo' and 'Laocoön' at the Museo Pio-Clementino among the Vatican Museums
• Throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain
• Scope out delightful gelato at San Crispino wherein the flavours change as the season shifts
• Have a glass of white Frascati and grab a slice of authentic pizza
• Mingle with artists and authors at a book bar
• Shop at Porta Portese where they sell bootleg cds, fake designer gear, furniture and vintage articles of clothing
• Pop into Da leccarsi i baffi for bites of cherry-filled chocolate cases, topped with warm melted chocolate and stop at Moriondo & Gariglio for freshly wrapped candy
• Scootering around on a Vespa every morning

London

• Listen to classical music by candlelight at St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Make a call from London's famous first red phone box
• Watch the London Marathon
• Get my eyebrows threaded by expert Patel
• Make a Royal Guard laugh
• Spend a day thrilling my senses with scones, clotted cream, cucumber sandwiches, aromatic infusions, pink bubbles and dollops of cabaret
• Survive a royal gun salute
• Watch the penguins being fed at the London Zoo
• Visit the Hunterian Museum with morbid exhibits such as the brain of mathematician Charles Babbage and Churchill's dentures
• Watch a puppet show at the Little Angel Theatre
• Listen to the bells of St. Clement
• Dine in the dark at Dans le Noir
• Visit Hawksmoor’s six churches
• Learn swordplay
• Browse the Petrie Museum with a torch
• Shop for vintage phones at Radio Days
• Cross the zebra crossing at Abbey Road
• Watch ‘Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music’, a showing of the film especially designed for those who are unable to resist belting out ‘Lonely Goatherd’ at the top of their lungs – usually in fancy dress hosted by the Prince Charles Cinema
• Visit Little Ben
• Take a gander at swan upping on the Thames
• Eat afloat