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
• 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
• 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 Axel 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
• 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

• 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
• try Fika, which means 'indulge in coffee and chat at leisure'
• 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
• 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
• shop at Lady Day and scour 60's and 70's wear, sailor's coat and leather jackets

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
• 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
• 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
• watch a puppet show at the Little Angel Theatre
• listen to the bells of St. Clement
• dine in the dark at Dans le Noir
• learn swordplay
• 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