Dreamland

I live in Singapore and although it's a relatively clean place and all, I'm not fond of the scenery. The occasional jungle at the roadside at expressways are just about the most natural thing you can find while walking around here. It's all concrete and grass and palm trees planted by hand in neat rows. The city area can be nice to look at, but cities look the same all over the world, don't they? Shopping malls, HDB flats, glass-windowed condos... the buildings I really like are the shophouses near Clarke Quay and the British colonial-rule-period buildings, like Red Dot Traffic Museum and the white one next to it. And the Fullerton Hotel. But really. With regard to visual appeal, Singapore is hardly anything as compared to the rest of the world.

I remember walking along the sidewalks of a little town in Japan. There were pretty vegetable farms and the air had a sort of bluish-grey hue - like England, I'd imagine - and a really cute ice-cream-truck-ish tune played when the green man was on at the pedestrian crossings. Mountains in the background and little boutiques and tea houses and ice cream shops and the chilly grey air and complete peace, apart from the little tune - it was so beautiful.

Paris

London

Venice

(Credits: citified.blogspot.com and Natasha from Sydney, who took these beautiful shots.)

I wonder if there is a single person who lives in these places who think their country isn't the most beautiful one on earth.