Paul2001's VirtualTourist Home Page

Offically I began traveling about the globe while I was just a tot of two when my father, for reasons I care not to explain here, decided to hightail it from Toronto to Vancouver by car. I guess I got the travel bug early in life. In fact the earliest images that I can remember are of the Canadian prairie and the Rockies while on that fateful journey. My father enjoyed the trip so much that the next year he gathered my family together(and my brother was all of ten months old) and made the journey in the reverse direction across the Northern United States. By the time I was three years of age, I traveled to five Canadian provinces and seven American states. I have traveled almost annually ever since. Thanks to Virtual Tourist, I have a place to tell about it.

Lots of people like to post top ten list on VT on topics that interest them, so why not me too?
Anyway during my travels I have been attempting to visit all of the world's most important collections of Western Art. I am not pretentious enough to think that I am an art expert but I do know what I like. I think that I have decent taste and fairly good knowledge. I believe that I have succeeded in hitting most of the key art museums but there are still few that I have yet to visit. Out the galleries that I have seen so far here are, not necessarily in order, my top ten favourite art galleries in the world.

1) The Louvre, Paris, France
2) The National Gallery of Art, London, U.K.
3) The Prado, Madrid, Spain
4) The Metopolitian Museum of Art, New York, New York
5) The Uffizi, Florence, Italy
6) The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
7) Kunsthistorsches Museum, Vienna, Austria
8) The Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
9) The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
10) Alte Pinatothek, Munich, Germany

I have yet to visit the Hermitage in St. Petersberg or the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin. But one day...

I love cities though I respect the fact that big cities are not for everyone. Personally I have to try real hard to leave cities like New York or New Delhi. I cannot get enough of them. Anyway I have been reluctant to list my top ten favourite cities because the list keeps changing according to my mood. As of now here are my top ten favourite cities that I have visited:

1) New York City
2) Paris
3) London
4) Rome
5) Munich
6) Sydney
7) Istanbul
8) Jerusalem
9) Cairo
10) Amsterdam

I may change this next week. Let's see what kind of mood I am in.

Since I have been traveling across the Globe, I have always sought out certain themes, they basically being visiting sites of historical, cultural and environmental significance. The best way getting some sort of guideline on what places are worth exploring as been for me is to try to hit as many World Heritage sites that interest me as I can in each country that I visit. There are presently 754 sites on the World Heritage List. I have visited at least 121 of them so far. If you like to check out the UNESCO World Heritage List then try this link, World Heritage List.