I feel like making up a meme-thing. Pick a letter, and tell me five places in the world you would like to visit, and why. It’s okay to post in the comments, or in your own blog - leave a comment and let me know where you’ve posted! My letter is S.

• San Juan, Puerto Rico - I actually have already been here (in October 2004), but I want to go back. We were only there for a few days, and there are so many things I want to see. We had fun getting around by bus and I loved the old city - I wish we’d had more time, so I want to go back.
• Sapporo, Japan - Okay, so I wanted to put Japan, but that doesn’t start with S. Sapporo is the youngest city in Japan, having been established in the mid-19th century. It’s somewhat isolated from the rest of Japan because it’s all the way north on Hokkaido, but it is presumably very similar to the rest of the country - which is very homogenous anyway.
• Stratford-upon-Avon, England - The area is beautiful, but a real draw for me is that this is the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. When I think Shakespeare, I think RSC - I can’t help it. There is so much to learn in Stratford about the man who will probably always be the greatest playwright in the world.
• St. Petersburg, Russia - Ever since we had a Russian exchange student when I was in high school (she was actually from Kyzyl), I have been interested in Russia. I can still pronounce things written in Cyrillic, but my one year of high school Russian (also an exchange program) is long forgotten. I’ve heard that St. Petersburg is even more beautiful than Moscow, and of course I want to see the Hermitage museum, which I envision to be one of the greatest museums in the world - if I can only see two more museums in my life, I want to see the Louvre and the Hermitage.
• Sobibór, in Poland - This is totally weird of me, but I do want to see concentration camps. You can’t get a more powerful feel for history than that of being right there on-site. As wonderful as the USHMM is, it doesn’t have the bleakness of the real thing. So I’ll just be weird, because that’s a place I want to go.