“Who needs the Big Apple, when you’ve got these cities”, says Mike Peake. The journalist drew up a list about six European cities that coul be the perfect alternatives to New York. Here it is: Frankfurt for the skyscrapers. It’s not half bad, the Frankfurt skylin. View from the water at night, with eyes half-closed, and bingo – you could be standing on a ferry off Battery Park. When the city’s planned Millenium Tower is completed it will be the tallest in Europe and almost as lofty as the Empire Building. Valencia for the park life. They don’t have a river running through Valencia, they have a 7km-long, 150m-vide park, with bridges over it and everything. It’s a mecca for cyclists and joggers, and you don’t need to be on CSI to work out you’re standing on the old Turia riverbed. Paris for the statue of liberty. When France gave the Big Apple that lady-shaped slab of copper to stick in New York Harbor, they kept a copy for themselves. This mini-version now stands in the Jardin du Luxembourg, but a mildly diverting day’s entertainment can also be had spotting replicas at the Pont de Grenelle. Musèe des Arts et Mètiers, and [...]
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