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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Drule on March 31, 2008, 07:45:10 am
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I want to know where I can show off my brand new fishing hat together with fannypack so let's talk about kickass destinations for weekend trips.
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Russia :D
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I have been to Costa Rica and Czech Republic.
Prague is beautiful, it is like a fairy tale there.
Costa Rica has beautiful beaches, and amazing mountainsides.
I would highly recommend either.
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england is cool, though london is expensive.
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Scotland is beautiful. Paris is fantastic and cool, I don't know about the rest of France. Most of Eastern Europe is pretty nice, especially the Czech Republic.
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Ireland is cool; don't buy any beer but Guinness or Killigan's there because they're A) really good there and B) ironically, by FAR the cheapest.
If you go to Ireland stop by Galway, it is a nice port town. I got thrown out of a pub there! Forcibly.
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- Holland is cold as fuck. Don`t come here.
- France kicks @$$ except that no one seems to speak English. Pricks...
- Germany is the same as Holland
- Spain/Portugal/Italy is very nice and cheap. Great food, great prices, not so good women (amazing generalization! Look at me being a racist bastard). Women in Spain do look awesome though.
- Greece if you enjoy that history stuff. Which is quite cool. There is A LOT to see and the sky at night is the most beautiful thing you will EVER see in your entire fucking life. It`s seriously worth it paying like 1000 euro`s to go to a little deserted place in Greece at night and watch the stars. Fucking great!
- Been to Londen once. Very expensive, cold and a lot of annoyed people. I was there with new years eve and the fireworks there are just spectacular.
those are the best places in Europe that I know of. Don`t know about "showing off your fishing hat and fannypack" though.
If your not limited to Europe, Brazil is also an awesome place to go. Not very expensive, beautiful beaches, BEAUTIFUL women (seriously! Goddesses!). Again, nobody speaks English...
Never been to the East so I can`t tell you anything about that. Don`t go to Japan though. I only hear bad stuff from friends that go there. To many people, huge waiting lines, expensive, women don`t have bewbs.
EDIT: Hmmm... reading back, I should be a publicity agent or something...
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Anacostia Virginia..
No seriously... Ireland is fuckin beautiful....
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Weekend trip? I can't see myself flying halfway across the world to spend a weekend somewhere (like, 3 days is out of the question).
Anyways, the Middle East is sorely underrated when it comes to travelling because people are all paranoid about the war and shit but as long as you stay out of the war torn countries (namely Afghanistan, Iraq, and recently Iran) then you're fine.
I've been to Damascus in Syria and Jerusalem which are really old and beautiful cities and even though they've been modernized much of the city is the same as it was a thousand years ago which is really cool. Dubai in the UAE is pretty much the Middle East's LITTLE AMERICA and that place is made up of 99% rich people and everyone speaks some english as well as french and arabic (it's ridiculous how many tri-linguals there are). Sometime in my life I want to visit Cairo as well as Morroco if only to check out the crazy street bazaars and swim across the Gibraltor.
On the Asian side of things, Singapore has got to be the prettiest (and cleanest) city I've been to. Once again, the place is practically like little Manhattan and 3/4 the population speaks english. There's actually a pretty decent size of Irish, Pakistani, and Hispanic minorities living there (go figure) and it's one of the cleanest cities you'll ever find (which makes sense considering spitting in public is a 100$ fine). Hong Kong is the absolute opposite of Singapore in that it's trashy and disgusting but there's no shortage of sights to see and places to spend money.
I would advertise Toykyo but I don't want to come off as a japfag. Plus, that city is really, really seedy. Every japfag speaks highly of it but HOLY FUCK if you actually travel the city and see the sights you realize how creepy it is. Everyone walks in single file lines nuts to butts and no one says shit to you even when they're pushing you into a subway car and packing it like sardines. If you ever go there, stay out of Shibuya because that's where all the otaku hang out. There's these things called Maid Cafes or something where girls dressed in maid outfits serve you tea and are really submissive and there's tons of hentai manga stands that open sell lolicon and tentacle shit.
I'd also like to add that Japan has a lot of gangsters. For a country with no guns and the hardest working students, you think they wouldn't have the free time to hang out at every fucking street corner with their shirts off looking "menacing." I put that in quotations because the average Japanese gangster looks nothing like they do in anime; they look like scrawny kids (i have yet to see a well muscled Jap, I'm sorry) and they have the same mannerisms as GREASERS from the American 50s. I wish I spoke Japanese so I could tell them "Hey, you guys are funny to me because you represent a half century old stereotype for Americas rebel youth, you uncouth bastard."
It's hard to do anything as a gangster when you have guns but they carry around little switch blades, steal candy from babies, beat up other kids for their lunch money, modify their cars, loiter in public parks, and tattoo themselves.
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marcus you have been really far afield. how come?
i'm going to france in a couple of days and i'm gonna stay in some hostel with a bunch of other slimey youths. i'm staying in paris for a week then i'm gonna get the train right down to marseilles (or somewhere like that, i haven't decided yet), so i don't have anything to say about it yet but i'm gonna go see all the shit in paris get it out of the way and go down them catacombs etc, then kind of chill out for a week and go to vinyards and stalk the docks of marseilles after midnight.
aside from that i've been quite a lot of places, but it's generally been tourist spots with my family like greek island kos (which was a great place, the atmosphere there is real smooth), around spain/turkey and i've been to new york and washington dc. i don't really have any stories or anecdotes about travelling but kos was a nice place to kick back, and new york was pretty cool too although all i really done was walk around.
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Argentina is the only place I've been to and it's kickass...wait I live here...doh
To go to the point, it's like Brazil, except the hot women aren't transexuals and there's also mountains and skying if you go more to the E or S.
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marcus you have been really far afield. how come?
military + a muslim grandfather + a family that likes to travel
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england is cool, though london is expensive.
England is a horrible place to visit.
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Anyways, the Middle East is sorely underrated when it comes to travelling because people are all paranoid about the war and shit but as long as you stay out of the war torn countries (namely Afghanistan, Iraq, and recently Iran) then you're fine.
I want to add to this that Qatar is also apparently very nice. A friend of mine took one of his passes in the middle of his deployment and went to Qatar and said that it was pretty much the best thing ever.
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I just got back from Dublin today, go Ireland!
(make sure you go to Guinness and Jameson's)
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Why people always say that "Go to country X, women there are hot" ?
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India
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England is a horrible place to visit.
yeah if you hang out with a bunch of geeks
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yeah if you hang out with a bunch of geeks
britmeat just got... burned...
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Italy is pretty awesome I was there a couple years ago. Also apparently Australia is a great place to visit, but I don't really like it (because I live there, ya)
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yeah if you hang out with a bunch of geeks
the britmeet was possibly the highlight of my trip, and i'd go back to england for another, but im never going back just to visit the country
there's nothing about england that makes it a good tourist or travel destination
a) it's cold, rainy, bitter
b) the people are very unfriendly
c) it's about as exotic as the toilets at campus
d) attractions are for the most part limited to one of the most expensive cities and every brit at those attractions will talk about how great the british empire was etc
e) british girls are by far the least attractive in western euroe, and possibly even the whole wide world
f) due to the girls being so ugly, the male population evolved a terrible taste so that they could fuck without being disgusted and so all the males have horrible tastes
g) stuff is expensive and bland
h) the food is either bland or tastes like shit (hooray for fish and chips!)
england has got interesting stuff but nothing that surpasses cities like Paris or Rome or other southern european countries that also have FRIENDLY PEOPLE GOOD FOOD CHEAP PRICES AND PRETTY GIRLS :)
altho i would like to see stonehenge... just too bad greek and roman ruins are far more interesting
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the britmeet was possibly the highlight of my trip, and i'd go back to england for another, but im never going back just to visit the country
there's nothing about england that makes it a good tourist or travel destination
a) it's cold, rainy, bitter
b) the people are very unfriendly
c) it's about as exotic as the toilets at campus
d) attractions are for the most part limited to one of the most expensive cities and every brit at those attractions will talk about how great the british empire was etc
e) british girls are by far the least attractive in western euroe, and possibly even the whole wide world
f) due to the girls being so ugly, the male population evolved a terrible taste so that they could fuck without being disgusted and so all the males have horrible tastes
g) stuff is expensive and bland
h) the food is either bland or tastes like shit (hooray for fish and chips!)
england has got interesting stuff but nothing that surpasses cities like Paris or Rome or other southern european countries that also have FRIENDLY PEOPLE GOOD FOOD CHEAP PRICES AND PRETTY GIRLS :)
altho i would like to see stonehenge... just too bad greek and roman ruins are far more interesting
I'll have to second all that hahahaha its SOOOOO true.
Though England has its little good things as well like for example:
- Their services actually work (opposite to Italy)
- Emh..... uh.......... hm......... I think that was it...
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england has got interesting stuff but nothing that surpasses cities like Paris or Rome or other southern european countries that also have FRIENDLY PEOPLE GOOD FOOD CHEAP PRICES AND PRETTY GIRLS :)
Well, I've only been to London once, so I don't really know the city very well, but generally the rule is that if people go there, it's expensive. Virtually everything in Paris and Rome is expensive, except for the places that are in less visible streets or are far away from the center.
Despite not knowing London very well, I think I can rightfully say that everything else in Europe pales in comparison to Paris and Rome.
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let's talk about kickass destinations for weekend trips.
A whore house, too easy.
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yeah don't go to England. It's terrible. The ONLY good place in england is the centre of London (and a partial coolness to obscure villages that're still stuck in the 1800s where it's stillcommon to see toffs riding around on horseback). Everything else is like wasteland.
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yeah don't go to England. It's terrible. The ONLY good place in england is the centre of London (and a partial coolness to obscure villages that're still stuck in the 1800s where it's stillcommon to see toffs riding around on horseback). Everything else is like wasteland.
Don't listen to any of this.
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England's a beautifull country, not a word against it.
Seriously though, i'd want to visit Iceland. There and Russia.
Also Japan, but mainly because of how completely bizarre it seems to be.
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There and Russia.
Unless you're talking about Moscow and St. Petersburg (which are totally awesome), there's no other reason you'd want to go to Russia :(
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The place seems to have a surreal air of grumpiness.
And nobody does Dark Ambient like the Russians.
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India
Seconded, and this is extremely cost effective.
p.s. don't eat meat there
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yeah don't go to England. It's terrible. The ONLY good place in england is the centre of London (and a partial coolness to obscure villages that're still stuck in the 1800s where it's stillcommon to see toffs riding around on horseback). Everything else is like wasteland.
This is a load of bollocks. Centre of london? Yeah if you want crime, gangs and violence.
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Come to Newfoundland?
Moderate tempratures in summers icy winters lots of fish to fish with your fishin hat.
St.John's Is the Capitol and is the oldest City in all of north America (if your 19+ then get Shit faced on George street, with more bars per sq foot then anywhere else in the world!)
We have a rich artisic history in Visual and Musical Arts ... very friendly people and very strong alcohol :)
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britmeat just got... burned...
you guys do know i was kidding right? i've been to three britmeats, why would i say shit about it?
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Seconded, and this is extremely cost effective.
p.s. don't eat meat there
There's nothing wrong with the meat in India - you just don't get a lot. The only thing you need be concerned about, I mean concerned enough to avoid entirely, is raw vegetables and this is about the same anywhere you go travelling in the third world. Meat in India is just limited to scrawny chickens and mutton. I had catfish in a rural part of the country and it actually wasn't that bad, but you can't expect to get a big freaking steak or 8lb chicken or anything. It's generally entirely safe though, as long as you're not stupid about where you're getting it. Also, India is only cost effective if you're not picky about where you're staying and how you get around. Sure, you can hire a smelly, hot little autorickshaw for the equivalent a buck after you haggle with the driver, but a lot of people would prefer a taxi with AC and these cost real money. Shopping is expensive there, don't be fooled. The shop owners in tourist destinations KNOW what tourists are after. You have to travel into the country and rural areas to shop more cheaply, and most wouldn't want to because there isn't much to see in these places.
BUT I DIGRESS. India is not a weekend destination. Nor is the Middle East, unless you're getting there FREE with the navy, though Marcus wrote a nice post on it. You want a good weekend trip, I dunno, follow RPGer's post.
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On his gap year one of my old friends from school got an old Indian man to carry him across a big patch of unnavigatable mud.
I wish I was joking :(
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New Zealand, Costa Rica, Australia, Madagascar.
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This is a load of bollocks. Centre of london? Yeah if you want crime, gangs and violence.
That's east london in the like, not centre.