I'm going to Berlin in June, just the 7th-21st. Aside from my first night I want to just book rooms day of or maybe a day in advance but I'm worried that since it's the tourist season it may not be wise because the rooms in my price range may be booked full. Anyone know what the impromptu booking situation in Berlin is like around that time?
Also general advice? I'm leaning toward doing Berlin, Dresden, Prague, and maybe find a small town in the region to stay in for a night. Anything else absolutely worth checking out in the area? I'm into WW history and music if that helps.
>>1238938
June is a quiet season for Germany
>>1238938
Salzburg and Prague are very good cities to visit
>>1238938
Ah just barely missing ya, I go to Berlin from May 29 to June 6th.
Chicago
My dad offered to fly me out there for free to meet up with him. Hes going to be working pretty much the wntire time so i would have a lot of alone time. would stay for 4 days. Is it worth going? Is there anything to do or is it just a regular city?
You can get shot by toughs in your freetime a lot. Or you could kidnap trump supporters with local nigs.
Spent 4 days in Chicago last summer.. stayed at the Hilton Chicago. I'm a baseball fan so i took in two Cardinals/Cubs games at Wrigley field. We walked all around the downtown area and Navy Pier.
Wrigleyville is fun if you like to drink.
Giordanos pizza was good as fuck, but we waited 2 hours to be sat at the bar and ran up a hefty tab in the process.
Also, Eleven City Diner is a decent breakfast spot we stumbled on one morning close to the hotel.
The food was great and not too expensive.
But all the Jewish decour might trigger the average poltard.
Hey y'all, I am going to be backpacking from Amsterdam to Berlin to Prague to Bratislava to Budapest this summer and may have a little extra time and money at the tail end of the trip.
Are there any countries in Eastern Europe that you would recommend and why?
>>1237733
Save some days from Bratislava (you can make it in 2 or 3) and go to Krakow
>>1237733
>>1238013
Maybe even do Vienna instead of Bratislava. Or just spend only spend one night in Bratislava, it's worth a visit but there isn't a huge amount to see. Wander about the old town, eat some Halušky (definitely do this), drink some excellent cheap beer.
You wouldn't call it Eastern Europe I guess but Vienna is really worth a visit, especially if you like museums and galleries (go to the imperial burial crypt for sure). It's a stunning city (maybe my favourite in Europe) and the night life is pretty good too.
I would also try to avoid Bratislava on the weekend, it's a lot more chill before the 500 English stag dos descend on the place.
Go to the Balkans. totally underrated. its by far my favourite place in europe. Hit up western serbia and Bosnia especially.
/trv/ I'm going to Paris for a few days and I want to do something that's off the beaten path. Do you have any suggestions? Ideally I'd like to get rooftop access somewhere in the city. Other then that what are some nice hideaway spots or nightlife areas and anything that you've heard of experienced where there's not 1000 other people. I'll be a with a French speaker. Thanks.
Stop the propaganda I'm a Parisian and even if there are some muslim majority neighborhood (and not slums, just street vendors, refugees, and hopeful immigrates) it is quite safe actually, at least if you go out on daylight, I have never been in any dangerous situation.
>>1237717
Go to Sacre Coeur at night (when the sky is clear).
Go to the catacombs!
Do you try to learn the language when you go somewhere?
Let's exchange tips and stories.
>>1235071
>Do you try to learn the language when you go somewhere?
Sort of. Unless you've been studying for years how much can you honestly hope to learn?
I plan my trips at most 8 months in advance, to become fluent or even decent with a foreign language I feel like that would require a huge and impractical commitment in such a short span of time.
>>1235071
I'm learning German currently.
I have a little class and i do as much online stuff as i can find. After literally probably ten years of wasting my time trying to learn solo (and last summer trying to have a conversation with a German girl with embaressing results) I'm keen to admit that an actual class or tutor at least for language learning is completely vital. It is a means for interpersonal communication after all.
Duolingo is an ok start. Memrise is very good and the Michel Thomas audio lessons are really worth it too for German learners.
I'm doing the opposite, kind of. I've been studying French for quite a while now(German native) and I'm mostly doing countries where French is spoken at the moment.
I've been to Quebec and Belgium last year, and France this year. In summer, I will go to Francophone Switzerland and probably some Maghreb country next year(probably Morocco). If I'm brave enough I might even try West Africa(Senegal) afterwards.
I've made quite a lot of Internet friends and regular exchange partners over time on apps like HelloTalk on whose sofas I could sleep for free a few times. It's been a pretty great experience to stay at a place of a native and become part of a local social circle and get to practice the language.
I'm not 100% fluent but I can conduct a conversation and I already know that I will do Spanish next.
The general rule is that learning at least some phrases will boost your sympathy points, wherever you go.
Can I get a quick rundown on Mexico City?
Things to do, things to avoid? Going for Cinco de Mayo, have a place in the city to stay with a buddy who lives there and speaks fluent Spanish.
Cinco de Mayo is a bigger deal in the US than Mexico. They have some pretty cool museums. If you have time make the trip out of the city to go see the pyramids. Also eat as much as you can, you will not find better Mexican food anywhere else.
>>1233325
I'm not a drinker and I'd much prefer to see the more traditional side of Cinco de Mayo. Pyramids are on the list. So is a shit-ton of good grub, thanks for the suggestions m8
If you wanna see the more traditional side of Cinco de Mayo you'd have to make your way to Puebla. Also the Paso de Cortes is cool if you're into nature and wanna check out the two big volcanoes. I've been to Mexico City more times than I can count and every time I go I discover something new. I'll be there again in July and am planning on visiting the Frida Khalo house for the first time.
Help me move to Maine, /trv/.
I live in DC and want to move elsewhere, somewhere less densely populated and accessible to nature. Ideally, I would like to write fiction while working some dumb job there. I've got a college degree and am in my early 20's.
So, how would I go about moving there? Where should I move to? What kind of jobs could I find? How expensive is it to live there? Are the winters really that bad? etc., etc.,
Thanks in advance, friends.
Portland is a medium-sized city with a beer-drinking hipster culture.
I live Downeast; here we have an odd cutrural mixture of rednecks, hippies, starving artists, successful artists, and summer billionaires. Sublime outdoors, but you can't enjoy any of it because it's all private. Expensive real estate, tepid winters. Generally we resent out-of-staters coming in and driving up prices, but if you only aspire to fit into the 'starving artist' bracket, you are welcome.
Between Portland and Downeast, there's probably nowhere in Maine I'd want to live.
>>1231904
Sounds comfy af, desu.
How are the winters there? Will I have difficulty finding employment, since I'm an outsider?
Any other advice?
>Wanting to go to the most haunted state in America
don't you read Stephen King?
Old thread in bumplimit:
>>1216175
Archive here:
http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/1216175/
v 1.0 is ready, you can download it here:
https://bestmoscowquide.yolasite.com/
someone else's rip-off website with a web version: moscowguide dot tk
After the release of v1.0 I collected several pages of word with corrections, proposals for new additions, remarks and so on. I added most minor things and now have to write several new pages, so I expect it to be ready sometime next week, after that o
Around 150 people have downloaded it so far.
I'd appreciate other help in:
- distribution (let other people know it exists)
- design (you can draw some illustrations or cover if you like)
Thank you for all the positive (and negative - it was interesting) feedback I got.
>>1230321
>after that o
one of the anons offered to proofread it
Other Russians are also welcome to write something like this on their towns/regions. I'll put it on the same website.
There was this one guide who offered to do a similar guide on the Caucasus region, though I haven't heard from him in a while.
Op, did you add info about jams and parking from last thread? Your guide is for pedesterian visiters so far, but surely there could be car and motorcycle tourists from Europe or from somewhere else. Two things I forgot: even in the center of the city your can find free pakring in a yards in any time, it is not so hard between Third and Garden rings, but within Garden ring yards are usually locked by bars with permit only for locals, and the second one is that it is very bad idea to break up parking rules - Moscow evacuators are extra greedy and inexorable, and they take a car very far away to distant industrial zones from where it will be very difficult and inconvenient to release the car.
>>1230323
I'm here and I am not sure I have whole info and can compile, structure and express this information even in Russian not to mention English. You are generally a good writer, regardless of English.
Also, the second location in Russia that must have the similar guide is certainly St. Petersburg first of all.
Want to finish a project of mine with some peace of mind. Takes about 2 months. Thinking about Penang. I have not been there for about 15 years (oldfag here).
What is the current internet situation? Is it abysmal? I need to stream some stuff. Do some video skype. Not have terrible ping.
I can usually work from Thailand and Cambodia without a problem. Is Penang much worse, or just a little worse?
>>1238598
I spent a week in Penang last year and I remember the internet being okay speed. But I was just using it to look shit up on my iPhone in the hotel. I would not expect higher than like 10 down 5 up though and that would be the high end of the internet service.
>>1238598
It's fine. Find an empty coffee shop and you can do it, or buy a wifi hotspot
>>1238598
It's fine. Starbucks requires some registration nonsense. Local cafes often have free wifi.
Getting a SIM card is very quick, 5 minutes or so. (You'll need your passport on hand.) I'd imagine it's a similar story for a mobile wifi box.
Has anyone here ever done a contiki tour? I did the ski one in Austria, it was okay but ofc it was mostly just on the mountain. I'm thinking about doing the tour to the Balkans. Could I do my own Balkans tour better? This trip is 2 weeks and only like 2grand Canadian dollors.
Opinion on contiki and other your companies thread
>>1239218
Never been on one, but it gets asked from time to time here -- consensus seems to be that if you want to drink a lot and move about in groups, this is the company for you, but it is pretty pre-packaged experience with a minimum of travel-related experience. Seems to me that if you want to drinking in a pack thing, you could do it more cheaply at home, but to each his own.
>>1239231
The ski trip in Austria was skiing for 5 days then 2 day trips to Salzburg and around the local area. I didn't party that much but I know many other people on the trip did. Since this balkans tour covers 6 countries I think it would be less partying because you'll be on the move so often
I would not recommend it man, these tours are all about partying and attract a rowdy crowd.. I think it would be a lot more rewarding if you backpacked it solo.
Hello /trv/ I'm going to Sicily this summer, with some friends. We want to hike in the Nebrodi national park, then travel to Etna and walk around the Volcano, but we can't seem to find much information on Nebrodi.
Have anyone of you been there, or know anything about it?
I'm not from Sicily but i'm italian so I have a couple friends from Palermo (which is not very close to the park) but if you tell me what info you need I'll try getting something for you
>>1239201
I'll make a shortlist:
1. Accomodation - Can we set up a tent where we want?
2. Water - Are there plenty of natural springs around in the park, or do we have to stock up at certain locations, if so, where are those locations(cities, wells, lodges)
3. Animals, are there anything to worry about? bears, wolves, bugs etc.
We plan on staying on Sicily for 2 weeks. We want to do the hike in Nebrodi and around Etna, while also visiting Catania and seeing the city. After that we'll return to Palermo for a few days to relax at the beach, see the city and maybe sail to Ustica for one day.
What can you and your friends recommend to see in Catania and Palermo? Nightlife in Palermo aswell.
Thanks in advance.
>>1239198
Italian here, but I'm a northerner. FYI inland Sicily in the summer is brutally fucking hot. I'm talking 100+ degrees for weeks with no wind whatsoever. Water will also be hard to come by, and you're probably going to have to bribe a park ranger or two.
Now for the good news: inland Sicily is obnoxiously gorgeous, and dotted with beautiful little towns. I have a friend from Cesarò, and he swears it's paradise on earth - but bear in mind it's terronia, so they may not be super friendly to foreigners, particularly if you don't look southern italian. Higher elevations, such as Etna, also bring cooler temps.
As for the questions here>>1239204
1) If you're not loud and leave no trace I don't see an issue. Their website, however, says you have to fill out a permit request form and mail or fax it to these guys in the middle of nowhere. http://www.parcodeinebrodi.it/?idp=938 Good luck with that.
2) There seem to be some rivers and lakes, so it's not bone dry year-round, but in the summer months I'd edge on the side of caution. Once again, Sicily is HOT in the summer.
3) No big predators, but some poisonous snakes (rare) and plenty of biting bugs near water would be my guess. Not to worry about, but there's a number of cool raptors living in Nebrodi, apparently - Griffon Vultures, golden eagles, peregrines, etc.
Source: http://www.parcodeinebrodi.it/
Hey, /trv/ I fucked up. (Nothing as bad as that image) and need some medical supplies in germany. Do they sell shit like bandages at convenience stores over here? Or do I need to head anywhere specific?
>>1239150
post pic of the damage
>>1239152
It's like your rectum, but worse.
This is a blue board, fuck your gore.
Also, you will only get bandages from pharmacies.
For a while, I really wanted to go to France. But after hearing about the shit going on there I'm starting to have doubts, and look at other options. I can speak French at a conversational level, and I can read and write the language fairly well, it's just a matter of finding the right place to go to.
>>1239070
St Pierre et Miquelon
>>1239070
go to haiti, you will live like a king
>>1239080
An island? Sounds intriguing. What's the scene there like? Is it urbanized, or mostly rural, or a mix of both?
Has anyone ever been to Belize?
I'm looking to possibly buy some land in the country and would love to hear any experiences you've had (generl experiences).
Cities, rural areas, etc. How are the people? What is the culture like? Cartel activity?
Anything you've experienced that's worth sharing.
ok
The biggest problem with Belize is that there is little industry and many small businesses are owned by expats or Chinese immigrants so the locals mostly live in poverty.
Violent crime isn't very common but aggressive begging, pickpocketing/petty theft and con schemes targeting tourists and expats and tourists because they have the money.
>>1238951
i live in Belize and i am no living in poverty.
Can we get a currency thread going?
I like to travel to places where the dollar has gotten stronger
The canadian dollar was forecast to drop to .65 this summer so I have been waiting to take an RV trip up there.
What other places are travel bargains for americans this year?
Maybe south america?
SEA keeps getting stronger so I think I will wait on that trip.
Anyone else take this into account for their travel plans?
Good idea.
Turkey is a country to think about for the upcoming (northern) summer, and some people on /trv/ have discussed just how cheap Ukraine has been as a result of the civil war in the east and the economic crisis.
The USD and other major currencies (EUR, GBP) are up about 10% against the South African rand. It's a shame it's coming in to winter, because there's bargains to be had, particularly food and alcohol.
You can sometimes have a short window of time to enjoy the modest benefits before prices rise.
The peso is at 18.5 down from almost 22 a few months ago . I wonder what next winter will be like. I hate paying more that I did before
Argentina is going to have a big devaluation of at least 50% after the october elections you might check that up