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>>1216122
Just look for a place in the "suburbs" - they're all towns and cities in their own right. It's easy to get into town. The central town is not of interest to locals anyway.

>>1216122
What district will your work in? City centre means nothing to me. The entire city is walkable, biking accessible, so rideable whether trolleys or metro too. But, since you will do all seasons, you might actually get real advice by looking on a map and picking your neighborhood of work, like "Mala Strana" for instance.
I'm going to say that there are some sketchy folks in this city, so be specific what you want out of your home, from a walkable evening to expats who speak your specific language to full immersion. It's an odd place, and I think you'd want money to get some real safety.

>>1216127
Thanks for the advice. My workplace is just to the southeast of Prague.
So far I've looked for flats in and around of Jesenice, Pruhonice and Prague 11.

>>1216129
Just past the city border along highway 1/E56. I would prefer "immersion" to expat culture, since I learned some Czech at university and would like to get more fluent. So initally I will need to use both English and German frequently but I hope that after a few months I can use Czech for basic day to day conversations.

>how likely is it that I'll get robbed or attacked?
Depends on what you're wearing/what you have on you, what you look like (skin color), and what you're doing (riding a bike, walking, or riding the bus). Riding the bus would be the safest however you won't get to see much from the windows. I would recommend riding a bike with a route planned beforehand. I would probably put money on you getting robbed if you're walking. If you plan on walking try and have a local with you (and by local I mean black). If you're walking or biking through these neighborhoods you are very likely to get verbally harassed and/or followed so prepare yourself for that.

tl;dr: don't do that

>>1215954
plot twist; it's an electric bike with a max speed of 20 mph. still a bad idea?

Dress like shit, don't bring anything worth more than $20, and don't look that out of place and you'll be OK.

it's Basel, image search "Basel fluss"

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>>1215970
ding ding ding motherfucker! thank you

well this was quick

>>1215864
Where are you coming from?

>most 'local'
No idea what this means.

>>1215864
The most powerful race in the world. Is this why there's 40% unemployment, rampant poverty and paedophiles from western countries go there for sex tourism?

>>1216519
Are you trying to argue with facts?

shameless bump

no ideas?

From what I've read germany would be interesting for a week potentially.

>>1215829
I'd take a class, get some new certification. What is your business that there are competitors? This is so odd.

>>1215829
I don't think hostels actually have an age limit (or at least I don't think it's a standard). I believe they're only called "youth" hostels because they're designed for low-budget travelers, and guess what age group has the least amount of money to their name? Typically young people.

I'm a whole three years older than you, and I've stayed in hostels. I don't think I could be considered "young" by any measure.

>>1215666
Why the fuck Patra?

t. Greek

Also,
Japan
Moscow
Transiberian railway
Vietnam/Thailand
Poland tour

>>1215747
>Why the fuck Patra?
It looks like Anon wants to get from Montenegro to Greece without passing through Albania or Serbia, so would be taking the ferry from Bar to Bari, and then from Bari to Patras.

>>1215765
Correct.

Fly to copenhagen. Go to Amstetdam by bus/ferry. Then berlin with bus or train. Go on to prague by train, then vienna because you need to stop there to get to venice (take the night train from vienna to venice). Then I'd fly to Paris

Or

You start in Paris, go to Amsterdam by train (fast and expensive) or bus (slow and cheap). Then Copenhagen, Berlin and straight down south (Prague, Vienna, Venice). If you have the time, I'd reccomend a day trip to Bratislava. If you arrive at vienna in the morning and take the night train to Venice, you have enough time for Bratislava. It's only a one hour train ride from vienna. Or you can take the danube ferry too.

Just ask if you want to know something. Where do you come from?

>>1215630
Thank you

Im travelling from Ireland but my girlfriend is coming from Peru and the cheapest place to land is amsterdam. Ill see if she can land in paris instead.

Thanks for the info about the vienna-venice train, even through google I wasnt sure if it existed...

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>>1215639
I made a screenshot from the railways homepage.

Your initiary is fine too, but change paris and venice. A flight from venice to paris costs between 50 and 200€, that's how I'd do it.

No, their problems are always still there when they get back home.

People that long-term travel are trying to escape from a shitty home life, yep.

>been gone 15 months

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yep

>>1215395
Does not seem comfy at all. I don't really want to go to middle east countries

>>1217068
your mom doesn't seem comfy.

I've heard only good and cool stuff about Turkmenistan, but getting there seems to be pretty hard. Definitely will try one day

>>1217068
Turkemistan is central Asia.

That said, getting a visa may be a hassle, but shouldn't be impossible. You may have to get an official guide as well, North Korea style, unless that has been changed in the past few years.

Go to Bacalar, stay at the Yak Lake House. Spend 2 nights there and book ahead, because it's always sold out. The Yak in Playa Del Carmen is amazing for meeting people if you want to spend time there too, really cool spot.

Then go to Mazatlan on the west coast for Carnaval next week. It's the biggest carnaval in Mexico - locals say that the one in Veracruz really blows.

>>1215297
Heu thanks. I will swerve playa but the carnival idea is great thanks

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OP here, I made it to Montreal and the weather is amazing for February in Canada

>>1215228
>something /trv/ related,
Is but secks
/trv/ related?

im born in Qc and still live here

Go dowtown, St roch / limoilou suburb are cheaper beer wise from downtown and worth the trip

Hitchhiking with refuges

>>1215205
Go to Cordoba. Take train to Malaga or near it. Follow the coast back to Barsa.

Also should mention that I make about $1,500 per month via a couple of freelance writing gigs, so I need to be able to access the Internet for between five and ten hours every week.

>>1215123
I'm from northern Mexico, but I've been to the capital many times. I can recommend you some places to go.

You're gonna be staying there a month, so you'll have plenty of time to explore the city, but keep in mind that that city is fucking huge. There are a lot of places you can look for on the internet, but from my experience, you should definitely check out the National Anthropology Museum, the "Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo" museum, the "Bellas Artes" palace, and Mexico's city National Film Archive called the "Cineteca Nacional".

Just to name a few, I think you'd enjoy those places, but also try talking to the people there to recommend you less known dope places to hang, people are quite nice down there.

Lastly, try all the street food you can, very cheap and tasty. Be careful, tho', you could get sick if you're not used to generally spicy, or greasy food.

>>1215281

Thanks for the advice!

I lived in India for a year and a half, so spicy food isn't nearly as much of a problem for me as it used to be. Mexican food is probably one of the biggest draws for the trip, considering the few "authentic" dishes I've had here in the States.

Do you have any suggestions on places outside of Mexico City? I definitely don't want to spend my whole trip in one place. However, I don't have much of an idea of where to go or what to do. I'm interested in nature, bits and pieces of history, and meeting ordinary, friendly people. If I can find an affordable place to rent a motorcycle from, I might go on a multi-day tour. I went dirtbiking in some volcano sands in Nicaragua and had a blast. Always love riding, so I hope I can find some reasonable and safe options.

Does anyone have tips on getting my Spanish up to par? I know the basics of sentence structure from a month-long Colombia trip I took in 2015 and from Nicaragua and Costa Rica in 2016, but would like to expand my vocabulary and get some language experience.

>>1215019
Depends on what you're interested in. Big cities have the night and city life in general, while smaller cities manged to preserve a more authentic experience of German culture.

>>1215019
I recommend the Wilmersdorfer mosque in Berlin

These are the big cities worth visiting
>Berlin
>München
>Dresden
>Leipzig
>Stuttgart
>Frankfurt
>Köln

Smaller cities worth noting are
>Görlitz
>Garmisch-Partenkirchen
>Potsdam
>Schwerin
>Würzburg
>Bamberg
>Kiel
>Passau
>Heidelberg und Freiburg

Of course there are many more cities worth visiting but those are some that I really enjoyed. There are also quite a few national parks worth visiting. One thing people don't really realize is that almost all cities were heavily bombed in the second world war so not many city centers are old and original. I know you said not to include other countries but Austria was somewhat spared from the destruction so you could look into that too.

>>1215018
As seen in the sticky:
>/trv/ is a slow board, you don't need to bump more than once a day -- it's OK if your thread is not on the front page, we look several pages deep here. You can do that. too, looking for threads on your topic.

To answer your question, tide height normally runs on a two-week cycle due to the lunar cycle taking about 28 days. Just wait it out.

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>>1215018
There are two low tides every day i most places in the world (sloshing in a few restricted areas like bays and seas with restricted inlets can change that, but for a given stretch of open beach, it's what happens. Tides advance about an hour each day -- if there is a low tide around 10 in the morning one day, it will be low ROUGHLY around 11 the next day.

High tides are highest and low tides lowest around full and new moons, tidal change is less extreme around the half-moons, though local conditions as noted above can also cause a lag in this. Here's a lunar phases calendar: http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases_calendar.phtml

The AVERAGE level of the water , disregarding tides, can vary with the wind -- strong winds blowing from the ocean over a prolonged time pile up water against the land, prolonged breezes blowing from the land do the opposite.

Here is a tide table for Pattaya, as an example -- if you are not going there, google "tide table (name of place you are going)
http://www.pattayadivers.com/pattaya-tide-tables/