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>>1145790
Although many people in Japan will not speak much English, many/most young people will. Call it part of the adventure to figure shit out, And get a translator ap of some sort.

>>1145797
Cheers mah dude.

Anyone know of any good Translater apps?

>>1145797
>Although many people in Japan will not speak much English, many/most young people will.

>many/most young people will

As a Tokyo resident, fucking kek m8. Not even.

That said, of course OP can visit Japan and have fun without knowing Japanese. I would recommend learning Katakana and maybe Hiragana before going though.

>>1145639

Can you be more specific?

>>1145639
What's that, 2 days in each city? That's quite an itinerary!

>>1145639
So much stuff to see eh.
Dont know Milan and Venice
Florence you can do it in a couple days if you're in a hurry, any tourist info point can tell you the main attractions; make sure to have an ice cream at the gelateria Carraia (near the Carraia bridge, duh) and a fiorentina dinner. Those steaks are delicious.
You should only stay half a day at Pisa, campo dei miracoli is cool but the town is utter poop. Dont be a knob and dont take the picture with you holding up the tower.
Rome is too much shit to see lol. if you want to go to popular spots and need tickets for it, definitely book in advance. finding a good place to eat is gonna be hard, look on likealocal, its full of tourist traps. You want a drink at night, hit the San Lorenzo district, students love it there. You can get even stuff if you're a dirty druggie, but only on saturday.
Naples is wonderful, but dont wander around, stay in the main tourist spots. please visit Napoli Sotterranea, its a series of tunnels dating back before the romans, used until today, its quite the voyage through history, dirt cheap too. dont be a knob and eat as much pizza and fritti as you can. if you truly want something rare and tasty as hell, go to tandem restaurant, they deal in ragu (over9000 bolognese pretty much) you can even do takeaway. Pasta genovese is also reaaally good there.

oh and do try to have a risotto in milan. cant give you a place to go to, but me mom's from there and its delicious stuff.

dont even go once to a fast food joint or i'll slap your shit. have fun

>>1145584

forget your friends who the fuck is going to pick up 3 people.... common anon this is a shit idea from the go.

>>1145584
>any tips ?
Stay Safe.
Use common sense/good judgement.
Be friendly, but be alert.

>also i want to hide some precious things where to hide them?
Can't answer without knowing the size of the items (pocket?)

>>1145586
Phone

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>What is China General

>Actually being a two-bit criminal lmao

>>1145471
I have a roomate from Liaoning. Expect cultural differences. This is coming from someone born and raised in Hong Kong. The fact that you are American means that there will be even more cultural differences.

>>1145471
There's a China general you stupid retard criminal fuck. Ask your retarded question there.

Me and my mates went for a 3 day trip in May. Stayed at the Yeah Hostel. Could recommend.
Also, rent a scooter and drive south, taking the C31 towards Sitges. In Barcelona itself: Bunkers del Carmen, Tibidabo and off course the segrada familia (we didn't went up but the main hall is fucking amazing on its own)

Only thing you should avoid is Sagrada Familia. Ugly as fuck.

>>1145142
Eat something at the market that's in the ramblas.

>>1145072
i like sevilla

>>1145072
>>1145074
I want to add, I'd preferably have a nice beach but also some interesting things around to visit. Cultural, or nature...whatever.

>>1145072
you should be headed to the mediterranean coast then. My recommendation is either Catalonia or Andalucia. Even though they are quite different from each other

>>1144979

It's gonna be rainy tomorrow. Maybe something indoors like the Museum of Modern Art or the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA). MoMA's next to Central Park. So If you were going to MoMA and there was some break in the rain, then you could check out the park.

>>1144979
Even though the ESB is touristy as fuck, it's still pretty cool. Just bring your phone to listen to some music in line, it takes a while to get to the top.

my tip for you is to take a look at one of the other threads about New York that are currently active.

England left me forlorn and bitter, but maybe that's just cause I got dumped there

>>1144877
I don't think that just visiting a single country has ever changed my fundamental personality in a big way, no. But I think travel, and spending a lot of time in places that are different from where I come from, has certainly opened my mind a bit, made me more global in interests and outlook, and improved my ability to communicate across cultures and/or languages.

For example, when I meet up with someone in my home country who struggles to communicate in English, and whose mother tongue I don't speak, I have a great track record of getting my point across and of figuring out what he's trying to say. I don't even think about it, but it's impressed my wife and other friends on multiple occasions. It's just because I've spent a lot of time trying to communicate without a common language--people who haven't don't know how to simplify their English or listen for clues in other people's.

And 4chan//pol//int// xenophobia-trolls aside, I think most travelers are more interested in different ways of life, less racist, etc., a category in which I certainly count myself.

The only other kind of similar thing is that after spending some years in Thailand, I got used to a lot of local mannerisms and customs regarding feet, posture, etc. So when I was flying back to visit friends in the US once, I was horrified for a minute to see some scumbag hippie backpacker in an airport with his feet up on a pile of newspapers on a table, all up in people's faces, in a way that would be revolting to Thai folks. Wanted to scream "you can't DO that here," to the poor dude for a second, until I remembered we were in Seattle and of course he could. And I probably still duck down/bow my head a bit when walking between people or close in front of people's faces, even having been based outside Thailand for years now.

Not OP, but is it possible for your personality/attitude to change after spending time in another country?

Oh, and I wonder if I can withdraw money from local ATM's with a girocard?

Cliffs of dover, dover castle, Canterbury and the cathedral, there's always museums everywhere you go and most are free.
Kent, Bodiam castle which is a great, possibly take the train from tenterden there but might cost a bit
Head to battle, where the battle of hastings took place, or eastbourne (which is the southeast's place where old people go to die) and go to cuckmere haven and beachy head, which is lovely when the weather's good. A place closer to dover is dungeness, which is a wide open scrape, quite bleak yet really nice with a lighthouse you can go up. You could also extend along the downs. Lovely villages along the way, alfriston, bramber, and Brighton's good with the royal pavilion and the laines, but also the seafront.
Not sure if that's what you meant by cultural, but it's got history, and it's quite old. Worth checking out at least.

Campsites are worth looking up and searching around. a quick search I found one for £5 a night, but most are over £15 a night.
You could search for wild camping spots, but I don't know any in the south east. Most are in the north where there are few people.

>>1144216

Hey man, thanks, that's pretty good input. Historical sites is exactly what I'm after, and Dover Castle looks really good to me. So does the lighthouse.

As for the wild camping: IS that legal in the UK? If not, what can I expect if caught? Also, is this generally safe or should I prepare to get mugged by a gang of youngsters?

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Thats what im doing bro, fucking bitch broke my heart. Might kill myself but Im going to have a nice trip in the least. Wish I had something uplifting to say, but all i can offer is that im in the same shitboat.

>Have you ever felt the need to leave it all behind?
Yeah, a fixation on escapism-oriented travel is common with young adults, it's the engine that drives this board in fact
>Did you do it and did it help?
I traveled a lot when I was in my angsty years, same as I did when I was a child, and same as I do now. You can, as you said, treat it like a drug, and it does provide a temporary escape. But then you return to reality and none of your problems have changed.

Much like drugs and alcohol, you'll be happier in the long run if you get your shit together and use travel to enrich an already good life.

Or you can do what some of my friends did and go off the deep end and become a dirtbag expat. Your life will revolve around cheap beer, your close bubble of English-speaking friends, and your token local friends that you use to convince yourself that you've "made it" as an international man or woman of mystery. This seems very interesting when you're in your early 20s but "this is my life" catches up with you, as it will no matter where. So then you return home and try to have a go at it as a normie, but all you know now is escapism. So you go back to your dirtbag expat life because at least that way, you can blame your permanent "lack of fitting in" on your environment. Just as you would have back home, but you feel that this reflects less poorly on you if "the local culture" is hidebound conservatism. Although you just love their exotic ways and they are really much more genuine than the shallow, materialistic countrymen that you left behind.

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I think I was drunk practicing a suicide note and I was looking at quotes to add at the end, then I saw this, that saved my life. I saved up money sold me car and now traveling. I find I meet a lot of other long term travelers who are "running from something" I am, depressed recovering alcoholic. All I want to do is save up and travel, until what I can assume will be me taking my own life.

It started becoming cancerous around the 1 million post mark.

Somali backpacker and Peruvian tour guide were the last funny /trv/ memes

Also, off roading general?

You forgot
>how do I sail for free on a container ship

my favorite are the cunts who are too stupid to ctrl+F the town they're visiting, before starting a thread, so it ends up with 5 paris threads, 3 germany threads, 4 portland threads, etc. etc.

What country? America?

>>1145775

Europe generally. More specifically, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, etc.

>>1145775
Try reading the OP before replying?
I'm not sure if it's so easy in Europe but in US and Canada I often just set up camp on the roadside, out of sight. In cities I look for secluded areas in parks and sometimes I just use the sleeping bag on a nice piece of ground. Typically though I use my hammock which is smaller than a tent, lightweight, and you can set up easily in wooded areas where with a tent you may have trouble finding a good piece of ground. Plus my hammock is comfy. Some still prefer to tent though.
If you are looking for spontaneous adventure hitching is a good way to go, you may often meet people on their way to events/parties and you can squad out with them. Two days ago I met a couple people on their way to the beach, ended up spending the day and evening fucking around with them and slept at their pad. The very next day I met a nice family and hiked around a national park with them.
So, have a very vague plan of where you are going, and be ready to change it at any point, and you will stumble into a lot of opportunities.
However: Are you planning on hitching as a group of guys? That could be difficult

>>1145686
Uh…
> getting a job in Greece
>job
>Greece
pick one. At least that's the cliche. But still, unless you are pretty certain of your niche, that sounds dubious

>in one of their call centers, I am from Honduras ( Central America)
Unlike India, where there might be quite a huge demand for call centers (Hulluh, this Pajee… err Joe from Texas, and I call about your windows computer…), I dont really see this to be the case in greece. The only country I can think of that would need greek call centers is greece, and they probably have enough folks willing to work for a minimum wage

>and saw the job info saying they would pay for flight ticket and staying of the first 2 weeks, also free greek lessons,
Sounds too good to be true.

This of course is all just hearsay and opinion from a German mad at those lazy Greeks, but from the little I read from you, this all sounds very fishy.

>>1145707

> but from the little I read from you, this all sounds very fishy.

I agree with you about this, that's why I would like some insight, (also because I am very curious) they offer pay 1200 euros, I think that's very little for the normal european citizen, even paying a flight ticket would cost them less than hirin a better payed native employee, or is the only ting I can think about, thanks for your answer, tho, also, they specificially said to be a support line in spanish, so probably it's utsourcing

>>1145712
>also, they specificially said to be a support line in spanish, so probably it's utsourcing
Weird.
The spanish (speaking) market is certainly bigger than the Greek one, but so is the number of low wage countries with good phone/internet connections, so that you can just employ the people local.
Whatever you make of it, proceed with extreme caution. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably isnt.

It obviously vary according to the university/program of your choice, dumbass.

>>1145630
It doesn't say so on its website

>>1145634
>ask 4chan instead of contacting the university

You're not going to get into the program