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Ameribro here

spent a year working in 'Straya and I know few spots, but it really depends what youre into. It will be cold in the deep south but will be otherwise pleasant for you.

One thing I can tell you to do is go to Tasmania. It's literally my favorite place on earth. I spent a week there and it wasnt nearly enough. Do literally everything there.

Other than that, do the obvious. Go to the Great Barrier Reef and The Daintree Rain forest. Stay in Port Douglass and not Cairns. Cairns is Lad Central and the reef there is shit. Take a Quality tour to the High Reef. Half the Reef is dead at this point but there is still some amazing snorkeling out there. See it before we kill it forever. Take a day and drive to Mossman Gorge. Google it.

Byron Bay is a really chill spot too. Great beaches, and cool hippy-ish surf bro culture if youre into that. Plus rain forest and wild turkeys.

Go to Sydney, see the Opera house and botanical gardens, then go to Shady Pines and Eau De Vei out in Darlinghurst. 2 of my favorite bars on the planet. Low 302 for incredible late night Burgers drinks.

Take a day in Sydney and go to Manly beach. Chill, swim, hike and Drink beer at 4 Pines Brewery. I would live there if I could.

Go to Melbourne and check out Fitzroy. Dope art Scene and Great Bars. Naked for Satan and The Black Pearl are two of the best bars on the planet. Then go drive the Great Ocean Road.

Go to the outback if you must, just bare in mind it eats up a lot of time in travel to get to the cool spots (Uluru etc..).

Go to Darwin and do Kakadoo National Park if its dry season and see some real Crocodile Dundee ass shit.

At least a few days in Fraser island are a must - try and avoid a huge tour group.

>>1143512
Wow, thanks for all the detail! I must admit I hadn't really thought of staying in Tasmania but since you mentioned it, I will certainly look into staying there but I was originally planning on starting in Melbourne, flying to Sydney then working my way up to Cairns.

>>1143405
You sound like a nerd. I suspect you have had fewer than 10 sexual partners, this makes you an awkward inexperienced child. Therefore you should avoid Quebec as they are all grown men who will laugh at your beta awkwardness.

>>1143410
Who are you replying to?

>>1143408
Visit the Plateau and the Mile End.
They're completely infested with hipsters but they're still fun neighborhoods.
3-4 weeks is a long ass time though if you stay in the city, I'd recommend going to enjoy the outdoors before the hunting season.

>Any experience with greyhound/megabus or bus trips in the US in general?
It gets the job done and it's cheap but mostly used by the lowest of the low kind of people.
Personally I'd take a car or a train even if it takes more time.

I don't travel for food by itself but I always love to try the local gastronomy whenever I go somewhere. This is why I get so pissed off with my friends when they'd rather eat something cheap to cut costs.

>>1143369
Naw nigga I'm from Scarborough

We already have everything here

>>1143382
My nigga my nigga my nigga my nigga

http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2015/03/economist_says_worlds_best_ethnic_food_in_scarborough/

Bumping for interest. I really wanna go to ukraine but i got a feeling that it's a bit sketchy

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>>1143320
I spent about two weeks there this summer with my girlfriend. It seemed nearly every Ukrainian told me their favorite city is Lviv,but Kyiv was my favorite city in Ukraine.

Basically nobody there speaks English, so there is a huge language barrier unless you speak Russian or Ukrainian, and out of those two most people use Russian.

The best part of the city for me was Andriyivsky Uzviz, but it has a lot to offer...though it could all be seen in maybe 4 or 5 days.

Taxis are cheap as fuck, if you speak Russian (luckily my girlfriend does). They were never really more than 4 or 5 USD for us using a taxi app similar to Uber -- so I would recommend skipping public transportation unless you want to try it a few times for the experience.

I'll monitor this thread for questions and answer them as best as I can.

>>1143363
>Russian or Ukrainian
ukraine have his own language ?
learning russian right now, i planned to visit russia and/or ukraine for increase my skills

>>1143282
From my perspective, Berlin is popular because of the history it holds and how recently it was affected. I think the other attraction is it's perceived as safe compared to the eastern block, and has strong indications of the difference between east and west in a small space.

I'm going with friends late august and we're going to visit lots of the 'touristy' areas and it's just a cheap and easy, plus I've wanted to go back for quite a while now.

Do you recommend anything that people may not really know about in Berlin?

>>1143297
There is actually much "people do not know about" here ;-) Are you interested in something special? Partys, theaters, museums, street festivals, quite places to chill? cheap or expensive? Where have you been last time already? And can you give me a somewhat more specific date?

>>1143282
Berlin is a pretty nice city overall. Got a bit of everything, though it wouldnt be my top european city go visit, at all. Probably not even top 3 in Germany.

>>1143110
Are you serious? In a country with record youth unemployment rates?

Where are you from anyway? EU or outside?

>>1143112
EU, yes I'm very serious

>>1143110
Get some knee pads and some mouthwash then consult /biz/

Polish
It does not happen, unless they're Ukrainians or Belorussians.

i dont care

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Have not met such peoples yet. On a recent outbound flight I met a guy who was... French, living in England, but actually living in my country for a good amount of time and he had picked up on a lot, including the Cyrillic alphabet.

I was surprised at all the mundane places he has visited just mucking about in my country which I would never visit on my own just because there's nothing to see or do there.

Bulgarian. Would be cool, desu. I love speaking it.

>>1143035
Sounds really like you should invest in a late model car something within 5 years of aging, and postpone this dream vacation that you think you can do in a vehicle that was only 2k (you won't even have safe expressway worthy tires on a car that cheap). About 8-10k is really the starting point for something within 10 years of age. If you need something to sleep in, I'd wouldn't suggest the Town Car/Vic idea, though they are comfortable rides, the seats don't fully recline. I would however suggest a smaller SUV or minivan where you would be unseen from dark tinted windows. You really shouldn't sleep in a vehicle though, puts you vulnerable to crime. But rather get a real camper you can lock yourself into, you know at a campground, with showers, security, no breaking of city ordinances.
P.S. Nothing beats the A/C of an older Camry. Fact. Fix it and forget it. Take a little 1k trip that doesn't include driving your car halfway across the country, but a $170 JetBlue flight instead.

>>1143035
fix the tranny on the camry

>>1143039
Why did you bother answering if you know nothing about cars

>>1142889
Macao is only good if you plan to gamble. Other than that, its las Vegas on crack.

Hk has a good bar scene. Do the pub crawl they have going on....either Friday or Saturday nights

>>1142889

Can't suggest anything without knowing what you're intersted in

>>1142798
It will be much cheaper to use buses, local trains or blabalcar than pay 246 euro for Interrail. The only advantage of Interrail is that you don't have to research anything in advance.

>>1142798
I mean buses are so much cheaper in comparison to fast trains. If money isnt an issue sure then fast trains are great.
But youre paying a fee for a seat reservation ie the fast trains with good conenctions.
I avoided these and it ended up being quite a mess and it was exhausting travelling days.
Download the app and compare what time difference it is and what the seat reservation costs (these vary depending on the length of your journey).
Buses arent as easy to plan but they usually end up being cheaper a lot of the times.

Yeah, buses will likely be cheaper, but the trip will take longer and it'll probably be much less comfortable.
You're paying extra money for extra comfort and time.

/trv/ **

>>1142577
Depends where you go.

$3500 will be enough for everything especially if you are staying with friends.

Where do they live and what do you plan to do?

>>1142599
I'll be staying in a hotel in Wales.

Not sure what we'll do, maybe sightsee, go to a pub. Not sure

Don't let strangers use your house.

>>1142552

thanks for the input buddy

>>1142542
I've stayed 6 different Airbnbs before any only 1 I think was a private apartment. All of the others were holiday rental flats. They came prefurnished with like 1 spoon and 1 fork, 1 towel, etc so you wouldn't steal anything. I had to register with my passport and sign a contract too.

The private apartment I stayed in was in Poland and happened to be the first Airbnb I had ever stayed in. I met some woman and her two kids who were going out of town for the weekend. I paid 11€ a night for the entire apartment so it was worth it. I didn't really go snooping but it was still a minimalist apartment so I imagine she either moved her valuable items out or had none to begin with.

So if you do rent to people leave all your valuables with a friend and lock all unnecessary rooms.

>>1142446
What part of Spain? Whose fault is what?

>>1142449
I went to Málaga, Andalucia.
For example, was it my fault for having really high standards or was my host family really being cold towards us. Was it my fault for mentioning that I am disappointed with my host family a couple of times to my friends and family or was it my dad's fault for overreacting?

A host family is supposed to act like a family toward you. Of course the relationship is meant to be personal. What kind of seedy program did you do this through? If you didn't get what you hoped to out of the experience, it's a failed program.

Non-big city England, Scotland or Ireland (Republic of).

You'll do fine with English in the Philippines but I don't think that's something you're lookin' for.

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>>1142363
I could definitely get along with the population of the UK after Brexit works and the migrant/islamification is over.

Philippines could work too as honestly Asians are just better looking white people.

Asians are pretty good at not giving a shit about the feelings of minority groups and calling things as they are.

I recommend Taiwan as it's sort of a more cultured, refined China IMO. And I think it has the best looking Asian girls (Japan doesn't count, they don't have personalities) when you go there in person.

I'm educated, was at one of the major tech co's as a senior engineer, quit and have been traveling around the world for almost a year now. I don't think I can go back to the US after this, so I'll be looking at remote jobs or tech jobs in Asia too pretty soon.

South America is great too but you need Spanish there. In most of Asia you can get by on English and hand signals.

>>1142328
>Harriers
Lost me there. They send up F16s, not harriers.

>>1142328
Do you know what kind of aircraft it was? 190 knots is very slow for an Airbus a320.

>>1142328
Fighter planes are very, very loud. They were probably just practicing and completely unrelated to the airline plane.