>Living in The Netherlands
>Looking to go camping for 2 to 2,5 weeks in September
>Going by car
>Want to drive there in one day
>Looking for good nature and outdoor activities
>Looking for good food
>Cool small towns are good
>A big city or two to visit is a plus
>Where in the red circle do we go?
Germany is very "trailer Campy" friendly. If you want an authentic old town experience why not visit Celle. You will see only a handful of tourists no more than that. If the weather is great why ot travel to the nice islands in Northern Netherlands
Why do you exclude Scandinavia?
>>1112567
I would recommend this thread:
>>1096186
It's world wide but also has other pretty good recommendations in europe within your driving distance that are mostly nature and old towns/villages related plus you won't find many tourists there.
Anyway my two cents:
September can be tricky as you might experience the first snow in the alps/pre alps regions and storms around the eastern and northern sea cost if you're unlucky.
Any preferences? water sports, hiking, biking, mbt/downhill, national parks, hiking, extreme sports?.
Sea, lake, mountains, flatland, a good mix?
Anyone on /trv/ use Google Translate consistently? I just started using it and the text replacement feature is absolute fucking voodoo, it's the first thing I've seen in a long time that made me realize we're living in the future.
I'm definitely going to use it when I visit smaller cities in Europe. Will people think I'm weird asking them to speak into my phone?
>>1112534
Decent enough as a dictionary and somewhat reliable for short sentenced with very simple grammar, but it's not reliable beyond that.
>>1112534
I don't understand. The right picture is just as unintelligible as the left; I don't speak google-fu.
Used it all over Europe and North Africa. Better than nothing, but still pretty bad. In places like Poland when I tried t use it they just look at you like your straight up retarded. Also in some small villages people couldent read, so the GT was useless.
If you had unlimited money, but were limited to existing science and technology where in space would you visit?
I'd visit Tsiolkovskiy on the far side of Luna.
Probably the beach a half hour's drive away because unprecedented levels of hyperinflation have rendered all global fiat currencies worthless.
I would visit that blue planet with girls, water and breathable air.
How do I decide where to travel next? I just see a huge web of potential experiences and I don't know where to start.
Throw a dart on a map
Go to Adelaide, Australia.
I'm considering a 72 hour cross-Canada Greyhound ride to save money. Is this an insane option?
I've crossed the continent many times, but never overland. Might be an experience?
>greyhound
>>1112227
Cheap, especially when you have some luggage (airlines have pretty much stopped giving any luggage allowance)
>greyhound
Hello!
Next week I'm going to Heidelberg for 4 days with my girlfriend to visit a common friend.
Is there anything interesting to see?
Interested in nature, gastronomy and art mainly, open to anything though.
We thought about renting a car so we have freedom to go to Berlin or a natural park.
Ideas?
>Heidelberg
>freedom to go to Berlin
Have you checked a map?
But do check out the castle, it's nice. Heidelberg is very beautiful, and you could easily spend 4 days there even though it's small.
>>1111986
Yes I guess you are right, I should give up that option. Still, I need a way to get to nice hiking places, right?
>>1111982
The Hauptstrasse downtown is really fucking cool, if you're into shopping. Lots of modern shops all built into the old style buildings. The bridge and the castle are all right there too. The castle is nice, and gives you a great view of the city. There are also boat tours you can get down the river, where you stop and can explore several other smaller castles. There's also a Zoo across the river in Handschusheim. Downtown Heidelberg in general is just really fucking neat.
If you're into cars, there is a pretty popular formula 1 track in Hockenheim, which is only about half an hour away. There's also two "Technik Museums" nearby, one in Speyer and one in Sinsheim (spelling?) they are basically museums with a wide variety of airplanes, cars, and trains.
If you are looking for good food, try to go out of the city (doesn't take very far) and find a restaurant in a smaller town.
Those are the biggest things that come to mind when I think about the H-town area.
t. I lived there for 5 years
I'm on a RTW trip, currently thinking about heading to South America in July to learn Spanish for 1-2 months. I took a couple years of Spanish in HS and haven't used it since, so I want to learn enough to hold conversations in my travels around S America. Where would you recommend doing this?
While I'm learning I'd like to hang out with the local girls at night, so somewhere where they love gringos would be best.
>>1111916
interested in this too
>>1111916
>so somewhere where they love gringos would be best
The entire continent of South America should be a good choice. Are you blond?
>>1111916
Santiago, chile
I bought a ticket arriving at Zagreb at August 10th and departing from Prague at August 30th. I'm now planning what to do and where to go during my trip, and I would really appreciate your suggestions and experiences.
07/11:zagreb (rent a car)
07/12:plitvice all day, zadar at night
07/13:novalja
07/14:split (leave the car here)
07/15:hvar
07/18: dubrovnik
07/20:flight to Belgrad (planning to go to Belgrad beer fest)
07/22: flight to Budapest
07/26:flight to Prague
So I plan to go to the beach at day and party at night at Croatia, and at the other countries to visit historical stuff and drink beer.
Also, if you know any festival please tell me (I can't go to Sziget following this plan, but I guess there will be some similar events nearby).
Seems like your kind of wasting money on plane tickets. Dubrovnik to Belgrade, Belgrade to Budapest and Budapest to Prague are all very do-able by either train or bus.
>>1111840
i will examine carefully train and bus itineraries, thanks
>>1111750
Fresh Island festival is at Novalja from 12th to 14th or 15th. Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign and many more. I may be there too, not sure, but it's pretty fun to visit.
Also, use some time to explore Zagreb during the day you're there, the city is pretty awesome.
Me and a friend of mine want to visit Ireland.
We want to get to know the culture, we want to drink for small money, we want to drink in a variety of pubs, we want a day-trip to Dublin, but we don't want to live directly in Dublin, because we don't want leprechauns around every corner. We want the to experience the real Ireland.
Any recommendations for a good spot?
>>1111200
pro tip:
as a foreigner you will never experience the real Ireland
Every single town will have at least a couple of pubs.
Go down South lad
>>1111200
Avoid Dublin like the plague - and thats coming from a Dubliner.
The west can be great - beuatiful scenery and you'll get more of the "Real" Ireland.
Galway would be a good starting point
>>1111200
Gotta be on the move OP. You pick up a rental in Shannon or Dublin, travel the south half of the country, new town every night..experience the towns with dinner and pubs, drive and explore some ruins, churches, castles, during the days. It's pretty inexpensive outside of Dublin, and you'd be done with Dublin at about 1.5 days.
Have you ever ran into a celeb while traveling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlg1Y_n_YMU
Yes, but they were Indian celebs, not American celebs.
what is this vapid cunt
>>1111139
i used to work on hayman island (aus) and katy perry & mariah carey just checked in.
a clouple of weeks later i just saw johnny depp in his room, hes short af and was high as a motherfucker
New Japan General:
As always, feel free to ask about:
>Traveling to Japan
>Living in Japan
>Teaching in Japan
>Joining the Yakuza
>Getting your weeb fantasies crushed
*Info on prostitution*
>http://rockitreports.com/category/sex-in-tokyo/
>http://erolin.net/
*Note about the JR Rail Pass*
Many people ask about whether or not the JR Rail Pass is worth it. It depends on your itinerary.
>http://www.hyperdia.com/en/
Plug your itinerary into Hyperdia to determine ticket costs, then compare to the below JR Pass options:
>7 day Pass: 29,110¥
>14 day Pass: 46,390¥
>21 day Pass: 59,350¥
Please check the /trv/ sticky before asking questions. It's filled with links to great resources, many of them specific to Japan travel.
Please refer to the old thread while it's still up: >>1108244
1st for stop asking sex tourism question.
Go to the sex tourism thread for that, or buy a hooker.
>>1110365
shibuya/harajuku
Can I get any sort of train pass to travel around the greater Tokyo area? I'll be living there for 3 months.
Thinking about going on a cruise, anyone have any cruise stories?
>>1109873
Norovirus
>puked and shat myself for 3 days
been on 3 cruises with senpai in my younger years
island hopping, all is paid for besides alcohol and souvenirs (can get a cheap soda card for unlimited soda). lots of events and stuff going on.
carnival/disney are good for families
royal caribbean/princess for couples ie no fucking kids
The single supplement is a deal breaker (one person still has to pay as if two people are cruising). But if you are a couple, it's a great deal.
Get the cheapest stateroom in the best ship you can afford. You are stuck on a boat with these people, you want them to be civilized.
Driving to a port of call is a great money saver. Might not be an option for most people.
Either go on a small luxury boat that visits upscale ports of call, or get a room in a mega ship where you don't even have to visit ports. All the major cruise lines visit the same ports of call anyway, so that gets old quickly.
Themed cruises are fun, some rock bands do sponsored cruises, like Paramore, and there's a heavy metal cruise, these come at a premium though.
There are plenty of forums with great information and advice, this board isn't one of them.
Is the only way to travel for more than a month or two to be a rich kid?
Is it doable, in any way, if you're poor af?
I'm sick and tired of hearing and reading stories about people that woke up some day and decided they were going to spend their next year travelling wherever and imagining all of them being wealthy enough. There must be a way.
>>1106587
Define 'poor af'
>>1106592
Less than 5 thousand dollars saved in a year.
>>1106595
it's not impossible. You'll have to allocate your funds and really commit to it, but it's not impossible.
Going to Bangkok next week and will be spending 8 days there with absolutely no plans. I've never been to Thailand before and the stuff on TripAdvisor looks a bit dull. I'm really interested in seeing more than just shopping malls and weird touristy temples. A day trip to somewhere interesting would be great.
Any recommendations?
There used to be some companies doing raft-trips on the Kwai, out of Bangkok. Maybe Google around. My memory is that some were expensive and some were not. This has been more than a few years back...
Thai pocky, by the way, is hugely inferior to Japanese pocky. Chocolate is amazingly flavorless.
>>1106348
A day trip to the old capital of Ayutthaya might be interesting--can do it by boat, and the boat trip is enjoyable by itself. The fancy one day tour from the Oriental Hotel (worth having a drink in, if you want to pretend to be Somerset Maugham) is the plushest, but there are dozens of operators with similar offerings.
You might also consider a day trip to Lopburi, another old capital that is now most famous for being completely overrun with monkeys.
There's Chanthaburi, where some of the River Khwae is; the province is also home to renowned tourist trap the Tiger Temple, but, hey, tigers! I find Chanthaburi a little far without overnighting, but it is possible to get there and back in a day.
All that said, you may be surprised by Bangkok. It doesn't make a great first impression (weather, air quality, and traffic are all pretty intense), but it's an undeniably vibrant city of more than eight million people. Has a lot beyond malls and temples.
Forensic Sciences Museum in Siriraj Hospital offers the country's best collection of preserved body parts.
There are some nice places to eat, drink, and look at stuff along Thanon Phra Athit, in Banglamphu, just around the corner from backpacker ghetto Khao San Road, but far less disgusting.
But what are you into, exactly?
>>1106365
>Chanthaburi
sorry, meant Kanchanaburi.
What's your "hidden gem"?
A country, city or park that doesn't get much respect and/or is underappreciated?
I'm not as well traveled as you folks, but I'd go with Georgia, the country. Was not expecting it to be so beautiful and so cheap.
literally anywhere in the sierra outside the main yosemite corridor and a couple other high traffic areas like whitney.
Colombia.
I first went down there some time back, when their reputation as a drug cartel shooting-range was keeping visitors away in droves. The situation had improved, but visitors hadn't fully caught on yet. Damn, you never saw people so happy to see a traveler in their country. It was like being a rock-star.
That feeling has faded, f course bu it is still an under-valued travel destination.
>>1096190
Mah nigga, also eastern side of sierras for life