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>>1063402
>What is a "must do" in Vegas?
A show; You buy tickets for a show he might want to see. Buy them soon, so you get great seats.
Dinner. Make a reservation at a couple choices, and then cancel the one(s) he says "no" about.
Both of these can be expensive ^^ but that is indeed the point of vegas.
>Funny thing: My dad would never gamble, but Vegas is on his "to do list"
Don't consider it a key part of visiting vegas. But, I wouldn't ignore it like the plague. There can be some fun people watching that is entertainment in itself. So, maybe consider the casino a $20 piece of entertainment and do tokens for that, and enjoy a couple free drinks that pretty much buys back your $20. Then, at least you experienced everything. Of course, only if he wants to do that. Walk up the strip, and enter a couple of places that have interesting lobbies or which he has seen in movies.

>>1063402
Test drive expensive sports cars. Shoot big guns

>>1063402
I went last fall for the weekend, shows are good (pick any that interest the group) - surprise highlight of the trip was ATV riding out in the desert, there are 2 or 3 small companies that do it.

I enjoyed it because was getting tired of drinking and gambling/being indoors.

>late night/early morning jogger rape in Central Park
>Chink dumplings at Prosperity Dumpling in Chinatown
>American Museum of Natural History's butterfly conservatory
>Sprint up to the top of the Guggenheim
>Bring flowers to the top of the Empire State Building and tell everyone that the love of your life abandoned you
>Get a plastic bucket and set up in the subway with a tip cup and watch how much money you make
>Hop into the dog park at Washington Square Park and play with the dogs
>Poop in Soho

>>1063392
It's called one world trade bro

>>1063392

There's a fucking dope vegan restaurant that specializes in vegan foods that taste like their meat counterparts. I took my girlfriend there last year (we live upstate). We shared the chicken wings, I had a club, she had a chicken parm sandwich.

The point is I'm not vegetarian and almost never order something without meat, but this shit was good. Very inexpensive too.

It's called Red Bamboo. Hole in the wall joint not far from its subway stop, just across from NYU Law. Not expensive.

I'm not into buying unnecesary shit so just enough for some cigs, food etc.
Really depends on the prices. Just think about an amount of money that you can throw away without being seriously screwed for the rest of your trip.

>>1063354
Geez, could you be more vague? No one knows your spending habits like yourself, or even where you are headed in Europe. Add up your daily meals, like google up some menus if you are that oblivious, or what kind of transportation needs you might need, and then add in some incidentals like a beverage stop a couple of times if hot, or coffee, and maybe a pastry or something you walked past. Maybe you buy local goods, who knows? I buy art, sometimes clothing or shoes, and at times, local gems if they are uniquely mined there.

I don't carry much walking around money unless I fear getting an ATM will be hard where I am going. I prefer not to have more than about USD300 in case of emergency. Instead, I go to ATMs for a good exchange rate taking out only what I need every 3 days or so, calculating that amount on the spot with the information only being there will provide to me, and kind of plan of leaving with 0 bills and coins left, which is usually gifted to the hotel maid and final taxi driver, or a small purchase at the airport like a bottled water, local candy and magazine.

>>1063413
I think you misinterpreted my question, friendo. I was only asking people how much they personally take with them, not how much I should plan on spending over a week, I have that shit under control.

>I WENT TO JAPAN IM SPECIAL
>LOOK AT MY VIDEO OF THIS EXOTIC PLACE NO ONE GOES TO

>>1063330
>namefag
>blog
go back to reddit

>>1063330

Nice editing, brah.

What kind of camera did you use?

>>1063293
http://www.thebalibible.com/

>>1063293
Hire motorbikes or a driver and go to the less touristy parts. Cheap and great fun

Hire a driver for a day, it's cheap. Ask him to take you around. See stuff like the rice fields, the volcano, visit a coffee farm and buy the famous cat shit coffee, see the sunset at the temple of Tanah Lot, and other cool temples too.

>>1062816
There has literally been no snow at all this month in Stockholm, Sweden. It's kind of worrying to be honest.

why do you want to cycle in snow?

>>1062866
Because it happens to be that i have alot of free time (1-2 months ) during this time of year. So i don't choose for it but i don't mind snowy cycling either

Bilbao is very great. It's a modern city but so comfy, the casco viejo (=city centre) is very nice. You can take the furnicular to see all the town from a hill.
I've made the trip from Bilbao to Vitoria by feet, the landscape is very nice, and basque people are very nice.
Vitoria is less cool, not because of the people, but because it's little and there aren't a lot of things to do there, but you can visit the city centre which is quite nice.

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Monte Igueldo.

You take a little funicular (cable-pulled) tram to the top of the mountain where an old castle sits. A very small amusement park is located there, which would be of no consequence, except for its roller coaster, Montana Suiza. It's one of the oldest running roller coasters on Earth and possibly the oldest with steel track. At one point during the ride you go past an edge where you can see down the cliffs to the sea below. It's an absolutely breathtaking hidden gem that no one really knows about.

14 euros for a Caesar salad lol

>>1062534
I can. Are you still there OP?

Get the fuck out of this, it's Bullshit and Cie

>>1062534
Both are worth seeing, Porto small but better for a chill recharge. Lisbon is larger and more lively.

>>1065580
Pretty sure you're good m8. Only place there would be any is in city centres.

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>>1065580
>come to a board about travel
>doesn't want to experience new things

>>1065701
Maybe he got his fill of diversity already and was looking for something else, pajeet.

>>1065341

You won't be able to get into the Sinai peninsula depending on your nationally. Not sure if it's completely locked down anymore but Brits aren't allowed yet.

>>1065412
>You won't be able to get into the Sinai peninsula depending on your nationally. Not sure if it's completely locked down anymore but Brits aren't allowed yet.
It's following the soviet jet crash. Things are completely cancelled for travel in and out of this red sea idea.

Tshirt weather is tough. But, you could enjoy some greek seaside or something with warm water, right?

>>1065341
Canary islands.
You can get super last minute deals like flight, middle class hotel or even all-inclusive hotels and transfer for 200-350€ p.p.

About 20-24°C, swimming, surfing, hiking, diving, even some pretty cool cities and nightlife is also ok around the year.

Only worry I'd have for using you phone for pictures is that you migjt not be able to have it juiced up on power when you need to take your great scenic pictures, where a camera doesn't dies out of battery in the same way.

>>1065175
>Iphone 4s
If you had an android, you could just pack some spare batteries.

A battery pack for an iphone is bulky but probably a sound investment. Also get the extended battery case as well, couldn't hurt.

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Thanks guys. Any insights about the first two questions?

Also: any ideas for where to see local music/culture in SE Asia? Authentic stuff I mean, and without it being in an expensive theater or too tourist-oriented.

pic related: Burma

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>>1064582
Definitely something special about being able to take two steps on the balcony and drop into warm water.

- I'd like to hit 10 new
countries this year. Mexico and Belize will be the first 2.
- finally hike the Camino trail in April or may
- after that, I want to see all my friends in Europe thst I couldn't see last year when I was with my (ex) gf
-Switzerland, Germany (old), Amsterdam (old), Poland, Czech Republic, Austria + maybe Slovenia again (old)
- hopefully get a contract in Toronto teaching kids to ride motorcycles in the summer
- finally work a season in Whistler
- fuck off to South America if that doesn't work out or go there after the season if it does

And forever on the back burner is the goal of working in the oil industry

>>1063498
Since I live in Paris as a Dutchman I have a lot of travel goals for France:
- spend a weekend at Mont Sant Michel with my gf
- go to Marseille and visit the South (Toulouse, Montpellier, Carcasonne as well but the main goal is to go to Marseille since I heard lots of nice stories about it)
- go to the Alps for skiiing (just came back from les trois vallees but the snow was shit)
- Visit the north with Lille as main destination or maybe go to Belgium for a weekend
- do a grande randonee 1 around Paris (or at least an etappe)

then outside France:
- spend time in the south of Italy, especially in Naples because of the food, maybe travel around a bit or towards the Rome and see some more culture
- get my qt girlfriend to take me to Poland, maybe go to Ukraine as well, since at this time it might be best to check out the country now it's at peace again. I don't speak any slavic language but my gf is Polish so she speaks Polish which is similar to Ukrainian (I hope)

To keep it realistic (I have a fulltime job, but I can easlity get time off) the trips around France are possible, but going abroad will mean that I either do the one to Italy or to Eastern Europe

No resolutions.
Going on my first cruise with the girlfriend later this winter
Taking her to Texas to visit my dad's side of the family (we live in MN).
Those 2 trips will eat up a good chunk of my PTO but I'd like to do a (2nd annual) snowboarding trip, a (2nd annual) boundary waters camping trip and maybe a long weekend in reykjavik if I could.

I've lived in the bay area for 10+ years and go into SF to screw around and get good food all the time. What kind of stuff are you guys into? Off the top of my head there is a LOT of good coffee and some good pastries/bakeries if you're into that, and at least 4 really cool museums. Do you want to know the touristy stuff, or have you guys already done that?

>>1065349
Hi from SF, and welcome. As far as vegan food is concerned, you will have no problems at all--we have more than a few all-veg restaurants, most all- or mostly-vegan, and nearly everywhere will have at least one vegan thing to eat. Herbivore, on either Divisadero in the Western Addition (between the Haight and Alamo Square, basically) or the Mission (Valencia and... 18th? 20somethingth? Between the 16th St and 24th St BART stations somewhere), is popular, reasonably tasty, all-vegan, and cheap. Valencia is also a major bar (and restaurant) corridor, so dozens of places to get drunk within stumbling distance. Lucky Creation, on Washington at Sansome in Chinatown, is one of a number of vegan Chinese places. Dive hole in the wall, but tasty food and no animal stuff. There are a few other veg places in and around Chinatown, and Asian vegetarian food (apart from Indian) is basically always vegan. Easy to get drunk in Chinatown and adjacent North Beach, too, in dives or tourist traps, as well as a few local gems. And if you don't know SF that well, that region is definitely worth a wander. Yes, Grant Avenue is mostly tourist garbage (although Li Po is a fun dive bar that sometimes has weird shows in its gross little basement), but Stockton and side streets have some good local weirdness. And North Beach has a lot of Financial District douchebags, and strip joints, but it's also got views history, and character, and an interesting underbelly.

Ocha has vegan Japanese. I don't like it but others do. Millennium used to be our fancy vegan restaurant, but it moved to Rockridge in Oakland (on BART, pretty good 'hood if increasingly yuppie). And there's a new vegan burger joint in the Haight-Ashbury, but I've never been.

>>1065462
Sorry, brain fart. The vegan Japanese place is Cha-Ya. Ocha is a pretty good local Thai chain that probably has a vegan menu item or two.

>>1065112
>Once the phone is unlocked, can you just use any old SIM card from an electronics store?
Yep

I may advice you to Google what a sim card is.
And there are different sizes of sim cards. Look up which one fits your phone and buy a local one

>>1065112
Once the phone is unlocked, considering it is dual-band or matches the band that country actually uses, then the SIM card is like buying time on a local carrier, very much like a Cricket, Boost, or other no-contract phone company operates in the US on the charge-me-up kind of basis.

I also suggest you have a wifi capable phone if possible, and an App like Viber or Magicjack, and getting family/friends involved with that.

If your carrier does work in the country you wish to visit, sometimes it's less hassle to use it, and pay for some unlimited text messaging, and keep the phone turned off as your check-in device only. Think one-way outgoing, and 911 purposes, and you can control the costs. This isn't a bad idea if your goal is really just to occasionally use wifi on it, and text mom n dad that you got home safely each night, and where you'll be, check email and such. Then, use magicjack for actual calls.