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Old 03-07-2008, 09:07 AM   #91
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I'm in the early stages of planning a backpacking trip across Europe with my good friend in the summer of 2010. Has anyone gone backpacking through Europe? Any places I should go for sure? Where should I start/finish?
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    I love traveling. Countries I've been to...

    Jamaica
    Aruba
    Canada
    Mexico
    Barbados
    Dominica
    Martinique
    Puerto Rico
    Belize
    St. Martin
    Bahamas
    British Virgin Islands
    Cayman Islands

    and my favorite of all, Argentina.
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    I love traveling. Countries I've been to...

    Jamaica
    Aruba
    Canada
    Mexico
    Barbados
    Dominica
    Martinique
    Puerto Rico
    Belize
    St. Martin
    Bahamas
    British Virgin Islands
    Cayman Islands

    and my favorite of all, Argentina.
    Belize is awesome, I highly recommend Costa Rica.
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    I have been up and down the East Coast a few times, New Orleans(awesome!) and I am heading to Cali again in June. Internationally : Canada, Mexico, Grand Cayman and the most interesting - Cuba. I was lucky enough to be picked to play on a barnstorming baseball trip on the island in the summer after graduation. Amazing experience, armed guards at the airport, 1950's era American cars everywhere, beautiful beaches, playing in front of 30,000 people. My only regret is that I was only 18 and probably didn't appreciate everything that I was experiencing.
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    I'm in the early stages of planning a backpacking trip across Europe with my good friend in the summer of 2010. Has anyone gone backpacking through Europe? Any places I should go for sure? Where should I start/finish?
    My girlfriend and I are doing that this fall. If I can remember, I'll let you know anything we learn along the way. I do know that trains go through a lot of the countries, so that's what we're doing. Like a day or two in a few cities in a few countries. We don't have exact plans yet, though.
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    Countries I've been to:

    Canada
    Italy (x3)
    Sicily
    Poland
    Vatican City
    England
    Ireland

    My first time to Italy was to Rome for a few days for World Youth Day in 2000. Then I studied abroad in Rome in college for 4 weeks (plus 2 around Sicily) with a trip to Florence and the Amalfi Coast. Then, this past fall, LeeAnne and I went to Italy for 10 days, from Rome to Florence to Venice to Verona to Bellagio and back to Rome. On the way back, we had a 26-hour layover in Warsaw, hence the Poland.

    I also studied in London (4 weeks) and Ireland (2 weeks).
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    Countries I've been to:

    Canada
    Italy (x3)
    Sicily
    Poland
    Vatican City
    England
    Ireland

    My first time to Italy was to Rome for a few days for World Youth Day in 2000. Then I studied abroad in Rome in college for 4 weeks (plus 2 around Sicily) with a trip to Florence and the Amalfi Coast. Then, this past fall, LeeAnne and I went to Italy for 10 days, from Rome to Florence to Venice to Verona to Bellagio and back to Rome. On the way back, we had a 26-hour layover in Warsaw, hence the Poland.

    I also studied in London (4 weeks) and Ireland (2 weeks).
    I think that should be Canada (x3) as well. Possibly 4?
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    Old 03-09-2008, 08:55 AM   #98
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    I think that should be Canada (x3) as well. Possibly 4?
    I came to visit you twice, and then once to Italy and once back. So x4.
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    I found out last week that I got accepted for a work exchange program that will put me in either Germany or Switzerland for a year. Lots of traveling will commence.
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    England: London (lived there for 4 months), Canterbury, Leeds, Greenwich, Brighton, Bath, Richmond, Newcastle, Durham, Easington, Berwick upon Tweed, Cambridge, Lindisfarne, Sunderland..

    Scotland: Edinburgh and Glasgow

    France: Paris

    And in the near future I want to make my way to Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece.

    I really just want to go back and live in London permanently. I miss the lifestyle, and I miss how close the rest of Europe was..only a few hundred quid and an hour plane ride away.

    You guys should post some photos of where you've been. I love looking at other people's travel pics
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    I'm in Singapore right now. I spent Saturday in London. I'll post some pictures for you when I get back. Off to Malaysia tomorrow night on the sleeper train.

    Interesting: Tonight I had drinks at a place called Clinic. Everyone sits in wheel chairs at steel operating tables. Drinks come in IV blood bags and you sip out of the attached straw that runs down from the silver pole stand just like an IV. It was rad.
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    Abercrombie & Kent is the shit! You are one lucky son of a bitch! I would kill to work for them. Sounds like you have a great gig. Do you get to go to Africa any time soon?
    Not Africa, but I'm off to Honduras and Guatemala in May. Can't wait, we'll be visiting Copan, Antigua and Guatemala City. I might try to take a daytrip out to Tikal if I can get the time away, we'll see.

    And for the post just above mine- Clinic looked bizarre. I saw that place on an episode of No Reservations. Awesome. Tony gets it right - I hit up the Conch Town Cafe in Key West on his recommendation. It was a few blocks off of Duval Street - hands down, best conch in the keys.
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    I'm in Singapore right now. I spent Saturday in London. I'll post some pictures for you when I get back. Off to Malaysia tomorrow night on the sleeper train.

    Interesting: Tonight I had drinks at a place called Clinic. Everyone sits in wheel chairs at steel operating tables. Drinks come in IV blood bags and you sip out of the attached straw that runs down from the silver pole stand just like an IV. It was rad.
    got some "must see" spots? i'll there for a fews days on the end of a trip in may.
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    got some "must see" spots? i'll there for a fews days on the end of a trip in may.
    In which place? Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or London?
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    I love traveling. Countries I've been to...

    Jamaica
    Aruba
    Canada
    Mexico
    Barbados
    Dominica
    Martinique
    Puerto Rico
    Belize
    St. Martin
    Bahamas
    British Virgin Islands
    Cayman Islands

    and my favorite of all, Argentina.
    I'm doing a 5 week study abroad program in Buenos Aires this summer (well winter in Argentina terms). Got any tips for me? I'd love to see other parts of the country if I can but don't really know where to start. Any advice on Buenos would work too!
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    In which place? Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or London?
    sorry, singapore
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    sorry, singapore
    1. Seek out a fruit stand and try durian. I mean it. Tell me about your experience with durian when you get back.
    2. Take the sky tram to the island of Sentosa and check out the massive Merlion. The island itself is pretty fun and the beach is beautiful.
    3. Go to the Night Safari at the zoo.
    4. Go to the National Orchid Garden at the botanical garden. It's the biggest in the world. Admission to the botanical garden is free (you just walk right in from the street) but getting in to the orchid garden will cost you $5 SGD.
    5. Visit the Thian Hock Keng Temple, which is a historic Taoist temple in the center of Chinatown.
    6. Hunt down the Maxwell Food Center (hawker center) and go to the stall for Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice. Try the chicken rice. The stall looks like this and it's in the center aisle. It's the best in the city and a very signature dish to Singapore. It's near Chinatown so you could tour around Chinatown for some shopping and sights, see the temple and then try the chicken rice. DO NOT EAT IN RESTAURANTS. The stalls at these hawker centers are cheap and fantastic. The people who cook the food are often experts in the dishes they make. They are licensed (as compared to a regular street vendor) but it still has an open-air market feel.
    7. Check out the Raffles hotel and get a Singapore Sling at the Long Bar. They were invented by the bartender there in the early 1900's.
    8. There's good shopping at Suntec towers.
    9. Take a boat ride to a nearby Indonesian island. If you're going to go to Indonesia, bring $10 USD with you for the visitor visa which must be paid then you dock. If you do not bring USD's, you will have to pay in SGD's and it will cost you $40, which is a complete rip off. Also, make sure your USD bill is crisp.
    10. Seriously, get the Hainanese Chicken Rice from Tian Tian's in the Maxwell Food Center. Even if you have to get a cab and make a special trip, it's worth it.


    The most fun I had was just in wandering around, checking out Chinatown and Little India and eating all the local food. I also had a blast heading to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia but I don't know if you will have time for that--I took a sleeper train.
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    Durian is tasty as hell.
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    Durian is tasty as hell.
    Have you seriously had it?
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    MikeD, durian is sick. I put it at the top of my list because you have to try it for experience alone. In Southeast Asia, they call it the King of Fruits. You can smell it before you even get close to it. A cab driver told me to follow the smell of baby poop if I wanted to find some.

    British novelist Anthony Burgess writes that eating durian is "like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory." Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says "its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia."

    Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs. This strong odour can be detected half a mile away by animals.


    Also, when I was travelling on the subway lines, I saw this sign all the time. Even some cabs had a sign saying "no durian".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:S..._MRT_Fines.jpg

    And after you eat it, you can taste it for the rest of the day every time you burp. When you eat it, it's great. But the smell and after-effect is brutal.

    But, seriously, you have to try it. I know I sound crazy now but it's all about the experience.
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    Have you seriously had it?
    yea man. China town dat shit. And my housemate back at school is from China so she often has all kinds of weird fruit n stuff.

    ever had orange Kit-Kat? yea, it's damn tasty.
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    yea man. China town dat shit. And my housemate back at school is from China so she often has all kinds of weird fruit n stuff.

    ever had orange Kit-Kat? yea, it's damn tasty.
    I'm allergic to orange.
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    Some good stories from Singapore LeeAnne. Sounds like a good time. I miss it there! For the record, durians are foul, foul foul!

    Oh...and I robbed yesterday in Santiago. But I still met some amazing people and made it to the futbol game, so it was worth it.
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    I'm going to Peoria,IL on biz in two weeks. Does that count?

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    With The Riches starting back up on TV I thought this thread was about Travellers, as in Irish Travellers.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller

    They are interesting folks. Glad I was not born into their group though.
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    Some good stories from Singapore LeeAnne. Sounds like a good time. I miss it there! For the record, durians are foul, foul foul!

    Oh...and I robbed yesterday in Santiago. But I still met some amazing people and made it to the futbol game, so it was worth it.
    You'll be happy to know that I had no problem getting a badge to the Petrona's Twin Towers and going up to the office on the 66th floor for some good pictures instead of going to the observation deck.

    And yes, durian is foul. You have to try it, though!
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    awesome leanne, thanks for the suggestions. Durian sounds foul, might have to give it a go.

    I'm going to nepal for ~15 days, and our flights take us through singapore. we'll have one full day on the way to nepal, and 3 full days on the return, so we'll probably not leave singapore. i think sentosa island is something we're going to do, and the rest of your recommendations sound good.

    come to think, i think we get some kind of pass or ticket that can be used for various things as part of a Singapore Air layover. the night safari might be one of those options, so i'll check that out.

    i'm starting to get seriously excited about this trip, 5 weeks. away.
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    That'll be rad. If you have three full days on the way back, you can fill them with things to do in Singa or you can visit another country (Indonesia) and relax on the beach for awhile when you're there. Liquor is VERY cheap in Indonesia as opposed to Singa so it would be a good chance to knock back a couple and chill for a bit. Just a thought. The boat ride to Bintan (a beachy place in Indonesia) is about an hour.

    Batam is about 40 minutes away but that's more shopping and local "checking shit out" than Bintan. I went to Batam but if I were going to relax for a day, I'd have choosen Bintan.

    P.S. You have to try the durian.
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    You'll be happy to know that I had no problem getting a badge to the Petrona's Twin Towers and going up to the office on the 66th floor for some good pictures instead of going to the observation deck.

    And yes, durian is foul. You have to try it, though!

    I'm jealous you got to go up to the 66th floor...something most people will never get to do! Post a picture if you get a chance.

    And also...to agree with your point about Indonesian islands...Bintan would be my choice as well for a nice short relaxing trip.

    What hotels did you stay at in Singapore and KL?
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    I'm jealous you got to go up to the 66th floor...something most people will never get to do! Post a picture if you get a chance.

    And also...to agree with your point about Indonesian islands...Bintan would be my choice as well for a nice short relaxing trip.

    What hotels did you stay at in Singapore and KL?
    Alright, here's a couple of shots from the 66th floor.

    http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8...pore210yd5.jpg
    http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/5...pore211tm1.jpg
    http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9...pore213pl9.jpg

    About Bintan.. it came down to a choice and I didn't want to sit on the beach and do nothing. I wanted to go to a "local" place, check out the scene and hopefully find a party (which I did). It was worth it 100 times over, for me, to go to Batam. Plus the Indonesian visitor visa in my passport looks rad.

    As for hotels, I didn't stay in any besides being in Batam. A friend of mine is working/living temporarily in Singapore for a little while so I stayed at his place. When I went to KL, I took a sleeper train there and a sleeper train back. Since I was only in the area for a short time, I just stayed in KL for one full day and saved money by sleeping on the train for two nights. The train got there around 7AM and left again at 10PM so I made the most of it. Highlight of the trip, easily. And the sleeper train was very comfortable and safe. I went in the lowest/second/economy class (I'm all about the experience) but if someone were to be wary, they have first class options with private bunks.

    If you were looking for a hotel in KL, I only know about one place and it's a hostel in Chinatown called Red Dragon. I had the number/location with me incase I missed my train or felt like staying longer. I passed by it and it looked pretty decent.

    I told you I was going on the Singapore Flyer. Here's a shot I took of the skyline.

    http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6...pore136df0.jpg
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