Travel thread 3.0

[sbbefc]

Heading away on Wednesday with 7 of the mates. Doing 1 night in Riga, 1 night in Kaunas, 1 night in Warsaw and 2 nights in Berlin.

Need to prepare the Liver for this trip.

Good itinerary regardless. But how come you're skipping Vilnius?

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Good itinerary regardless. But how come you're skipping Vilnius?

I think it was just a mixture or journey times and bus schedules. Thats why we have ended up with Warsaw when we initially wanted to go to Gdansk.

 

[Paris]

Just went here, coupled with just hearing the adhan, it was a spectacular experience, and completely free!

 

[Billy Dean]

I’m going to Bilbao for a few days in June. Staying in the old town. Already got San Mames stadium tour and San Juan de Gaztelugatxe trip booked, but if anyone has any bar, restaurant, places of interest to check out that would be great.

I liked the area around the Guggenheim. You can also take a cable car from around there for some good views

 

[Bkk Andy]

Tbilisi, Georgia is a nice little city. Lots of cafés, restaurants and very walkable. It's a good weekend trip but 2 days is definitely long enough.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Currently in Fiskardo which is a όμορφη τοποθεσία

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Heading away on Wednesday with 7 of the mates. Doing 1 night in Riga, 1 night in Kaunas, 1 night in Warsaw and 2 nights in Berlin.

Need to prepare the Liver for this trip.

Got home last night. Would go back and visit each city again in the future. Some long bus/train journeys but they weren't bad at all.

In detox now for a while to let the liver recover.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Got a public holiday coming up soon where I live, so probably take an extra couple of days before or after it and pop over to China and visit either Chongqing and Chengdu, or Chongqing and Xi'an for five days. I've heard both cities are fascinating in their own right.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Christ, Singapore is expensive. I somehow spent the best part of 250S$ on my first day here on food and drink.

The parting words of my fiancé before she headed to the office were ‘please don’t drink too much today’

Food can be had very inexpensively so I guess you were either drinking non-stop or were dining at high-end places? I lived there, albeit five years ago, and pints (which aren't real pints) were averaging about $15 SGD, so about £8.50. Maybe they're a tenner nowadays. The hawker centres have delicious food at comfortably below $10 SGD. In any case, splashing out on the first day isn't the worst thing, you can always scale it back from there if necessary.

But you are absolutely spot on though: It is expensive for some things, booze (crap booze at that - they somehow love Carlsberg there) being the main one. When I lived there it was on a work rotation from Europe and my accommodation was paid for and I was getting about £80 a day in living expenses, so thankfully I didn't really need to give a second thought to most prices. However If I was living there long-term, paying my own way on a modest wage I'd give up the ale completely.

 

[WA Toffee]

One thing I've noticed about travelling these last couple of years is how expensive places are. Budapest was very expensive in March this year, is this how it is across most countries now? I bet places like Krakow and Prague aren't cheap anymore either.

Prices pretty much everywhere did jump up a lot last year. When you check restaurant menus on google reviews, a lot of places were double what they were a year earlier. Still a lot of really good value to be found though, especially outside the main tourist towns, or even a couple of streets away from the main spots in the tourist towns. Albania, Montenegro, Portugal and Morocco really stood out for me as very affordable.

 

[Paris]

Food can be had very inexpensively so I guess you were either drinking non-stop or were dining at high-end places? I lived there, albeit five years ago, and pints (which aren't real pints) were averaging about $15 SGD, so about £8.50. Maybe they're a tenner nowadays. The hawker centres have delicious food at comfortably below $10 SGD. In any case, splashing out on the first day isn't the worst thing, you can always scale it back from there if necessary.

But you are absolutely spot on though: It is expensive for some things, booze (crap booze at that - they somehow love Carlsberg there) being the main one. When I lived there it was on a work rotation from Europe and my accommodation was paid for and I was getting about £80 a day in living expenses, so thankfully I didn't really need to give a second thought to most prices. However If I was living there long-term, paying my own way on a modest wage I'd give up the ale completely.

Yeah, I made the mistake of eating around Clarke Quay, the Raffles Hotel on most days and also a few visits to some Rooftop Bars lol

 

[GoldenToffee]

Yeah, I made the mistake of eating around Clarke Quay, the Raffles Hotel on most days and also a few visits to some Rooftop Bars lol

Hahaha very fair and understandable.

 

[tsubaki]

Went to Rome a couple of weeks ago, highlights were the amazing Ostia Antica (which is still ignored by the vast majority of tourists) and the Seven Churches Walk which is worth doing at any time (not just over Easter).

 

[jackyboy]

Off to Albufeira on Saturday with the family for the first time. Anyone been before? Any reccos?

 

[Kurt.]

Currently in Fiskardo which is a όμορφη τοποθεσία
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Lovely place that… I drove all over the island, stunning place.