>>2874098
just rent a car anon, it won't be that bad

>>2874100
I mean you might find a local driver if you really don't want to drive yourself. And they might know where to get the stuff you specifically want to see or eat.

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>>2874101
I did not, in fact, expect you to click the link

San Antonio has this romantic image—Riverwalk, Alamo, other old missions, but in reality most of it is dusty Texas suburban sprawl, lots of military bases, freeways, rednecks and Chicanos. It’s not Mexico though you’re just a few hours drive from the border.
San Antonio-Austin-Hill Country is the most interesting region of Texas and worth a trip.

>>2874090
False. American street tacos are better than Mexican street tacos, because Mexican tacos are traditionally prepared with a skimpy portion of random cow scraps, while Americans demand a more generous serving of quality beef.
>>2874072
You can take a bus from San Antonio to Monterrey, a city with a spectacular mountain backdrop. They are famous for their spit-roasted baby goat, cabrita asada or something like that. Monterrey is quasi First World with its prices, but you can get a lot of fine food there. The traffic is awful on the outskirts, which are very grungy and industrial. But the old historic center is quaint, a little rundown. Also, if you are a tall gringo, you can have a lot of luck with the dating apps. You might not even have to pay for a room, kek.
>>2874095
It's not incredibly dangerous to be on foot in the big cities. It's rare that you'll even be approached, and if you are you just ignore them and keep going. Driving through the backcountry villages can be very sketchy, however. You have no idea what kind of evil shit just happened, and nobody's gonna tell you, but you can sense the menace, like half the adult male population wants to kill the hijos de puta who left Xavier's disemboweled corpse on the roadside last Tuesday.

>>2874090
>Touch down in Mexico
>Collect suitcase, notice that multiple items are missing
>Get hounded by 2 dozen taxi drivers at the airport, decide between that and getting an Uber straight to Liveleak
>Haggle down to a $50 trip to your hotel
>Pass 2 road "checkpoints" on the way, attendants go to you for payment, not the driver
>As you arrive, 4 men try to shove a drink in your hand and then ask for a tip
>Staff announces that your room isn't ready, but if you upgrade to the suite you can check in now
>Hotel room doesn't have a safe, guess you better tip the cleaning lady
>Fuck it, time to enjoy your trip
>Spend another $75 getting a taxi from the hotel district to the town proper (there was a 30 minute delay due to the death of cartel leader Jose "El Hombre" la mancha de Veracruz Cortez
>Finally make it downtown, dodge pickpockets on your way to filthy, greasy taco stand where the workers don't wash their hands
>"Police" approach you, tell you you stole a car but they'll look the other way for a bribe
>Pay them off, get to the front of the line
>Haggle your $20 taco plate down to $10

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>>2871939
Tbh, you can occasionally smell raw sewage in those cities. I really thought that was just a third world thing, but to my surprise I had some wiffs of shit.
Also Shinjuku is really filthy, full of trash. Probably because it’s a hotspot for debauchery, something I learned too late.
But even then, most of Tokyo has some littering problem. Osaka and Kyoto were far cleaner even in tourist areas.

>>2871869
>Anywhere there are millions of humans crowded together is going to be dirty and smell bad
complete lie, nyc is a corrupt zero sum municipality, they make next no effort to reduce filth, homeless or crime, where as at least in the west coast, its spacious and a natural setting, offers some of earths greatest landsites (cali), you can have a balance, nyc is a gulag shit hole for optimized for the very rich, street gangs, or ironic art hoes, its not a place meant for the enlightened soul, not anymore

>>2871769
>the food is overrated
this is the only thing you're wrong about, there are so many amazing food trucks, bodegas, restaurants etc that you cant find anywhere else in america. that being said, the women here are awful whores and make it not worth moving here.

How rich are you that you can afford a hotel room in this city?

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>>2871789
>what a fool believes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYsQE4Pxb4&ra=m

>>2872488
Thx. The most realistic option are the 1-2 companies that can land at Union Glacier, a new Chilean base they built way inland.

If I cant gather the money soon, meh, the cruise will be.At least there are several options were they let you land

>>2872492
>most realistic option are the 1-2 companies that can land at Union Glacier
there are actually quite a lot of cruises that offer some camping for a night on land

i went with Quarks Expedition
and they offered one night Camping as well, where you slept outdoor under the sky

but they are all restricted by the 100 people rule (quarks was 50 but only like a dozen people booked it)
so these will typically be smaller and more expensive in the first place

>If I cant gather the money soon, meh, the cruise will be
i think the cheapest ones are like 7-8k when I researched
but apparently you can save thousands with last minute tickets, i.e. just fly to Ushuaia and "wait" until a slot opens up

>At least there are several options were they let you land

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>>2871172
I worked mcmurdo station for 6 months (over winter).
The food was good, the gym was okay, the job was boring but kept me busy.
Gender ratio was at least 5:1 so there was always some low key drama going on.
The most interesting thing that happened was a libtard freak had a meltdown that the firefighters were watching racist stand up comedian skits and tried to get them fired or something, but she got "arrested" by the station manager instead and confined to quarters for a week. I had to bring her meals since we worked for the same company.
Outdoors were a no go. Nothing to see, dark 20 hours a day. So cold your teeth hurt with your mouth closed.
It was an interesting experience but I wouldn't do it again.

>>2872572
Thanks, the Union Glacier stuff is something entirely different, way beyond just setting foot. But you wont find anything under 30k. The night camping is a possible alternative

>>2872615
Im too old to go there as a tradie but good on you

>>2873424
It's only crowded when compared to heartland America. Traffic is slow, narrow through roads pass through town centers with 25 mph speed zones, numerous pedestrian crossings, etc. The population density and road layout is more akin to Europe.

>>2873417
Go to Martha's Vineyard and drive around for the true vibe. Or drive from Boston to Montreal and stop in towns like Stowe, VT on the way. Generally north of Boston you will find the sleepy towns. Avoid Burlington, VT.

>>2874110
Salem is a fucking nightmare to find parking in and walk around. Also way too many blue hairs and freaks for my liking. Very overrated.

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>>2873417
Maine is nice, so is New Hampshire

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>>2873502
>lured by high-paying,
that's not kidnaping

>>2873489
you can start with wikipedia, then follow the links to the studies in the footnotes

>>2874237
I prefer books

>>2872917
I refuse to set foot there because of all the slavery rings. They literally grab people, take away their passports, beat them, and force them to work in those call-center scam outfits. Didn't scam enough grannies today? More beatings.

>>2874237
>that's not kidnaping
I think you missed the part where they show up because they think they're getting high-paying IT jobs, then they go into an office building, the manager says "give me your passport so I can make a photocopy", and as soon as he steps out of the room two or three big hulking Chinese thugs step in, beat the shit out of the "new hire", force him to work in a scam call center instead of an IT job, and routinely beat, starve, rape, and even kill these people if they don't produce enough money by scamming grannies back in Yokohama and Sendai and Kyoto.

So, in other words, it absolutely is kidnapping, you absolute mongoloid.

Happens to Japanese, Taiwanese, and lots of other nationalities. It would be unsurprising if Amerifat tourists got abducted to be enslaved in those places too.

>>2874237
Oh, and these slavery rings pay off the Cambodian cops so that they don't get raided and do get warned if there's anyone making noise about investigating them. If you escape you'd better not go to the cops because they'll handcuff you and take you back.

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semuc champey is one of the coolest natural wonders I've ever seen. A mountain river spilling out of the jungle into these cascading pools, which are probably 80 feet wide, and 6 feet deep, warm, clean, and full of colorful fish that will clean your feet if you let them.

it takes several hours of sketchy bus rides to get to, but once you are there, the amenities are decent, the people are cool, and no crime that i could see. also the locals vacation there with their families so it's not some kind of gringo trap.

you can take a guided tour of the caves near there, which are amazing and, frankly kind of dangerous. still worth it though. make sure you have good shoes as it's very easy to lose flipflops in the pitch black water filled caverns

the outdoors are amazing and you should try to do it all--mayan ruins, volcano guided hikes, semuc champey, etc. But i also recommend going to one of the midsize cities there like Xela, if you're interested in experiencing daily city life.

>>2871532
Guatemala is very insecure, but the guys are smol and not much of a physical threat one on one. You still have to beware of machete wielding robbers, especially in the countryside. There have been motorbike or car travelers who stop in village only for word to get around that a gringo is passing through and an ambush to be laid on a remote stretch of mountain road up ahead. If you are spending a lot of money to do tourist stuff like the poster who visited the natural monument, you should be safe, as the villagers won't fuck with their cash cow. But if you're wandering down random streets alone, you have to be on guard and have no tolerance for being fucked with. Always assume that everyone is carrying a knife, and don't let yourself be surrounded. If you think someone is following you, fast walk and their stubby little legs won't be able to keep up without running (and you'd hear them if they came running up behind you).

>>2871532
I'm going soon, and all that I've been told is that Guatemala City sucks and to see the ruins.

>>2872521
>oh no /pol/tards lied to me
also by and metric neither Paris nor London are particularly dangerous

France is one of the most traveled countries for very good reasons
every time I come back I enjoy my time there
my favorite place is Biarritz where I go surfing for a year almost every year (after a 12h fucking hour drive)

>>2872521
>its not as dangerous as london
no way in hell this is true lmao

I've been to France 3 times in the last 5 years. I did a road trip through Provence, I did Paris, and I did a ski trip Chamonix and visited Annecy. They're all very different.
Chamonix is one of the best ski towns I've ever been to. The main street through town doesn't allow cars. There are little villages all through the valley. The main part of town has great food and great nightlife. The skiing is world class. The views are unreal.

Paris is chaotic and annoying, but it's an amazing city with endless shit to see. If you're easily annoyed by Muslims, scammers and tourists, I'd avoid it. We biked the shit out of Paris for 4 days and never ran out of things to do.

Provence is much more laid back. You pretty much have to have a car to see the good stuff. There are abbeys, roman aqueducts, old roman towns, wineries, windmills, castles, calanques, amazing seaside villages, friendlier locals. If I were recommending a place to visit in France for the first time, I'd say go to Provence. You could have left me in Cassis forever.

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>>2872645
>This Paris syndrome thing would be solved overnight if people didn't visit Paris

>>2872521
France seems great

I would just go around pointing at the locals and shouting "NAZIS!", and "You want to kill all the Jews!" and see if they lose their cool.

lakeside places to check out:
Montreux + chateau Chillon
Vevey
Morges
Lausanne if interested in the IOC or the universities
vine yards

mountains
anything near Montreux
Bex salt mines
any of the mountain railways

further away
Yverdon/Orbe/Vallorbe
hills above Cossonay

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Take a bus ride to Chamonix. Go see Mount Blanc. I'd also highly recommend going to Annecy. Geneva is insanely boring.

>>2874049
What kind of activities do you enjoy?
Also Geneva isn't in canton Vaud.

>>2873763
>because the prospect of figuring out how to live alone in a strange place is too daunting for you to envision.
we live in the information and technology age, with smart phones and instant internet access, to find locations and solve problems in foreign countries, just going to a foreign country is not a brag or impressive

>>2873763
The point of travelling is exactly the opposite- to escape dogshit culture you're born into and the weather. Aka actually to find comfort and escape.

>>2874127
Nobody is bragging about the feat of stepping off an airplane. It's what you do after you leave the airport that matters.
>>2874182
>more pleasure for me = a better society
>who gives a fuck about actual quality of life
You have all the intelligent awareness of a hungry pig who roots around in the garbage dump for tasty treats, indifferent to the degradation around him.

>>2874197
Rightoid cope. I will masturbate from afar as female infants will get raped in my shithole country by a liberating army, aka not my problem. Don't know what kind of rightoid-soon-to-be-etnically-replaced point you are trying to make.

>>2874197
>more pleasure for me = a better society
Yes
>who gives a fuck about actual quality of life
That's what quality of life is- pleasure.
Traditionalists the eternal retards and cuckolds, wear ir proudly on your sleeve, lol.

>>2796749
Visiting this upcoming week, 3 days in Naples, 4 days rome, 3 days florence, 2 days venice.
I would love any recommendations, besides visiting the vatican, pompeii, and a day trip to pisa my plans arent really set in stone, trying also to get a rental in florence to see a winery


Also, is there any remotely reliable app for buses/trains? Id like to make it as retardedly simple as possible

>>2873997
Careful with Pompeii. To reach it if you don't have a car, you need to take the surface metro "Circumvesuviana" which is crowded, rickety and prone to sudden unexplained stops. Bring some water.

>>2873997
In Naples Castel Sant'Elmo is worth a visit for really nice views of the city.
>>2874045
I went with my parents from Naples to Pompeii. Their hotel offered a shuttle there for a reasonable price but it had to be booked in advance and they were too lazy to do that. So they just called a taxi and it ended up being retarded expensive, hundreds of euros iirc.

I'm doing two weeks next year in the Dolomites. We're hitting Bolzano, Val Gardena, Cortina, Trento and doing Venice for Carnival. Shit was EXPENSIVE to book. Val Gardena and Cortina were like $300/night for a hotel. I did a lot of searching and that was the low end.

We'll end up saving money though over a US ski trip because our lift tickets have gotten insane on the west coast. Park City is $300+ a day for lift tickets. They're $60 in Italy. We have 14 days, so we're planning to stop along the way in a lot of places. I want to see Treviso, San Candido, Brixen and ski a day in Alta Badia.

What are some good hotels in Venice?

>>2873843
i have an old castle in ireland but it isn't much these days.

>>2873843
Tullamore Dew of all the distilleries? OK then...
For castles there's Trim, Kilkenny, Bunratty, Blarney and a bunch in around Dublin which are less important.
Apart from that the standard sights you'll see recommended anywhere and maybe since you're looking at castles you might as well look at round towers and abbeys.

Some of the country estates are nice. Mount Juliet and Adare, stuff like that.

>>2873982
Tully is my all time favorite whiskey, fight me.

>>2874121
If you insist

>>2853175
>How has alcohol enhanced your /trv/ days? Any stories? Any major fuck ups?
Stand up comedy is always better with a little predrink. Plan ahead in Vegas or similar.

I mostly travel to visit wineries and go to wine related shit when I travel. My first real solo trip was to Spain and even though I was alone in a place where I didn't know anything outside of basic words that a baby could say I had a blast although I want to go out more at night the next time I'm there but I worried about getting drunk outside of the hostel or hotel room and getting into trouble so I just used the day to visit wineries and go hiking. I was in France recently with friends but want to go back solo, especially to the Pyrenees areas once I can dedicate time to actually learn French. The wine there from smaller producers was stupidly good for like 8-10 euros. Even the pricier shit was almost always worth it although Spain had slightly better pricing for the quality especially in the Canary Islands. Japan or Greece will probably be my next wine trip, the former because I've had a lot of cool shit from Hokkaido and Nagano lately and want to learn more and actually visit Japan finally.

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> in Seattle from Canada
> at a hostel
> they have a back smoking room
> in there with 2 Aussies, a Dane, 3 Brits, 2 Germans, and 2 Koreans
> two other dudes walk in
> from Wisconsin
> look like pic related but younger
> playing beer pong
> Wisconsin dudes just watch then we ask them to join
> they proceeded to whip everyone and barly miss a cup
> whole time they are drinking straight whiskey, no ice
> they kill the bottle
> afterwards they do a bar crawl
> Aussies brits and Krauts hatch a scheme to get the Wisconsin boys black out wasted
> hit 7-8 bars

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>>2870983
Who do you even talk to at a winery? I always get gay baby shower vibes when I see pictures of them. Like, how do you get pussy?

I've been an alcoholic for 12 years and I've traveled to 25 countries by now. I could write a whole blogpost about trying to get alcohol during ramadan in Turkey, about the logistics of making sure you have enough booze everyday and airport shenanigans, about social inhibition abroad, about the good times I had getting hammered in Germany, Serbia and China, about how you shouldn't underestimate homemade Albanian raki, about how much I love Korean makgeolli and Armenian pomegranate wine...

But I'm bumping this thread because this morning, I've experienced one of the scariest moments of my solo traveling career ever: alcohol withdrawal started kicking in this morning, and I couldn't get cash at most ATMs.
I was shaking, sweating like a pig (the warm humid weather of SEA didn't help), every noise and smell was unbearable and everything around me looked hostile even though people were completely normal.
I thought I was going to die until I finally found a working ATM. Now, after 20cl of vodka, I feel normal and good in my shoes, but this probably tainted my impression of the country forever.

Alcohol is very fun, until it isn't, so don't fuck around too much with it.
If you are an alcoholic fuckhead like me, make sure you buy a bottle of strong liquor in a duty-free shop before taking an airplane, because you never know what might happen once you land and at least you will have something to fall back onto before you can fix your own situation.
I'm not even sure if I could have figured out how to send money to myself with Western Union while doing thru full-blown withdrawal.

I will perhaps post some funnier stories later.

Right, so basically I got a full highly detailed rundown of requirements and "kit" standards, and how to go about finding an organization or club to get entry as a reenactor. You cant just show up.

Anyways my point is that its a very specific question that almost nobody has knowledge off except for a small cohort who likely arent even on 4chan. If you want a thread about traveling to events of this sort maybe consider getting the info first, laying it out, then asking if anyone else is interested.

>>2872104
I asked AI too, but I wanted to talk with someone about this experience in personal. Anyway, thank you!

>>2872100
>Jorvik Viking festival
no clue about that one

but my medieval town and nearby castle always organize a big ren fair (Mittelalterfestival)
combination of a big, casual arts and crafts market throughout the historical city center and a strict larp / tournament in the castle

and to get into the castle (as a non-spectator)
you only need a very minimal outfit that fits the aesthetic
obviously it's a lot cooler if you come with more
but simple leather shoes, doublet or shirt and wide heavy pants are already enough as long as the colors are not too vibrant and it's mostly (rough) linen / wool / leather / fur

the simplest outfit is probably a long (linen) tunic with leather belt and boots

honestly just write the organizers an email and ask about it

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They have a faq on their website.

Tl;dr you need to be part of a known club or organization that enforces setting standards, since it's a "strict" reenactment, and its important that everyone knows the rules for interaction.

YORK not Jorvik. Please don't use Danish place names for UK cities. Let's use the local names!

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>>2873897
"Tens of thousands" is Chinese for "unspecified amount but really a lot", just so you know. That'd be quite astonishing to actually kill so many cats, you'd need to religiously cut through dozens a day and it'd still take you years.

>>2873895
>where can i find cheap apartments?
you can buy an apartment and NEET for less than $5k.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rftb-n6c0qw
(singapore tv)

>>2873895
>Best cities in China to visit
Beijing, Xi'an, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Kunming
>cheap apartments
any small city or far out from the city centre. As a foreigner you can't own property, you will have to rent or partner with a local to buy it. Also good luck staying there.
>what are Chinese women like
95% of them are incredibly vapid and boring but you can probably fuck them with ease
>their own internet separate from ours
yes but everything filters over there eventually
>easy to learn the language
not very easy but also not super hard once you learn how to learn it, if that makes sense
>is it difficult to live there
if you don't speak Chinese: yes
if you do speak Chinese: not very difficult

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>>2873932
Theres entire cat torture rings based out of china doing just that. Sadly china has really taken over discourse on here so their reputation is WAY better than it should be.

>>2874058
Why do you need a vacation to go to a movie theater?
Why are you going to Hamilton? That's not a vacation spot

>>2874060
>Why do you need a vacation to go to a movie theater?
I'm not going on vacation only to go to a theatre, the theatre is apart of my vacation plans.
>Why are you going to Hamilton?I live in Hamilton but i also said around the area, as is, places close by to me.
And besides, the vacation is simply too get away from the house for a while, nothing grand.