What should I do to prepare for my trip with my wife to Japan in December for 3 weeksI am an american
>>2821709It's a shitpost webcomic about the prevalence of unarmed police officers in Britain contrasted with the demographic represented by an older American wearing a cowboy hat and bolo tie carrying a gun as habitually as he'd carry his wallet or house keys (like that guy in the news article, or me). I'm personally aware of the existence of AFOs and that the rate at which officers receive that authorization varies by department, with some smaller departments having a 100% authorization rate and some larger departments significantly lower. I would wager most Americans don't think about British police or their armaments at all. To most of the country the UK is some obscure island on the other side of the world smaller than 11 of our states and not really relevant to much of anything outside of history class, Monty Python quotes, and doing funny accents. If you find an American with strong opinions on police in the UK they're probably chronically online in political spaces pertaining to free speech, right to bear arms, or right to privacy.
>>2821675Thx for the tipsWill get adaptor.Going in December so dont need sunscreen.Idk i may cut Hiroshima. I'll do research. Idk what im posing for? I am an tourist.
>>2821730Kyoto overflow. That part of japan south of kansai got viralled by influencers, eg kumano kodo, nachi falls etc.Foreigner accessibility to rural areas also increased by the JTB, tech savvy younger crowd know how to book shit online etc etc etc
>>2821913Hiroshima does have some shit, but totally not worth it as a detour. Spend more time in greater kansai, there still tons to see there within 1-1.5 hours by train
>>2821730Tiktok and youtube
This last trip lasted 38 weeks. That's 266 days. >Flights: $6.40 per day (19 minutes of labor per day)>Housing: $13.92 per day (42 minutes labor)>Food: $8.50 per day (25 minutes labor)>Ground transport: $1.40 per day (4 minutes labor)>Intoxicants: $0.55 per day (2 minutes labor)>Miscellaneous: $1.42 per day (4 minutes labor)>Bills from back home: A big fat $0.00 per dayI am lucky enough to live at a time when travel comes at a lower cost in terms of Amerimutt wage labor than ever before in human history. Every 96 minutes, I make enough money to cover another day of travel.>b-but you're pooooorIt's my way of rebelling against the (((system))) and forging my own path through life. If you don't understand why anyone would choose to live lean on the open range rather than grow fat and sated in a milking stall, I'm not gonna waste time explaining it to you.Tentative itinerary...>Fly to Dubai>United Arab Emirates overland to OmanComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2819286You're more than welcome to prove your point by lifemogging me with your superior travel experiences. /trv/ badly needs more quality content.
India and Nepal just may be enough for nine months of overseas travel. >India: December through March>Nepal: April through June>India: July and August for the monsoon experienceFly less, spend less, feel more liberated from the bondage of wageslavery.
>>2820260Not enough cheap pecker play for slumbo
>>2820267No doubt I'll encounter my share of super gay Indian men eager for pecker play in the sketchy back alleys of Mumbai.Had to pay $15.50 USD per night for a hotel room near the airport. Hostel bunks were as low as $3, but 30 bunks served by one toilet sounded like a nightmare to me. It takes me twenty minutes for my sluggish bowels to excrete a meter-long snake of shit, and I didn't want some Indian busting into the bathroom to sit in my lap, shart between my legs and spray my junk with his diarrhea.
>>2819286>we're all better than youYour delusions of superiority aren't doing you any favors in this world.Sounds like he's got some things figured out better than you do.
is Peru as spectacular as it looks in photos?
>>2816992>>2816994There are nice parts of Lima that look better than this.
Went back in 2018 and it's fucking awful. The mountains and so on are neat but one look and you're done, it isn't fulfilling. Same for the historical architecture.All the local people are noisy, rude, degenerate scammers.>>2815570If that tasteless garbage is the best food in south america then I pity spics
>>2821898Well if you ate it, now you have brain worms.
>>2821204Where? I didn't see much that seemed that nice in Miraflores. Peru just seems to have a deeper and more crushing level of poverty than some of its neighbors. I sort of liked it though, it was humbler and more personable.
>>2820776Yes they do. Have you actually been to remote Peru? I'm hardly an expert but lots seemed to live like that.
Going to Germany next month, but still undecided on wtf I should do. Should I spend a few days in Berlin area, then head down south to Munich area for final days, OR should I focus entirely on Northeastern Germany and just do day trips to all the cities near Berlin? I have 10 days. Also general Germany thread
>>2820518>Also do most supermarkets stay open 24/7?No, almost 99% will be closed on sunday and on public holidays. In the evening most things will be closed by 20:00-22:00 with very few 24h shops mostly in large cities. Some regional alcoholics and junkie meeting points (Trinkhalle/Bude in NRW, Späti in Berlin etc..) might open till 0:00, 02:00 or even 24/7.
What applications do I need while in Germany to get out and about?>DB NavigatorWhat else?What do you use to order food/groceries?And how's the AirBnB in Germany?
>>2821392>What do you use to order food/groceries?Your feet.
>>2821428Based dutch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kKHvbZ4lEWhy would you go there?
why is travel to europe so expensive? how the fuck do people afford this (plus hotels, food, etc)?
>>2815904The difference between metro service and intercity train service is a lot more than semantics. Come on now. The metro, you show up whenever you want, get your ticket and board the next train that comes through. Intercity rail, you pick a specific train in advance and show up ahead of its scheduled departure time.In California, intercity buses are much faster than intercity trains.
>>2818569There are IC trains every 90 minutes and the trains don't sell out, you can book on the app the way to the train station>muh bus in californiaokay Pedro
>>2809593Europe is expensive, get used to it.If you're responsible with your personal economy it's no problem. We plan ahead, don't waste money on pointless stuff like $10 Starbucks, commute with bicycle rather than car, etc.
>>2818706next you'll be telling us to take the "MATB" all the way to portugal
>>2809593Why do you think every skank on your IG is a globetrotter who goes on exotic travels several times a year while working a shit office job for 60k/year ? Everyone is debtmaxxing and shuffling jobs in between when they cannot farm leave hours anymore.
Why isn't Poland more popular as a tourist destination? It's pretty unique as far as nations go and also its history of greatness and super-human feats of perseverance against impossible odds feels like it should be more popular, but somehow isn't, it's almost like Poland is even specifically viewed as "boring" and "uncool" even though it's a fucking unicorn as far as countries goLike, Wes Anderson made that movie Grand Budapest Hotel. How do we create a magical artistic vibe around Poland like that?We can simultaneously achieve Whiteness & /pol/ ideology to be mainstream & cool if we achieve making Poland popular as a tourist hotspot, as the next big thing, the cool destination, so fucking IN.Popularizing Poland is popularizing White Nationalism & White Religiosity (Christianity, specifically Roman Catholicism)
>>2819910>150k towns in Germany have theselolno>150k towns in Germanybe like:(+dozens of thousands of Nafris)
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Poland looks boring as fuck. The same crappy city over and over on a deforested plain. In fact all of Eastern Europe looks garbage.
>>2821849Poland is not deforested. There are forest plots everywhere you go, a fair number of which are beautiful nature preserves. Most of the forest is open to the public as well. And yes, the towns are all well cared-for. You don't encounter ultra-rich enclaves and neglected ghetto shitholes like you do in so many other countries. That's not a negative in any way.
Poland's forest cover is 31.1% of the country's area. The USA's forest cover is 33.9%. Of course, the USA has far more regional differences, with some regions like Iowa completely deforested, and others like Maine covered in thick woods. Poland is more balanced, with a very pleasing mix of fields and woodlots. Picrel is a random forest plot I visited on the outskirts of Warsaw.
Floridian here. I have traveled to New Jersey for work and I must say, this place is kinda cozy ngl. I just wish it had a publix.
>>2821810I do like Rahway. I'm in the area. But NJ is a shithole and I hate the state. I can't wait to move, to Florida even
>>2821810nj sucks cant wait to get out of here
>>2821810This looks like very new construction. New construction is not the norm in most of the state. Everything is old and grimy, but not in a quaint historic way, more in a post-industrial migrant-filled exurban way. Expensive neighborhoods might be barely half a mile from gnarly ghettos with dilapidation everywhere you look and mean characters loitering about.
>>2821841Surprisingly, New Jersey has a lot of pocket parks and open space, even in the heavily populated counties. Heading to the Southeast, where 99% of the Piedmont is private fucking property, I really missed being able to explore close by home (even if most of New Jersey is traffic-clogged sprawl hell).
Another thing to add, New Jersey used to be a LOT more polluted than it is today. I remember growing up in the late 1990s / early 2000s in central NJ. Almost every winter morning, you'd step outside into air smelling of foul industrial exhaust from who knows where. The whole state reeked of factory fumes, and every truck on the busy road belched huge clouds of black smoke. These days, most of the dirty industry has moved overseas, and the trucks all have emission controls. The rough-housing blue-collar whites have been replaced by a mutt soup of migrants, who on the whole are sociopathic assholes. Nonetheless, violent crime and suicide rates are lower than many other states due to NJ's strict gun control laws.
Greetings, /trv/I'll be in Brussels in October.Interested to know about:>tourism recommendations for an intelligent, professional gentleman unconcerned about budget that appreciates history, culture and the arts>dive bars where drinking 8-10 beers isn't unusual behaviour>getting from Charleroi airport to Brussels proper>areas with a hazardous level of diversity that need to be avoidedAll advice appreciated, boys.
>>2821666Stayed in Ghent, beautiful town, has a neat christmas market too (complete with a bar full of schoolkids getting drunk)
>>2821414It's a type of small cabbage-like vegetable that is an acquired taste, notoriously hated by children but pretty healthy, I like them with butter.I definitely recommend trying carbonnade flamande, one of the best meal I've ever had, I went at Cave du Roy in Grand Place, it had reasonable prices.You can also get fries cooked in beef tallow at food stands for cheap, it's pretty neat.
>>2821532thanks anon>>2821666>>2821711checkedI hear good things about Ghent but it'll have to be next time
>>2821811Thanks for this too. I'll seek some sprouts out there now for sure. And those fries cooked in beef tallow sound pretty decadent but also pretty good.Cheers.
It was a while ago, but stayed in a hotel on the Place du Jeu de Balle in Marollen and it was pretty good. Interesting flea market in the morning and the cafes around the square were filled with people eating and drinking and having a good time. Some interesting bars and cafes in the area, and iirc, there was a divey place across the square that at night was filled with degenerates pounding Jupiler.But yeah, as other anons have said, Ghent is a much cozier place to stay. Really liked that city.
If you've never been outside the capital or largest city, then you haven't TRULY visited a country yet.
>>2821813Fuck you namefag, don't reply to me.
>>2821099This is the dumbest thing I've ever read.
>>2821816>whole world is rapidly degenerating into homogenous goyslopDoesnt matter if the statement is true or not...what matters is if YOU are qualified to know it is true or not.Post map or retract your baseless statement.
>>2821816Hah, I almost forgot people can set names here.
>>2821716>barely read a mapYou only dig yourself a deeper hole the more you spout off. Bet you don't even own a single DeLorme or Benchmark atlas yourself, or have any fucking idea what one would be used for. Typical city slicker, you just let Google guide you step by step to whatever place you read good reviews about. Of course a hivemind zombie like you would feel most at home around fellow hivemind zombies.Additionally, the average IQ in Montana is 104, among the highest in America and the world. Yes, that's significantly higher than the average IQ in New York or LA. It takes a surprisingly high level of intelligence to manage a 20,000 acre ranch for profit AND natural preservation.>>2821756To go places that aren't full of snobbish assholes who have far more money than they deserve and far less intelligence than they attribute to themselves.
Which of these European countries should I visit that I haven't already? Besides Belarus/Russia/Ukraine for obvious reasons
I'm kinda in a similar situation except I didn't visit the UK, Scandinavia, and Greece and instead visited more countries in the Balkans and also Latvia, Turkey and some of the North Caucasus.The Balkans obviously would be my first choice, I want to go back there again to explore what I couldn't during my last trip.You could start a trip from Ljubjlana in Slovenia, which is pretty similar to a small cute Austrian city, and increasingly go further down south and/or east.Or start from a country like Albania -- best in spring or summer -- Macedonia (Ohrid), or Bulgaria, and go northwest to gradually reacclimate to the grimness of western civilization.If you have a good western salary it's relatively cheap, they have second-world salaries (i.e. shit) but their prices aren't that far off from the west depending on the region.People are generally nice, there is very little crime. In some countries like Albania, you might have to deal with stray dogs, which is mostly fine if you have experience with dogs as pets and don't do anything stupid, like don't approach them and look at them insistently for example.The nature is great, climbing the mountain in Krujë was the highlight of my trip in Albania. Next time, I want to go to Bajina Bašta, a city near a natural park in Serbia.Some cities are pretty fun too, Belgrade has pretty badass buildings and alternative music shows (+ student protests). People told me Mostar, Banja Luka, Trebinje and of course Sarajevo in Bosnia are all worth visiting and that's what I plan to do next timeFood is great. Try everything.Romania is also cool, there are student cities like Cluj or Timișoara worth visiting, Brașov is in Transylvania which can be scenic as fuck. There are a few places to party in Bucharest.The transport system varies from country to country, sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's messy so plan accordingly. There are two bus stations in Tirana for example, and reaching one of them from the other is a nightmare.
>>2821202So obviously the Balkans and it's not even close.
>>2821741 (cont.)About the other countries I went to:- Switzerland is expensive as fuck. The architecture is rather boring. They have the best air quality of Europe though. Only worth it if you are rich.- Belgium is weird, Brussels is a mess but can be fun in parts, Antwerp is more Dutch so more civilized and cute, there are interesting villages/towns to visit there and there, but it's not terribly epic.- Riga in Latvia is an interesting cute little city with a mix of Prussian and Russian architecture, and it's fresh during summer. It's a bit depressing though, it's the only time in my life I saw an obviously beaten wife boarding a train like it's nothing...- Turkey is big, it has basically the West part of it centered around Istanbul, which I didn't visit but is a big global city bigger than NYC actually, the Middle which I also didn't visit, and the East which is Kurd and much closer to the Arab Islamic world. It's really the limits of "Europe", very interesting place.Turkey is a pretty unique country in general, worth visiting several times.- Armenia is great if you go there with the intent of renting a car and go all around the country to visit all the natural wonders, sacred places and the occasional thing that catches your eye on the road. Otherwise the cities are meh.- Tbilisi is a fun city, not unlike Belgrade but different, I didn't explore the rest of Georgia.Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria; Scotland, Ireland and Lebanon are all places I would like to visit one day.
>>2821760>Turkey>didn't visit the west>didn't visit the middle>Kurdish>Arab>Istanbul>westernsolid advice.
>>2821762Yes, I went with a couple of friends who primarily wanted to visit Armenia, and flying to East Turkey was the cheapest option, our plan was to visit a few cities like Diyarbakir, Gaziantep and Mardin then reach Gyumri by going to the north, crossing the Georgian border and then the Armenian border because Turks are butthurt when someone calls them out on their past war crimes (like the Japanese).In these regions, they say "salam" to greet, not whatever they say when you translate "hello" to Turkish with an app. It's more influenced by Arab culture because it's literally 100 km away from Syrian border. I know Kurds have a distinct culture and language though.I definitely want to visit Istanbul and the south Med coast, I don't pretend to be an expert on Turkey, on the contrary, that's why I said it's worth visiting several times, because there is so much I don't know.
My nomination is Avianca. I had a three-leg flight. They let me board the first leg without any problem. On the second, they refused to let me board the aircraft (because they claimed I needed an onward ticket, even though the rules said I didn't, and even though they'd let me on the first leg without one), refused to give me any assistance in buying a second ticket so I could make it to my vacation, ignored my requests for assistance and my asking them to sell me a ticket at the fucking counter, and then when I finally managed to appease the bitch who was blocking me and be allowed on board at the very last moment, they then continued to treat me rudely the entire flight, and the third leg of the trip (different aircraft and different crew) were just as obnoxious the whole time. As far as I can tell, they just wanted to fuck over an American tourist.Just to add to the fun, at the stopover in Colombia, the Customs idiots kept trying to mix my belongings in with other passengers' belongings during a completely pointless X-ray check. Like, I've got all my stuff in a bin (there wasn't much), and the Customs idiot grabs my passport and wallet and puts it in a different tray behind mine, then grabs some of that passenger's stuff and puts it in mine. I attempted to correct it pre-X-ray-machine and he got pissed and undid it. The other passenger had to search yet another bin that he'd moved even more of her stuff into. No reason whatsoever for any of this, shady as fuck, it was almost as if he was trying to set us up for something scammy.Never flying Avianca ever again, and fuck transiting or visiting Colombia.
>>2819510>Doubt most people flown on more than 5-6 different airlines here.This comment made me think about how many I've been onI got to 13, which I think is complete. There may be one or two random Euro airlines that I can't remember >Ansett (RIP)>Qantas>Virgin Blue / Virgin Australia>Aircalin>Sri Lankan Air>Singapore>British Airways>Ryan Air>Iberia>Aerolingus>EasyJetComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2820636>The literal cherry on top last time was a smashed jar of cherry syrup that drenched everything in my bag in Indonesia.Why on earth would you put something like that in your checked luggage?
>>2820987I was in a rush leaving UBN, but I did single bag it in Ziploc that I found opened with the smashed jar in CGK.Both incidents were Cathay Pacific flights out of Hong Kong, on the previous one I literally picked up my bags up with the top half open and stuff I had packed in the bottom spilling onto the baggage carousel.Dunno what to say, but it really looked like the ground crew rifled through the bags looking for things to steal both times. Never ever seen this with any other airline.
>>2811745Air France.> Pay for seat upgrade, all good> Arrive on plane, get to my seat, see some arab woman with the 2 loud ass kids she shat out sitting where i was supposed to sit> I ask the flight agent about my seat, she gave zero fucks and told me to wait> I wait awkwardly for 15 minutes as people were getting in and they decide to sit me all the way back> I find empty seats, at least i got space> Lol nope, they bought some cracked out migrant getting deported and sat him right beside me > He kept making noises and moving so i couldnt sleep the entire flight> Arrive in Paris, this has to be the most dysfunctional airport ive ever been to> Literally no french people working there, all blacks and arabs and they got mad attitude> We landed at the further away terminal, so getting to my connection gate took me 1h30> Leaving your terminal AND entering another terminal meant full on bag search so they searched my shit twice and were acting rude about itComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2821702Charles de Gaulle Airport = refugee holding centre after dark. It's fucking vile."""""""NGOS"""""""""" giving out care package sand shit, too, encourage this madness.
And by "least visited" I mean not even considered for tourism (Alaska is technically the least visited due to its remoteness, but still sells itself for and gets wildlife tourism).States like Iowa, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, etc.Are they worth visiting, and for what?
>>2821411OzarksHot Springs national park
>>2821472that's not specific at all
>>2821522Go. Drive around. See what you can see. That's all there is to it. >>2821467If I do visit China I'd prefer going to the smaller, less flashy cities. However, I've chosen to visit India first and save China for sometime in the indefinite future. Not a big fan of Chinese people (and vice versa). Chinese food is often MSG and onions-laden slop with very low quality ingredients on the cheap end as well. Indian food flavormogs it.
>>2821378Nature. /endthread
>>2821378>States like >Iowa, Iowa State Fair is pretty nice, worth the visit. Also Iowa has quite a few little towns that are themed and worth the visit like Pella. NE Iowa also isn't bad and parts of central are okay. I would stay away from the interstate though.Also Western Iowa has the Loess which is fun to walk along.>Nebraska, Rodeos Sand Hills (NE-2 is a fantastic drive once you're beyond farm lands up to Alliance)NW Nebraska is also really nice as you start to see forests and bigger hills as you reach the NF. I hear to the northern road is good but I haven't gone along it yet>West Virginia, WV is fantastic, what do you mean?>Arkansas, Oklahoma, Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Why do people praise swiss mowed gras and barns so much?
It's like if Appalachia actually got their shit together - but - more expensive as a result. There's all these abandoned fire towers in Appalachia and I always wonder why you would just LEAVE something built 50-100 years ago instead of replacing it, they aren't that complex of a structure and it would really draw visitors. The only conclusion I can get is that they don't want visitors. And often the best views are enjoyed only by the houses set on the hills and can't even be seen from the road let alone getting a proper place to pull over and even if there ARE views they tend to be overgrown. It's such a weird place when you realize Switzerland exists and has similar mountains but far more developed.
>>2821682Picture is from eastern Europe in Carpatians
>>2821679As an American the idea of anywhere in Switzerland being "Rural" is kind of funny. There are places with lower population density but absolutely not rural. The whole country is so extremely well connected with objectively the best infrastructure on the planet. I think people enjoy it because it's a mix of natural beauty and the comfort of civilization around every corner. America has large swaths of land that are just as equally beautiful if not more but there is nothing around for 300 miles expect a gas station and a sundown town.
>>2821690sorry if that was unclear, I meant to compare my impression of Switzerland vs American Appalachia in that they are both mountainous regions but Switzerland has a much more developed and refined infrastructure for tourism.
Post your travel maps in this thread. Pic related is the official /trv/ Real Traveler's map™, edition 4.0.5Fill in the countries and subdivisions you have visited, talk about your map and ask others about their maps. You can use the map however you like, the colors are more like suggestions, you don't have to use them, and you don't have to use all of them. You can add or remove colors and change the map as much as you want in any way you want. Don't like this map? Upload a completely different one. Up to you. Despite what some might say, there's no "wrong" way to use the map, and new posters and less travelled people are welcome and encouraged to stay and post :) This map is a group effort by our board, and we can only improve it if people reach out to share suggestions or corrections.This is the newest edition of the map, edition 4.0.5, updated for September 2025. Thanks to an Anon in the previous thread, it is now easier than ever to fill in the map. You can use the website splored.com to easily color in entire countries with a single click. At the time of making this thread, it uses the old 4.0.4 template, so you still need to update it to 4.0.5 with the simplified template, but hopefully Anon will update the website after I make this thread.Topic for this thread: Should we have a Real Traveler's Discord? Just something I've been thinking about. I don't use Discord myself, so it's not important to me, but it could be nice to have a hangout for the regulars or a "backup" in case 4chan goes down again or somewhere to share subdivision news if there's no thread up. Just interested in hearing your opinions on this.
>Own country Tijuana, Saltillo, San luis, Guadalajara, Cdmx, Cd Neza >USALos Angeles, Hoboken, Manhattan >JapanTokyo, Chiba, Nagoya, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka>ChinaBeijing.No hate against China but that was my first time traveling to a country where I couldn't communicate efficiently with people. Their broken english was worse than the japanese and even when they used their phones to translate to english it was a nightmare.Plus it's not my first language either so I'll just stick with more Japan, English and Spanish speaking countries in the future.
>>2820011>Thanks man. I really like your map, you must have a lot of exciting stories to tell. Please share some photos from Fiji and Tonga :)Yeah for sure. I honestly have no exciting stories to tell since I only did the normie stuff, but it was an adventure nevertheless. Traveling to this part of the world was interesting & I'm glad it wasn't dull as people on /trv/ make it seem.Fiji is honestly what you'd expect: tropical paradise, boat cruises, expensive. But it's not sovless. Locals were very welcoming and laidback, cuisine was delicious, and the airport was interesting.It's interesting how Fiji and Tonga are practically neighbors but are very different. Fiji's islands are mostly mountainous. Then you see Tonga and realize how the environment changed quickly. Landing in Vava'u, you're greeted by cliffs, deep blue waters, islands filled with palm trees with no resorts in sight. Driving from the airport was wild. Unpaved roads, chickens, cows and pigs running about, a boring main town, no infrastructure for tourism at all. But I was there for the whale swim (which I saw plenty), so it was great.If traveling around Polynesia wasn't so expensive, I could probably do 2 separate trips there per year. I'm already planning for another visit 2 years from now to other nations.
Just finished up a trip to Iceland with my girl, was a pretty amazing place. Reminded me a lot of Alaska and Highlands Scotland, really enjoyed getting off the beaten path and dipping in random hot springsMostly focused on hitting all 50 states right now. Just in the preliminary stages for a few potential tripsIndiana: I think it would be cool to see the Indy500, poke around Indianapolis and go to the Indiana DunesMississippi: For this I'd either chill in some town on the gulf, I've heard they have some underrated spots for that, or do a civil war trip with my dad for the Mississippi river campaign. We went to Gettysburg and Antietam alreadyWashington: I've always wanted to take the sleeper Amtrak to Seattle, would be fun to check out Spokane as well. I'm sure there are a lot more I could do, I prefer to spend about a week in each state driving around and doing stuff so I can actually see a fair amount. Suggestions appreciated
>>2819885Based West Germany-maxxer
Next destination : a lot of France and probably Ireland in the next years I would also like to visit Italia a bit more than I did
>currently on holiday for the first time in my adult life>in Paris>been to Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, plus a few other places>here for rest of the week >plan to spend a day at another city by train>eat at fast food restaurant each day>zero socializing, eating French cuisine, anything "off the beaten path" or during the eveningAm I doing something wrong or is this how you do it? And is there anything you'd particularly recommend, apart from the obvious destinations?Is it normal to talk to no one as a solo male (an ugly one) traveller?Is there anything really worthwhile to eat in terms of food while I'm here or do they have the same stuff in any international city? I don't want to pay 70 Euros for two slices of meat and get looked down upon by a waiter for not speaking French.I do a lot of walking, but mainly around the centre of Paris. From a box ticking perspective, I am seeing lots of touristy shit. But from a "self enlightenment, eat pray love, I really found myself and connected and so on", there is nothing. But I'm an ugly beta male in my home country, so it's not like anything is different there.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
OP update. I'm intentionally aimlessly walking around Rome right now, in the hot sun.Last night I went for a late evening 10.30 pm walk to a famous sight but it was crowded as fuck, just like daytime. And everywhere surrounding it was normies in restaurants. If life was a movie, then I would have experienced some sort of mid-00s indie movie magical moment of some sort, but it felt very alienating and grubby. Everything is priced in. Today I went to an actual Italian cafe and ordered an ice cream and a Cafe Granita, which I thought was coffee but turned out to be some sort of ice cream granules thing, which was ok. I also saw a very famous sight.I don't dislike Rome but I'm already feeling nostalgia for 2 and 3 days ago in Paris when I was at the "les art hoes" museum and aimlessly walking around in the rain.I'm not more than a 6/10 in happiness but I'm dreading work next week.
OP here. I went to an actual French restaurant and had meat and sweet crepes, which were pretty good.I then walked along the Seine while feeling so sad at having to leave to go back to my ugly and boring life. I should have booked more days off work. Paris looks incredible along the river.
>>2818975What's going on with the strikes in France? I heard they're going to fuck everything up.
>>2821510I'm heading to Paris from Belgium from like the 23-27. If they're striking, I'm heading down to Dijon and Beaune and do nothing but drink wine all week instead. I'm honestly kind of hoping they are striking. I really want to visit this little city called Semur-en-Auxois.
OP here. I'm back at home. I wish I had booked an additional 6 days on holiday. I have post-holiday depression and that was the first holiday I've been to in my adult life.My life in the UK is so fucking boring. My life was so idyllic last week. I feel like moving to London to try to compensate for the boredom. My life is so UGLY. The Paris train station announcement jingle was triggering my emotions in the minutes before the taxi to the airport. I really like how the public places in Paris are more labyrinthine than in the UK.I remember how in the plane from Paris to Rome, when I first got on, the plane wasn't that crowded so I had no one sitting next to me, and how extremely neat everything was, and how bright it became when there was morning daylight.This time last week I was walking up the Eiffel Tower. And I had that Eiffel Tower flavour of ice cream on the way down.Everything is so ugly where I live.
