Here’s the comment. He does mention the riverboat casinos too.
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Yeah, these places are generally made for the wealthy city folks to get some taste of nature. They’re all going to be expensive.
Thanks. In terms of what we’d do on a trip, I am just thinking that for our long trip to Europe we aren’t looking to like camp or ski, for example. Something like a wine tour outing is more our style for travel. If we want to camp we just go camping on the weekend, there’s plenty of places within 3 hours of where we live.
Anyone know anything about Allentown, PA? That a decent place to live?
All I know about living there in Allentown is they’re closing all the factories down.
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My knowledge of Allentown is outdated by about 10 years but it was great if you wanted easy access to opioids.
Anyway, I’m going to Serbia at the end of October. Will be based in Belgrade for 5 days. Will be sure to pack a day trip or two in there.
Helena, MT - the section we floated of the Missouri was only about 40 minutes from the city.
If you don’t need the whole lodge experience, I could probably hook you up with a fishing guide that could pick you up from wherever you’re staying.
True of the entire USA at this point.
It was ok, all I did was play online poker because it was pre-vaccine times. My neighborhood had a bunch of Biden signs and one obnoxious house with trump flags that never shoveled their sidewalk.
Where do you live? I might be able to point you to a class.
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Wife and I are mulling an anniversary trip to Europe, which neither of us has ever visited.
Can anyone give me a quick top 3 or 5 list of places you would recommend for first-time travelers there?
Paris
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Munich → Switzerland → Italy would be a really good itinerary imo. Reasonable distances, nice contrast of places, and very easy to have the trip be 100% highlights.
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Just had an interesting travel day (read: brutal), but I had booked it this way.
Saw a super cheap fare from Kutaisi, Georgia to Vienna…but the flight was at 12:30AM.
So basically we had to leave Tbilisi at 5PM for a 4 hour bus from Tbilisi to Kutaisi, wait in the airport 3 hours, fly for 3.5 hours, arrive at 2AM local and attempt to sleep on the hard ground until about 10AM. At that point we were able to take a bus into Vienna, but only to drop our bags off at our AirBNB at 11. Then we still had to wait another 4 hours to check in. I’m 38, so I feel I’m just young enough that it didn’t bother me that much, but probably not doing something like this again lol.
Anyway, our itinerary for the month trip:
Vienna
Budapest
Prague
Rome
Florence
Bologna
Venice
Thessaloniki
I hadn’t seen half of those cities yet and Buda, Pra, and Ven are probably in my top 8 cities I most wanted to see that I haven’t yet, so pretty excited.
Getting in some ZZZZs. And yes, that’s a sock on my face. Follow me for more amazing travel tips.
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Depends what you’re interested in and how many days you have to spend there. For me in no particular order:
Prague
Amsterdam
Barcelona
Berlin
Not sure about a fifth. Got a bunch in mind there.
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I’d definitely build the trip around Paris. It seems like the perfect first city.
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London
Paris
Berlin
Rome
Amsterdam
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Berlin is a real oddball on this list. I enjoyed it, a lot, but it wouldn’t occur to me to put it on this sort of list. It’s just soooo different from everywhere else in europe, mostly because the entire city is basically from the 1950s.
Barcelona is my top recommendation, just an insanely great town to visit.
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What are you interested in. Cool cities, scenery, culture?
Top Europe cities for me: Paris, Berlin, Vienna.
Top scenery countries: Norway, Switzerland, Slovenia/Northern Italy
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Berlin is probably my #1 city in Europe. One issue with Barca is language barrier.