Let's hang out in Europe! - Page 2

On May 03 2011 23:30 Yenticha wrote:
Yep, pretty sure the train pass will work for the Paris-Versailles. From the main train station, it's about 30 minutes away.

As for the things to do/see in Paris:
-Seine banks: Highly recommended, especially from 6pm to...3 am? bring bread, cheese, wine, etc. Dont jump in the Seine though, you may have a non-friendly adventures with the cops (ans have to pay about 80 euros)
-Canal Saint Martin/Canal de l'Ourcq: same thing. Food, wine, lots of young people, international crowd. Much cheaper and friendlier than most bars
-as for the bars: avoid Saint Michel (touristic, expensive, etc). Prefer Rue Saint Maur (kind of like lower east side in NYC), menilmontant, Bastille, Butte aux cailles, or also Abbesses.
-If the weather is nice, go to Buttes Chaumont (a parc) or Parc Montsouris
-in public transports, whenever there are stairs, either:
-walk fast on the LEFT side
-walk slowly/stand idle on the RIGHT side
(this will avoid you some very unfriendly behavior from locals, including me if Im late for work )

PS: I assumed, seeing you're backpacking, that you're not looking for fancy places/uptight classy restaurants etc, but rather for authentic places

On May 03 2011 23:34 zatic wrote:
Shoot me a PM when you are in Munich.

On May 04 2011 00:01 Nyx wrote:


Night is much better, don't worry about things being 'far apart', buy a day travelcard and nothing is too far. (you can use it on buses as well as tube/train)

edit; also stonehenge isn't worth losing half a day that is much better spent in London, also I'd recommend camden town at night, just don't buy weed off anybody, it probably isn't weed.

On May 04 2011 00:03 Hawk wrote:


I went on two overnighters, like 12hrs + each. One, there was four bunks in a room the size of a small cubicle, and one was occupied by a dude who snored and wheezed all night and wore some kind of surgical mask. I thought I was going to get aids or something. The other was about six bunks in a slightly taller sweatbox. Dead head of summer going to Italy with a quiet little Italian family of three, some bug eyed south african that looked like was going to murder everyone and some huge, disgusting blob of a kid that couldnt even fit in the bunk and kept trying to be buddy buddy with me because we were both from the States.

DONT DO IT. I did hostels the whole way but fuck me if I'll ever do that again.

those two cards should be plenty, even if you take an insane amount of pictures. Most hostels have computer access or they're near a place with one. You can just buy a flashdrive and upload onto there periodically incase you get robbed, lose the camera or break it.

And yeah, getting lost while hammered in a foreign country blows and can be really dangerous. My very first night in europe was in Madrid. I went out with a group and got whacked. While outside talking with someone I met, someone tried to pickpocket me and I hit him and ran for whatever dumb reason. That was about 5 am, and I spent the next hour or two wandering around trying to figure out just where in the hell I was. If I had not lucked out in finding some awesome Spanish kid who studied in the states for a while, I'd probably have slept out there that night!

The best way to ensure this doesnt happen to you is to make sure that the very first thing you do after dropping your bags in a new place is go out and just explore the few blocks around your hostel. Helps you learn the area and find cool spots to check out

On May 04 2011 03:15 RaGe wrote:
Shoot me a PM a couple of days before you arrive in belgium. Depending on my schedule I might be able to house you for a night in Leuven (20km from brussels).

On May 04 2011 03:52 Espelz wrote:
Huh.. seems like I´m not on your way then (living in the ruhr area in Germany), so theres no need for me to help you out (if I´m wrong, just PM me though !)

Enjoy Munich , its a wonderful city. If you have a LOT of time and are into museums, check this one out (link is to the english version) :

http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en

It´s mostly history of science and technics, I found it highly interesting
But be warned : I went there, spend 5 hours, and felt like i was not even halfway through , its HUUUGE.

Wish you a good trip, hope you meet a lot of nice people and generally have lots of fun

On May 04 2011 05:57 neSix wrote:




Wow, thanks! Coincidentally, I have a friend living in Brussels right now who has offered their place to me while I'm in the city, so I think I'll be all set. But thanks for the offer and if I get stuck, I may send you a message!

Belgium right now is the place I think I'll have the hardest time occupying my time (which means that although I'm sure there are a million things to see and do, it is the country on my "itinerary" with the smallest list of ideas right now!), so if you're interested, maybe we can meet up and you can show me a few local areas?

On May 02 2011 17:53 disciple wrote:
Going from Munich to Switzerland you might go past Freiburg, its very close to the swiss border, if you do, you can stop here for a day, I will show you around the town, its one of the best in Germany

On May 03 2011 23:34 zatic wrote:
Shoot me a PM when you are in Munich.

On May 04 2011 03:15 RaGe wrote:
Shoot me a PM a couple of days before you arrive in belgium. Depending on my schedule I might be able to house you for a night in Leuven (20km from brussels).

On May 12 2011 07:17 aqui wrote:
Also to be fair, though beeing in southern Germany, Freiburg is not en route to Swiss and a 6h detour from Munich.