Europe is tiny (think less states and they're all smaller) and easy to get around, you can cover a lot in 3 weeks.
I live in Dublin, just 2 hours away by train. Come chill brah, I got views over Dublin Bay and a spare bedroom so you can stay for free :pimp
I'll show you some sights and we can go hiking or something. When are you coming over?
It will be a great base for the UK/Ireland.
Things one should see in Ireland:
-Giants Causeway
-Cliffs of Moher
-Connemara
-Dublin
-Killarney
-Ring of Kerry
UK:
-London
-Brighton
-Highlands
-Wales
Cajole probably has the most UK knowledge herestrokes beard.
to be clear
you cannot get from Ireland to the UK and back on the same fucking day
you would have to travel AROUND the UK
if you stay in Ireland, you will see Ireland
Cajole probably has the most UK knowledge here
strokes beard.
to be clear
you cannot get from Ireland to the UK and back on the same fucking day
you would have to travel AROUND the UK
if you stay in Ireland, you will see Ireland
Yeah, I understand that after looking at the Ferry times (though can get to northern UK in a couple of hours it seems). Would likely go to UK a couple of times and stay for a few days each time. Maybe 1 weekend trip to Scottland, one southern trip to London. Then do day trips out of Belfast to see much of Ireland during the week. Mainly just want to cut down on expenses of double dipping hotels since already get a permanent room at belfast for 3 weeks with this scenario.
was going to add that the UK is piss-boring but DC just proved that for me
Sorry to hear about that DC, I thought you were like king of your workplace in Japan? Can't believe they let you go. That really sucks, especially since you've got a family. So you're only going to be in the UK for this month? Would love to see you again. Been too long! You're a great, great guy and it's always a pleasure to spend time with you
was going to add that the UK is piss-boring but DC just proved that for me
unless you like shitty weather, crap food, fighting/aggro, castles/history, The Beatles etc... yeah - the UK is largely a bit dull. I always get excited when i come back home but it wears down in 2 days - i'm already over that hump and i'm here for a few weeks more. The one huge bonus is that you can see the stars at nighttime and dream that you might get Alien abducted the feck out. Still... no one has tried to start a fight with me yet ! Another bonus is that a day lasts for a Tokyo Month. Did i say bonus? :/
Cajole probably has the most UK knowledge here
strokes beard.
Stop touching Cajole's gf!
unless you like shitty weather, crap food, fighting/aggro, castles/history, The Beatles etc... yeah - the UK is largely a bit dull. I always get excited when i come back home but it wears down in 2 days - i'm already over that hump and i'm here for a few weeks more. The one huge bonus is that you can see the stars at nighttime and dream that you might get Alien abducted the feck out. Still... no one has tried to start a fight with me yet ! Another bonus is that a day lasts for a Tokyo Month. Did i say bonus? :/
All i need to do in those two years is write the most amazing iphone game ever, learn N1 level japanese and win the UK Lottery! SIMPLES!
You're in Pool radiohead?
I'm feeling like a UK/IRELAND Bore drinkfest :drool
Dream a little bigger, man. EuroMillions or bust.
So I'm looking into BnBs and am I understanding it right, that it's a room in a person's home and they're still living there while you come and go? I feel like that kind of setup would be problematic for coming home at 2-3am from the pub or even later after night adventures.
I lived in a dorm once when I was 19 and in Japan for 6 months and it was pretty fun. Met a lot of cool people and had good experiences.
While I'm not acting like a teenager, I am going with someone who "is" and is staying in the dorm so I'm just trying to figure out what is easiest and cheapest to have a good trip.
While I'm not acting like a teenager, I am going with someone who "is" and is staying in the dorm so I'm just trying to figure out what is easiest and cheapest to have a good trip.
You're going on a trip with a teenager who has to go to school?
/faceplant
that is distinguished mentally-challenged and let me tell you not even the most obvious reason why
if he wanted to do this trip
he should just stay at a B&B or hotel or whatever
it's not like he's hard up for cash last I checked
Oh, my.
No. No no no no no no no no no.
Don't do it.
Bebpo :(
Really bad idea, man. Go to the UK, but don't go like this.
I feel like you're really trying hard to cling on to some lost sense of youth. You're in your early 30s, there is nothing wrong with that. Embrace it.
I think Treesong is one of the the only three or so friend I have out of hundreds who actually has a decent paying job. Most my friends are unemployed, contract employees, or make min wage.
Maybe I'll look into BnBs, but honestly people scare me.
Dude, I just think staying in a dorm at 31 is weird. My response is before the whole teenage girl stuff started blowing up.
Dude... go to the UK and have fun. Spend maybe 3-4 days in Belfast with your friend, but I have to agree with everyone else... if you're going to experience shit, be mobile and move around. Coordinate with your friend and when SHE'S got downtime, have HER come to YOU, where you are out having fun and seeing cool shit.
How the fuck doesn't that make sense? I'm not even talking about the "going to the UK with someone else's 20 year old gf" thing, I'm just talking logistics... your plan sucks about a metric fuckton of dicks. You're not dating this girl, don't have any romantic interest in her... if she has to be tethered to Belfast, that's something I'd call "her problem" while I'm out exploring the UK and having fun. By all means set aside some time to hang with her, and like I said maybe coordinate so that she can easily get to you to see sites and shit like that... but tethering yourself to one location is the opposite of smart. DON'T BE NOT SMART.
And yes, dorms are for people who are her age. BE AN ADULT.
Oh, my.
No. No no no no no no no no no.
Don't do it.
Bebpo :(Really bad idea, man. Go to the UK, but don't go like this.
I feel like you're really trying hard to cling on to some lost sense of youth. You're in your early 30s, there is nothing wrong with that. Embrace it.
Too late. Thanks Treesong for making everyone think the situation is totally different than it is.
Dude... go to the UK and have fun. Spend maybe 3-4 days in Belfast with your friend, but I have to agree with everyone else... if you're going to experience shit, be mobile and move around. Coordinate with your friend and when SHE'S got downtime, have HER come to YOU, where you are out having fun and seeing cool shit.
How the fuck doesn't that make sense? I'm not even talking about the "going to the UK with someone else's 20 year old gf" thing, I'm just talking logistics... your plan sucks about a metric fuckton of dicks. You're not dating this girl, don't have any romantic interest in her... if she has to be tethered to Belfast, that's something I'd call "her problem" while I'm out exploring the UK and having fun. By all means set aside some time to hang with her, and like I said maybe coordinate so that she can easily get to you to see sites and shit like that... but tethering yourself to one location is the opposite of smart. DON'T BE NOT SMART.
And yes, dorms are for people who are her age. BE AN ADULT.
Like always, people give me the "You are a lawyer, you must have so much money, why be stingy?" thing. Yet they have no idea what I make. To put it in perspective, my friend who graduated with me and has been working for 2 and a half years as a lawyer started at 45k/yr. He now makes 50k/yr. I started a higher, but not significantly. These days most Network Administrators make more money than Lawyers. Or Web Developers. Or even a good plumber. Unless you're a big shot lawyer at a big shot firm, you aren't making six figures off the bat as a 30 year old. It takes a decade of work experience before you hit those numbers for most.
Like always, people give me the "You are a lawyer, you must have so much money, why be stingy?" thing. Yet they have no idea what I make. To put it in perspective, my friend who graduated with me and has been working for 2 and a half years as a lawyer started at 45k/yr. He now makes 50k/yr. I started a higher, but not significantly. These days most Network Administrators make more money than Lawyers. Or Web Developers. Or even a good plumber. Unless you're a big shot lawyer at a big shot firm, you aren't making six figures off the bat as a 30 year old. It takes a decade of work experience before you hit those numbers for most.
Damn, I wish I made 45k a year. :P
Like always, people give me the "You are a lawyer, you must have so much money, why be stingy?" thing. Yet they have no idea what I make. To put it in perspective, my friend who graduated with me and has been working for 2 and a half years as a lawyer started at 45k/yr. He now makes 50k/yr. I started a higher, but not significantly. These days most Network Administrators make more money than Lawyers. Or Web Developers. Or even a good plumber. Unless you're a big shot lawyer at a big shot firm, you aren't making six figures off the bat as a 30 year old. It takes a decade of work experience before you hit those numbers for most.
Damn, I wish I made 45k a year. :P
I'm getting close to $60k! But I also have to constantly go back and take more classes, which I pay for. :'(
the UK is so fascinating that DC's Bore-posting rate has risen x1000 in the past 2 days:lol
Best of luck banging that hot teen
Maybe I'll look into BnBs, but honestly people scare me
Are chavs still a thing?
I probably have the shittiest income of anyone that's posted in the thread (I get paid hourly and work about 23 hours a week) but I supplement it with savings. Hopefully just another year of shitty life and then I'm graduated and whatnot.
QuoteMaybe I'll look into BnBs, but honestly people scare me
Still somewhat confused here - dorms in the UK are going to put you in rooms full of people you don't know - BnB much less so. So if people scare you? dorms in the UK will fucking eat you alive.
Remember - we have some of the most violent specimens on the planet in that 16-19 bracket.
Are chavs still a thing?
I probably have the shittiest income of anyone that's posted in the thread (I get paid hourly and work about 23 hours a week) but I supplement it with savings. Hopefully just another year of shitty life and then I'm graduated and whatnot.
my income is currently $0 ;)
And yeah - chavs have sort of went away in the "well no one talks about them anymore" but they're more a state of mind than a "thing" so you can still see them wandering the streets
I guess they don't require you to look for work on Japanese unemployment? In the US You have to keep a written log of all the employers you contacted every week and if you fail to produce that document your claim is terminated.
QuoteMaybe I'll look into BnBs, but honestly people scare me
Still somewhat confused here - dorms in the UK are going to put you in rooms full of people you don't know - BnB much less so. So if people scare you? dorms in the UK will fucking eat you alive.
Remember - we have some of the most violent specimens on the planet in that 16-19 bracket.
I guess I'm just under the impression that dorms = you don't have to interact with strangers. You have a room and if you bump into someone in the hall maybe you say hi, but otherwise it's private. Whereas the BnB thing sounds like walking into a stranger's house, saying hello and then proceeding to be part of their family. The latter just makes me anxious because I've never done it before while I've done the former in the past.
But I'm not going to do the dorm, so it's a bit of a moot point now.
QuoteMaybe I'll look into BnBs, but honestly people scare me
Still somewhat confused here - dorms in the UK are going to put you in rooms full of people you don't know - BnB much less so. So if people scare you? dorms in the UK will fucking eat you alive.
Remember - we have some of the most violent specimens on the planet in that 16-19 bracket.
I guess I'm just under the impression that dorms = you don't have to interact with strangers. You have a room and if you bump into someone in the hall maybe you say hi, but otherwise it's private. Whereas the BnB thing sounds like walking into a stranger's house, saying hello and then proceeding to be part of their family. The latter just makes me anxious because I've never done it before while I've done the former in the past.
But I'm not going to do the dorm, so it's a bit of a moot point now.
Do you really think that's what a bed and breakfast is? It's like an inn, dude. The people running it are not looking to have complete strangers (that's you!) be part of their family. :lol You get your own room and you come and go as you please. Maybe they might have some sort of curfew for security reasons, but that should be it. The only time you might have to actually be sociable is for breakfast. Depending on the place they might just have one big table or small tables in a small space for all the people staying there to eat together at. That's it. Otherwise they are going to serve you food and go eat in their own space. If you have such a fear of people, how the hell are you able to travel alone?
Hmm, that's interesting. Does that mean there's not much of a nightlife in Ireland/UK?
A BnB is the most normal place you can stay at, I didn't even know it could be a "thing" to find it scary. It's not like you're gonna hang out together.Hmm, that's interesting. Does that mean there's not much of a nightlife in Ireland/UK?
I hope you are joking :lol
Does no information trickle on European culture trickle through to the US?
A BnB is the most normal place you can stay at, I didn't even know it could be a "thing" to find it scary. It's not like you're gonna hang out together.Hmm, that's interesting. Does that mean there's not much of a nightlife in Ireland/UK?
I hope you are joking :lol
Does no information trickle on European culture trickle through to the US?
None.
But if all the bars close at 11:30...what do you all do in the midnight->5am time period?
Of course you can, but it's probably more accessible and easier even as a outsider to do this style of heavy partying in Berlin than anywhere else.
Fabric and Ministry of Sound in London...
Bebpo's threads do get a little tiresome though when they all follow a similar formula:
- Bepbo creates thread asking for advice where he presents a child-like view of an adult subject
- Forum gently gives him advice, trying to steer him in the right direction
- Bepbo argues that his way is actually the best and your advice is bad
- Forum less gently gives him advice
- Bepbo still resists
- Forum types in caps to try to get through to the naive Bepbo
- Bebpo gets upset
- Forum needing entertainment drags it on as long as possible
- Bepbo does what he wants to anyway
five gets you ten he is secretly hung up on this chick and would follow to the ends of the earth if he thought he could be alone with her
i mean, i lived in Belfast, come on
nobody WANTS to go to Belfast
Bebpo's threads do get a little tiresome though when they all follow a similar formula:
- Bepbo creates thread asking for advice where he presents a child-like view of an adult subject
- Forum gently gives him advice, trying to steer him in the right direction
- Bepbo argues that his way is actually the best and your advice is bad
- Forum less gently gives him advice
- Bepbo still resists
- Forum types in caps to try to get through to the naive Bepbo
- Bebpo gets upset
- Forum needing entertainment drags it on as long as possible
- Bepbo does what he wants to anyway
Ill get Bebpo drunk if he comes to Dublin, then drop him at the local strip club or easy chicks bar (Dicey's) just wait for the thread then :droolfive gets you ten he is secretly hung up on this chick and would follow to the ends of the earth if he thought he could be alone with her
i mean, i lived in Belfast, come on
nobody WANTS to go to Belfast
I'd love to go to Belfast and go on one of those getto tours they do there.
UK history was actually far more exciting than the wife and I thought it would be - it's amazing what a difference actually seeing all the places these people lived, died, murdered, and screwed makes. one of the highlights of our trip was the Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour (http://www.edinburghliterarypubtour.co.uk/)
Today i walked round my home town taking in sights from 1700-1800's and yeah... :bow dat history :bow2
UK history was actually far more exciting than the wife and I thought it would be - it's amazing what a difference actually seeing all the places these people lived, died, murdered, and screwed makes. one of the highlights of our trip was the Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour (http://www.edinburghliterarypubtour.co.uk/)
I remembering visiting place where the Magna Carta was written. That was pretty impressive.
UK history was actually far more exciting than the wife and I thought it would be - it's amazing what a difference actually seeing all the places these people lived, died, murdered, and screwed makes. one of the highlights of our trip was the Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour (http://www.edinburghliterarypubtour.co.uk/)
I remembering visiting place where the Magna Carta was written. That was pretty impressive.
i remember visiting Gettysburg Address place too, very impressive
OH YOU WANT THE NAME? FUCK YOU
did you see the famous Toilet Paper Tree
Ill get Bebpo drunk if he comes to Dublin, then drop him at the local strip club or easy chicks bar (Dicey's) just wait for the thread then :drool
Co-sign on more time for France, less for Germany. At least those are the places I've visited often for family, and while Germany is a relaxing place and I like it a lot, your time is better spent elsewhere. On the other end, France has a lot to see and do. But it's about what you want for your vacation. It might help if you have a flexible schedule.
And last time I went to Italy (few years ago, Venice, specifically) was in August and the weather wasn't a problem. There were crowds but it is what it is. It's one of the places I want to go back to since I didn't enjoy it too much. Same with the UK, granted, it was mostly London then. I really enjoyed other places in Italy I've been to.
If you're going to stay in or near Paris, versailles is a short train ride and can kill a good few hours if not half a day depending on how interested you are. There are the usual popular places you hear about like all the museums, sacre coeur, notre-dame, etc.. Around those areas people will try to scam you in really obvious ways. Um, German public transportation is way more awesome than what the French use.
Agenda seems something like:
Germany = historic old school villages + crazy nightlife partying
Amsterdam = scenic + party maybe
Belgium = good eats, some scenic sites
France = ???
London = Big Ben, otherwise ???
Edinburgh = Castles and cliffs and cool stuff
Belfast = ???
Dublin = Kosma's lovely self
ADD ANNE FRANK'S HOUSE TO AMSTERDAM OR I'LL MURDER YOU IN THE DIGITAL REALM.