Traveling to Europe

stjohn · Post by **stjohn** » Thu May 08, 2008 1:39 am

b0unce wrote:FULL well they can't run away from the hordes of desperately cunning hepatitis-carrying junkies

exactly!!!!!! they are the best part! ive never met a dublin junkie i didnt like!! one even came up to me and when i told him to fuck off, he said he'd put a rat in my mouth. legend!

they dont come any better than that

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Thu May 08, 2008 4:29 am

Angstrom wrote:I recommend renting...

Hell yeah. This looks great. Thank you.

mohler wrote:http://www.skyscanner.net/

is the one, once you've decided where you are traveling to and from.

Very promising. I typed in Amsterdam and I immediately received competitve figures.
Thank you.

mohler · Post by **mohler** » Thu May 08, 2008 5:33 am

b0unce wrote:
stjohn wrote:
b0unce wrote: hateful lies.

fuck that.. it cost the same as london, and paris is probly more expensive. like everywhere, u can spend lots or be smart and not spend lots.. in my HOME of dublin, i can get drunk ina pub for fuck all, and have a great weekend of clubbing with great music for fuck all. u on the otherhand know fuck all and are fuck all. FUCK OFF!

cue the sarcastic smiley..
I'm omniscient, so I be knowing that you be lying. Exactly the kind of lies a dub would peddle, so as to lure obese americans into your web (known as O'Connel street) knowing FULL well they can't run away from the hordes of desperately cunning hepatitis-carrying junkies or your knife-wielding children which you spawn like maggots on a festering turd, who incidentally will never amount to anything else other than being a cretin of the street who's thumbs should have been removed at BIRTH!

fuck dublin, the best part about it is it's easy enough to leave. Buses on the hour.

serious smiley -->

PS:The tourist tax is going to RUIN lives and ultimately kill our children as they sleep in their cots.

Seriously Dublin is EXPENSIVE and more expensive than London and Pars. By all means visit it cause it's a rocking city but don't expect it to be cheap. Yes there are some very expensive bits to London and Paris but there's also great value to be had, which I genuinely don't ever find in Dublin, everye time I'm there I can't get over how bloody pricey everything is.

stjohn · Post by **stjohn** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:49 pm

ok it probly does cost a bit more for some things. but if u are smart.. i can find a pub where u can get a Guiness for €3.50 - 4 instead of €5.
but if u are going to drink in the heart of tourismland they are going to rip you off for sure.

i remember on Las Ramblas in barcelona a sidewindow cafe tried to charge me 11€ for a slice of pizza. we just started crackin up in his face and walked off, to his disgust.

Coupe70 · Post by **Coupe70** » Thu May 08, 2008 4:17 pm

sorry LOFA, but where is

Location: pgh

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri May 09, 2008 1:07 am

I'm in Pittsburgh, P.A.. Hopefully, soon I will be passing through your country.

Coupe70 · Post by **Coupe70** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:50 pm

you are welcome in Mainz if you should drive by using
Interrail or fly to Frankfurt !

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:35 pm

Coupe70 wrote:you are welcome in Mainz if you should drive by using
Interrail or fly to Frankfurt !

Thanks!

I believe we got our tickets. I was exhausted because of a long day preparing for an installation (click on "furiously" in my sig for more information,) but we have either narrowed it down to two choices or purchased them. In other words, I said lets get them and I think she did.

So, it seems we are going to be coming in through Amsterdam, heading to France and then into Spain. I am fine with this. I intend to make a second trip the next chance I get that will put us in Germany for a while. I hope this is the beginning of a new trend for me. I am really excited about finally reaching this continent.

C.S. · Post by **C.S.** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:45 pm

http://www.cheapoair.com/

Right now you can do Boston to Paris roundtrip for $336+tax on iberia.

Check the europe section of the top 25 deals
http://www.cheapoair.com/travel/travel_ ... pdeals.asp

Don't know how much it is to go from pitt to boston... can't be much.

Good Luck.

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri May 09, 2008 6:22 pm

C.S. wrote:http://www.cheapoair.com/

Right now you can do Boston to Paris roundtrip for $336+tax on iberia.

Check the europe section of the top 25 deals
http://www.cheapoair.com/travel/travel_ ... pdeals.asp

Don't know how much it is to go from pitt to boston... can't be much.

Good Luck.

Thanks. Apparently we haven't yet purchased the tickets yet, so I gave good look. Of course there are multi-hundred dollar rounds of "taxes" that bring the price to same as non-sales. If there was something out of PA it would have been a deal though, so thanks!

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Fri May 09, 2008 6:54 pm

b0unce wrote:But anyways, nevermind, SONAR starts june 19 and continues through the 20th and the 21st. Best electronic music festival ever. (barcelona)

You've got to be kidding me?! I'm doing a trip to Barcelona starting on June 24th. Upto now I thought we'd just miss the drinking party night on 23rd and were unlucky enough to arrive on a holiday. Well then, all of Barcelona's people are gonna be done for after all the partying, so it's gonna be a quiet three days trip.

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:20 am

Nice. Saved two hundred bucks from when I wanted to initially purchase them. Less than $1000, round-trip to Amsterdam. Now we just need to figure out how best to get from Madrid back there. Hopefully a flight through Berlin will come up.

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:18 pm

Tomorrow we head out to New Amsterdam, Head straight to Paris for 4 days, followed by about 5 days between Madrid-Barcelona, two days in Cologne, and then, finally two last days actually enjoying New Amsterdam.

No Laptops.

Just Europe.

Holy shit.

Dr Dub · Post by **Dr Dub** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:28 pm

You should just keep your first choice: Amsterdam and London, although
these two are expensive (if you are a tourist and don t know anybody).

In London there is much to see and it is shopping heaven 8if you have the cash)
and Amsterdam is just a GREAT place to be, especially as a tourist.
You have a lot to see, you can make many ways by feet and you will find some
nice Partys and definetly the best drugs. So it may be dangerous to start there.

If you come to cologne, i could give you some Tips or show you some places as i live there. Nice place to live, in my opinion the most friendly town in Germany.

Cheers.

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:52 pm

Dr Dub wrote:You should just keep your first choice: Amsterdam and London, although
these two are expensive (if you are a tourist and don t know anybody).

In London there is much to see and it is shopping heaven 8if you have the cash)
and Amsterdam is just a GREAT place to be, especially as a tourist.
You have a lot to see, you can make many ways by feet and you will find some
nice Partys and definetly the best drugs. So it may be dangerous to start there.

If you come to cologne, i could give you some Tips or show you some places as i live there. Nice place to live, in my opinion the most friendly town in Germany.

Cheers.

My girlfriend works for a German company and actually just returned from Cologne. I've been eating Ritter Sport all week. She convinced me we had to check it out even though I requested a future trip that was exclusively in Germany.

I am an American but I am not much of a tourist. That being said, I would have been happy spending a week in Spain eating and drinking, but my career as an artist sort of demands that I do my homework in museums. Regarding the luxuries that new Amsterdam can offer a tourist, I am more interested in seeing the people and the city itself.