I'm a fan. Good for pottering about and there's some good bars in the altstadt area. Definitely try and get to a Dynamo Dresden home game if there's one on.
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I'm a fan. Good for pottering about and there's some good bars in the altstadt area. Definitely try and get to a Dynamo Dresden home game if there's one on.
In the lounge at Gatwick and according to the bartender 'Rak-Su' just came in.
Premium economy was grand but as per it took ages for passport control. We also stupidly booked the car for San Francisco airport despite arriving at Oakland \0/.
Edit: They gave us a Dodge Journey with 33k miles on the clock. It's probably better than the Hyundai we were going to get.
Alcatraz is amazing and incredibly eerie, they've done a really good job with the audio tour as well with former guards/prisoners and shit.
Also got a walk-through on how the doors work (they were on a manual gear thing which controls 13 cells, they can be opened one by one, in a combo or all 13).
Got to go into a solitary confinement cell and they're a good bit smaller than the actual cells with no lights or bed. Must have been fucking torture.
One of my mates is off to work in Iraq for a few months. He's in Baghdad initially, and the hotel he's staying in provides body armour in every room and advertises 'minimal IS activity' on its website. Would not be me.
He's off to Erbil after that, which should be a bit safer.
How many grand an hour is he getting?
He'll make somewhere around sixty five for the whole trip, but everything is paid for while he's there so he comes back with the lot.
What does he do?
Is it an army thing? Can't see the local government paying that.
https://i.imgur.com/k23syOs.jpg
The mother of dragons pays out :drool:
Went back and lost a bit but from $20 I'm happy.
Also drove through downtown LA today and Christ, it's just covered with homeless people.
Tried some blackjack before leaving with $150. Ended up cashing out $310 along with some chips as souvenirs and a half dollar.
Went to Vegas with $35 set aside to gamble with and I'm leaving with $510. I also spent another $100 or so of winnings on some gifts and shit.
Looking to go to Rome for a few days hopefully at the end of May, what are the areas I should look at staying?
The outskirts. Somewhere around southern France should do it.
Cheers, that looks close enough to everything still. We were recommended somewhere around Piazza Barberini which looks good location-wise too.
Spent the week in Madrid. Sooner or later I'm going to to have to live here. Monday, preferably.
I always get that feeling whenever I go to New Orleans. But then I sort of realize that I don't think what you do there (eat and drink loads basically) is a very sustainable lifestyle and probably loses it's charm after a while. Also the weather sucks half the year.
Doesn't the weather suck 11 months of the year over there?
If you consider having four seasons in one day.
What's stopping you moving? Don't you make a living off gambling?
Our food in the UK is still ultimately bollocks, and nowhere is that more true than in Glasgow.
The missus. I am working on it.
Glasgow actually has pretty good eating, and I'm not just talking about munchie boxes. But no, it doesn't compare.
It's the lack of a summer I'm also looking to escape.
It would have to be Spain, and Valencia is the only other city that appeals. Madrid probably wins on English speaking job prospects.
Food and weather are intertwined. In January I went to Cádiz for a day and had fresh clams on an outside table with a bottle of white. Was I doing that in Chertsey in January? Was I fuck.
The whole world to choose from, and you want to move to Spain. That’s lol enough, but a motivating factor being ‘job prospects’ seals it.
Nobody wants to live in Spain, not even Spanish people. As far as the job prospects bit, only Greece is worse, but it’s better at literally everything else. But yeah, if you want Southern Europe particularly, then I guess Spain is probably the best bet. I mean, Magic jizzes all over Portugal 3 times a year, but that’s basically just Spain with more expensive, well, everything.
Just go and live in Germany. Plenty warm in the summer, they mandate English speaking in the school as a second language so should have loads of job prospects.
Boat and days off booked for start of June to Wales/England. Still thinking Cornwall but are there any other areas good to spend a week (not cities)? Anyone recommend decent hotels in the SW?
James we're in the top 10 in the WSJ of places to visit. Why wouldn't you want to live here (apart from Waff)?
Look at you angling for a mate. :D
Changed to PM to prevent jealousy.
Valencia on Monday. :)
Any recommendations of specific things I ought to be doing?
Great empty beaches, awesome nightlife by the fountain in the middle of old town, those buildings around the Oceanografic has some insane architecture, great market hall.
And paella.
Maybe I'm out of the loop but:
- Isn't Portugal dead cheap because their economy is thrashed? My mom was recently there and said a mid-range restaurant meal for 3 was about 30 quid with wine etc.
- Since when does any Tech companies reside in Lisbon? Or is Magic just taking the piss?
The massive park / series of parks that loops around Valencia town centre is pretty swish.
Rome was great, would go again but without the cold that wiped me out halfway through each day. Found the best way to cross the road without being killed is to wait about 20 seconds for the next priest to wander across.