Super Marek wins with a head kick TKO in the second round.
Super Marek wins with a head kick TKO in the second round.
Mahow, you could really write a superb series of travelogues if you wanted to. Volume 1: Ukraine, Volume 2: Thailand, what's next? Abkhazia? West Virginia?
Yev is one of the white guys in the new White Lotus. It all makes sense.Originally Posted by Yevrah
The departure section is like a little shopping mall in the US but a lot more chilled.
The free snacks and drinks a nice touch too.
Madeira was good. Funchal is nice but you can do it all in an afternoon. The cable car and the toboggan bollocks was alright, and the Ronaldo museum was proper lol but only a few euros to get into so worth a look. It is replicas of the all Champions' Leagues, Premierships, etc. that he has won along with what must surely be replicas of his individual trophies. I say surely because you would expect him to have his Golden Boots and that in his house, but I'm prepared to accept that the Barclays Player of the Month and whatever award some Madrid newspaper gave him were the real deal. It was the only place on the island that I say any concentration of Indians (presumably working on the cruise ships), which makes me think its primary purpose is to serve as the island's fly paper.
Hiring a car and driving around was the highlight, and with the benefits of hindsight another day doing that would have been worthwhile to do the Eastern side of the island as well. You can just drive around in the hills and the views from random stopping points were all spectacular.
I can’t be arsed looking for anywhere new and Croatia was good last year so I’ve booked it again. Same hotel and all.
Still have to inform herself
I'm going there this year - any tips?
Going for a few days in Dubrovnik, Hvar and Split
I stayed in Cavtat, nice and quiet and took the boat a couple of days to Dubrovnik. Can’t offer any real tips sorry, we just basically mooched for a week. There was a surprisingly nice Sushi place in the old Dubrovnik town, as I thought everything there would be tat, and there’s a small craft brewery in Dubrovnik does real nice bar food.
The sushi place one of the first few restaurants on the right you come to after doing the full walk of the walls now that I think of it.
Proper 90s father directions.
"What's the street name?"
"Count four speed bumps and after the Pepsi sign turn left."
*Irish.
Past the stone wall after Joe's field and third on your right. No, not young Joe's field, his father Joe's other field, the one where the horses used to be. No, not Joe's horses, Declan's horses, so they were.
Yeah, and they work: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...sses-1.2289890
I was in that London over the weekend and came across the excellently named Mincing Lane and if that wasn't good enough it was followed up with the even better named Seething Lane 50 yards down the road. Nearly stopped to take a pic for future use of the latter.
I'll see if I spot them when I'm down there at the weekend.
London seems canny so far, although I was nearly crushed in Southwark by the sheer popularity of the market.
Homelessness is there but the place doesn't stink like the major US cities do. Plus there's loads or ornate fancy buildings.
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How have you never been to London before?
Did Mahow ever come back or does Bangkok have him now?
I've barely had the urge to. I'd connect through Heathrow for flights further afield but never stopped in the city.
London doesn’t have the appeal I think many thinks it does. If I hadn’t gone for work a decade ago for a few weeks and roamed I wouldn’t have been because I wouldn’t have chosen to myself. way too busy.
It's definitely packed in a way old streets can't handle. Tomorrow's going to be insufferable.
I did come back.
I liked Thailand a lot but it wasn't for me and I wouldn't go again.
How can you like somewhere a lot but it not be for you? Genuinely interested rather than that being a dig btw.
I enjoyed my holiday but I wouldn't go again.
I didn't like the smell it was a heady mix of weed and durian both smells I dislike on their own and together they were an assault at times.
It was too crowded in places and there were far too many Brits. I could have gone to other areas which weren't as touristy, especially with Brits which would have helped with that but oh well.
I did like the food (although despite always saying "spicy" I never had anything that blew my head off unless I kept adding chillies/sauces/dips myself), the people were friendly and I saw and experienced a lot of things that I never have before and likely wont again.
Edit: Actually, having thought about it the Brits were mostly fine. The Russians were bad though.
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I've been thinking all week about how many near misses I've seen on London's roads. Turns out a van has smashed into some pedestrians on The Strand.
I'm in (at?) Efteling in the Low Countries. Quality place, even if the roads of these lands are entirely impervious to satellite navigation. Damn thing kept changing its mind interminably. Had no idea there would also be so many cool houses in and about both Holland and perhaps even more surprisingly Belgium. Would definitely be up for some kind of cycling tour of the brewery lands around Westvleteren.
Italy next month. How stupid would I be to attempt driving over there?
It's fine.
I'd suggest breaking it up into manageable parts (and/or have someone else so you can switch) as it will make it more enjoyable.
Me and my Mum drove from Bologna and it was grand, I did most of the stuff in and around the Alps as my Mum is scared of driving at altitude but I don't have a problem with it.
I'm on a tight schedule so I'll be just around Milan.
I've known a few people who have done Poland which is 19 hours or so stopping only for food/petrol/toilet.
Obviously you're going to be doing more than that but you'll have two ferries/one ferry and a channel tunnel.
How long are you going for too? I'd probably suggest not bothering if it's sub 2 weeks personally.
I'm in Munich this week. I've been here many times and never has it felt more like a country in a steep decline. All the talk is of the car industry collapsing and the Chinese taking over, the streets are dirty, the infrastructure is barely working. I'd like to say it feels like home but honestly, even current Britain feels more optimistic than this.
Unless you mean driving from Ireland, it's fine. Italy is quite entertaining to drive in, not sure anywhere is worse to drive in than Britain generally. The Dutch and Belgians do seem to be fond of massive far left lane to far right lane after a junction switches though.
The Dutch and Belgians sound like the Irish. So long as they also bomb from lane 3 to exit as well.
The inner cities are the only place you’d ever have an issue with.
I’m not sure what’s most efficient but while driving try make the most of that pass through the peaks between Switzerland and Italy. It’s a truly beautiful thing to experience, especially in the spring/summer.
Not a Munich I've experienced. Anyway come to Frankfurt and have some skag with me.
I didn't have Keeks and Jimmy doing heroin together on my 2025 bingo card.
It's the tariffs.
On skag specifically?
Driving was fine after apart from working out how the tolls work. Hats off to Bergamo airport too, runs like a machine compared to all the shit show Italian airports I've been in before.
Spent a couple of days in Maastricht and then the weekend in Copenhagen.
The former is a strange but cool mix of Dutch, Belgian and German architecture. Some good bars and restaurants too.
Copenhagen is a cracking place. Very much up there on my list of places to consider living now
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