Mailed them home, it was like $50 (to mail). Vietnam, specifically Hoi An, has some ridiculously cheap high quality tailors. If anyone goes they should make a point to get at least 1 fitted suit.
My friend in Myanmar has a Bangkok tailor. He wanted to do his bachelor party there and get all of us fitted for something custom for the wedding. His fiance shut that down
Delta refunded me for 100% of the outbound leg of the flight and gave us each a few hundred bucks and 30k miles. Made it to Tokyo - Japan is super awesome.
due to things out of our control we're just going to do one of the round trip 7 day cruises from Seattle, likely Seattle - Sea - Ketchikan - Tracy Arm Fjord - Juneau - Skagway - Inside Passage - Sea - Seattle if its dope like we suspect we'll come back in a few years just us and do a one way cruise North from Seattle then do a week or two on land hitting Glacier etc
If you guys had a day in London and hadn't really made any plans or done any research, what would you go see?
if it's this Saturday I'd go to Craven Cottage to watch Fulham secure a place in the Championship playoffs against Brentford
It's tomorrow. Or technically today. I was spending time getting tickets for Spurs v. Palace instead of planning anything else.
Imo just walk the city. Lines are too long at the main attractions to fit in a day. Maybe Churchill war rooms? Certainly worth your time to walk past Parliament, Westminister, Buckingham, Tower of London, Trafalgar Sq. View of city from Greenwich Observatory is great. Really any of the parks are phenomenal. St James is most touristy but pretty. Hyde is the best but Regents park is nice too. Holland Park has some cool peacocks. Solid walk is take South Kensington station and walknorth past museums and royal albert hall --> check out central hyde park and ponds or walk west towards Kensington Palace/Gardens. Or take Paddington Station then head south through Sussex Gardens to Hude Park to check out Kensington Palace that way. After that walk to Holland Park. Walking the embankment is cool but the Thames isnt as nice as other city centric rivers imo. Battersea Park embankment or Chelsea embankment. Borough Market is cool. Spitalfield Market too. Portobello Road. Bond Street. Get drinks at The Ship in afternoon for sunset. Drinks at the Botanist around 6 for post work vibe. Lunch at Mews of Mayfair or Fish/Chips at Hook in camden town. Gordons Wine Bar has good drinks. Vertigo 42 or Sky Garden if you want a crazy high view (but I would avoid The City). Best restaurants are along Fulham and Kings Road in chelsea. Best bars are in shoreditch (bounce, flight club, kick bar, burdock, etc). As always - dependent on your interests and where youre staying.
We're pretty much set on Tanzania for next year. We're just trying to figure out if we're going to do February for the calving season or August/September to try and see the wildebeest Mara River Crossing. Going to be really expensive but this will be a lifetime type trip. A week in the Serengeti in mobile camps tracking the Great Migration. Got damn.
What have y'all done for travel adapters? Mine has gone to shit and I need a new one for when I go to Europe next month. Should I go ahead and get one here or buy one when I get there? I was thinking just a simple USB wall adapter so I don't have to bring my wall adapter to plug into another adapter.
Hey Brazil bros... I am silly and didn't realize that I needed a travel Visa to go to Brazil until last night. I briefly researched and found that I've gotta submit it to our Consulate. The consulate I'd use is in Houston (8 hour drive from me), so it looks like the best way is to pay a broker fee of $75+. Does this sound familiar or did I misread?
Yep. I had to take my passport in to consulate to get the visa. I have paid brokers to get visas before as well. Worth the cost after I spent 4 hours in line to both drop off and pick up a Visa at the Chinese embassy in NYC.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00B...SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=plug+adapter&psc=1 This one is solid and compact
Get my Italian passport in less than a month. Everyday I sit at my computer researching different cities trying to figure out which ones are most English-speaking friendly.
My first night in bolivia, in Tarifa, I used mine in an outlet. Shocks shot out and the lights flickered and then went out. No one was around so I just changed couches and didn't say a word.
Were you guys using wrong voltage or just jamming plugs in wrong holes? Usually you can only fuck shit up with hair dryers and curling irons that are 110v vs 220v.
Mine was a cheap converter issue I think. After that I just plugged the apple usb plug directly into the wall and never had an issue because they can handle a wide range of voltages.
Nice roller coaster of emotions I was about to get $506 to get bumped from my flight to one five hours later As they were doing it ATL called a ground stop and now I'm delayed longer for free
Update, they suddenly cancelled the ground stop and immediately boarded. And half the flight is at restaurants or something
There were other people doing Croatia soon right? I have a friend who travels the world for a living who sent some awesome recs from himself/some locals. Gonna put them in here regardless but I'll do it Sunday or Monday if people need them now
He was the one I posted about in here a while back that was doing the remote year program. Ended up getting a job with them after completion
BamaNug Room 15 @ anyone else who has been to Argentina. Was using tinder worthwhile in Argentina? Do they use any local apps that are worth getting temporarily when we go down there?
They pretty much only use tinder in BA (or in most of SA for that matter), no bumble or anything else I heard of. And yes, it's worth it, Tinder in BA is full of young hot Latin women.
Thinking about doing that next year. Definitely not doing the Inca. So there's no issues just booking the flight and rolling into Cusco and signing up. Hiking Kilimanjaro next year and will probably do a week long safari in Serengeti or maybe Kruger. Interested to see how yours goes.
Made it out of Morocco to Tel Aviv. Gonna spend about a week around here. Debating whether or not to do Cairo.
Only been here for about 40 hours, but love it so far. Everyone parties on the beach during the day then parlays that into the clubs. Tip: don't arrive on a Friday night because all trains and buses shut down for Shabbat. You get gouged by taxis. Also be aware that Thursday and Fridays are the bigger party nights, while Saturday night is more like their Sunday. Unfortunately the city is really expensive. Beers in a supermarket cost 10 shekels a piece (approx. $3). Kebabs for $12+. Drinks in clubs $12+. Today is their Memorial Day. Tomorrow night starts their Independence Day celebration. Flags are flying everywhere. Pretty pumped that I lucked into this.
I have a window and this couple and their kid are next to me. Me, kid (maybe five), mom, aisle, dad Mom asked me for a favor...how attached am I to my seat? Will I switch with the dad? Am I an asshole for saying no? I'm hungover as fuck and want to nap and I prefer windows. She's been rude to me since and passive aggressively talking to her husband about the situation I refuse to take fault but am willing to be convinced
i can only sleep in window seats and the Dad is right across the aisle? how long is the flight? cause yeah, I don't see any fault on your end imo, if its like a sub 2 hour flight I'd probably just switch tho, but if shes being passive aggressive I'd never switch.
The kid could sit on the aisle and be between his parents. I don't think you're a dick at all for that.
You have every right to say No. This doesnt reach the threshold of some child safety/health matter. I see no problem with her asking, I have a problem with her/him getting pissy for not getting the answer they wanted. Should have booked the right seats originally. Move along.
Yeah I knew you were right after me, I'll have some shit for you. I felt like there was someone else going early may I was gonna help out now if needed