If one night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble, what do you think two nights would do? Only time will tell. spicy flight to bangkok thailand I flew to Thailand from Amsterdam via Moscow. I had a spicy flight, where somewhere over the Ukraine border the Russian pilot said “put on your seat belts, […]
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No, I didn’t just make up the word Efteling. It is the name of a fan-fricken-tastic amusement park in the Netherlands. It’s based on the Brothers Grimm fairy-tales. Now, you may think oh but I am just simply too old to go to a fairy-tale amusement park. WRONG. Well, mostly wrong. efteling rides There is
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Replace funny with horrible and let’s get started. So housing in the capital is a nightmare. I personally have moved 8 times in 5 years. Some places were overpriced and waaaay outside the city centre about a 40 min bike ride. After being here for so long I only know distances in bike riding minutes.
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Ever book a trip and think, this must be a scam? Prices so low even yo cheap ass thinks it’s too good to be true? I am talking about a 300 euro all-inclusive vacation for one week to Sicily: flight (from Amsterdam), hotel, transfer, food and drink. sicily all inclusive It was so chilly in
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My friend and I were in the second month of our year-long Australian working holiday visa slumming it up and we decided we needed jobs. After looking for 5 minutes online and knowing we are dainty human beings not geared for manual labour we came to the conclusion that we should pick fruit. We decided
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The rumours are true. I hopped on my flight from Sydney to Shanghai on a Wednesday evening. I sat in my assigned seat and hoped, as I do every flight, that no one would sit next to me. I waited. As the cabin doors closed, excitement fluttered through me. Not only did no one sit
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If you have been even REMOTELY one of the following plane personas or know someone who is currently, give them or yourself a smack. Curious George on planes It’s as dark as the 6th Harry Potter film inside the plane. You are ecstatic. You grab your earplugs and position the headrest corners perfectly. Your cheek lightly brushes the curved headrest which
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I was 25 and that is the last age that you get a discount on Eurail train tickets so I bought one. Seeing as I was still considered a “youth”, I was free of all responsibilities and if I said or did dumb things it was okay. (I am sure someone else besides me thinks that statement
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Leading up to your travels, your departure date is ingrained in your memory like an over-rehearsed show. You can’t accelerate quick enough to play through the grounded days separating you from your final bow. Years later, you may even be able to recall the exact date of your first travel matinee. Once you step onto
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American child actors. I didn’t know that was a thing until I met one in Spilt, Croatia who happened to star in some chocolate bar commercial… That Milky Way led him straight into a cocaine habit. Apparently, that one commercial years prior made him enough money to travel around Europe for some time while enjoying his
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