Re: A Thread for Travel: Trips/Advice/Ideas
A couple of items for those that might be going overseas. Your passport is valuable on the black market. Be careful with it, and make a photo copy of the first page with your picture and keep that copy separate from the rest of your documents. then if it gets stolen, you can go to the American counsel and get a new one quite quick. this is important at times.
second,
second make sure someone knows where you are going to be and put contact information inside your bags.
Third, if you go to Holland. a coffee shop is where you go to buy weed, not coffee or food. A cafe is where you go to actually eat.
If you go to Greece, sometimes the cabs do not tell you how much they charge and it's kind of more than you thought when you get there. Get the hotel guys to find you a cab and negotiate the fare for you ahead of time.
Also if you rent a car in Greece, the gas stations out in the rural areas often do not take credit cards. chip kind or otherwise.
The biggest crime in Europe is pick pockets. it's worst in crowed places. the Agora shops in Athens, the subway in Amsterdam, London, Paris, anywhere in Naples. you get the picture. Also if you like art, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is fabulous.
A couple of items for those that might be going overseas. Your passport is valuable on the black market. Be careful with it, and make a photo copy of the first page with your picture and keep that copy separate from the rest of your documents. then if it gets stolen, you can go to the American counsel and get a new one quite quick. this is important at times.
second,
second make sure someone knows where you are going to be and put contact information inside your bags.
Third, if you go to Holland. a coffee shop is where you go to buy weed, not coffee or food. A cafe is where you go to actually eat.
If you go to Greece, sometimes the cabs do not tell you how much they charge and it's kind of more than you thought when you get there. Get the hotel guys to find you a cab and negotiate the fare for you ahead of time.
Also if you rent a car in Greece, the gas stations out in the rural areas often do not take credit cards. chip kind or otherwise.
The biggest crime in Europe is pick pockets. it's worst in crowed places. the Agora shops in Athens, the subway in Amsterdam, London, Paris, anywhere in Naples. you get the picture. Also if you like art, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is fabulous.
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