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Travel Part 3: Destination Unknown

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Slap shot, you are the resident Philippines expert, right?

I’m going to be doing a project over there for a month next spring. Remote island work. Looks like Romblon or Lubang. Are those areas pretty safe? I’m assuming so but did see another kidnapping of a Brit on a southern island
 
MissThundercat said:
December or January, I'm going back to Ann Arbor for a bit. Mainly just to eat, visit the Ann Arbor Pride Center, and hang with a few friends.

And in the summer next year, I'm looking at either Denver or Orlando (NOT Disney).
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Late August for us - and not Disney either. Cape Canaveral -- hoping for a launch.

And golf.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Slap shot, you are the resident Philippines expert, right?

I’m going to be doing a project over there for a month next spring. Remote island work. Looks like Romblon or Lubang. Are those areas pretty safe? I’m assuming so but did see another kidnapping of a Brit on a southern island
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Both are remote and well south of Manila. With Romblon there are 3 main islands I believe, with Lubang 1 main island but several others.
Both places you're going will have beaches in all directions, should be pretty quite and peaceful overall.

Mindoro is an island between them both and I've heard you might want to say away from that. Mindanao is the region you really want to stay away from (where the Brit was kidnapped) but you're well away from that.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Slap shot, you are the resident Philippines expert, right?

I’m going to be doing a project over there for a month next spring. Remote island work. Looks like Romblon or Lubang. Are those areas pretty safe? I’m assuming so but did see another kidnapping of a Brit on a southern island
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You need Hep B vaccination before you go if you don't have it already. bro les worked for a place that was going to send him without. Not safe. Hep B is endemic in SE Asia.
 
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Uh, I've never met anyone here that has contracted it in the 5 years I've lived here - expats and locals.
 
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I’ll likely be working in clinics so I’ll probably do more than basic traveler vaccinations
 
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Mookie got the buffet of shots before leaving.... hep was suggested if one had the thoughts of visiting India
 
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Just got back from our trip, had a great time.
- Krakow was a nice little town and a good warmup for the rest of the trip. I'm amused by the number of British stag parties.
- Prague is just a gorgeous city. I could walk around there for days. Oddly I was there the same time as the Flyers/Blackhawks game but did not know about it. I kept wondering why so many people we wearing hockey jerseys on their trip.
- Budapest was a fun city, more lived-in that Prague, but the difference in culture made it unique. And the public transit system is awesome there, I was an expert after four days if I do say so.
- Never actually made it to Ljubljana. Adria Airways was supposed to be our airline out of Ljubljana to a layover in Zurich, but went under the first few days of our trip. The best United could do was a trip like 3 days later via an overnight in Istanbul or some **** like that, and that is not a solution. So we though on our feet and did an overnight train to Zurich and got a hotel for a few days there (since our flight to SFO was from there).
- Zurich was very nice too. We did one day around its old town, and then a couple day trips, one to Luzern and one to Vaduz. The Swiss countryside looks exactly like the postcards.
- All of the overnight trains went very well. I'm not going to say we got the most solid sleep in existence, but we did seem to sleep the whole way, so by the time we knew it it was morning and we were in a new city, and that's fine by me. The 1st class in the Czech trains is a little better than 2nd class in Hungarian, given that 2nd class doesn't quite have the right legroom in the bed and I'm 6-2.
 
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French Rage said:
- Krakow was a nice little town and a good warmup for the rest of the trip. I'm amused by the number of British stag parties.
- Prague is just a gorgeous city. .
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.....we saw nothing but brit boys with matching shirts doing just this in prague. mookie had no idea :)
subway in prague was just as strong as budapest. mookie bought metro shirts for budapest for him and girl. daughter wore girl's one day and mookie wore his another. made the transit riding easy :D

booked italy for easter week. rome / florence / venice / milan for 9 nights. think we are gonna do airbnb each city. give it a go and end the marriott train
 
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mookie1995 said:
.....we saw nothing but brit boys with matching shirts doing just this in prague. mookie had no idea :)
subway in prague was just as strong as budapest. mookie bought metro shirts for budapest for him and girl. daughter wore girl's one day and mookie wore his another. made the transit riding easy :D

booked italy for easter week. rome / florence / venice / milan for 9 nights. think we are gonna do airbnb each city. give it a go and end the marriott train
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Yeah I never saw the stag trip t-shirts until this trip. Over here it seems like more of a bachelorette party thing.

What's a metro shirt? Prague's metro is very good I admit, but the whole city is more walkable; Budapest feels more spread out.
 
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T-shirt with the metro map.

Mookie bought Budapest to go with his tube. Would get those everywhere if available :)
Fashion AND useful ;)
 
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