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The Backpacker blog, at the ripe old age of three and a half years, is leaving its old home and moving in to a sharehouse with all the other Fairfax blogs. Sniff. They grow up so fast.
Rather than a bunch of students sitting around the lounge room getting stoned all day though, the new sharehouse will be a lively place of intelligent discussion, important, well thought out arguments, and, um, my blog.
So update your bookmarks, click on the whizz bang new RSS feed, and let's have some fun. New links are:
It all started at the airport, of course. Costs a bomb to get out there almost as much as my bloody flight. Then you have to wait in line forever, the chick behind the counter was rude, and the duty free shopping. Ha! I reckon it'd be cheaper in town.
I don't know why I keep going with these "budget" carriers. Wouldn't know customer service if you hit them over the head with it. You have to pay for water (is that even legal?) fake van cleef alhambra earrings you have to pay for your food, pay to watch something on telly . I hear over in Europe they even want you to pay to go the dunny! And that's once you get past all the hidden charges in the first place. These blokes have got no shame.
I mean, I got to fly to Asia for a couple of hundred bucks, but really, I don't know if it's worth it, all the stuff you have to put up with.
It's not backpackers' snobbery. I don't see anything heroic about not washing your clothes for a month. I don't want to stay in a hostel with paper thin walls just because I like listening to French people arguing.
See, I can appreciate the beauty of 1000 thread count sheets, and I'm quite happy to have a full, luxurious fake van cleef turquoise earrings breakfast delivered to my door. First class seats are fine. Chauffeur driven rides are nice.
But I still honestly believe you'll get more out of a holiday by going budget than by taking the luxury path.
It's a fact of the traveller's life that you're going to get sick while you're on the road. Take all the precautions you want, but it's almost impossible to send strange foreign foodstuffs down your oesophagus without the odd stomach rumble.
Those rumbles can range from the mildly discomforting to the agonising, confine you to your room, make you swear you'll never visit street vendors again pains that can eat up a good chunk of your trip, and become the only stories you wind up telling everyone when you get home.
It's also an annoying irony that these episodes usually occur in the places with the most frightening toilet facilities.
You can get sick from the food anywhere. And there's often nothing wrong with what you're eating in the places you do get sick it's just your body reacting to something it's never encountered before (like vegetables).
However, vans earrings replica some countries are more likely to do you damage than others. I'm not saying you shouldn't visit them. Just, you know, take imodium.
There's so much more to a perfect meal than food. Sure, it has to be good, but spending a few weeks' rent money on a degustation menu full of foamed thingys and deconstructed whatsits isn't going to guarantee culinary nirvana.
I was interested to read the recent announcement of the top 100 restaurants in the world. I've only been to three of them, but if I were to weigh up the closest I've come to eating the perfect meal something I'm not sure even exists none of those would make the list.
So what does a perfect meal require? Good food, definitely. But not necessarily expensive food. It also has to be shared with close friends, in a location with plenty of character, and be washed down with something tasty.
The company is often the key I've had plenty of great meals overseas by myself, but it's much more fun to share it with people you love.
So it's no mean feat to find this "perfect meal". The real joy, though, is in the search. Here's the closest I've come.
It would probably go completely unnoticed by travellers had a bunch of European politicians not met on a riverboat there in 1985 to sign an historic agreement.
There in Schengen, while probably toasting each other with the local drop, members of five European countries West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxembourg agreed to remove border controls between their states, signing off on what would be known as the Schengen Agreement.
It was barely a blip on the radar for Australians back then. Now, however, things have changed.
It used to be easy to "do" Europe. Three or four weeks was all it took, following the well worn trail from London to Paris, on to the Riviera, down to Italy, back up through Switzerland, into Germany, and finishing up in Holland.
Most tour companies still run that route, and for good reason there are easily enough major highlights to keep the first time visitor enthralled.
The Backpacker blog, at the ripe old age of three and a half years, is leaving its old home and moving in to a sharehouse with all the other Fairfax blogs. Sniff. They grow up so fast.
Rather than a bunch of students sitting around the lounge room getting stoned all day though, the new sharehouse will be a lively place of intelligent discussion, important, well thought out arguments, and, um, my blog.
So update your bookmarks, click on the whizz bang new RSS feed, and let's have some fun. New links are:
It all started at the airport, of course. Costs a bomb to get out there almost as much as my bloody flight. Then you have to wait in line forever, the chick behind the counter was rude, and the duty free shopping. Ha! I reckon it'd be cheaper in town.
I don't know why I keep going with these "budget" carriers. Wouldn't know customer service if you hit them over the head with it. You have to pay for water (is that even legal?) fake van cleef alhambra earrings you have to pay for your food, pay to watch something on telly . I hear over in Europe they even want you to pay to go the dunny! And that's once you get past all the hidden charges in the first place. These blokes have got no shame.
I mean, I got to fly to Asia for a couple of hundred bucks, but really, I don't know if it's worth it, all the stuff you have to put up with.
It's not backpackers' snobbery. I don't see anything heroic about not washing your clothes for a month. I don't want to stay in a hostel with paper thin walls just because I like listening to French people arguing.
See, I can appreciate the beauty of 1000 thread count sheets, and I'm quite happy to have a full, luxurious fake van cleef turquoise earrings breakfast delivered to my door. First class seats are fine. Chauffeur driven rides are nice.
But I still honestly believe you'll get more out of a holiday by going budget than by taking the luxury path.
It's a fact of the traveller's life that you're going to get sick while you're on the road. Take all the precautions you want, but it's almost impossible to send strange foreign foodstuffs down your oesophagus without the odd stomach rumble.
Those rumbles can range from the mildly discomforting to the agonising, confine you to your room, make you swear you'll never visit street vendors again pains that can eat up a good chunk of your trip, and become the only stories you wind up telling everyone when you get home.
It's also an annoying irony that these episodes usually occur in the places with the most frightening toilet facilities.
You can get sick from the food anywhere. And there's often nothing wrong with what you're eating in the places you do get sick it's just your body reacting to something it's never encountered before (like vegetables).
However, vans earrings replica some countries are more likely to do you damage than others. I'm not saying you shouldn't visit them. Just, you know, take imodium.
There's so much more to a perfect meal than food. Sure, it has to be good, but spending a few weeks' rent money on a degustation menu full of foamed thingys and deconstructed whatsits isn't going to guarantee culinary nirvana.
I was interested to read the recent announcement of the top 100 restaurants in the world. I've only been to three of them, but if I were to weigh up the closest I've come to eating the perfect meal something I'm not sure even exists none of those would make the list.
So what does a perfect meal require? Good food, definitely. But not necessarily expensive food. It also has to be shared with close friends, in a location with plenty of character, and be washed down with something tasty.
The company is often the key I've had plenty of great meals overseas by myself, but it's much more fun to share it with people you love.
So it's no mean feat to find this "perfect meal". The real joy, though, is in the search. Here's the closest I've come.
It would probably go completely unnoticed by travellers had a bunch of European politicians not met on a riverboat there in 1985 to sign an historic agreement.
There in Schengen, while probably toasting each other with the local drop, members of five European countries West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxembourg agreed to remove border controls between their states, signing off on what would be known as the Schengen Agreement.
It was barely a blip on the radar for Australians back then. Now, however, things have changed.
It used to be easy to "do" Europe. Three or four weeks was all it took, following the well worn trail from London to Paris, on to the Riviera, down to Italy, back up through Switzerland, into Germany, and finishing up in Holland.
Most tour companies still run that route, and for good reason there are easily enough major highlights to keep the first time visitor enthralled.
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