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I’m having fun reading the list of typical rookie mistakes on Bootsnall. It’s an interesting read because it’s a non-accusatory ‘we’ve all done it’ type list. Some favourites: 1. Overplanning. Train from here, flight from here, 3 days here, 2 days there, this hostel, blah blah blah. It never works out like you think it [...]

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as in ~ two and a half hours by car Mom and I went to the King Tut Exhibit in Philadelphia. I went to the outskirts of Philly to visit a friend a few years back but hadn’t been to the city since I was about 8. The exhibit was at the Franklin Institute and [...]

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Unfortunately my luggage isn’t… BA still has no idea where it is, but I can’t imagine it’s going to be lost. There’s nothing that exciting in it. The line was huge at JFK but the staff really tried to keep a sense of humour on a hot, sticky night. Kudos to them. Switzerland was amazing [...]

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In the course of my packing, I decided to clean out my wallet because it’s nearing the point of weighing more than my carry on. Apart from the usual litter of receipts, I have the following: 8.20 Euros. Somewhat deliberate as I changed the notes when I returned to Prague in a futile attempt not [...]

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create your own visited country map or check our Venice travel guide I think I’ve travelled a lot, but then I look at that map and am somewhat unimpressed. Far too much grey space.I could cheat and list the two countries I’ll visit before going home, but Europe is so squished that it’s hard to [...]

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(+15) I still haven’t finished with the photos, but I’m getting there. Speaking of getting there… I arrived at Fiumicino around 4 pm and Italian passport control was easy. He stamped *over* one of my other stamps. I really need to get to the embassy here in Prague to get the extra pages because I’m [...]

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So according to Flight Memory, I’ve flown 112,781 miles since August 2001. I’m not sure whether I expected that to be higher or lower, but I wish there were an equivalent for the bus since apparently the circumfrence of Australia is 10,000 miles and I doubled up in some areas and also went up and [...]

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I’m sure I’m committing heresy by saying this as a New Yorker, but I really dislike the NYC Subway system. Not for the usual reasons you hear: dirtiness, safety, etc. I don’t think either of those are nearly as bad as the media makes them out to be. A quick visual overview: Osaka vs. New [...]

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