I've seen 4 people on a scooter before in Asia.
What are the most surprising things you have found while traveling?
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And buying groceries and cooking at your vacation rental. Did you hit any McD’s or KFCs while you were there?
That was also surprising to me. Men and women, dressed for work or dressed for the beach, are on scooters or small motorcycles everywhere. At first they annoyed me cutting in front of us, but then I realized they were doing everyone a favor by squeezing through to not create a log jam.
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Many moons ago in my younger days, but generally speaking nude beaches fall well short of expectations.
Self loathing…you sound like a lot of fun
This wouldn't rank up there with what some have seen internationally, but I came across a cemetery located within the roundabout of the intersection between 2 county roads in Warren County, Indiana. I was looking for an alternate route home from working in the area for several weeks and just came across this. It is thought that this may have been at one time an ancient Native American burial mound as it rises up about 30 feet from the surrounding countryside. Besides these photos, there is a link below for those who may be interested in learning more.
Mound Cemetery
Mound Cemetery
It is usually fat old ladies but on this past trip, wowsers there was an incredible set of knockers a few lounge chairs away for all to see on a beach where everyone else but her and her friends were wearing tops. Her friends should have kept their tops on.
Thank you for your perspective.
Was at a Sandals in Jamaica a few years back and every day this lady about 50 years old with a rock hard body came down to the pool with her big old fat husband, they acted like they had money. She would get hammered every day by the pool, smoke a cigar in the afternoon with nothing on but a g string. Nice knockers. Best I got.
That's painting with a pretty broad brush because there is a lot of great food in our country.
Meaning Eastern Europeans do a lot of manual labor and service jobs for Western Europeans. I will say, the amount of Africans and Middle Easterners doing same kind of work has increased recently as that migration route gets busier.
Burgers are big in England and Ireland, but steaks aren't nearly as common, poor cuts, and terribly overpriced wherever we did find one. Didn't understand why the ground beef vs steak gap is wider in price there, but whatever.
Also, being from Iowa and raised on grain-fed beef, never really realized how stark of a difference it makes versus grass-fed.
Also, being from Iowa and raised on grain-fed beef, never really realized how stark of a difference it makes versus grass-fed.
We used to own a place on Roatan (island off the coast of, and part of, Honduras); it was in a little development that was mostly owned by Americans & Euros, and was primarily vacation places that were rented out when not in use by owners. The property manager and the island police chief had an "understanding" - on weekends one of them was to be reserved for use by the chief and his side piece. When they weren't getting along, he'd still use it & would have a big, drunken party with some of his buddies. Needless to say, you didn't bother complaining about the noise.
The quality of fresh vegetables at restaurants in Italy is outstanding Tomatoes taste homegrown. No need to change dollars to colones in Costa Rica, most accept credit cards, small businesses that don't will accept dollars and give you colones for change. Finally, Costa Rican food is not good, imo. I am not picky and like authentic food in Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Peru. Costa Rica is the exception.
Loved the Swan lager beer in Perth Australia but hated the cold morning in the hotels. Breakfast was eaten in the kitchens.
You are an idiot. Most any court proceeding involves bribing the judge in Ukraine. What is wrong with some of you. If youd ever been in court there youd know. Oh I get your a mad Dem whose brain was damaged by Covid shots. You mad.
He’s on my ignore list. Viewed his post as an exception. Ragrats.
The "commerce" in Aruba was staggering. Blow was everywhere. I had a guy drop a free bump on our table in a pretty nice ocean-side restaurant. Mexico wasn't far behind. Maybe I just had the retired rock drummer vibe...I dunno.
It’s not our fault that our giant country, the size of a continent, decided to have separate states under one nation, and not 50 different countries instead. Imagine Iowans speaking a different language than people in Wisconsin. That’s basically Germany and France by comparison.
Europe hasn’t discover ice for drinks.
Airports in Europe are generally nice but absolutely packed.
Roundabouts are fantastic.
Airports in Europe are generally nice but absolutely packed.
Roundabouts are fantastic.
Our military per-diem covered the Australian steaks, 3 meals a day if we wanted, very cheap compared to other countries we were in. A big surprise.
Saw surprisingly more ice in England recently, but generally yes, ice is rare. Draft beer is cold though unless it's the ales at cellar temperature.
Airports are airports, nothing fancy IMO. Drives me crazy that they don't announce gates at Heathrow until an hour before the flight, and when they did it was a full 20 min walk, escalators but no moving walkways or trams, and my flight was already boarding by the time I got there.
Air conditioning is rare to non-existent as well, and what's there doesn't work nearly as well as in the US.
Drove in Ireland some, roundabouts and driving on the left side in general got very interesting, but ok so long as I was following traffic. The worst part was some VERY tight roads, sometimes about a car and a half wide, with tour buses and big trucks flying around corners. I'm amazed I didn't wreck. Never drove in Germany, at least it's the right side, but the motorways in general and the no speed limit sections of the autobahn there is next level.
I like the no tipping culture in most EU countries.
Big smoking culture though at outdoor cafes, kinda sucks to sit down next to someone who is smoking even outdoors.
The airports are freaking packed with crappy sitting areas.
Someone mentioned CDG airport above I’ve been through there and Amsterdam several times And I would choose Amsterdam over CDG simply due to the transit time through CDG between international and domestic connections, what a night mare that airport is.
The train system in Italy is simply amazing. High speed rail between all major cities. The Roundabouts in France are awesome and keep traffic moving. The US could learn a lot from EU in terms of efficiency.
The biking culture in Amsterdam is awesome and a really cool way to get around.
While most major cities people speak English, if you get off the beaten path you will quickly run into people who don’t speak English which makes for an enjoyable experience to try to figure it out. The people where nice and accommodating.
All translations between languages from one country to another seem to come back to English when they can’t understand each other. I witnessed this many times.
The best fast burger I’ve ever had was in Brazil. And best restaurant burger was at a restaurant in São Paulo airport. The beef in Brazil is pretty outstanding.
Mayo and fries is the way to go. Fricken ketchup sucks anyway.
England and London has some really outstanding Indian food restaurants.
Big smoking culture though at outdoor cafes, kinda sucks to sit down next to someone who is smoking even outdoors.
The airports are freaking packed with crappy sitting areas.
Someone mentioned CDG airport above I’ve been through there and Amsterdam several times And I would choose Amsterdam over CDG simply due to the transit time through CDG between international and domestic connections, what a night mare that airport is.
The train system in Italy is simply amazing. High speed rail between all major cities. The Roundabouts in France are awesome and keep traffic moving. The US could learn a lot from EU in terms of efficiency.
The biking culture in Amsterdam is awesome and a really cool way to get around.
While most major cities people speak English, if you get off the beaten path you will quickly run into people who don’t speak English which makes for an enjoyable experience to try to figure it out. The people where nice and accommodating.
All translations between languages from one country to another seem to come back to English when they can’t understand each other. I witnessed this many times.
The best fast burger I’ve ever had was in Brazil. And best restaurant burger was at a restaurant in São Paulo airport. The beef in Brazil is pretty outstanding.
Mayo and fries is the way to go. Fricken ketchup sucks anyway.
England and London has some really outstanding Indian food restaurants.
McDonalds in Europe is far superior to McDonalds in the U.S.
