Re: European Travel for Students

In article <mjnfm1pa0023d2quge3evag5k9eg7gmisi@xxxxxxx>, B
Vaughan<me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:02:35 -0600, erilar
> <erilarloFRY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I suppose that's good if you like to wait until the last minute to
> >decide where you're going to sleep and don't mind lugging around a heavy
> >book that will tell you where everyone else is sleeping.
>
> I usually sleep in a place where at least some other people are
> sleeping. A half empty hotel or hostel is usually a bad omen, in my
> experience.
And you can tell that in advance? What I thought I was implying was
that these places may be full.
>
> > Personally,
> >I'm one of those odd people who plans ahead, and some of the hostels I
> >prefer to use are too popular to get into for those who don't.
>
> Oh, in other words they're places where everybody else is sleeping?

Castles. I've been unable to book a bed in a castle hostel months in
advance. And I LIKE to plan in advance.
>
> I also plan ahead but I refuse to cast my itinerary in stone months in
> advance.

I do. Planning is half the fun for me.

> On the other hand, it may be that English-only sites have
> >less information.
>
> You certainly seem to have pegged me, right down to my standards of
> cleanliness and my command of foreign languages. You see what the mere
> mention of Let's Go leads people to assume? I believe I've proved my
> point.

I have nothing against Let's Go in particular, nor English sites. I just
like to plan ahead and NOT carry extra weight. My travel guides of
choice are Baedecker--but I don't carry them along; I just copy the
pages about my route and destinations.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument
is that reason doesn't count. Isaac Asimov

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