Re: Travelling around Europe


Just letting you know that a good website for finding cheap flights to
Estonia is www.FerrisFlights.com.

On 31 Mar, 18:21, "Iceman" <oneofc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 31, 12:57 pm, Markku Grönroos <kur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Iceman" <oneofc...@xxxxxxxxx> kirjoitti
viestissä:1175358245.562310.247...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

For example, if you have already traveled extensively to most of the
major destinations in Europe and the remaining places which you are
most interested in are far apart from one another. What if you've
already seen England, France, Germany and Italy, and want to see
Spain, Greece, Prague, Budapest, and Scandinavia?

I have nothing against such plans. Actually by criss crossing Europe, one
can see how diverse it is in many respect. However, even most experienced
travellers to Europe has touched it only marginally relative to all the
interesting and worth visiting places and sites of Europe. This itinerary
above is possible but never "necessary".

Actually, I find myself traveling more and more to the fringes, having
already been to most of the major destinations in Europe, Asia and the
Middle East, in some cases multiple times. Of course there is a lot
more to see in many of the places I have already been, but when you
don't have a lot of time to travel you have to prioritize.

Actually I find circular routes ideal in many respect.
I think linear routes often make more sense, if you can arrange to fly
into one city and out of another. For the original poster, for
example, going all the way to Portugal and back will take a lot of
time, as will going all the way to Berlin and back.

This is true. I would say the selection of leisure travel destinations are
always arbitrary. Why Portugal, why not sticking to Berlin and it's
surroundings. Or why Berlin, why not cruising solely in the Iberian
peninsula.

Well, if someone has never been to Europe before then they probably
have a lot of places which they really want to see. They're usually
going to want to "do" seven countries in three weeks rather than
spending three weeks in Provence.

And so worth and so worth. Time in use is one factor. Pure greed
another. Greed?

It's not "greed" so much as economics. For example, because of the
weak dollar, a lot of American backpackers are going to Eastern Europe
instead of Western.

Over an year ago I bought four air tickets to cater a route
Tallinn<->Berlin<->Rome. All this by 80.96 euros (tickets had been 13 euros
cheaper if I had had a debit card in hand to pay for them). I had nine days
for travelling and thought that why not. It was primarily the economical
tickets which made me to spend my holiday as I did.

Yes -cheapflightshave opened up a lot of possibilities - middle-
class Londoners can now take frequent weekend trips all over Europe.

In newspapers one can read that Estonia is a popular holiday destination
among the Brits in these days because beer and booze ischeapthere. Well,
what an argument for a trip far away from home.......

They promote Estonia as a destination for packs of young men because
of thecheapstrip clubs and beer, and you can do things like shoot
machine guns and have a crash derby with old Soviet cars. There is
still a lot of history and culture and architecture for those visitors
who want something more than a $0.50 beer and $5 lap dance.


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