Good places to visit in New Europe?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Har har har. Most of them use Euros to so you still have exchange problems however prices will still be lower then western Europe but no where near as low as the mid to late 90's.

Yeah I hear the bargains are not the same way they used to be.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
Prag is a nice place

The ESC (Eurovision Song Contest) will be held in Kiev next year, so you can also go there to see European culture at it's best

EDIT: It's Eurovision Song Contest. Need to pay more attention to the contest and less to Ruslana. ...or maybe not

Ruslana

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Saras
mb, Cork, Dublin, Liverpool, Belfast & Brugges are no longer New Europe. Dubrovnik is not YET new Europe

If Ted ain't been to 'em, they're all NEW to him.


I reject unsound Neo Con Artist geo-political gerrymandering.


Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!

(and your pension plans...)


Ted- try Odessa, but bring a pram, a nanny and a baby.

[Saras]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Ted- try Odessa, but bring a pram, a nanny and a baby.

Cool references to old movies

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Har har har. Most of them use Euros to so you still have exchange problems however prices will still be lower then western Europe but no where near as low as the mid to late 90's.

Rumania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia (other then slovinia), bulgaria, and all of the non baltic state former USSR still use local curriencies but the rest of new Europe is in the single currency.

What are you talking about? None of the ten new EU members use euros yet

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Saras


Cool references to old movies

They don't make them like they used to....all those old Soviet comedy classics.


'End of St. Petersburg', 'The Fall of the Pu- sorry, Romanov, Dynasty', 'Storm over Ukr- , erm, Asia', 'Mother', 'Man With A Movie Camera'.


My, how we laughed, how we cheered.

[Heresson]

There's been a similar thread once. This time, I will write less. But in Poland, it could be Gdansk (Danzig), which I find perhaps the nicest Polish city, Wroclaw (Breslau), Poznan (Posen), Krakow, Gniezno, Plock, Wieliczka perhaps, Malbork - one of the biggest and nicest castles in Europe, Jasna Gora in Czestochowa, Warsaw which is generally an ugly city, but has some nic`e and very nice places, Puszcza Bialowieska which is the only completely natural forest in Europe left, and some more.
I haven't been to many places I;ve heard they are nice...
Like there's a very nice castle in Brzeg which I've always wanted to see...
Unfortunatelly, a lot of places were destroyed during the war, too And many are in a bad state.
Of course, I feel obliged to advertise my hometown, Gliwice. It's a nicest city of Upper Silesian conurbation, but well, that's not any big competition.
Nothing of world importance, perhaps except for the biggest wooden construction in Europe, former radiostation tower, where the ww2 started.

In Czech RP it's Prague, and perhaps Kutna Hora close to it - there's a chapel made of sceletons there. there is at least one similar in Poland as well, but I don't recall where.
As in Poland, there are surely other interesting places. Karlove Vary (Karlsbad) perhaps... But nothing astounding.

In Slovakia, I've heard Lubowla is nice. Bratyslawa, as long as I remember, is not. Slovakian cities I didn't like, but I've only been to some in the northern part, perhaps it's different in the south.
The mountains are nice, but the slopes are not well prepared, at least they weren't when I used to ski there, and I used to ski there many times.

I didn't like Budapest very much except for the parliament, unfortunatelly.

[Traianvs]

Poland is evil. First of all that's where the pope and the bushlovers comes from, and secondly it's where one of my best friends found out that he had a brain tumor (in Krakow!)
Luckily he seems to be okay so I'll visit him anyway, probably delayed till next year tho

[Ted Striker]

Alright, looks like we are off to.........


PRAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!

And also Krakow

[Heresson]

My hometown is on the way from one to the other.
Visit it!

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Ted Striker

And also Krakow

[Gangerolf]

Good choice Ted.

Prague is awesome. I hope to see Krakow this summer.

There are plenty of ways to get from Prague to Krakow too. Actually I just read about someone who took the overnight train. Its a good way to maximize site seeing time and also makes for one less night you have to pay for a hotel room vs travelling by day.

You probably know this but Auschwitz is just outside of Krakow.

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by Heresson
Puszcza Bialowieska which is the only completely natural forest in Europe left,

Is that where all them bisons are?

[Saras]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Alright, looks like we are off to.........


PRAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!

And also Krakow

VILNIUS

[Starchild]

Ignore Oerdin for a bit. None of the new memberstates use Euros yet, though they will begin to in a few years time. As far as I know, they currencies are all still freely floating or possibly in bands around the euro.

Personally, I want to visit Budapest. Loooks loooovely.