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For the record, Paris is my absolute favorite city in the world, but I'm looking for a place where I've yet to travel.
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The problem with Prague is that I don't speak a word of Czech and am not going to have the time to learn much.Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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I wouldn't worry about that too much. The Praguers who I met didn't take it as an affront to speak English, unlike in southern Germany (where it wasn't too bad, but still you could tell they didn't like it).I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I didn't speak a word either and I did OK ... just buy a simple phrase book and you'll be fine. It's all part of the adventure.Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The problem with Prague is that I don't speak a word of Czech and am not going to have the time to learn much.If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.Comment
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Most of these things you can easily find in Berlin. Also the food-thing shouldn´t be a big problem. The center of the city has enough restaurants, many of them offer at least vegetarian alternatives.Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Well, here's what I'm looking for:
Historical sites to visit.
Cultural locations (museums/opera/symphonies)
Beautiful/interesting terrain/architecture
Good nightlife (clubs)
Friendly, helpful people.
Food is also an issue. As a mostly-vegetarian, I may have problems in Germany, I think...
Cultural places: no problem, State Opera, lots of museums etc, etc. same goes for nightlife
Architecture: well, yes as Buck said, the old things are mainly Prussian, but I wouldn´t say it is all ugly (at least newer building here are more ugly IMO). You could also make a short trip from Berlin to Potsdam (ca. 20-30 min. by car) and visit Sanssouci, a typical Rokoko palace. But Berlin itself, due to the big destructions in WWII, is not as nice as other european cities.
People: that differs a lot, the classical cliche for people in Berlin is "at first unfriendly, but they have a very friendly core", means when you only meet people on the street they appear often very unfriendly at the beginning. However, that is not generally true, and esp. not for younger people.BlahComment
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It's probably far safer for an American in the worst German neighborhoods than it is to be a German tourist in America.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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And you can have sex with kidnapped children, legally. Prague, center of evil in Europe.Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
To summarise: PraguePraguePraguePragueChristianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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PLEASE don't choose Prague, I've been there 3 times with 4 different friends and they've been robbed by young kids in the street markets at least once
I place my bucks inside my shoes when abroad so who cares about peasants
If you don't care about travelling in the kraut/escargotland I'd choose:
Trier
Leipzig
Munchen
Dresden
Strasbourg
Lyon
Nice
If, again, you don't mind coming to see "la famiglia" I'd suggest:
Torino (awesome place, VERY underrated)
Florence
Rome- aye I like romans
I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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you really don´t have to be afraid coming to germany, boris. we only eat west coast guys.
seriously, i should be worried about a thread like this. I didn´t even take one year for people becoming afraid travelling to germany. on the other side I will postpone my plan travelling to the US. actually I wanted to go there this year. but now I am afraid about getting arrested immediately at the airport.
prejudices, prejudices.
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Well dammit, that's one of the things I'm looking for.Originally posted by oedo
you really don´t have to be afraid coming to germany, boris. we only eat west coast guys.
I think the same should be said here, then. I don't think a German tourist would encounter any problems in the U.S., at least certainly not in New York City or other major cities.seriously, i should be worried about a thread like this. I didn´t even take one year for people becoming afraid travelling to germany. on the other side I will postpone my plan travelling to the US. actually I wanted to go there this year. but now I am afraid about getting arrested immediately at the airport.
prejudices, prejudices.
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Then they should have better coffee.Originally posted by paiktis22
actually i hear that Berlin is a **** town with the most inhospitable people you could find in Germany.
Oh and it's a turkish town really.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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I recommend you watch a lot of German porn before you go so you will know how to greet people in the street.
"Ja, hallo Herr Hummermeister und Frau Liezbianlichker. Ich bien ein, how do you say, naughty boi. Please to be spanking me now?"Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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Stories like this one certainly don't help matters though.Originally posted by oedo
seriously, i should be worried about a thread like this. I didn´t even take one year for people becoming afraid travelling to germany.
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Come on, some years ago, when a German tourist was killed in Florida (not of political reasons), noone here thought that the entire US is hunting tourists from that time on.....
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