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DrPepperMan
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John Galt wrote:Kinetic wrote:I'm currently living in a city called Dalian in NE China:
I was actually looking at doing a teaching placement in Dalian this summer. I decided against it as they wanted a load of commitment without giving a lot of details first. It's cold there in the winter from what I remember reading.
When do you finish your year in China? If I do end up doing my little trip (which I really want to) then I'd probably be going as soon as I finish Uni: around the middle of June. It's far from definite but if I do go then would you be up for travelling some more with me?
I've played on the Dalian map from Battlefield 2. Sadly that doesn't count in visiting the place!
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Mini E
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DrPepperMan wrote:The only problem I have with going to Russia mainly Moscow is I would rather visit the place with someone that has lived in Moscow and speaks the language. I have heard stories about the police and would feel better with a local. Also they would know the best places to go/eat etc.
I'd definitely advise not doing moscow by yourself. Some parts of it (i suppose... like any city... but more so) aare extremely dodgy. I would not walk around by myself there. The police are extremely dodgy. I've heard a lot of friends who are russian and live there talking about problems they've had with police bribing/threatening them.
Lovely place if you go to the right bits though. Red square and the surrounding half mile in each direction is simply stunning in the sun
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tomvek
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AerisHime
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Guess I have been boring so far.
Been to:
Russia (Moscow, Aleksin)
Germany (Berlin...obviously...and around, Frankfurt (both), Blackforest, Bavaria, Baltic Sea, Northern Sea, Saxony/Leipzig, Bonn)
Austria
Switzerland
Italy (North and middle, never south...)
England
Ireland (NI and RoI)
Wales
Mallorca (
how very German..)
New Jersey & NYC
edit: I forgot to mention:
Czech Republic
Poland
Where I'd like to go:
the whole wide world. including scotland and Norwich.
(only those having listened to Bill Bailey and Anne Dudley will know what I mean
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Trips that are actually planned to go through with a friend...to a certain extent:
London - Moscow; transsib to Irkutsk and go to the lake... then continue on the transsib to Vladivostok, back to London
London - Alexandria; buy a car and hike down to Johannesbourg (sp?); sell it and fly back to london
London - US east coast; buy a car (again), drive to the west coast (kerouac ftw!); sell car, fly to Alaska and somehow get over to canada. Might skip alaska though, if that is impossible. Fly back to London.
Trip through south-east asia (malaysia); possible route: thailand and southwards
Trip through india
similar trip through australia (buy/sell car).
This is going to cover a few years....
at the moment we're only planning on doing it ourselves (just her and me), to keep the flirt options as high as possible, but we might need a car mechanic. at least when i think of what I recall from the Top Gear special episodes
Been to:
Russia (Moscow, Aleksin)
Germany (Berlin...obviously...and around, Frankfurt (both), Blackforest, Bavaria, Baltic Sea, Northern Sea, Saxony/Leipzig, Bonn)
Austria
Switzerland
Italy (North and middle, never south...)
England
Ireland (NI and RoI)
Wales
Mallorca (
how very German..)New Jersey & NYC
edit: I forgot to mention:
Czech Republic
Poland
Where I'd like to go:
the whole wide world. including scotland and Norwich.
(only those having listened to Bill Bailey and Anne Dudley will know what I mean
)Trips that are actually planned to go through with a friend...to a certain extent:
London - Moscow; transsib to Irkutsk and go to the lake... then continue on the transsib to Vladivostok, back to London
London - Alexandria; buy a car and hike down to Johannesbourg (sp?); sell it and fly back to london
London - US east coast; buy a car (again), drive to the west coast (kerouac ftw!); sell car, fly to Alaska and somehow get over to canada. Might skip alaska though, if that is impossible. Fly back to London.
Trip through south-east asia (malaysia); possible route: thailand and southwards
Trip through india
similar trip through australia (buy/sell car).
This is going to cover a few years....
at the moment we're only planning on doing it ourselves (just her and me), to keep the flirt options as high as possible, but we might need a car mechanic. at least when i think of what I recall from the Top Gear special episodes
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Rightey
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Well screw Japan, I just found out they take your fingerprints when you enter their country, apparently it's an "anti-terrorism" measure 
Pelloki on ghosts wrote:Just start masturbating furiously. That'll make them go away.
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AerisHime
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Mini E wrote:Well if anyone wants any info on Moscow or St petersburg.. feel free to drop a PM =)
you been there? 
I grew up in Moscow for a while before we moved to Berlin... and Rightey:
don't the USA require the very same?
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Rightey
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AerisHime wrote:and Rightey:
don't the USA require the very same?
They still haven't implemented it, at least I don't think they have. Just a few years ago you could cross the border with just a Canadian drivers license.
Pelloki on ghosts wrote:Just start masturbating furiously. That'll make them go away.
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John Galt
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Rightey wrote:AerisHime wrote:and Rightey:
don't the USA require the very same?
They still haven't implemented it, at least I don't think they have. Just a few years ago you could cross the border with just a Canadian drivers license.
Maybe for Canadians, but I've just been to the US and they take a full set of finger prints on both hands and take your photo.
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Pontius Pilate
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Me and my pal, were half going to the nearest airport and buying the cheapest flights to anywhere, the other night Our plans were foiled when I remembered my passport had ran out 
It's definitely something I wanna do tho...Especially so I could phone my mum - "Hi maw...Ain't comming home for dinner, I'm in Ukraine. 
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Our plans were foiled when I remembered my passport had ran out It's definitely something I wanna do tho...Especially so I could phone my mum - "Hi maw...Ain't comming home for dinner, I'm in Ukraine. "
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AerisHime
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Ryan0rz wrote:Me and my pal, were half going to the nearest airport and buying the cheapest flights to anywhere, the other night
Two recommendations for you:
"You shall know our velocity" by Dave Eggers (they do exactly that) and
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac...I practically inhaled those books
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Pontius Pilate
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AerisHime wrote:Ryan0rz wrote:Me and my pal, were half going to the nearest airport and buying the cheapest flights to anywhere, the other night
Two recommendations for you:
"You shall know our velocity" by Dave Eggers (they do exactly that) and
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac...I practically inhaled those books
I'll check them out sometime! Maybe after I return from anywhere
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Rightey
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John Galt wrote:Rightey wrote:AerisHime wrote:and Rightey:
don't the USA require the very same?
They still haven't implemented it, at least I don't think they have. Just a few years ago you could cross the border with just a Canadian drivers license.
Maybe for Canadians, but I've just been to the US and they take a full set of finger prints on both hands and take your photo.
Apparently they only do that if you fly into the country.
Pelloki on ghosts wrote:Just start masturbating furiously. That'll make them go away.
