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Whats up every one.

And where are the best girls at in Europe we have been watching a lot of Entertainment tonight so were learning but any advice?

Well, if this is a real post, my best advice is to stay in summer school, learn to spell "college", practice writing words like "everyone" as compound words, work on subject-verb agreement ("things… is"?) and develop a few intellectual interests (History? Music? Art? Architecture is a manly-man sort of interest.) It’s a long way to travel only to spend thousands of very weak dollars on beer and women, stuff you could maybe find at home – at a place like college. Do you go to an all-men’s Christian school or something?

But I’d lay good money that this post is just bait.

Three cheers for Russ.

If you’re good-looking, keep your mouth shut and stick with your looks in Europe because once you open it, you’ll have detonated your social demise.

If you’re not good-looking, just stay home and buy girls drinks. You’ll save money and disappointment.

Russ
thanks for your thoughts and CU is a great college but I think you should worry about your self. Maybe get a social life, maybe try to get a friend or maybe meet a girl. And I will worry about the way I spell things you enormous dick head. Your other note bout history and art thats cool thats why we have the history channel!!! And u know if you travel around to places. You would want to have a good time, hang out, meet people.

Thanks DD for the advice!

For a couple grand, I’d say rent a car and drive, because you can cover a lot more ground and save on hotel fees if you sleep in the car. There are plenty of beaches along the coasts to keep you relatively… fresh. Also, a car lets you get off the main roadways where you can find cheaper hotels and see some really neat things.

Imagine a pickup line like "so, we drove through Andorra in the Pyranese and I found the little church in Rennes Le Chateau…" We’re talking impressive sights balanced with the freedom to go to the bars you want to.

The only downside is driving on the main highways is faster, but also costs money on the frequent tolls.

From my younger days, I heartily recommend at least two days in Paris, with one day in the Louvre (trust me, Parisian women are beautiful and appreciate the more artistic side).

Do you speak French, Italian or German? Locals are much more favorable if you open a conversation with a few words in their native tongue, and it makes for a good conversation starter, too. http://www.worldtrav… has a few words in the native languages that may help, country by country.

Good luck!
James…

quote:Russ thanks for your thoughts and CU is a great college but I think you should worry about your self. Maybe get a social life, maybe try to get a friend or maybe meet a girl. And I will worry about the way I spell things you enormous dick head.

Great way to get on people’s good side, plus it shows you’re an advanced critical thinker, resorting to the emotional rather than the rational. Your arguments against him would be better if you were a little more objective.

quote:Your other note bout history and art thats cool thats why we have the history channel!!! And u know if you travel around to places. You would want to have a good time, hang out, meet people.

Thanks DD for the advice!

The history channel is probably the bane of the "collage" professors existance. Who would want to pay thousands of dollars a year for an educated individual to teach you something when for $15 a month you have the information super highway and the history channel?

Now on to your initial question. I’d suggest doing what I did to budget your funds for the trip, though I was a little bit meticulous and bean counter-esque. I started with a rough estimate of the time I could spend there based on the time I had off (you being a "collage" student will have more than me working full time, but alas) and then figure out a daily budget. I shot for $100-$150 USD a day. I took this and multiplied the number of days I would be there by the daily budget amounts(ex: $100/day by 14 days = $1400). This I aimed to have be after travel and hostel costs. Strictly food and fun budget.

Then I looked at www.hostelworld.com and figured the average cost of the most reviewed hostels in each city I wanted to go to, set up a day by day estimate of where I was going to be, and figured out my perceived hostel and travel budget using discount airlines from www.whichbudget.com to find the cheapest airfare from place to place since I was doing pretty big jumps between local area’s and a railpass would cost more, on top of taking a lot longer. So figure out which of those suits your schedule better.

Then, after I figured all that out I tacked on international airfare, subtotaled all of it, then rounded up to the next thousand or added $500 depending on which was larger.

That was my target budget. Then I planned out my finances month by month till my departure time and stuck to the schedule and now I am winding up quite a bit ahead. So I can spend here and there still and I will have the budget I aimed for (on the high end) for food and fun.

quote:Do you speak French, Italian or German?

I’ve got to ask: James, why ask this question when it’s painfully clear that mademan9409 can’t speak English? And alphuris, does it look as though this fellow would be able to do the addition and multiplication that your excellent strategy suggests?

I agree with Russ: this is bait. As underfunded as the American education system is, our pupils are not usually this poor. Perhaps we ought to find a new thread and stop encouraging this sort of behavior.

Drew

So you are for real? Wow.

I was unaware that CU took on remedial cases.

I now see the value of the miniature Canadian flags that are marketed to Americans traveling in Europe. What’s your address, mademan? I’m sure some of us wouldn’t mind taking up a collection and sending you one for your pack so as to help preserve America’s image abroad.

Well, for those of you who have gave some good advice, Thanks I appreciate it. But fuck Ross, and the others who want to bash that’s fine let them bash I don’t care cause u know talking shit over the Internet is pretty fucking childish and you need to grow up. But if you need to act tough mind as well talk shit on the Internet its all good you are all bunch of virgins!! Get laid and GROW UP. So what if I have trouble spelling whoppedy fucking doo. Just remember I probly make more money then the rest of you so I would shut the fuck up. Kiss My Ass

DrewV quote:
———————————————————————————————————Do you speak French, Italian or German?
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Well shit i dont know

Parlez-vous français que je ne sais pas la cause je peux ? qui il
biseautent le charme mais je peux parler le DÉFAUT DE LA REPRODUCTION
SONORE français
Des Deutschen Wimmern auch, das ich zurück die ganze Scheiße i ross
sprechend nehme, hat gesagt, daß Ursache I ross keine Idee hat, was
Ursache, im wrighting er dumbass ist
você nunca do suposto que eu poderia falar seis línguas diferentes
suponho outra vez me amo ou me odeio
Amo l’Italia che la ragazza è molto bella io li ha venuti a contatto
di nel cozumel Messico erano divertimento!!! la distorsione di
velocità è questo italiano

WOW WHAT DID I SAY THATS CRAZY COLLEGE STUDENT CANT SPELL WORTH OF SHIT! WHATS THIS KID DOING IN COLLEGE WOW——
SPEAK THAT FUCKERS

LOVE ME OR HATE ME
MAdE

First, if you could explain to me how a "collage" student makes more money than the rest of the people on this board, I’d really like to know. Investments? Theft?

For a flight to Europe in June from the east coast of the USA, expect to pay around $500 if you go before June 15th. If after, probably closer to $600 roundtrip. From the midwest/west it is slightly more. The most expensive time to travel is July/August.

Probably the best party spots in Europe in the summer are Ibiza, Barcelona, Greek Isles (look into Cyprus too), Lagos (in Portugal). London will be the most expensive city out of the ones you listed. If you’re looking to party, I wouldn’t go to Italy at all because the bar scene there isn’t that great and most of the attractions there revolve around cultured activities (unless you are spending a longer period of time).

The best girls in Europe are probably in Eastern Europe. You’re not going there.

Whatever your political views, be prepared to get questions about George Bush and American foreign policy. It probably helps just to know in advance that you will be asked about this or hear comments at some point during the month’s trip.

Finally, I’d like to chip in that, as a female around your age, you sound like an idiot and that if I met you at a bar, even if you looked like Brad Pitt I’d probably roll my eyes and walk away, so you might want to change the attitude if you’re hoping to score.

My God. I read his German (I tried that is.) If the Italian and French are on the same level, he’s completely alingual.

I think he’s gotta be a dealer, hope, a well-paid profession that doesn’t require much language or education.

Once he finds a spot where women don’t flee like roaches from light, he can likely buy himself a little love.

Sorry, I really don’t have much experience in this kind of travel.

What a wonderful thread! (and may be the first one where I totally agree with what Russ is saying

The French is as good as the German. Looks like someone’s been to the Babelfish!

Look, mademan, if you want girls, go to Vietnam or Cambodia. In Saigon, you’ll find more than enough to keep you occupied. Sure, they’re not free, but you’ll be saving a ton of money on everything else: food, lodging, antibiotics… And they’re cheaper than the girls you’d have to buy in Europe. When I worked in Saigon, I knew all sorts of skeezy American and European men who get entangled in "that kind of travel" (wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean). They seemed to enjoy it — maybe you might too. Not my bag, but then I can hold a decent conversation.

But I’m more and more convinced that this is a board local playing us for fools.

Fine print: Please note that I am not implying that all Vietnamese women sell themselves, just that some do, and for reasonable prices. Also please note that I am not in any way condoning prostitution. It simply sounds like something mademan would enjoy, and I am being helpful. Cheers!

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Good ol’ Babelfish