the holidays thread. favourite places, what we must visit, sharing info, directives, souvenirs, etc.

i'd like to start visiting some of the central-Europe's capitals and nice medieval cityes (Budapest, Vienna, Prague...). not by car, but by train. i never travelled by train outside my country. some advice? not so high budget: trains, hotels, hostels, etc.

I envy you cause you dont need visa to leave your country and travel across Europe
And I have a dream to visit Japan But its way too expensive! Maybe someday...

yeah, because is that simple, many so called romanians moved out romania and started to commit countless crimes (in fact they r gypsies)

omg, i'd rly like to visit japan someday. and china.

Paris and Poland for me. Sometime, I would like the Trans-Siberian express too.

Trans-Siberian? This will be a real challenge Why this?

I want to see how everything gradually changes from Moscow to Beijing, in terms of landscape, people, customs, language... But I think it's terribly expensive so we'll see =)
Did you do it before?

hekamephi
No:) And i'm happy that i dont need to! I explain why. I live in Moscow now, but my home is 2500 kilometres south, not far from south borded of country. It tooks about 40 hours to get there by train. And it's toooo boring and toooo long. I prefer 2.5 hours by airplane despite that fact that airplane tickets are about 3 times expenisve.
Traveling by train is very monotonous. You won't see towns, people, interesting places or landscapes in-between destinations, cause there are extremely large unsettled locations and railways lay far from anything. All the way there are only meadows and steppe (days long without changes) if travel south and endless woods if go east. Trans-siberian railway is the most boring thing in world. 5 days of the same looking forest behind window! And russians trains - you know, not realy most comfortable:) When i think of 5-6 days on the train... oh boy! It's frightful!
Traveling form city to city by plane imho much better, but of course expensive.

:> hmm sounds interesting what m-knell says ) i'll b happy to try that train srsly now. i do, with some friends that should be less monotonous

Well, with company of friends it's much better