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John Price
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Kairi Zaide
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In the Urals? That's a hell of a work trip.
I leave for Cebu City, Philippines in a few hours. Via LA and Tokyo. 5 hour layover in Tokyo. Assuming we get in on time, I'm going to drop my carryons in a locker and go grab some Ramen at my favorite place in Narita-shi.
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AstrophysicalJet
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Yup, it is. My field takes me to alot of strange places, some better than others. btw, im going to the The Institute of Metal Physics if anyone needs to know.
But travel in Russia can be a pain in the ass, especially east of Moscow, which is pretty much the whole country.
No one understands an ounce of English(Luckilly, my colleague is of Russian decent and speaks Russian), and timetables are non existant.
What are you doing in Cebu? Not exactly a holiday destination? All the people I know there, who are non Filipino, are in telemarketing.
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AstrophysicalJet
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Hope you come back alive
I can only speak for white people, but as a white person in Ghana, I felt very much in danger.
TheDanceOfMaternity
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Yo so me and gf are hoping to go somewhere in Europe in July. I have a budget for about 7-10 days. Since we are in always cold Estonia she wanted somewhere warm and on the water, although I might be able to convince her to go someplace with a lot of nature like Norway, Ireland or Iceland
So yeah I got
Norway
Iceland
Ireland
Croatia/Slovenia
Greece
Israel
Portugal
Anything pop out as particularly good or bad?
So yeah I got
Norway
Iceland
Ireland
Croatia/Slovenia
Greece
Israel
Portugal
Anything pop out as particularly good or bad?
AstrophysicalJet
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Norway - Beautiful, but very reminiscant of B.C., and crazy expensive.
Iceland - Awesome, but not for 7-10 days.
Ireland - Like it, but dont expect any good weather. If you go, visit Howth, Galway, and Wicklow mountains, Braveheart was filmed there.
Croatia/Slovenia - LOVE both places. Croatia, SPLIT/Dalmatia in particular is something else in summer. Slovenia has some awesome hot springs and some of the most intense mountains in Europe. - Equally as much nature as Norway, Iceland or Ireland.
Greece - Only ever liked Crete, but be carefull, some places dont have ATM's that work anymore, and alot of places dont accept any plastic at all.
Israel - Never been, mostly because I do alot of work in the ME, and if I went to Israel, id be denied access to some of those countries and prolly loose my job.
Portugal - Madeira is a piece of heaven.
If I were you, id do Croatia/slovenia, and possibly drive there from Germany if you can. Such a beautiful ride.
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Hope you come back alive
I can only speak for white people, but as a white person in Ghana, I felt very much in danger.
Do you travel often?
Everything I have read about Ghana says that it is very safe - just stay vigilant. I read the same thing about Morocco, yet i felt totally fine walking through the medinas at 2 in the morning.
Hell, Semester at Sea stops in Ghana because it's considered "Africa for beginners".
Liberia is a different story, but I'm going for business and am staying at the nicest hotel and will have a driver for meetings.
TheDanceOfMaternity
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AstrophysicalJet
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Yeah, I travel alot tbh. both for pleasure and business.
Never been to Liberia, have been warned too many times about that place, its like total anarchy! Seriously, be carefull!
Ghana, at least for me, was a bizare experience. They didnt want to kill me, but all white people have money in their minds, this means they grab you, holler at you, and want money from you all the time.
At one point driving through Accra, we were stopped 5 times and had to pay tolls, that were non existent, and we dared say no.
We had to use a native driver, or we would have never made it to our different destinations.
However, I was using a bit hyperbole, I never felt my life was in Danger. Only place Ive evet felt that my life was in REAL danger, was in Nigeria!
For me, Gambia is Africa for beginners, that or Tanzania.
Never felt anything but safe in Morocco though! And the food, omg the food!
Np buddy, if you have any questions just pm me.
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Thanks for the more detailed response. We have a really cool project with the World Bank that sends our analysts all over Africa and SE Asia, and when I volunteered I never expected to get Liberia (probably the worst country they are sending people along with Sierra Leone, the DRC and Nigeria).
But that's kind of why I am excited, getting to travel to a place nobody I know will ever go to. Monrovia looks very raw. I'll go to Kenya and Tanzania at some point anyway, and am seeing Botswana and Zimbabwe later this year.
Interesting to hear about Ghana, especially because I will be staying alone. Everything I have read says getting around is a cake walk (compared to its neighboring countries) but I will definitely be on the lookout.
Morocco is something else! Honestly got tired of the food after a little while though. Two weeks of tagine gets old real fast.
AstrophysicalJet
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That sounds like a really cool job
Nigeria was really scary, I thought id come home in a casket.Seriously, dont just take my word, I can be a bit paranoid at times, and I think I just really felt overwhelmed by all the people wanting to get at me all the time. and they are very touchy feely, which I am the farthest from! So maybe I am the extreme.
We were there to assist with some physics related stuff at the Ahafo mines, and maybe that played a part in the way we were treated. Outside Accra, I found Ghana to be nice.
I was only in Marocco for 2 days, so maybe thats why I never tired of it
If you ever go to SE Asia, ask away, that is my fav. part of the world by far for so many reasons!
16 week work assignment. My company's opening a call center there and I'm assisting getting folks trained. Single entry visa which means no weekend trips to Singapore or Indonesia, but plenty of islands to explore while in the Philippines.
AstrophysicalJet
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Just experienced my first medical diversion in 600,000 lifetime flight miles. Also first Trans-oceanic diversion.
Sitting on the ground in Anchorage.
They've taken the person to a hospital.
Refueled and just waiting on the flight release.
Sitting on the ground in Anchorage.
They've taken the person to a hospital.
Refueled and just waiting on the flight release.
AstrophysicalJet
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Plural
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Croatia is a great place. Split is awesome city and home for perhaps the best tapas restaurant ever. It's called The Paradox. It's affordable too. Wine collection is great and th cheese collection with their duck is awesome.
Rent a cat and drive down to Dubrovnik. Really awesome sights. The road goes through the coastline hih in the mountains and takes few detours around the countryside. You will definitely love that drive. About 4 hours.
Norway is awesome in the north. Again, rent a car and drive to Strömså. The cold and majestic feel those roads give you is something else.
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Wow. Hope the person will be fine. It's pretty scary. Few months back we were flying from Philly to Manchester and alomst dead middle in the Atlantic ocean when one woman had a incident. She suffered some kind medical attack. The crew asked it there were any doctors on board and as some here know, my fiancee is a doctor. She went to help but there was like 4 doctors volunteering and she was the youngest and didn't meddle because the more experienced M.D's were there.
It happened just few rows behind us. It was bit scary to be honest. Obviously not for me, but to think that there was no way of getting her to medical care before we land in Manchester.
So...I got to swim with Whale Sharks a couple days ago! Amazing experience.
Video is coming as soon as my editing software cooperates, but here's some pictures in the meantime...
Video is coming as soon as my editing software cooperates, but here's some pictures in the meantime...
