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    Quote Originally Posted by BedellBrave View Post
    Just central Spain. Hope the next trip allows me time both in the South and North.
    any specifics for central?

    planning to do "pretty much everywhere" there but could use advice if you want to or have it
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    Madrid of course - and don't miss Toledo, Consuegra, and Segovia.

    Madrid - Plaza Mayor, the palace and cathedral, Plaza de Sol, and the Prado

    Toledo - the whole city

    Consuegra - famous windmills and castle. Good little pub in the town's market.

    Segovia - plaza, cathedral, castle and the aqueduct.
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    Will have to look into those places

    oddly enough, might not spend much time in Madrid as of right now
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    Quote Originally Posted by goldfly View Post
    Will have to look into those places

    oddly enough, might not spend much time in Madrid as of right now

    I think you can get away with half a day there - especially if you aren't into art.

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    there are people that don't like art?

    i mean, i could understand not liking "modern art" though
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    Are you flying into Madrid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BedellBrave View Post
    Are you flying into Madrid?
    Barcelona
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    Quote Originally Posted by acesfull86 View Post
    Italy with a suitcase full of elastic waist pants.
    If that is your mindset and if you have plenty of elastic pants might I suggest Germany. Any people who can make sauerkraut actually taste good can really cook everything else beyond belief.

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    Leaving for Shanghai in two hours; thought I'd check back in on this thread.

    Sad to read I may have missed the best window to visit Anatolia—but it does seem about the ideal juncture to visit Myanmar: a lot less restrictions, but still not a lot of rampant reminders of the Occident.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpx7 View Post
    Leaving for Shanghai in two hours; thought I'd check back in on this thread.

    Sad to read I may have missed the best window to visit Anatolia—but it does seem about the ideal juncture to visit Myanmar: a lot less restrictions, but still not a lot of rampant reminders of the Occident.

    I still wouldn't rule out Turkey, but it's not getting better.

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    Myanmar is one of the most welcoming places I've ever visited. Just amazing.

    Please don't go and ruin it.
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    Working on plans for a trip to Europe in a couple of months - including stops in Lithuania and Ukraine.

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    Hiked Mt Elbert—tallest in Colorado, second only to Whitney in the non-Alaska division—the other day. Some pretty cool places in this part of the world, too.
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    Just returned from five days summitting Whitney and trekking down into the inner Sierras a bit. Really whet my appetite for an even lengthier backpacking trip; currently hoping to do the full John Muir Trail next summer.
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    Enjoying Ukraine as we speak.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BedellBrave View Post
    Enjoying Ukraine as we speak.
    That's a "made up country" you know? ;)

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    Quote Originally Posted by BedellBrave View Post
    Enjoying Ukraine as we speak.
    I'm envious (but not to the point of peccancy). I'd like to ambitiously embark on combined Poland–Ukraine trip at some point soon, but I have the greater Balkans as my top destination in Europe at the moment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpx7 View Post
    I'm envious (but not to the point of peccancy). I'd like to ambitiously embark on combined Poland–Ukraine trip at some point soon, but I have the greater Balkans as my top destination in Europe at the moment.
    I love Poland. Warsaw is a special city. It brims with cosmopolitan modernity yet is still coated in a kind of gritty Soviet-era rust with the Rudnev's Palac Kultury looming over the entire city (and man, coming from somebody who is infatuated with Stalinist architecture, it's just ... a chillingly gorgeous edifice). Gdansk is worth the short journey, as are Katowice/Krakow ... but Warsaw is hard to beat. I feel like I've had this conversation on here before, though, maybe even with you.

    I had a trip to Kiev scheduled during the winter of 2013/2014 but opted to take a detour given the civil unrest going on there at the time. I would have been there pretty much exactly when **** hit in the fan in mid-January '14 ... but I still wish I had just sucked it up. Was in and out of Greece the preceding two years during the austerity protests/riots and never felt remotely unsafe. Even with a hotel two blocks from Syntagma and multiple experiences with tear gas and riot police. The Greeks are good people. Their food is even better. But I digress.

    Am curious to hear from Bedell about the current state of affairs in Ukraine.

    The Baltic states are next on my European wishlist, although no trip planned yet. I'd like to do a winter month or two in Helsinki, too.

    I was slated to return to Asia in early October (Japan again, Korea, Singapore, maybe Bangkok/KL) for a long solo vacation, but it looks like I'm going to be moving back down South to Atlanta in a few weeks so that particular itinerary now looks very iffy. Still, I'm not one to throw away nonrefundable tickets.
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    Have any of y'all been to Antarctica? I'm trying to pin down a decent boat/cruise to get there at a somewhat reasonable price and having some issues i guess finding that. lol

    was curious if any of y'all have gone and what boat and cost etc etc etc


    edit: Antarctica didn't work out. hope to maybe make it next season
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    just jumped on that Emriates companion deal from NYC to Milan that expires today

    a small group of us are going to Oktoberfest in Munich this year
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