Where should I go this summer?

[alfred russel]

Tim, I assume most of your life you will be living on the east coast of the US?

Europe is relatively easy and cheap to visit from there. Asia and Australia are not.

Also, not to knock other places in Europe, but Paris, London, and Rome are really the essentials. I think a week in any of those cities is plenty, but if you want to split it up there is a fast train between Paris and London.

[alfred russel]

I assume you haven't been to PRC? Maybe get a visa and go there?

Another idea is Nepal.

[jimmy olsen]

Tim, I assume most of your life you will be living on the east coast of the US?

Europe is relatively easy and cheap to visit from there. Asia and Australia are not.

Also, not to knock other places in Europe, but Paris, London, and Rome are really the essentials. I think a week in any of those cities is plenty, but if you want to split it up there is a fast train between Paris and London.

And will I have the money and time to do so?  Who knows, the time is now.

[katmai]

Your logic is as dumb as you Timmay.

[Eddie Teach]

He wants to go to Europe and is willing to pay for it, what's so illogical about that?

[garbon]

He wants to go to Europe and is willing to pay for it, what's so illogical about that?

Sounds illogical and or sad that he figures he'll never have the chance to go to Europe if he doesn't now. Meanwhile, choosing to skip places he'll certainly never go to then with that mindset.

[Eddie Teach]

Uhh, maybe he wants to start a family sometime? That tends to put a damper on the travel budget.

And as he's been living in Asia and taken a few trips in the area already, Europe offers more variety.

[garbon]

Now you're just making things up.

Also, I don't actually know but I'd imagine Australia is pretty different.

[Eddie Teach]

I'd imagine Australia is pretty different.

Still a fairly lengthy flight from Korea. Also a place with even less history than America.

I mean, if you want to go to Australia, that's cool, but if you don't you aren't going to go just because it's a few hundred dollars cheaper.

[garbon]

Fair enough. On a different topic, I wonder why Tim didn't seem interested in what A listed as the essentials - given that this could be his only trip to Europe.

[Savonarola]

I was asking which I should go to, not that I was going to all of them.

If I went to Coppenhagen, I'd probably visit Hamburg. If I went to Prague, I'd probably visit Vienna, etc.

And welcome back Sav!

That makes more sense.

I've been to Copenhagen.  The city is clean, the people are pleasant and the food is... well, how much do you like herring?  Like Gups said, it is incredibly expensive, much more so than Milan, Paris or London.  Helsingør (Elsinore) and Roskile (Rothskilde) are both nice day trips.  I haven't been to the other cities on your list.

[garbon]

Hamburg is nice for a few days. Probably better than when I was just there as it wouldn't be freezing anymore.

[katmai]

Hello Sav, i won't say welcome back as not sure if this isn't more than a drive by Savonarola sighting.

[crazy canuck]

I mean, if you want to go to Australia, that's cool, but if you don't you aren't going to go just because it's a few hundred dollars cheaper.

Its not just a few hundred.....


Plus Northern Aus is really nice.

[jimmy olsen]

Actually, I just remembered a new budget airline that is running between Seoul and Osaka. I can get tickets for $250 and see Osaka and Kyoto, use all the money I save on airfare to stay at a swank hotel.