More questions, some suggestions. Input?
Neat site. Good Info.
I got 4 new books from Paducah. Adding that to the two guidebooks I already had, I now have a DK Book for Paris, London, Munich, and Berlin. I also have a “Britain for Travelers” and one for France too (both non-DK). I haven’t really looked at the country books, but I know that DK makes great books for exploring cities.
Anyways, it brought to mind some questions that probably should be raised: Do we want to stay mainly in big famous cities? If so, what kinds of activities are we interested in doing? My parents are the kind to go to a lot of museums and stuff, and see as many of the touristy ‘sites’ as possible. I have seen many of the touristy sites in those 4 big cities, but would be more than happy to go back and revisit. On that line, how big are we going to be in sticking together while there? I know we’ve discussed getting the saver pass which requires us to ride the trains in a group, but once we’re at our destination city, we could potentially split up as often or infrequent as we please.
These are the kinds of things we need to discuss to help planning. Dave Y mentioned that he would like to go explore the cities by walking down the streets, and seeing some of the normal stuff. I love doing that kind of thing too, walking a little off the beaten path.
In order to preserve money, we’re unfortunately probably not going to be able to do cool things like see concerts, or go to ‘popular’ ticketed events. And unless we get like an ISID or similar student discount card, and use the heck out of it by going to only discounted affairs, we probably won’t be going to a lot of museums or tours. Now that I think about it, that’s a lot of what I’ve done the two times I’ve been across the pond. We might have to go on more of an adventure-our-own-style tour of Europe.
Wait, Wait! Idea!
I think it would be tons of fun to divide up certain cities (and/or countries) amongst the people going. Like say I could take Paris, and do like a whole lot of research on the city and figure out fun facts, interesting places to visit and cheap sites. I know that sounds kind of bothersome like homework, but I personally would have a lot of fun doing it. Once we got over there, we could pull out a binder or whatever, and give each other “tours” of the cities. It would be efficient, and I know the guidebooks would be a great place to start for information/help, not to mention the wealth of knowledge that’s available on the internet , and in libraries (like the LFPL and Ekstrom ). I mean even though it would be hard b/c it is work, it could be kind of fun, b/c it’s not really official or anything. On the flip side of that coin, I’m sure we would make the tours pretty impressive none-the-less b/c I know I wouldn’t want to be the one labeled as giving the “worst tour.”
What do you guys think?
Man, I’m starting to get excited. This could be one fun trip.
Yeiser, you should change the site layout so that the form link is part of the template (above the blogs) and not a separate post. We want that to stay up top at least until the deadline. This way we can still post, without people not seeing the Form link. Just a thought.
I got 4 new books from Paducah. Adding that to the two guidebooks I already had, I now have a DK Book for Paris, London, Munich, and Berlin. I also have a “Britain for Travelers” and one for France too (both non-DK). I haven’t really looked at the country books, but I know that DK makes great books for exploring cities.
Anyways, it brought to mind some questions that probably should be raised: Do we want to stay mainly in big famous cities? If so, what kinds of activities are we interested in doing? My parents are the kind to go to a lot of museums and stuff, and see as many of the touristy ‘sites’ as possible. I have seen many of the touristy sites in those 4 big cities, but would be more than happy to go back and revisit. On that line, how big are we going to be in sticking together while there? I know we’ve discussed getting the saver pass which requires us to ride the trains in a group, but once we’re at our destination city, we could potentially split up as often or infrequent as we please.
These are the kinds of things we need to discuss to help planning. Dave Y mentioned that he would like to go explore the cities by walking down the streets, and seeing some of the normal stuff. I love doing that kind of thing too, walking a little off the beaten path.
In order to preserve money, we’re unfortunately probably not going to be able to do cool things like see concerts, or go to ‘popular’ ticketed events. And unless we get like an ISID or similar student discount card, and use the heck out of it by going to only discounted affairs, we probably won’t be going to a lot of museums or tours. Now that I think about it, that’s a lot of what I’ve done the two times I’ve been across the pond. We might have to go on more of an adventure-our-own-style tour of Europe.
Wait, Wait! Idea!
I think it would be tons of fun to divide up certain cities (and/or countries) amongst the people going. Like say I could take Paris, and do like a whole lot of research on the city and figure out fun facts, interesting places to visit and cheap sites. I know that sounds kind of bothersome like homework, but I personally would have a lot of fun doing it. Once we got over there, we could pull out a binder or whatever, and give each other “tours” of the cities. It would be efficient, and I know the guidebooks would be a great place to start for information/help, not to mention the wealth of knowledge that’s available on the internet , and in libraries (like the LFPL and Ekstrom ). I mean even though it would be hard b/c it is work, it could be kind of fun, b/c it’s not really official or anything. On the flip side of that coin, I’m sure we would make the tours pretty impressive none-the-less b/c I know I wouldn’t want to be the one labeled as giving the “worst tour.”
What do you guys think?
Man, I’m starting to get excited. This could be one fun trip.
Yeiser, you should change the site layout so that the form link is part of the template (above the blogs) and not a separate post. We want that to stay up top at least until the deadline. This way we can still post, without people not seeing the Form link. Just a thought.
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Yeah, I was going to suggest that we will probably want to split up rather frequently. And although it might not be the safest, setting out independently every now and then will be fun. I would like to get at least one more (besides me yeiser and adam) to go with us, so that way we can even break into groups of two quite frequently.
Yeah though, I say each "big" city we go to we have like a one day tour set up. For example, if I was leading a tour in Munich, I'd take us to the Marienplatz to see the old churches, the rathaus/glockenspiel, the Olypmic site, some of the famous beerhalls (especially the one where Hitler started the Bierhalle Putsch) etc. etc.
If we want we can even research viable side trips for each big city and include that in the "tours." Like I've already heard of the Normandy trip from paris, and I know the Bavaria trip from munich would be cool.
20%? That's weak...
Yeiser, you should post my comments part. That took a long time to do. Did you ever figure it all out?
Actually didn't I put 80% on my form? That means between me and jessica you have at least one guaranteed.
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