Random cities you've always wanted to visit

[Bruce Spanner]

3 minutes ago, Red74 said:

It’s brilliant there. Choose wisely were you stay though. Skid row and 5 star luxury share the same corner. Oh, and book Alcatraz months in advance. Don’t be that nobhead who says we’ll sort it when we get out there. Apparently a nice boat trip AROUND the island is not a good consolation prize. 

I really enjoyed San Francisco, but the homelessness it obscene, they move like waves through the city as they’re not allowed to sit, or loiter, so they’re on mass on the move constantly.

 

Epitomises everything about the country.

[A Red]

1 minute ago, Red74 said:

Hello fellow nobhead. Never gets easier looking back does it 

Nope,  the memory of bobbing about in a boat in the fog is no consolation

 

 

[Remmie]

49 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I think Eastern Europe is a fascinating place to visit but would not seem like a holiday and more of a fact finding mission. I follow a couple of fellas on youtube who are either based there or travel around the former USSR and it's former Soviet Bloc associates. Its amazing how many locals long for their former times because their countries have become even bigger shitholes since the fall of the USSR.

Depends what you mean by Eastern Europe and also what you enjoy for a holiday but ultimately I couldn't disagree more. Its a hugely varied, fascinating and beautiful region and a lot cheaper than resorts in the obvious places. Plus the people I've met do not want any part of the former USSR whatsoever. 

[VladimirIlyich]

6 minutes ago, Remmie said:

Depends what you mean by Eastern Europe and also what you enjoy for a holiday but ultimately I couldn't disagree more. Its a hugely varied, fascinating and beautiful region and a lot cheaper than resorts in the obvious places. Plus the people I've met do not want any part of the former USSR whatsoever. 

You have probably met your fair share of Ukranians but it seems places like Moldova have suffered a lot since the fall of the communist bloc.

[Section_31]

There must be a genetic explanation of why virtually all eastern European, slavic and balkan women are fit. Went to montenegro once and there's only about 15 people there but 14 of them are fit, the other is decent looking. I mean just random fit people all over the shop, bus drivers, cleaners.

 

In a big Emglish city you can walk around all day, every day, and not see a single one. Even the ones who you're told are fit look like overly made up trouts. 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

4 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

There must be a genetic explanation of why virtually all eastern European, slavic and balkan women are fit. Went to montenegro once and there's only about 15 people there but 14 of them are fit, the other is decent looking. I mean just random fit people all over the shop, bus drivers, cleaners.

 

In a big Emglish city you can walk around all day, every day, and not see a single one. Even the ones who you're told are fit look like overly made up trouts. 

 

I think its the mutation of the 'must leave here and marry a wealthy foreigner' gene.

[s(k)aturation]

5 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

There must be a genetic explanation of why virtually all eastern European, slavic and balkan women are fit. Went to montenegro once and there's only about 15 people there but 14 of them are fit, the other is decent looking. I mean just random fit people all over the shop, bus drivers, cleaners.

 

In a big Emglish city you can walk around all day, every day, and not see a single one. Even the ones who you're told are fit look like overly made up trouts. 

 

 

The plum brandy goggles always help.

 

 

[Section_31]

1 minute ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I think its the mutation of the 'must leave here and marry a wealthy foreigner' gene.

I think the russian women get a bit of an unfair press on that, I'm sure there's loads more women in Russia than men and the blokes make Millwall fans look like Nigel Havers.

[VladimirIlyich]

2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I think the russian women get a bit of an unfair press on that, I'm sure there's loads more women in Russia than men and the blokes make Millwall fans look like Nigel Havers.

Its probably also due to the difficulty of purchasing steroids since the fall of the wall too. 

[Remmie]

32 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

There must be a genetic explanation of why virtually all eastern European, slavic and balkan women are fit. Went to montenegro once and there's only about 15 people there but 14 of them are fit, the other is decent looking. I mean just random fit people all over the shop, bus drivers, cleaners.

 

In a big Emglish city you can walk around all day, every day, and not see a single one. Even the ones who you're told are fit look like overly made up trouts. 

 

They all have those thigh gaps as well

[VladimirIlyich]

1 minute ago, Remmie said:

They all have those thigh gaps as well

They are one of the major signs of a fit woman.

[Edward.]

5 hours ago, Em City said:

 

That's a real shame to hear about Hoi An, it was a lovely, charming place when I was there. My favourite place in Vietnam was outside Ninh Binh around the Lying Dragon Mountain. Stunning place.

We were in Hoi An in March loved it. We stayed in a massive hotel but because of COVID we were the only people staying. Everywhere else was quiet too. Invited myself into someone’s house to watch a sporting event as I couldn’t find it anywhere else. Cracking night.

[YorkshireRed]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

There must be a genetic explanation of why virtually all eastern European, slavic and balkan women are fit. Went to montenegro once and there's only about 15 people there but 14 of them are fit, the other is decent looking. I mean just random fit people all over the shop, bus drivers, cleaners.

 

In a big Emglish city you can walk around all day, every day, and not see a single one. Even the ones who you're told are fit look like overly made up trouts. 

 

I’d say the ratio to fit women v fit men is about 3:1 though. Not saying there aren’t any handsome hunk types, just less of them. 
 

You certainly see fit women in big English cities, particularly London. Granted they’re from Eastern Europe but still...

 

Having travelled/worked in Eastern Europe a lot I’d say the very best looking are from Ukraine, followed by Romania, Russia and Latvia (probably depends on your type. Czech girls are generally too tall for me). You do get absolute stunners everywhere though and the one girl that totally knocked me off my feet was Polish. 

[cloggypop]

2 hours ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

Before this year turned to utter dogshit, back in simpler times, me and the missus were planning to go to Poland and starts in Krakow and then just travel without much of a plan up to Gdańsk, taking in Warsaw along the way but planning our trip on the hoof like race around the world.

 

 

I did similar about 18 years ago trying to get to a mate's wedding. Me and my mate were drunk and stoned for most of the journey and had instructions written on a beer mat, no smartphones and we went by rail with no planning whatsoever. Highlights included arguing with a ticket inspector (apparently we were on the wrong train and also in first class, but hard to tell) who was horrible until I gave him a beer then he sat off drinking with us for the next couple of hours. Saw loads of cities we shouldn't have really as we were supposed to be heading for the Czech border. At one point we flipped a coin on fucking the wedding off and heading to Berlin as Iggy Pop was playing. Ended up doing the last 100 odd miles in a taxi and arrived in the back of the church just as the bride arrived. 

[Evelyn Tentions]

51 minutes ago, Edward. said:

We were in Hoi An in March loved it. We stayed in a massive hotel but because of COVID we were the only people staying. Everywhere else was quiet too. Invited myself into someone’s house to watch a sporting event as I couldn’t find it anywhere else. Cracking night.

Hoian at the beginning of last month when it went into total lockdown. The old town is lovely. The beaches though from about 15km  south all the way north to Danang are being "developed" and there are dozens of "massive hotels" now in the town.

At the moment no one is allowed on or out. Since most of the people are reliant on the tourist industry, things there are pretty grim. I was there in mid July and it was pretty much deserted.

[Tj hooker]

3 hours ago, Red74 said:

It’s brilliant there. Choose wisely were you stay though. Skid row and 5 star luxury share the same corner. Oh, and book Alcatraz months in advance. Don’t be that nobhead who says we’ll sort it when we get out there. Apparently a nice boat trip AROUND the island is not a good consolation prize. 

Alcatraz and San Francisco are definitely on my bucket list strangely I've been watching a lot about Alcatraz on YouTube lately .

[Edward.]

13 minutes ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

Hoian at the beginning of last month when it went into total lockdown. The old town is lovely. The beaches though from about 15km  south all the way north to Danang are being "developed" and there are dozens of "massive hotels" now in the town.

At the moment no one is allowed on or out. Since most of the people are reliant on the tourist industry, things there are pretty grim. I was there in mid July and it was pretty much deserted.

Wow it was fairly quiet when we went but nothing like that. 

[Em City]

1 hour ago, Edward. said:

We were in Hoi An in March loved it. We stayed in a massive hotel but because of COVID we were the only people staying. Everywhere else was quiet too. Invited myself into someone’s house to watch a sporting event as I couldn’t find it anywhere else. Cracking night.

 

Was it the Paradise Hotel by any chance?

[lifetime fan]

I’d planned a long weekend this summer to take the bird away. We were going to do Cork, Kinsale and Cobh. 
 

Have had to put it back a year as I want to take her to Cobh on a summers day. 

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

17 hours ago, cloggypop said:

My old work wanted me to relocate to Perth once. Quite fancied being on the other side of the world for a bit but I think they meant long term and it's near fucking nothing. Can't see the gig scene being any good. Would have only known the people I was already working with as well. Anyway, they fucked up currency conversion prices on the tender so we didn't get it. 

Get plenty of decent bands go over there when they tour the east coast, tends to be either first or last leg. Comedians tend to slag it a bit saying, they did the warm up and got rid of the shite in Perth.

17 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Always fancied seeing Perth in Australia, isn't it the most remote city in the world or something? I read somewhere it's closer to Singapore than it is to any other Australian city. The idea of this big, modern city surrounded by thousands of miles of desert is mad.

 

Pyongyang. I know I'll never go but would love to, I imagine everywhere indoors looking like the sets from Prisoner cell block H.

 

Seattle, based purely on the view from Frazier's apartment. 

Perth city centre is fucking tiny mate. It’s a big suburban motherfucker. It’s like Speke for miles and fucking miles in every direction - not as rough as speke can be but that kind of suburban sprawl.

nice for a visit, but I couldn’t live there.

me missus has worked there a fair bit, I was staying in the hotel on one of the trips in east Perth, so I said ah I’ll go for a walk - walked maybe 4 mile up the road and I was in West Perth

17 hours ago, Mook said:

San Sebastian - meant to be amazing

 

San Diego - I know two people there & they're really sound

 

Zermatt - not a city but I've always wanted to see The Matterhorn

San Sebastián is superb, stayed there for a few days a few years back when travelling through Bilbao and down to Barcelona.

this is the place we stayed at in Sam Sebastian

 

think this Might be the cathedral 

 

the Ikurrina - brought one of these home.

sociedad stadium, weather can be shite up there.

For some reason the site has now bollocksed the

images by 90 degrees.

17 hours ago, Trumo said:

Havana

Tbilisi

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

 

All still have this old-school charm about them.

Havana and all of Cuba is pretty much awesome. Each of the cities I’ve been to over there has something different about it.

we drove from one end to the other a couple of years back.

Driving over there is awesome, plenty of games of chicken on ghe

motorway as you try and overtake a horse and cart and a buss, with a tractor oncoming.

if you get the chance to go, try and stay in a casa particular - basically staying in someone’s spare room, but they look after you well.

we booked Thomas Cook one way flight to Holguin, picked up a car, drove to Santiago de Cuba, stayed a few nights, then drove to Cienfuegos for a few nights - place is boss, old French capital (I think), then headed to Havana for a few days - it’s proper expensive in the old town there now for ale, but we got invited to a private dance party which is as cool - bit strange getting there as someone just approached us in the street.

it was pretty much in someone’s gaffe and some famous duckers have been there to see the Local dancers.

was sound for a Bevy and a perv, clientele a bit like manumission.

the architecture and history of the country are everywhere and it’s just awesome (in its proper sense) place to visit and see what can happen when a place is hugely prosperous, and the. Locked out of a system via Internal politics and external trade restrictions and embargos.

 

santiago de Cuba:

partying down at the beach, some terrible fucking lager.

the casa particular 

 

Cienfuegos:

Breakfast view from casa particular 

One of the vast old hotels being restored 

 

one that had been done

 

my mate ‘Nelson’

 

the waterfront at night

 

La Havana:

Think this was the outside of our casa particular, it’s deffo the view from it

 

 

we got caught in a downpour

 

think this is the National Theatre

 

 

swanky hotel:

 

 

the little dance club previously frequented by Beyoncé or some

such shite

 

16 hours ago, Jairzinho said:

San Sebastian is ace. The food is incredible.

Indeed it is, massive envy of yer Spanish life man. I’d love to give it at least a year, EU exit May spike that, but we’ll see.

[cloggypop]

Cuba looks bosd

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

1 minute ago, cloggypop said:

Cuba looks bosd

Fucking sound mate, and relatively cheap, get over if yer get the chance, and book it yerself, fuck the travel agents.

[Edward.]

2 hours ago, Em City said:

 

Was it the Paradise Hotel by any chance?

No sorry we stayed in Da Nang and travelled into Hanoi.

[Edward.]

5 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

I really enjoyed San Francisco, but the homelessness it obscene, they move like waves through the city as they’re not allowed to sit, or loiter, so they’re on mass on the move constantly.

 

Epitomises everything about the country.

Bizarrely enough if that was the case in this country they wouldn’t be counted as homeless if someone were to do a count. As they have to be lying down.

[Trumo]

I always wanted to see Hong Kong when the old Walled City and Kai Tak airport were still there. Because of all the problems there recently, it's probably best to give the place a swerve for the forseeable.