I normally like to do a Wanderlust post on a Tuesday, but after watching
Estée's video I thought this would be a nice alternative. I'm not very well travelled at all, but I like to pretend. I tag all of you.
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1. Your most treasured passport stamp?
The last time I left the EU it was on my dad's passport - I don't have any! I guess you have to ask for one as my friend got his stamped in Paris.
2. Can you recite your passport # from memory if asked?
It takes up all of my brain power to remember my PIN and phone number. I don't have space left over for that!
3. Preferred method of travel; planes, trains or automobiles?
I'm a nervous flyer and find the airport experience intensely stressful, so definitely not planes. Of the three I suppose it's trains, but I prefer to take the coach as they normally travel directly in to city centres and you get to see more of a place. Trains are nice for scenery though and I loved riding through winter wonderland scenes in Germany.
4. Top 3 travel items?
Camera, notebook, boiled sweets. Altitude makes my ears sore.
5. Hostel or hotel?
My last proper hostel experience was in Munich and we were packed in a room with four other guys when the night temperature was hovering at around the thirty degree mark - it was terrible and I felt awful because I brought my younger brother along too. I'd love to say hostels because the atmosphere is great when you're travelling with friends, but as we almost always travel as a couple I'd have to say hotels for the privacy. I do think people judge hostels too harshly though. Our hotel in Riga was a bit of a dive and I've stayed in much nicer hostels than that before.
6. Are you a repeat visitor or do you explore new places?
Explore new places - I haven't even visited London twice. I'd love to go back to places but I always worry that I'm wasting opportunities to try somewhere new. Silly really.
7. Do you read up on your destination (culture, history,safety) or do you wing it?
I plan obsessively - it's all part of the fun of the holiday to me and I start months in advance. We never stick rigidly to plans, but I find it makes getting around far less stressful if you at least have an idea of where you want to go. I think reading up on safety, culture and history is really important though and I can't see why you wouldn't do that.
8. Favourite travel website?
Spotted By Locals,
In Your Pocket and
Wikitravel.
9. Where would you recommend a friend to visit? Name city & why.
Probably
Tallinn in Estonia. It's such a magical city and I can't imagine anyone not being enchanted by it.
10. You're leaving tomorrow, money is no option, where are you going?
I'm going on a huge tour of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria. Yay!
Let me know if you join in too!
