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| location | Bondi Beach | |
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Backpacking since Christmas Day, 1989. Hitchhiking since mid 2010.
Currently home working in a backpacker hostel while I pay off the credit card from the last trip and save for the next one.
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Are there Onsen towns with both skiing and geisha? Wow I always go to Yamagata because my best Japanese friend lives there. We went to a mixed onsen somewhere in the area once but I don't know about this other stuff. Let me check with my friend. Off-topic but my personal tip: Zao has cheesecake - not so easy to find in Japan! |
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Mar 6 |
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Smuggler's trails Doing a tour is usually the opposite of extreme tourism. Extreme would include Bear Grylls type things. Re-tagged for you! (-: |
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Mar 6 |
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Should I buy a weapon if travelling to dangerous countries @Zurechtweiser: liking a question and a question being subjective or argumentative are not the same thing at all. The latter are specifically not acceptable on the Stack Exchange network. Check the FAQ. |
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Mar 6 |
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Is it risky to wear a name tag in public in an unfamiliar city? Actually I was bold and put in a new question title for you - feel free to edit it again. |
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Mar 6 |
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Is it risky to wear a name tag in public in an unfamiliar city? I would suggest rewording the question title to make it clear. As it is it sounds bit like foreigners should be expected to be not nice, and most people won't understand "foreign" to mean another city in the person's home country. |
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Mar 6 |
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Can you enter the departures area without a boarding pass at London Heathrow airport? You used to be able to do this in some places, I guess before 9/11. Now it seems you can't do it in most places but I don't know if it's all places. So asking the questions about certain specific places seems OK to me. |
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Mar 6 |
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How can I find out what the typical fast food is for a particular country? I'm not sure if this is a good question because it's a bit "meta". But I do think specific questions about the street food of particular countries or regions are good questions for our site. |
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Mar 5 |
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OK we're all nerds here, so really, how on earth should I use a Japanese toilet? What's the difference between the two buttock spraying options? One icon seems to suggest the water stream split in two and each cleans one the centre of one buttock, while the other icon suggests an even shower of water droplets showering the entire posterior. Both of which seem a bit odd... \-: |
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Mar 5 |
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3 days in Amsterdam: What to see? If you're like most people then see the prostitutes in their windows and go to a coffee shop that doesn't sell coffee but does sell marijuana... If you're not like most people then add more detail to the question. How different from Anne Frank's house are you still interested in? |
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Mar 5 |
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Safety concerns of travelling by plane Not just chickens but frozen chickens - they like to test against worst case. |
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Mar 5 |
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Dockside casual work Sorry Ian, this is not really a travel question but an employment question so it's not within the scope of this website. |
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Mar 5 |
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Is it risky to wear a name tag in public in an unfamiliar city? Foreign cities? You mean somebody from Pakistan or Barcelona attending a conference in New South Wales for instance? |
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Mar 4 |
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What to do if you're being abused by a Low Cost company? LCCs are a bit like convenience stores. There are pros and cons. Everybody bitches about the cons but they could've just gone for a fullprice airline or supermarket. But they were lured in by the low cost or convenience and don't want to blame themself for doing so. There's no such thing as a free lunch so learn the pifalls and consider the alternatives. If you know what you're doing then LCCs can be very low cost and convenience stores can be very convenenient. But LCCs are never flexible and convenience stores are never cheap. |
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Mar 4 |
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Traveling developer in South/Central America Hostelbookers and Trip advisor and Google also have hostel reviews. It would be great if there were some central resource to see all reviews of a hostel but in the meantime I recommend using all the sites if you really want to know. |
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Mar 4 |
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Walking through Northern Mexico safest route Question too brief. Don't understand. You talk about Northern Mexico but then about the Southern states? Are you talking about the US/Mexico border region or the rest of North Mexico which is on the gulf and the Yucatan peninsula and has no US border? US border regions are much more dangerous than other parts of Northern Mexico, especially in the last few years. |
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Mar 4 |
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Is it possible to make a decent income from travelling the world? This would be a great topic for our blog when we get it, or possibly for a chat room event. But it's subjective and has no "one right answer" so despite being very popular it's not a good question for Stack Exchange's Q&A format. |
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Mar 4 |
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Should I buy a weapon if travelling to dangerous countries Keep in mind that in many jurisdictions, having training in any martial art, including weaponless ones such as boxing, can lead to more serious charges against you even if you were defending yourself and you end up injuring the other person! |
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Mar 4 |
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Do I need to keep petty cash on me for bribes in Zimbabwe? Paying bribes is a very good way to support corruption. Don't pay bribes! |
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Mar 4 |
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Which (South) East-Asian contries are the cleanest? The question seems to be asking about both East Asia and Southeast Asia. If it's only about Southeast Asia then the parentheses around (South) need to be removed. |
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Mar 4 |
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What to show grandparents in Stockholm/Anytown? @Simon: Bern was nice but it didn't blow me away like the other three cities. I also didn't explore it as thoroughly. |
