alternatively they could improve the education for the 'manly' men

Yeah the West is pretty similar everywhere you go

The West side of Eastern Europe is pretty awesome but sadly I'm pretty much the furthest East I've ever been at the moment, pretty keen on spending time traveling through Romania/Maldova/Ukraine this summer.

It's Western enough here to live but Eastern enough to be kind of grim and depressing

Man the 90's would of been pretty intense going through those Eastern block countries.. My mrs tells me how she remembers how bad state socialism was here. It's intriguing because I come from cotton wool Australia lol

Slavs everywhere

Sounds like the traffic laws for taxis in Italy. I remember a white-knuckle trip with a cabbie that explained that if he honked his horn with a little beep beep, the car in front of him had best get out of the way or he was going to hit you. And he wasn't kidding.

haha that's everyone in Italy

I really learned how to drive when I spent about a month there driving from South to North.

I thought Rome was bad but Naples was just surreal.

Does Naples smell bad?



Watch out for the absinthe with high concentrations of thujone, it can creep up on ya. It isn't like the pseudo-absinthe they sell in most places.

This post was edited by Skinned on May 17 2013 11:32am

Naples was the scene of the crime. I was like "wtf?????"



I didn't think so, but I was a smoker at the time, so maybe my sense of smell was muted.

Ok. Good tip, we like us some absinthe

On Naples: city sucks, and when I went it smelt horrible (about the time when the local mob who own the garbage dumps needed to extort more money out of the municipality, so waste was accumulating everywhere and it was a horrible city. Luckily our hotel was in a touristic outskirt and we went there for Herculaneum/Pompeii/Paestum anyway.

Portugal was a pleasant surprise to me, people are far more civil than the Spanish or the Italians, both in traffic and in cities.

Just like the racist, I was a smoker at the time so I didn't really notice.

The city is a bit of an eyesore. On the coast it's quite beautiful but as you go inland, by the meter, it starts to turn foul.

There were literally round abouts made of piles of rubbish, lines of piled rubbish that would follow footpaths. Every car had a dint or was side swiped. Dodgy black street merchants everywhere trying to reel you in.

I stayed in probably the worst part of Naples, pretty close to the main station practically next door to the ghettos and it was the probably the only place in Europe I've ever felt worried about my safety. The owner of the hostel told me there is a fair chance you might get mugged tonight so don't take your passport, just keep a 10 euro note in your pocket to give to whoever holds you up and put your real money in your socks HA

Best bloody pizza I've had in my life though

This post was edited by lithfkn on May 17 2013 01:34pm

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