jfv wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:23 pm

jimmy spako wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:14 pm Do Option A! I was actually going to suggest that trip when you first posted.
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Go have a nice day at the lake, take a ferry, go to the fortress etc.

Yep, I just made a final decision after seeing your post and also that Friedrichshafen has a zeppelin museum. The airship, not the band.

Well.. heading that way now.

Every other person in Stuttgart must have had the same idea. This train is PACKED.

jfv wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2023 12:49 am

jfv wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:23 pm

jimmy spako wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:14 pm Do Option A! I was actually going to suggest that trip when you first posted.
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Go have a nice day at the lake, take a ferry, go to the fortress etc.

Yep, I just made a final decision after seeing your post and also that Friedrichshafen has a zeppelin museum. The airship, not the band.

Well.. heading that way now.

Every other person in Stuttgart must have had the same idea. This train is PACKED.

Have a lovely time! We made a short stop at Lake Constance back in 1997 during a Black Forest trip, it's nice. Spent some time in Konstanz and Meersburg (perhaps worth a ferry ride over there to see the fortress, if it's not too much for a single day).

jimmy spako wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:41 am Have a lovely time! We made a short stop at Lake Constance back in 1997 during a Black Forest trip, it's nice. Spent some time in Konstanz and Meersburg (perhaps worth a ferry ride over there to see the fortress, if it's not too much for a single day).

Thanks! I did.

I ended up purchasing a ticket for one-day unlimited regional train rides in Baden-Wuerttemberg for 25 Euro. One hell of a deal. Tried to take advantage of it by visiting multiple cities including several on Lake Constance and also went to Triberg in the Black Forest. Started at 6 AM this morning and got back to the hotel around 9 PM.

It was great.

I am exhausted.

Brilliant, glad it worked out.

Going to be hitting Portland Oregon Oct 21st-24th (then the coast for a few days after) I have never been. Any venues I should check out, food etc?

tommy wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:33 am Anyone have Boston recos? I’ve never been and we’ll be doing 3 days there in a few weeks.

I hadn’t looked at this thread in a while or I’d have replied, sorry. Did you already travel?

Heading to New York tomorrow for work. Planning on walking around the city on Sunday if anyone is around and bored and likes walking.

Jon

Going to Hong Kong & Ningbo China Monday if anyone has good suggestions in either. Noodles being top of the list but doubtful good ones will be too hard to find

Not an incredibly popular destination, but Querétaro, Mexico, for a week around Thanksgiving. Have been there once before.

Would love recommendations for an excellent barbacoa place. And good regional Mexican restaurants, post-pandemic, in general. Plus any day trips that are less crowded than Bernal or San Miguel, but still worthwhile. Thanks.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 1:53 am Hong Kong

I love and really miss that place but haven't been there for seven years or so (before the most recent crackdown occurred). Am a little afraid of how much it has changed since then. If you haven't been there before, Kowloon and Mong Kok in particular are awesome. I don't have a suggestion on noodles other than just about everywhere I went for them was awesome. I'd guess that every hole-in-the-wall noodle place without a recognizable name is probably better than one with a name.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Not an incredibly popular destination, but Querétaro, Mexico, for a week around Thanksgiving. Have been there once before.

Never been there but the company I work for just built a lab there and I will probably end up visiting there soon enough. Definitely am interested in your thoughts afterwards or thoughts of any others that have been there.