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Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 12:49 am
by jfv
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.

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:41 am
by jimmy spako
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.
...
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).

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 4:16 pm
by jfv
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.

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 4:02 am
by jimmy spako
Brilliant, glad it worked out.

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 1:16 pm
by Owen
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?

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:10 pm
by twelvepoint
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?

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 9:17 pm
by Barbo
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

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 1:53 am
by TylerDeadPine
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

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:46 am
by OrthodoxEaster
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.

Re: Catch-all travel thread

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:56 am
by jfv
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.