A flight from Barcelona to Munich will cost €30 - €50. Thank you, Cat! XOXOX
Note: a package of Marlboro cigarettes in Scotland costs just under £10 or roughly $15. So ... fly from Spain to Munich for about the price of two packs of cigarettes. Well ...
I had researched trains already and the price there looked to be around €200. A big part of the reason for the higher cost by train is the requirement for multiple steps because you need to go from Barcelona to Paris and via bullet train to Munich. The route adds at least as third as many kilometers to the distance relative to flight by air. The reasons are the Pyrenees / Alps and going around them rather than over them.
In previous research, I found it was about €50 to fly from Athens to London. Wolters mentions this also as flights around Europe are incredibly inexpensive relative to any kind of air travel in America.
The biggest personal deal in flying is checked luggage as, budget flight or no, that's expensive. That's a huge conflict as I have so little stuff I could go all-out Roma (i.e US thinks of them as gypsies and identifies them with roving groups of thieves as if this somehow characterizes an entire culture) ... but ... the guitar and related kit, even though there isn't much of it, is expensive to move.
There was more discussion this morning as Yevette is rightfully livid over what America does and we talked about that being an obvious reason to leave but it's not a good reason. All of the videos I've been running are the good reasons. If maybe your family has annoyed you then leaving because of that gives the win to whomever pissed you off. Leave for your own reasons and not someone else's as why let a jerk determine your actions.
Right now is high season which is the worst time to go anywhere. The way it looks like this will play is arriving sometime in Autumn and that's part of the reason for Barcelona, in part because it ought to be warmer and I've got no clothes for sub-zero weather. I don't have clothes for much of anything, for that matter.
Here's another part and I'm sure it will be no surprise Cat told me about this one as well. Sagrada FamÃlia and this is one of the most extraordinary cathedrals you may find anywhere. It's described as a combination of Gothic and Art Nouveau and here's a pic:
Cities don't usually do much for me but some things are so special they're just not to be missed and, from what Cat has told me, this is one of them.
Note: a package of Marlboro cigarettes in Scotland costs just under £10 or roughly $15. So ... fly from Spain to Munich for about the price of two packs of cigarettes. Well ...
I had researched trains already and the price there looked to be around €200. A big part of the reason for the higher cost by train is the requirement for multiple steps because you need to go from Barcelona to Paris and via bullet train to Munich. The route adds at least as third as many kilometers to the distance relative to flight by air. The reasons are the Pyrenees / Alps and going around them rather than over them.
In previous research, I found it was about €50 to fly from Athens to London. Wolters mentions this also as flights around Europe are incredibly inexpensive relative to any kind of air travel in America.
The biggest personal deal in flying is checked luggage as, budget flight or no, that's expensive. That's a huge conflict as I have so little stuff I could go all-out Roma (i.e US thinks of them as gypsies and identifies them with roving groups of thieves as if this somehow characterizes an entire culture) ... but ... the guitar and related kit, even though there isn't much of it, is expensive to move.
There was more discussion this morning as Yevette is rightfully livid over what America does and we talked about that being an obvious reason to leave but it's not a good reason. All of the videos I've been running are the good reasons. If maybe your family has annoyed you then leaving because of that gives the win to whomever pissed you off. Leave for your own reasons and not someone else's as why let a jerk determine your actions.
Right now is high season which is the worst time to go anywhere. The way it looks like this will play is arriving sometime in Autumn and that's part of the reason for Barcelona, in part because it ought to be warmer and I've got no clothes for sub-zero weather. I don't have clothes for much of anything, for that matter.
Here's another part and I'm sure it will be no surprise Cat told me about this one as well. Sagrada FamÃlia and this is one of the most extraordinary cathedrals you may find anywhere. It's described as a combination of Gothic and Art Nouveau and here's a pic:
Cities don't usually do much for me but some things are so special they're just not to be missed and, from what Cat has told me, this is one of them.
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"It's only good manners to have some knowledge of matters within any country you would like to visit."
True that. So here's something to keep in mind: it ain't no Shire over here in the Old Country. No hobbits. We do have our share of mean people, though. And we have all kinds of weather, sometimes in one day. French writer Albert Camus (born in Algeria and later moved to France) once wrote that it's better to be poor in Algeria than to be poor in France. Less rain in Algeria.
Every place will have jerks but Europe has two gigantic advantages over America on that: there are fewer of them and they usually don't have guns.
I went up to the Shire in Edinburgh ... but the hobbits were addicted to heroin.
An extra benefit from being in Barcelona is it's really not so hard to go over to Africa from there. Yanks will say I'll get killed by ISIS if I do that but the much greater risk of getting killed is by gunner lunatics in America.
Dunno if we've got less jerks over here: there's hundreds of millions of people living here. And there's lots of illegal guns around.
Everyplace gets its share of jerks but America makes heroes out of them. Until there are over two hundred million guns in circulation in Europe, any idea it's more dangerous than America makes no sense to me whatsoever. There's far more killing than you actually see in the news as that only covers the really brutal ones.
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