I am thinking about travelling through Europe this summer, without really planning where I'm going: just getting a month Eurail card and going where ever I fancy. Has anyone ever done this before, and is there advice I should heed when doing this kind of thing?
sounds like fun
don't take off your shoes before you step onto the beach at Nice
it is made of ROCKS and PAIN
Thanks for the advice: what about accomodation? Will it be hard to find places to stay?
stay at american hotel chains, like sleep inn or comfort inn derivatives
they will be rated the same stars as the european ones, except the european ones will be falling apart and the american ones will be what you expect
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(from my experience in france at least, dont take that as perfect, or take it with a grain of salt, or whatever the expression is)
I think you got "special" treatment since you're american
i've been in quite a few hotels in western and central europe and the only one that wasn't up to north american standards was the one in switzerland (reddish stains on the walls...blood perhaps? i dont wanna know)
http://www.hostels.com/
A travelers friend for cheap places to stay
(by the way with hotels i was only speaking of low-star hotels; im sure a high-star european hotel would be great, but with the lower end ones the european ones were slightly shoddier than the american counterparts which i felt didnt descend past a certain level since they were standard, were standardly clean, standardly maintained)
not that the european ones were BAD or even unliveable, i wasnt talking about blood stains level, i just preferred the american somewhat, i thought it was better maintained
bleh, maybe just forget what i said, you probably just want the cheapest possible place to stay for the night anyways if youre drifting through