My partner and I just booked a holiday to London in March. We’re playing away that weekend but does anyone have tips for some non-tourist things we can do?
We won’t have the baby with us (figured our dog and cat can keep an eye on her for 10 days) and we’ve both been in London before (I lived there for a bit) and we don’t really want to do the tourist route again.
She really wants to hit up Disneyland Paris which is obviously not in London but I genuinely have no concept of how easy it is to get to using rail service.
Lovely place, but fuck me I was shocked by how unhelpful, rude and ready to bleed you dry the people were.
I hate making generalisations but I’m gonna this time, cos I could count on one hand the amount of nice positive interactions I had.
It’s such a shame because I loved the sights and everything, and the holiday could have been so much better if I wasn’t treated like a prick all the time.
Any recommendations for visiting Barcelona? I’m having a couple of days out there during the summer. I’m going to take in our friendly but also just want to see some sights and have some nice food.
Steer clear of kuta beach, its a shit hole, its to Australians what the terrible parts of Spain are like Benidorm etc are to the rest of Europe.
Ubud and Lembongan island are beautiful. Drugs are everywhere and you’ll regularly get offered coke and weed in broad day light keep an eye on your pockets.
I stayed in a hostel with a private poolside room and outside shower for around £15 a night.
Was there maybe 10 years ago. Kuta on the south side has vast beaches but was pretty touristy in a bad way. If you want to go diving, go to the north side - less people, great waters. East side you can take a boat to Lombok if you get tired of Bali, I think it was maybe a 3hr boat ride or so. It was a bit different, you rode into the jungle monkeys were hanging about on the road side not giving a fk about anything.
Bali is pretty small with a volcano or w/e it was in the middle. Food’s great, thought I saw Richard Gere there once at a café, walked up to him and asked if it was him, he laughed and said “did my wife set this up?” but he looked even more like him when he laughed so I didn’t know what to do and said no and left lol
People are really friendly and helpful, my gf lost her bracelet on Kuta beach, we then left for maybe 2 weeks to other places, then when we came back and spent the last couple of days there before the flight one of the pineapple girls (that walk around on the beach selling pineapples) that had chatted with my gf for like 30secs back 2 weeks ago came up to her and was like hey you lost your bracelet and gave it back to her.
You can get anything from the cheapest stays to like absolute dream luxurious cottages if depending on what you want. We went at this time of the year as well. Again, food is great. Place is pretty commercialised nowadays, it used to be more of a hippie hangout my mum told me.
