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    Anyway, I've done a bit of traveling lately. Within the last year I've been to France (Mainland and Réunion), Madagascar, the Netherlands, Czech, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Slovenia and Croatia. Roughly in that order. Mostly backpacking, except for the Netherlands which was work related.

     

    Nice. What kinds of transportation were you using?

     

    Has anyone tried using Interrail to travel between the cities? Is it a good way to do it?

     

     

    Flights for long distances, otherwise buses, trains and ferries.Taxi brousses within Madagascar of course. :)

     

    I was interrailing about 10 years ago. It's relatively cheap in Western/Central Europe compared to other transports but in Eastern Europe it's usually just cheaper to buy the individual tickets. And as fenton said you still need to reserve the seats in the intercity trains but you can also use the local trains that don't need no reservation but are also really sloooowww. Also the reservations cost money which might be a problem if you are traveling like we were on a 20 euros per day budget in Western Europe..

  2. Anyway, I've done a bit of traveling lately. Within the last year I've been to France (Mainland and Réunion), Madagascar, the Netherlands, Czech, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Slovenia and Croatia. Roughly in that order. Mostly backpacking, except for the Netherlands which was work related.

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    Some books I read in the last five or so weeks..

     

    Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
    Yann Martel - Life of Pi
    Vladimir Bartol - Alamut
    Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
    Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
    Now reading Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations and Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz.

     

    Have you read this one yet?

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    My favorite Murakami book, and essential if you're a fan of him. Impossible to put down!

     

     

    Yes, I read it last year. One of my favorites also.

  4. Some books I read in the last five or so weeks..

     

    Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
    Yann Martel - Life of Pi
    Vladimir Bartol - Alamut
    Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
    Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
    Now reading Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations and Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz.
  5. Under the Turquoise Hexagon Sun: A conspiracy movie in grainy black and white similar to Pi. Our hero, a basement dwelling acidhead, is trying to find the lost BoC tapes and stumbles upon a worldwide conspiracy involving the Hexagon Sun, Twoism, the Illuminati and a secret nazi HQ and nuclear arsenal hidden inside huge underground caves beneath the Scottish soil. How was the Red Moon incident connected to the Loch Ness monster? Why shouldn't you go to the woods alone?

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