Thumbs up: Booked my flight!
Thumbs down: Now that I can't change it, I wish I'd left a day earlier. Of course.
Thumbs up: I did, however, tack an extra three days onto my trip. Hello Cotswolds, I'm coming for you now.
Thumbs down: I still need to book my Munich to Nice and Paris to Edinburgh flights.
Thumbs up: Found a Munich to Nice flight that is literally half the price of the cheapest one I found earlier.
Thumbs down: It will entail waking up at 4 am, walking to the train station at 5, and being at the airport at 6 for a 7:10 flight.
Thumbs up: I'm an early riser and a cheapskate. I've been training for this moment my entire life.
Further thumbs up: Get into Nice early enough to spend the afternoon at the beach (probably napping, since I woke up at 4 am). I could live with that.
Thumbs down: The hostel I was planning on staying at Menton (which I stayed at and really liked the last time I was in France) apparently has fallen off the face of the earth / no longer exists / is abandoned.
Further thumbs down: All other Menton hostels are too expensive.
Thumbs up: Nearby Nice has hostels! Cheap ones! It has the hostel voted Best Hostel in France! Count me in!
Thumbs down: RIP, YHA Menton Hostel. I will miss your fantastic view and the fact that I literally had to climb an Alp, walk through an RV campsite, skirt about a hundred people's backyards, and pass by a goat pen just to get to your front door.
Thumbs up: I rediscovered Sandemans New Europe Tours today. (I took two of their tours when I was in London and loved them both.) They also offer tours in Prague, Munich, Paris, and Edinburgh, all of which I will be taking advantage of (!!!).
Further thumbs up: They offer a tour out of Munich to Neuschwanstein! Now I don't have to deal with the transportation headache that is negotiating the train/bus transfers to Hohenschwangau without knowing German.
Thumbs down: I will not be able to take advantage of the day tour to Kutna Hora (which looks bizarre and AWESOME...yes, those are actual human bones) because I will not be in Prague long enough. DAMN YOU, SCHEDULE! (see above, re: cannot change trip dates but wish I'd left earlier).
Thumbs up: Saving money by replacing my expensive day trip to Lindau, a pretty island town on Lake Konstanz, with a much cheaper tour of Dachau, the only concentration camp to be in operation for the entirety of the Third Reich.
Thumbs down: I will miss you, Lindau, you look so pretty. =(
Thumbs up: Saving $120, BAM.
Thumbs down: Still so much planning! So much to do / buy / research!
Thumbs up: I'M GOING BACK TO EUROPE, SUCKAS!!!!
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
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