Google maps is a gift from the Gods. We never would have been able to navigate our way through these months of travel without it.
When we get off trains or planes, it tells us exactly where to go to get to our next bus, tram or train to take us to the next place to rest our weary bods. We were never gonna be people who took a taxi from the airport. Too much money.
So today we took a 45 minute train from Chuck De Gaulle airport to the neighborhood we're staying in and walked .7 mile to the hotel on a bag drag.
We each are traveling with a suitcase and a backpack and even though I have left things behind, they never get lighter. I would only take a suitcase next time, forget the backpack. Or maybe just a rolling back pack. It's hard to know how much to pack for a months long trip. I role everything up to fit it in the suitcase. I put toiletries, jewelry, chargers cords, in zip lock bags. I have a cellphone and a tablet. Could have left tablet home. I packed too many clothes and have left at least 5 items of clothing behind.
We don't buy souvenirs really. Mike bough a Arsenal soccer shirt and an Ireland shirt. I bought an Ireland shirt. That's it. My pictures will be the souvenirs.
Some things we haven't done is pay to get in many places. I have gone to a couple of free art museums, many free cathedrals. Paid to get into Gaudi Park in Barcelona. I just can't see spending a lot of money on tourist stuff. Paying to get into a church seems wrong. Cant do it. You could spend so much money on all of that and people do. Free stuff is more interesting anyway.
We could have took a train from Barcelona to Paris but it would have been a six hour ride with 3 train changes. Ah at this point, no. We took Easyjet and it cost about 50 dollars a piece.
At first I was kind of leary of the low cost airlines like Easyjet, Ryanair, Transavia but after having used them, they are fine. A cheap, easy, reliable (for us anyway), to get around Europe.
Google maps and public transport get us around cities. And also our feet. we walk to and from if it's less than a mile.
We don't do much on the day of arrival. Just too tired. Between getting to train or airport, riding 2-4 hours, getting to next spot once we get there, ready for rest.
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October 29, 2022 at 08:38PM
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