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Euro Trip Honeymoon
on: May 06, 2015, 13:51:13 PM
Hey guys,
I will be in Leicester then London end of August and that is the stepping stone to our Honeymoon around Europe.
We will be spending a month going to various places..

Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Venice, Florence, Rome, Athens, Mikanos, Barcelona and then Dubai

I been looking at a good day back for myself to hold shopping, bits and bobs, camera etc.
https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/au/osprey-farpoint-40-travel-pack-64110286
This seems to be the best for me as a carry on, can hold my surface (wont take my macbook) and I like things like zips being hidden, how lightweight it is etc.. Seems to have good reviews across the board.

Anyone one recommend anything else?

Also, has anyone got any other tips, must buys for such a trip? We will be staying at proper hotels, when in places like Prague our package already includes private car (private taxi) travel so not to ripped off in places that rip off travellers with their taxi's.

Looking to get a small undershirt pack as well... Anything else that would be handy or you have found useful for long trips?

Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #1 on: May 06, 2015, 17:51:49 PM
no idea.
But I have got in a few drunken messes in a few on them cities.

Park Inn in Berlin is central location if your looking for something cheap

& these are a great laugh


legally drink & drive!

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Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #2 on: June 10, 2015, 12:41:52 PM
I do not drink :)

I got an osprey fairpoint in the end.

Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #3 on: June 10, 2015, 15:14:24 PM
when'd you stop drinking ?


or did your wife make you ?    :evil:

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Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #4 on: June 21, 2015, 01:38:03 AM
$130 seems a bit pricey for a backpack? I mean you're coming to Europe, not climbing M2. I have one that cost me 20 quid.

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Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #5 on: October 14, 2016, 08:39:33 AM
As a note $130 AU is half that in UK so not that expensive.

I just wanted to close the topic with that the trip was awesome. Quite active with just 2/3 days in each location but it was an awesome experience and overall travel was good.
The bag I got was perfect!

Notes from the trip:

1. Athens is in a mess. A lot of the place websites and even booklets we got to say go visit like cool shopping areas etc but we got to them and they were boarded up mess. A lot of the shops, places etc are just a mess with Greece in so much financial trouble.
The funny thing with that is, things are not being sold cheap, things are actually expensive. The government has put price fixes on goods in place stopping even sales and has causes pricing to go up.

2. Vueling airlines are terrible! They loose stuff and do every trick in the book not to refund you as they should and when you check their facebook for example it literally is all that.

3. Rome - WOW, was great and the ruins are just amazing.. A big take away from that is just how much land has piled up over the years and how people back then were living closer to the core as it were then we do today. Rome has been building new train tunnels but they are so far behind because they keep finding Roman Ruins and artefacts.

4. Going back to Leicester was funny... We literally saw in the day some girls pushing prams and the same girls (and I mean girls) going out on the town wearing not much at all going out to get trashed... Ahhh, home... LOL. Janya thought it was funny.

5. Prague - AS everyone says - Very true - AWESOME!

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Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #6 on: October 31, 2016, 11:27:40 AM
Osprey do make some good bags. Though sometimes their designs get a bit OTT. I had one bag with a mesh back that was so curved and springy the bag was 2x the size of other bags of the same volume. Another Osprey bag did a similar thing, but this time enclosed the "suspension area" with a zipper opening at the top, so that you could use it as storage space if you needed it.

The wife and I are thinking about a similar thing, but in reverse. We have an NZ residency visa interview in a few hours. If the outcome is good we'll be moving to NZ in the new year, and so we're thinking of doing a bit of Europe before we go, as it'll be so expensive to do once we move!

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Reply #7 on: October 31, 2016, 21:21:14 PM
Osprey do make some good bags. Though sometimes their designs get a bit OTT. I had one bag with a mesh back that was so curved and springy the bag was 2x the size of other bags of the same volume. Another Osprey bag did a similar thing, but this time enclosed the "suspension area" with a zipper opening at the top, so that you could use it as storage space if you needed it.

The wife and I are thinking about a similar thing, but in reverse. We have an NZ residency visa interview in a few hours. If the outcome is good we'll be moving to NZ in the new year, and so we're thinking of doing a bit of Europe before we go, as it'll be so expensive to do once we move!
Start with the German xmas markets!
Prague is nice at xmas time from what I remember as well

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Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #8 on: November 02, 2016, 11:53:26 AM
Osprey do make some good bags. Though sometimes their designs get a bit OTT. I had one bag with a mesh back that was so curved and springy the bag was 2x the size of other bags of the same volume. Another Osprey bag did a similar thing, but this time enclosed the "suspension area" with a zipper opening at the top, so that you could use it as storage space if you needed it.

The wife and I are thinking about a similar thing, but in reverse. We have an NZ residency visa interview in a few hours. If the outcome is good we'll be moving to NZ in the new year, and so we're thinking of doing a bit of Europe before we go, as it'll be so expensive to do once we move!

When do you think you will be in NZ?

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Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #9 on: November 03, 2016, 07:24:12 AM
The plan is end of January but that's subject to the outcome of the interview, could be a few weeks till we hear and we couldn't tell from the interviewer how we did and what the likely outcome will be!

Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #10 on: November 04, 2016, 11:48:17 AM
Good luck with it zpyder

I'll be landing in NZ in just a few weeks myself  :ptu:

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Reply #11 on: November 07, 2016, 09:08:07 AM
Good luck with it zpyder

I'll be landing in NZ in just a few weeks myself  :ptu:

Honeymoon or...?

Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #12 on: November 08, 2016, 19:41:06 PM
yeah honeymoon, 4 weeks in nz less 3 days in singapore

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Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #13 on: November 13, 2016, 09:51:44 AM
Awesome! Be sure to report back with any thing you found interesting or useful ;)

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Re: Euro Trip Honeymoon
Reply #14 on: February 09, 2018, 05:18:14 AM
I never reported back on this one. My bad.

I will do a post about such a trip in general as I think we planned some things well, learned well from others but some core take away's were.

- EU Airlines (Short hall flights) are generally crap and you need to think - They may loose my luggage and pack based on that.
- While there was some minor issues with the booking, going through flight centre took a lot of headache away of what to do, booking and travel.

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