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Post by Moe Lester on Mar 20, 2012 3:19:11 GMT -5
Nice pics mate, hope you had a great time
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Post by Nikola on Mar 20, 2012 7:07:11 GMT -5
the pictures are in good quality.You took these with your phone? I love old European building.So pretty,so elegant. Yep, took them with the iPhone 4. And I love the old buildings too. Which is why I didn't take any pictures in Frankfurt since it was all modern skyscrapers there. Anyway, this is Nuremberg. Probably the cleanest city I went to.
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 22, 2012 10:40:56 GMT -5
which city had the best old buildings? I would think it's Prague and Paris even though I've never been there.
What's it for you?
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Post by Caslav Klonimirovic on Mar 22, 2012 19:31:45 GMT -5
Cheers Nikola!
Most of your impressions are the same as mine ...or what I would guess for the places I haven't been. How did you find communicating in France?
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Post by atdhetar on Mar 22, 2012 21:15:34 GMT -5
been to most of those countries and honestly once you see one of them they all look the same, i have a hard time telling them apart, if it wasn't for street signs and me having a keen awareness of languages i wouldn't know where i was....boring and predictable, yawn!
give me some balcan style informal towns, some run down old commie flats, old school hay stacks with supporting upright log, balcan style village houses with the typical tiled roofs overrun by overgrown branches of grapevine, stray dogs roaming about, a beat up barely running 1984 240 merc blasting out a plume of unhealthy black smoke, some fucking old timers below a birch tree playing domino, road sign that always point everywhich way but their intended direction....you can marvel all want at the infrastructure in london and paris, it does fuck all for me, seen it a million times.
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Post by Nikola on Mar 22, 2012 21:33:23 GMT -5
which city had the best old buildings? I would think it's Prague and Paris even though I've never been there. What's it for you? Both Paris and Prague have amazing architecture but I like Paris more. The city is also just so large that you could walk for days at a time and still barely cover half of it. With Prague, you can see the whole city in one day. How did you find communicating in France? Most of the younger French people can speak English but even if they can't, we still somehow managed to communicate. When buying food, I would just point at what I wanted and lift one finger for quantity, and just hand them a bunch of money and hope they give me back the correct change. They were honest people. I actually tried to buy soap from one shop and the guy didn't know what the word "soap" meant in English, so I tried in Macedonian with "sapun", and he understood. Reverting to Macedonian came in handy on more than one occasion. If some beggar or prostitute kept bugging me, I learnt not to respond in English because that just encourages them even more. So I just swore at them in Macedonian and they ran away very quickly. ;D
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 23, 2012 14:51:27 GMT -5
What?!
Soap is sapun in Macedonian??? Hmmmmm.......you know,in Malay,soap is saBun.I wonder if sapun in Macedonian was adopted from the Ottoman who in turn adopted it from the Arabs.
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Post by Kralj Vatra on Mar 27, 2012 2:10:07 GMT -5
yo Nikola, great to hear you had a great time! I wish next time you visit your homeland Makedonia.
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Post by ulf on Mar 27, 2012 16:42:00 GMT -5
What?! Soap is sapun in Macedonian??? Hmmmmm.......you know,in Malay,soap is saBun.I wonder if sapun in Macedonian was adopted from the Ottoman who in turn adopted it from the Arabs. Yes, sapun, and some other words are taken from Persian, which was back then like a 1st language of Ottomans(mixed with Arabic)
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 28, 2012 3:40:16 GMT -5
Yeap! Malay has many words from Arabic too.
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Post by Nikola on Mar 28, 2012 4:32:47 GMT -5
yo Nikola, great to hear you had a great time! I wish next time you visit your homeland Makedonia. Will visit maybe later this year. And also a few other Balkan countries. You think I could visit Greece as a tourist and be ok?
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Post by Kralj Vatra on Mar 28, 2012 10:47:40 GMT -5
yo Nikola, great to hear you had a great time! I wish next time you visit your homeland Makedonia. Will visit maybe later this year. And also a few other Balkan countries. You think I could visit Greece as a tourist and be ok? sure bro, if am still in greece (and not in a country soooo close to makedonia which i plan to migrate guess where !!!) i would be happy to show you around... maybe we even go karaoke man, or let you drive my unique manual forester ;D i wish chalkedon was still around.. we would be like a deadly slavic triplet !!!
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Post by Nikola on Mar 28, 2012 21:43:18 GMT -5
Lol, I'm imagining a karaoke with some Makedonski pesni in Athens and promptly getting beat up afterwards. I'm sure such a thing wouldn't happen though.
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 28, 2012 22:09:30 GMT -5
make sure you visit Plovdiv in Bulgaria!
Check out the picture of that city in the Bulgarian forum.It's in one of the pinned threads.
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 28, 2012 22:09:58 GMT -5
Oh!
You must be loaded!
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Post by Kralj Vatra on Mar 28, 2012 23:45:57 GMT -5
Lol, I'm imagining a karaoke with some Makedonski pesni in Athens and promptly getting beat up afterwards. I'm sure such a thing wouldn't happen though. Athens is anti-slav, but not much more than any other arabic capital. but anyway, you will be safe here.
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Post by Nikola on Mar 29, 2012 10:12:02 GMT -5
make sure you visit Plovdiv in Bulgaria! Check out the picture of that city in the Bulgarian forum.It's in one of the pinned threads. Wow, that's a nice looking city. Might have to look into it. I'm not loaded btw. I was loaded 12 months ago but my job has dried up lately. Maybe it will pick up again soon.
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Post by vanilo on Apr 1, 2012 2:54:17 GMT -5
Great pictures, Nikola...if you have a chance, I'd definitely recommend you to go to some of my favourite cities: - Barcelona - Madrid - Sevilla, Cordoba, Grenada - Rome - Palermo - Monte Carlo - Nice - Budapest - Athens I enjoyed Spain a lot, a lot - it's probably my favourite country in Europe . Portugal was amazing, too, but a lot more quiet/dead than Spain. For me, it wasn't a problem, I hate chaos and huge crowds, and being suffocated in them, but I know that a lot of people easily get bored if the places they go to aren't busy 24/7. Even Lisbon is kind of slow...but it's still a beautiful city .
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Post by Nikola on Apr 1, 2012 16:34:20 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestions. I'd like to visit all those cities that you listed. And I'm not concerned about a quiet city, I don't like it if it's too crowded anyway.
Are the Spanish and Italian people friendly? I'm just thinking back to Prague again and how not friendly they were and it lowered the impressiveness of the city as a result.
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Post by vanilo on Apr 2, 2012 3:10:15 GMT -5
I can understand that...travelling is an experience of not only a city, as buildings and streets and sights, but also an experience of culture and people. I'm sorry to hear your experience in Prague wasn't as good as it could have been due to the people...
Yeah, I'd say Spanish and Italian people are very friendly. Hot-tempered, but happy, nice and pretty outgoing people. I especially loved people in Andalucia and Sicily...
I thought I would mention (because no one did to me before I went) that in Barcelona, I was very surprised about the amount of Pakistani people who live there. I didn't find them too outgoing and friendly as I've experienced them to be from my upbringing in Denmark and from my travels to the rest of Scandinavia, England etc. But having travelled to several Gulf countries - and now living in Qatar - where there are large Asian communities I think it's just their culture to not be so friendly, smiley and outgoing. I mean, they help you when you ask for it, or if they can see you need help, but they come off as quite sad/unhappy and very quiet, mellow - almost dull - people, generally. I thought they were more outgoing and friendly in Spain than they are here in the East, but still...they're quite withdrawn...
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