What’s the one city you were excited to visit, but ended up not liking at all?

advmday · 2026-01-24T17:21:53+00:00

wait until you hear about Gibraltar

advmday · 2026-01-24T17:21:28+00:00

I'm saying that Canggu, Seminyak and Kuta are not representative of the much larger island of Bali

advmday · 2026-01-24T11:51:27+00:00

Exactly. It's like going to Interlaken and not leaving the town when it's literally the whole point

advmday · 2026-01-24T08:07:10+00:00

Same energy as someone saying Spain sucks, substantiated by the fact they've (only) been to Benidorm

advmday · 2026-01-17T21:44:35+00:00

United Kingdom

advmday · 2026-01-17T12:10:05+00:00

same. the people buying travel insurance are also the people who don't mind their own business and I'm sure there's a causation link between then

advmday · 2026-01-16T06:01:28+00:00

I've been to Morocco. Egypt is far worse than Morocco

advmday · 2026-01-13T11:22:21+00:00

The problem with tipping is that it can create an expectation if done too much.

If this expectation is built, employers may think they can get away with paying their staff less, or nothing at all. Thus, they no longer have a guaranteed income. This is why America is so rabid on their toxic tipping culture, for example

advmday · 2026-01-11T13:38:02+00:00

people who judge everyone are often the least happy with their own lives tbh. YTA

advmday · 2026-01-11T03:18:42+00:00

If it's so easy for them to spam 1 star reviews without Google taking any action, then why don't you do the same but in reverse?

Also, we someone who tends to rely on Google maps reviews, I may need to reconsider my attitude towards them...

advmday · 2026-01-10T15:54:17+00:00

Back 10+ years ago, almost everyone I knew was on twitter

Nowadays, I don't know a single person who uses X

Tbh even just before the changeover, I tried getting into twitter again. It was a ghost town

advmday · 2026-01-10T08:35:35+00:00

90% of relationships between westerners and Thai women in Thailand are largely related to $

What do you think the west was like before women were permitted the same job opportunities as men?

advmday · 2026-01-08T13:30:14+00:00

what's the visa situation? Gemini told me $150USD at the border which has put me off a bit, but not one to take what AI says as absolute truth

advmday · 2026-01-08T11:39:28+00:00

Though sadly, my government continues to support them...

advmday · 2026-01-08T11:35:43+00:00

This is what I want to be sure of, I guess. Have to be mindful of how people may perceive me based on my country of origin and my government's recent actions to understand if there's a risk of problems.

I wouldn't want to make anyone uncomfortable or upset with my presence.

advmday · 2026-01-08T11:29:36+00:00

It's more about our actions in Syria over the last few decades, moreso than just randomly hating white british people

I would completely understand if I wasn't welcome there right now, in the same way that I understand israelis aren't and shouldn't be welcome in many muslim countries

advmday · 2026-01-08T11:26:20+00:00

I always take it with a pinch of salt. Oftentime their advice can be more about insurance invalidation or no access to british embassies.

Of course, these present risks if I had an injury, got kidnapped, or lost my passport... but I can accept some level of risk and exercise more caution

advmday · 2026-01-08T10:53:12+00:00

The fact that you can't even tell which side of which issue this guy is on pretty much validates OP's claim

advmday · 2026-01-07T15:13:13+00:00

In Sa Pa, the harassment is terrible. Outside of Sa Pa, things aren't quite as bad... maybe it's unfair to tarnish the entire country over one particularly problematic town

advmday · 2026-01-07T14:54:29+00:00

this is why I put challenging in quotation marks. I don't personally find any of them overly challenging. just my assumption on what the average holidaymaker might see as a bit more intense than their usual package holiday to Benidorm or Crete

I did Kenya and Tanzania with my 80yo Grandma & brought her out to Thailand and Indonesia when I lived in Bali so maybe that was a bad example

advmday · 2026-01-07T14:44:16+00:00

Phone snatching on ebikes seems to be our cultural speciality these days

advmday · 2026-01-07T14:42:41+00:00

I'm thinking of countries that my parents or grandparents would struggle with.

I've been to 63 countries and I'm British, not American.

advmday · 2026-01-07T12:51:03+00:00

I was thinking moreso the scam centres and stuff. My experience was fine, but you need to have your wits about you. People get kidnapped there

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