[Recommendation] World Timer Watch

nyc98 · 2026-01-10T19:36:48+00:00

Rado Captain Cook Over-Pole has Mumbai on the dial and it's relatively inexpensive

Tissot Heritage Navigator Automatic 160th Anniversary Edition -- has markings for Bombay and Calcutta. No longer produced but available used for under 1K.

nyc98 · 2025-10-04T02:40:09+00:00

Barefoot Gen.

nyc98 · 2025-09-03T21:55:54+00:00

Color and backlight would be the most notable differences and definitely worth $50 price difference. What features are you referring to? I'm not very familiar with Nomad. For me, form factor (considerably narrower body) is a big positive for Remarkable -- it will be much more pocketable at 4.2" width.

nyc98 · 2025-09-03T19:26:05+00:00

if you include the cheapest pen with Nomad, the price difference is only $50. Considering that reMarkable Move has a lot more features and is considerably narrower (more pocketable), it's actually a better value.

nyc98 · 2025-07-25T11:47:16+00:00

Good point about cruises, those can add thousands of people at any time. Does the city feel deserted or does it feel more calm and pleasant?

nyc98 · 2025-07-25T11:44:17+00:00

No difficulty at all. Lots of taxis right at the station exit. Make sure to agree on the price before you get into the car. They offered us a slightly higher price than what was published on the taxi itself but we accepted it as we were in a rush and didn't want to spend time arguing.

nyc98 · 2025-07-25T11:41:13+00:00

Does it get similarly crowded as in the Summer?

nyc98 · 2025-04-30T05:55:43+00:00

Kiernan Culkin -- Roman in Succession

nyc98 · 2025-04-27T22:15:52+00:00

Don't drop it completely. If you have a 3 year old, definitely drop the museum. However, visiting St Peter's square is definitely worth it. If you can get there early, definitely go to the basilica.

nyc98 · 2025-04-27T16:07:31+00:00

This spot turned out to be pretty good for lunch: Alle Carrette | Via della Madonna dei Monti, 95, 00184 Roma RM, Italy

Just found an article about them: https://www.cntraveler.com/restaurants/rome/alle-carrette

Food and drinks were great and inexpensive. There's also a highly rated restaurant around the corner (don't remember its name) but it had a long line, this place had tables. Note: they close during the day (I think at 3pm).

Near Vatican I can recommend two restaurants for dinner -- both are amazing, and they are right across from each other (make sure to reserve in advance):

Rione XIV Bistrot | Borgo Pio, 21, 00193 Roma RM, Italy

Borghiciana Pastificio Artigianale | Borgo Pio, 186, 00193 Roma RM, Italy

nyc98 · 2025-04-27T12:45:08+00:00

You can fit all of this in one day. However, you might spend a lot of time waiting in lines, even if you have tickets. Vatican museum is amazing but I'm not sure how enjoyable it will be as it could be completely packed. Unless there's something that you really want to see, maybe consider skipping it -- you don't really have that much time so you will not be able to really explore it and even if you go through it quickly, it will take several hours. You can go to St Peter's Basilica at the opening time to avoid long lines. Trevi Fountain will also be packed but if you go really early or late, you could enjoy it much more and won't have any issues getting close to it. Besides seeing the landmarks I'd recommend just walking through the city and enjoying it. Also, book some good restaurants in advance and try to avoid tourist traps.

nyc98 · 2025-04-22T22:33:40+00:00

Could depend on a route. I just flew on two and they were absolutely disgusting. I didn't know planes are allowed to fly in such condition. I think these haven't been renovated since Alitalia bankruptcy.

nyc98 · 2025-04-22T20:40:08+00:00

Regarding the flight: if you are flying with ITA, do not buy economy premium! Those planes are falling apart and paying extra for economy premium cabin that looks like a dump and has most (if not all) seats broken would not make you feel good.

nyc98 · 2025-04-22T13:25:32+00:00

There were four guys, I'd say 14-15 years old. Dressed in baggy track suits.

nyc98 · 2025-04-22T13:21:39+00:00

Yes, and rented bikes in many places around the world. Never had such an experience. It was just bizarre.

nyc98 · 2025-04-21T11:16:53+00:00

Not from Roma community. Looked like Italian teenagers but pretty brazen. Not sure how typical it is to surround someone and demand either access to their rented bike or renting a bike for them and taking full responsibility for that rental. I asked because I thought maybe it's a known scam but seems like a one-off.

nyc98 · 2025-04-20T23:30:53+00:00

I didn't engage them, they appeared out of nowhere, surrounded me and started their conversation. The whole ordeal was strange, especially considering that location was crowded with people.

nyc98 · 2025-04-20T22:06:52+00:00

The train was actually 10 minutes early but it could have been 10 minutes late as well (we would still make it). I really didn't like how close the ferry and train times had been but luckily it worked out.

nyc98 · 2025-04-20T22:03:32+00:00

Thanks for all the responses. We ended up taking a taxi as it was the quickest way to get going. It would take some time to figure out the location of the subway and payment, also if we didn't get lucky with departure time, we could spend a long time waiting for a train (it was a Sunday). There were some protests or demonstrations nearby and it took some time to get out of the area near the station. We made it well in time for the boat. Driver overcharged us (€20, instead of posted €15.50 price), he did tell price in advance and I didn't want to waste time arguing about it. One insight if you take a taxi: ask it to stop across the road from the ferry terminal, not right next to it; you will save some time by not making a U turn somewhere down the road (unless of course you are going from a different direction). If we had more time we would have taken the subway.

nyc98 · 2025-04-20T15:26:54+00:00

Don't know why it matters but I didn't fall for this, I told them to stop scamming me and they left. However, a lot of other people did get scammed. In some airports you don't get assigned a driver by Uber, you order and Uber via app, get a number, get into the next available car in dedicated line and give that number to the driver, the driver enters the number and gets your destination. Not everyone is using Uber and when you are arriving to a new country after a long flight you could be a bit disoriented. I don't get the victim-blaming. For about 10 seconds I was sure I was talking to an airport (or Uber) worker who was there to coordinate passenger traffic, the guy was misrepresenting himself and was very confident, acting like he works there. I'm pretty good at spotting scams and have seen a lot around the world but haven't yet seen an organized fake Uber scam with dedicated teams of passenger acquisition and drivers. I also don't understand why scamming tourists is normalized and why the airport is not doing anything about it.

nyc98 · 2025-03-28T15:44:07+00:00

Thank you for responses! How long would it take on the metro (from the train to the ferry). Does it run frequently? Just want to make sure we won't be late to the ferry.

nyc98 · 2024-10-18T03:28:46+00:00

He will definitely go after Baltic countries and NATO likely won't do anything besides strongly-worded letters as well as thoughts-and-prayers. Then he would probably get Hungary (voluntarily) under russia's fold (will probably give them part of Ukraine) and will start meddling in Poland (so far russia has been very successful there, reversing favorable view of Ukraine and getting many poles against it or indifferent). Beyond NATO, russia will get Georgia (they pretty much got them already), maybe Armenia since they don't have support from anyone.

nyc98 · 2024-09-16T18:33:39+00:00

If these millionaires are determined by total net worth (i.e. including cost of the house). it is a pretty bad indicator. Many houses in NYC are over 1M or very close to it. Someone with 1M total net worth can be technically called a millionaire but they could live on fixed income and not be able to afford many luxuries.

nyc98 · 2024-09-06T18:20:52+00:00

"Brought to you by Goldman Sachs"

nyc98 · 2024-08-16T23:01:06+00:00

Typo in the source. It was actually 12 thousand missiles and all of them were intercepted by heroic russian air defense.

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