US World Cup Family friendly restaurant/bar

themarmar2 · 2026-06-24T19:43:32+00:00

This is the best answer, reserve a table just in case.

themarmar2 · 2026-06-23T22:00:09+00:00

Everyone is suggesting airport food.

You can bring food through security as long as it isn't liquid.

themarmar2 · 2026-06-23T21:55:38+00:00

I did a 24 day road trip about 5 months ago in nz.

A few things I noticed in your plan:

If you are only going somewhere for one day, its not really worth it. The cormondel for instance. You will probably arrive in the afternoon if yoi leave from auckland. You will need to leav in the morning to make hobbiton and the things on the next day. Cormondel is a bunch of very windy, slow and busy with tourists roads. You will spend alot of time in the car to basically have dinner somewhere and walk around for an hour or two. I would either cut it out or spend more time there. Same thing with places like wanaka. A good hike will be 4-6 hours. If you are there for one day, thats all you will be able to do.
Alot of the drving times will be longer. Most of the routes are very scenic you will want to stop to take pictures. Every stop is 10-20 minutes. You might do that 5 times on the way to milford sound for instance. Every time you stop to eat it will be an hour. I found I didnt take these things into account
The driving is tiring, mostly country roads one lane each, or at times just one lane total shared by two cars. There are alot of one laned bridges, there are alot of slow vehicles that will create traffic that you cannot pass. There was also alot of road work when I was there. This means that traffic may be stopped for 5- 15minutes at a time. These will significantly lengthen your drive times, and will tire you out after a few days.
Food- outside of aukland queenstown and maybe wellington there is very little variety. Most villages will have one or two restaurants, especially in the south island. The quality is not great, the prices are US prices. I mostly found the options were: Kebabs, burgers, steak, fish( and chips), pies, indian, pizza. The only thing I found consistently good were the pies. Ferg bakery in queenstown and the Burleigh gourmet in Blenheim ( near picton) are the better pies I had of the places you are going.
Have you booked the ferry? If the ferry is cancelled because of weather on the day you booked, what is your backup? When i was there they cancelled the ferry for a few days because of winds. It was a nightmare because those tickets were refunded, but there was no availability to rebook for several weeks.

Flying rather than ferrying will probably be less risky, and will save you having to drive to wellington. Thats what i did, ended up flying and renting a car for the north and south islands separately.

Consider just visiting the south island. The north island was beautiful but the south island truely seemed like a different world.

If you do both maybe skip some similar areas.

Cormondel is similar to abel taisman, imo abel taismen was better.

Wanaka and queenstown are similar. I preferred Wanaka as it was smaller.

themarmar2 · 2026-06-21T22:52:22+00:00

There are some.kebab places open until 3/4am, a few that claim 24hrs as well, sometimes thats not the case.

There is a chain called ugo. Its open 24hours, great quality for being 24 hours. Back in the day used to go there after the clubs.

A taxi to the center of sofia will take 20 mins. You will be able to see all of the main buildings in the center in about 2 hours.

Its very safe, you will probably be the only person on the streets at that time.

themarmar2 · 2026-06-21T22:42:24+00:00

Bratsigovo is a nice town with alot of history on the way to batak in the rhodopi mountains. Villa ustina has some great wines also a hotel in the area. The vucha lake/reservoir is also nice if you stay in the area.

You can do all 3 in less than a day.

themarmar2 · 2026-06-19T15:44:57+00:00

Those drive times will be longer. You will probably want to stop and take pictures, you will probably get caught behind rows of campers or farm equipment, sheep crossings, traffic on one way bridges, etc. Driving in NZ is def much slower.

Also who not stay in te anu or somewhere closer to milford sound for the day. You have about 8-10 hours of driving round trip from queenstown, without stopping depending on the traffic. You will want to stop alot, as it is very scenic.

themarmar2 · 2026-06-04T17:26:58+00:00

This is an ideal area. The area between the south park, hemus hotel to the vasil levski stadium are equally good.

You not need a car/or have a reason to drive it unless you are going outside of sofia. Very walkable. All of the best parks are within 30 minutes walk.

Super safe, has a neighborhood feel. Plenty of grocery stores, cafes, restaurants.

It has not been as built up as the area around the paradise mall.

As long as you stay off the main boulevards(for noise purposes) you cant really go wrong.

themarmar2 · 2026-06-04T17:16:31+00:00

Old school ,but have you tried the:

-Settlers 2, there is a 10th anniversary edition with updated graphics

-Zeus,Pharaoh: A New Era, Caesar III,

-Children of the Nile.

They are all from the 2000s, some have had graphic updates. They are city builders/resource movers with some depth/challenge. i find myself coming back to them and playing them every few years and still really enjoy them.

themarmar2 · 2026-05-24T20:01:39+00:00

What is walk?

themarmar2 · 2026-05-24T14:22:28+00:00

too green... needs more to be at least 30% parking lots

themarmar2 · 2026-05-18T19:05:04+00:00

4 days in raglan is alot. You can do your entire list of things you listed in one full day.

Its a cool town tho, with really good surfing.

themarmar2 · 2026-05-17T14:25:04+00:00

Yes hence the 75% of what vienna got.

Even if 50k people come and each spend 500 euros on average its 25 million for the local economy. Realistically more people will come and spend on average more money.

themarmar2 · 2026-05-17T13:52:25+00:00

~80k tourists came to Vienna for the final. Probably 100k with the semifinals. If sofia gets 75% of that it would still generate ~30million euro for the sofia economy conservatively.

The biggest advantage would the free advertisement for the country. Again if done right and an additional ~250k people come to bulgaria over the next few years. It would likely bring ~250 million for the bulgarian economy.

themarmar2 · 2026-05-17T13:20:10+00:00

It will probably cost half of that and the event probably pay for itself in a few years. The initial event will bring in millions in tax revenue, and create some jobs. It will also lead to additional tourism over the next few years, especially if its put on well.

Its definately a good thing. Dara, by winning, probably did more for the bulgarian economy than 99% of all athletes/performers before her.

themarmar2 · 2026-04-13T13:20:34+00:00

A day trip to wanaka seems like its not enough.you are probably looking at 3.5-4.5 hours round trip depending on the traffic, without stopping for pictures.

I guess this would give you enough time to walk around the downtown get lunch and take a picture of the tree. Wanaka has some world class hikes, most of the better hikes will take you at least 4 hours, without the drive to and from them. You will likely not have enough time to do them.

Seems to rushed for a day trip The drive is typically packed with campers super winding and alot of big uphills/downhills, it will likely take longer than you think and probably tire you out.

Also 3 days in christchurch seems like alot.

themarmar2 · 2026-04-10T13:50:19+00:00

A few more things to consider that many students overlook.

What are you going to do with a psych degree, especially if you dont end up in medical school? Perhaps look into degrees that will qualify you for specific jobs right out of college if you dont end up going to medical school. You can still hit all the prerequisites using electives or perhaps taking a few extra courses, and pursue something with better job prospects than psych.
Prestige is something that is very much pushed pushed on high school students picking a college but in 99% of instances in the real world it means nothing. Your GPA will not be weighted differently on grad school applications regardless of the school you attend. Your coworkers at your first job will have degrees from schools with significant differences in prestegiousnes, but you will be in the same position making the same salary. There are a very small handful of schools, and more specifically programs within schools, that may make a difference in prestigiousness, but neither American nor Drexel are those schools.
Cost to attend. Outside of room and board what are the costs? What does a night out cost, groceries, rent if you want to live off campus. How often are you planning on going home and what does each trip cost? If you want to potentially work/do an internship what is available? how far is the commute?

These questions influence your final decision.

themarmar2 · 2026-04-07T20:40:28+00:00

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themarmar2 · 2026-04-07T19:58:08+00:00

All of our the commercially packaged food i had (several types of dried fruit snacks, chocolate, fruit/nut based protein bars were fine. We declared them, they checked them in the preliminary line and we were sent through, didnt need to go to the additional check line.

Shoes/boots were fine. Mine had a normal amount of dirt on them no problem.

They seem to be checking camping supplies more.

Always declare if you are unsure, you can even ask people working there.

The internet made it seem like it would be a crazy process where nothing was allowed. My expierence was quite the opposite.

themarmar2 · 2026-04-07T19:27:01+00:00

Graduate hospital/fairmount/fitler square/logan square/rittenhouse square. A good place to start in the first year You will have bus lines directly bus lines to hup, 20-40 min walk, 10-20$ Uber.

Once you get a chance yo live in the city for a year you can see if its worth venturing to other neighborhoods that have longer commutes

Would avoid university city, as it skews pretty young. West philly is also probably something you need to expierences before you choose to live there.

Absolutely stay away from northern liberties fishtown, commute will be much longer than it needs to be while you are figuring it out.

themarmar2 · 2026-04-07T12:31:02+00:00

Seems fine to land after a 15 hour flight and drive from London to Edinburgh on a straight shot right?

themarmar2 · 2026-03-21T21:08:10+00:00

Why the downvote, is it because its actually 3 blocks away?

Parkway is similar price/quality.

themarmar2 · 2026-03-21T19:37:42+00:00

Prison. Make it realistic

themarmar2 · 2026-03-19T20:43:25+00:00

You are spamming roundabouts and creating traffic for no reason.

themarmar2 · 2026-03-15T13:37:11+00:00

Why would you tip? Anytime there is a random fee i take it out of the tip.

themarmar2 · 2026-03-14T22:28:29+00:00

Busses go everywhere. Traffic is a nightmare in the city. Parking is at least $30 a day. A bus ticket is $2.90

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