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Originally Posted by Friends
1. Do not bring backpack. Only wear the clothes you have on and buy clothes to change every so often.
I have never seen or heard of anybody doing this. It's quite expensive to buy clothes on the go, especially if OP is going to travel through Scandinavia where everything in general is quite expensive. This is a greater issue if OP happens to be a large person where large sizes may be in short supply.
I suppose it's a matter of personal preference though. I don't find shopping enjoyable. Going to an outlet shop or a mall is a chore that gets in the way of doing fun things for me. Others might like the appeal of it.
There is something to be said about packing too much though. Overpacking is probably the most common mistake I see from backpackers. I remember watching Chinese tourists walking up the flight of steps to the hostel I was working at with gigantic luggage bags that felt as though they were holding bricks. I have no idea how they weren't ripped given the crap they were carrying with them from city to city.
For the first few extended trips I made, I always overpacked no matter how hard I tried not to. Now, I use a hard & fast rule to guide me: if it can't be taken on a Ryanair flight for free, it's too big. You can always buy small things on the go wherever you are.
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5. You can look at map and see best direction for train after you get off boat in Tallinn. Latvia etc. Basically do a circle.
This is what I do during my trips. It cuts down on doubling back, travel costs, and amount of time spent traveling from one place to another. I mean it ends up looking like a circle drawn by a double amputee holding a pencil in their mouth but it is a closed, circle-like shape.
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Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre
Casablanca is an absolute ****hole not worth visiting, not even for a day. It's an overcrowded industrial town without any attractions apart from the grand mosque which you are not allowed to enter as a non-muslim. The city's glory days are decades past.
Yeah. Nobody I know went to Morocco and came back raving about the beauty of Casablanca. Even the Wikitravel entry struggles to say good things about it. Fez and Marrakech received good reviews from friends of mine who went there.
How do they enforce the non-Muslim rule? Do they look at you and go "Not Muslim. Leave."? Do you have to answer three questions before crossing a bridge? What if you're white and converted to Islam or just a white guy who knows a lot about Islam but isn't Muslim?
Last edited by SuperUberBob; 09-26-2018 at 04:45 PM.