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If I put up a sheep tonight, do you promise to enter?
I'll try, but can't promise
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I've been on a Sheep hiatus for the last couple of months. But will try and participate now that I have a bit of time on my hands.
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Also, what's your favorite city/area (both for poker and for non-poker)?
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Where are some other places you have traveled?
Favorites? Worst place ever?
I've been trying to think of these, but honestly I'm still really not sure.
I don't feel like there is just one that sticks out for anything.
I still want to travel a lot more.
My favourite holiday ever was to Malia, Crete, which was with my friends when 18. We basically did 0 site-seeing in 2 weeks but had an awesome time
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As places, Japan and Barbados were both amazing, but for very different reasons. I would like to go back to both.
For my favourite city, I would probably either be kind of lame and say like where I went to University - Bournemouth, or probably somewhere in Japan, like Odawara, which is where my brother lived when I visited him there.
It's an incredible city. Japan seems to have this very strange and amazing way of simultaneously having extremely different things, often cohabiting side by side, kind of juxtaposed. For example, Odawara has a nice peaceful little river, where you can ride your bicycle leisurely alongside it etc, which then leads to this massive insane arcade, where people are sometimes going (impressively) nuts on the games. And with lots of high-tech stuff around it too.
Or there's a very cool and peaceful forest around there, with a temple, which then has another nearby temple that's super busy with many people there.
For poker cities, it's probably Monte Carlo. I was shocked with how beautiful it was. Beaches, palm trees, sea views, nice modern buildings, and seriously perfect weather when I was there. However everything is offensively expensive there and some of the people aren't the friendliest.
Prague gets an honorable mention though, as all it's architecture and stuff was very nicely lit at Christmas time.
I've thankfully never really been to anywhere that terrible, that I can remember.
If I had to choose, I'd probably say Malta. But that's from a small sample size. Largely because when I was there, everywhere was an eyesore and there was tons of building works and cranes about, apparently in preparation for something big that was going to happen there. And also the side street that my hotel was on was not very nice and often smelled of garbage.
Both Prague and Malta were incredibly tilting with how little people understood English. I was really surprised. Prague especially from my sample size, almost nobody over the age of 40 spoke much English, and for example trying to get help in my hotel room was a complete nightmare.