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Newest Review: ... have cost at home. An enlightening experience but one which can definitely be summed up by the phrase, "A nice place to visit....but I wouldn't want to live there" My final trip was to the Czech Republic. Not to Prague (that's so 90's, dahling) but to Brno, it's less visited counterpart. Another posh hotel (and a somewhat renowned one - I have a Czech friend here who, when I mentioned I'd taken a trip there, correctly named the hotel in question immediately), another weekend on my own in a new country. Most bon. Vienna itself hadn't changed much, but doing the city with some new friends who we ... more

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Other locations...: Holiday Diaries- Part 3: The College Years (2438 words)
by - written on 08/08/03 (Very useful, 62 readings)
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The first few months at uni passed without much of interest happening. Then the shop where I was working opened a travel agency concession, and thing changed. While not quite the 25% I got off clothes and furnishings, the discount they offered was quite generous considering the products on offer. Our first trip was a city break to Paris in February. No matter how many determiners you use, "Paris in the the spring" is not all that pretty, and can be quite damp and cold, but it does have one good thing going for it: a wonderful lack of tourist types. This meant we could explore the sights - the Tour, Sacré Coeur, Notre Dame, the Opera, the Seine, the Louvre, the ... Read the complete review