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Saturday, July 2. 2011

"Value" travel: Club ABC

We owe Club ABC Travel a plug today because they have been so kind and helpful to my in-laws this past week. Yes, they will discuss your tours on the phone with you. Good folks.


Because of ABC's volume, nobody can claim that they cannot afford to see the world in reasonable comfort if they want to and, if you are an inexperienced or unconfident traveller, they arrange everything for you. If you want to spend a little more money for organized trips, you can try Tauck for the highest-end version - but it's not necessary.


If you would rather have new wallpaper or a new TV or iPad, it's your choice - and your loss.


I'd rather be hanging out and trying to get lost in Budapest than sitting on my ass shooting farts into my couch while playing with a new iPad.


Life is short, and getting shorter every precious passing minute.

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Ah, but NOT getting lost in Budapest because you have a GPS enabled iPad would be the best of both worlds.
#1 William O. B'Livion on 2010-04-03 12:08 (Reply)
OK, but getting lost in strange places has always made for my best memories.

Except the hunting trip when I got lost in the Maine woods. That was not funny.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2010-04-03 12:12 (Reply)
'sitting on my ass shooting farts into my couch'
LAMAO
Best to ya!
#2 RL on 2010-04-03 23:06 (Reply)
i love hunting both men and animal but it is joke
#3 Muhammad butt (Link) on 2010-04-04 06:49 (Reply)
It's hard to get lost in Budapest, unless you are starting to look for obscurer sights. Everything is right on the Danube in a pretty short span. The rest of the city is mostly just housing, going on forever, it sometimes seems.

A newer (and wonderful) tourist destination is Szobor Park,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_Park_%28Budapest%29

which is a bit farther out of the town center. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Hungarians didn't want to destroy the soviet statues, at thaat would be the same sort of censorship from the other side. OTOH, they didn't want to display them either. They solved this by essentially putting them in some guy's back yard on the outskirts of the city, where they look ridiculous. Perfect, and worth a visit.
#4 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2011-07-02 12:25 (Reply)
I agree these prices are much more reasonable than many others.

I still prefer to make my own plans and travel on my own. Groups get too weird for my tastes. I remember planning a Spain trip with my wife through Andalusia. It was fantastic. We were able to change our lodgings when we discovered places we really enjoyed (Granada, for example) and tried to follow the maps to see the sites we wanted to see...and got lost in the process, running into a wonderful roadside stand that made amazing paella, or cutting pieces of cork from the local trees that were surprises since we didn't know they were there.
Or the lonely bullrings in small towns.

All that...but if I was money constrained, this is a good alternative.
The problem is, of course, that I know many people who can't even afford THESE trips. Which is a terrible shame.
#5 Rick on 2011-07-02 12:28 (Reply)

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