Also... More on brunch: Portage Bay if you want good food... In South Lake Union Pesos if you want to rage with the frat fresh grad crowd.... In Queen Anne Local 360 is good and will be close to where you're staying.... Belltown And for going out, this place opened after I moved, but Trove in Cap Hill is a new hot spot. I heard it was awesome, but I can't personally vouch.
Gin Buckets covered most of the stuff but I'll add some general thoughts. Go to a Mariner game if they're playing. Buy the cheapest ticket you can find and chill in the center-field beer garden. Buy a sausage with onions, peppers, and cream cheese (aka Seattle dog) from Joe's on Occidental before the game. Get garlic fries, and Ivar's Clam Chowder during the game. Drink a Mac and Jacks for me, and have a good time. Go to Slugger's afterwards if you like a little scummy, historical dive bar vibe. If you're over the dive bar scene just walk over to Carmine's for the best italian in the city. They also have a new, cool bar right outside if you just want to decompress after the game. Here are a couple places I went to when I was home in March: http://www.yelp.com/biz/rockcreek-seafood-and-spirits-seattle One of the better dinners I've had in Seattle http://www.yelp.com/biz/sushi-kappo-tamura-seattle Some of the best, most innovative. It's spot prawn season so get your ass over there for some. http://www.yelp.com/biz/westward-seattle Make reservations ahead of time. Real trendy My grub spots: http://www.yelp.com/biz/tubs-gourmet-subs-seattle http://www.yelp.com/biz/nasai-teriyaki-at-uw-seattle-3 http://www.yelp.com/biz/varlamos-pizzeria-seattle CALZONE GAME RIDICULOUS You gotta get teriyaki when you're in Seattle. You gotta.
I was actually coming to add Dick's as a latish night spot (closes at 2). Can't believe I missed it on the first go around.
So jelly of all the people going to Europe this summer, you're going to have the time of your life. I'm already trying to plan for the summer of 2016. We need to get the backpacking thread going again.
Here it is Jax Teller http://www.the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/backpacking-northern-eastern-europe.111067/
One of these days when I'm bored shitless at work I'll actually do a write up on my trip from last year. I had one like 90% typed up and thought the bottom section would save it and I would come back later in the day. When I came back it had been deleted and I haven't mustered up the motivation to type it all out again.
BamaNug take the ferry if you have a reason to. Otherwise you're sinking ~2hrs for a view. I would rather drive to West Seattle and walk around Alki if it's nice, and see a similar view. You can go to Duke's (where a young Fancy worked) and get some famous clam chowder.
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Went in March. Unreal snorkeling/scuba. Decent history on Colombus landing there and basically killing all the natives too
This flight was a pain in the ass but were flying out of Split at 1:55 > Zagreb at 2:45, then flying from Zagreb at 4:00 > Budapest at 5:00.
Fucking flights from Nashville to Zagreb are too expensive for my miles. I'll have to look at other options.
Well... I'm booked. I'll get the miles and save the ones I currently have. I used credit card points, and this ended up costing me $108. Couldn't pass up the non-stop aspect. After Zurich I can go anywhere for 2 nights -- since it lands so early -- before heading onto Greece. Forgot to post the flight:
Exact same dates as my Peru trip. And that's a hell of a deal re: Delta skymile points. Absolutely no reason not to (and absolutely no reason to not put EVERYTHING on credit, assuming you're responsible/financially secure enough to pay it off every month, but that's another story). I'd love to pay for my mortgage/student loans with a credit card simply to accumulate points. I've been wanting to take my Dad to Alaska to go salmon fishing, and he's starting to get up there in age. He's always talked about wanting to go up there for fishing. Shooting for July 2016, so I signed up for the Alaska Airlines card one or two months ago. One flight from New Orleans --> Anchorage RT is only $600, or 20,000 points. You get 25K points just for signing up. Thus, if I spend $15K over the course of like 14-15 months, I can get both flights for free and (hopefully) only have to pay for a salmon guide. Just use that card for every single purchase, will probably cancel/not use it again after I get the free flights.
Yea I'm still rebuilding my credit from screwing it up years and years ago. You know what the say, you can screw your credit up in months but it takes years to fix. I got it up high enough to get a house on a good rate, but that was pretty easy with a VA loan. I have a couple smaller CC's that do cash back and I use them a lot and pay them off every month but they don't do points and I can't get approved for a good high limit one that does points yet. I'm not sure but I don't think you can pay a mortgage with a credit card.. other wise I'd be doing that with mine.
so I talked to a buddy who went to Croatia last summer. He basically said I need to recalibrate my party schedule. Don't even think about going out until at least 11:30/midnight and things really don't kick off till around 1:30-2 am and continue until the dawn hours into the morning. is this pretty much true?
I think we drank at Luka's until around 11 and then would head to Kiva bar, stay out till about 3 am or so and then head back. The beach bars weren't open when I went so we didn't do any partying till 6am. And you wake your bitch ass up, get some breakfast and hit the beach. Sleep when you get back home. If I did it at 34, you can do it. Hell there were nights in Belgrade when we didn't come back till 5am or later and I was up by like 10am the next day, and that was after 6 days in Prague, 2 in Vienna and a week in Hvar. Of course I slept for the better part of two days in Dubai after that.
I don't want to speak for everyone in this thread, but for me at least, you kind of just "suck it up" and accept that you're going to operate on very little sleep. Usually my night ends around 3 or 4, and I wake up around 10 or 11 for lunch (and 6 hours of sleep isn't terrible). If I'm abroad for a long period of time, one night in the middle of the trip just take it easy and don't go 'balls to the wall' and stay out until sunrise, sort of recharge your batteries. But pretty much after every trip it takes about a week for me to fully recover. I like to blame jet lag, but it's almost certainly from partying every damn night.
That was how I did it. The two nights in Vienna were basically recharges after a week of going hard in the paint in Prague. Then in Hvar I took probably one night where I didn't go as hard. Which of course was ruined when Geoff feed me like 3 of those vase drinks the night before I had to catch a 6am ferry. Went hard in Belgrade all 4 nights and then crashed out when I got back to Dubai.
I've got 5 nights in Hvar then 2 in Dubrovnik before hitting Paris for 3. I'll probably just chill out in Dubrovnik.