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** Try Poutine - French fries and cheese curds [http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlysound/5892345294/in/photostream/]
** Try Poutine - French fries and cheese curds [http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlysound/5892345294/in/photostream/]
* Trip to Switzerland:
* Trip to Switzerland:
** Zermatt, hike up to Hörnli Hut, 3260 m [https://plus.google.com/118207880179234484610/posts/KBAk2mMWeVa]
** Zermatt, hike up to Hörnli Hut, 3260 m, tryo the Goulash [https://plus.google.com/118207880179234484610/posts/KBAk2mMWeVa]

Revision as of 20:08, 28 August 2011

Really just notes for my own references of travels I've done or planning to do.

Websites

Travel

Flight - Norway

Flight - Wordwide

Use a well known airliner for continental flights and low price domestic airliners for shorter hops around the continent or country.

  • expedia.com - Search for single or return flights, deals
  • orbitz.com - Option for multi-city flight search
  • travelocity.com - Combine multi-city and airline flight, save money
  • kayak.com - Flight search, map explore feature to discover price differentials, car rental search

Hotel

Other

Travels

Next travels

  • Things to remember for next London trip Ask Slashdot [1] [2]:
    • Check some dj shops: Phoncia, BM Soho, Rough Trade
    • Bletchley Park, Enigma codebreaking + early computing
    • Science Museum
    • British Museum
    • Hummus Bros [3]
    • Just Falafels [4]
    • Adadgio Teas Regent Street
    • Mildreds Vegetarian Restaurant, Soho [5]
    • Spuntino, Soho - Eat around a big bar [6]
  • San Francisco trip:
    • The Long Now museum - mechanical computing
    • Apex Electronics, Sun Valley - Surplus electronics store
    • TechShop - tinkerer's perfect playground
    • Amoeba Music - Large independent music store
    • Highway 1 - road close to the coast, lots of cliffs, best south of Carmel [7]
  • New York trip:
    • Gray's Papaya - Hot Dog specialists
  • Wisconsin trip:
    • House on the Rock [8]
  • Trip to Japan, Tokyo (English friendly japan):
    • Find a good apartment near a metro line
    • Akihabara, lots, lots of electronics shops videos of some of them
    • Tokyo tower
    • Shinkansen ekspress tog
    • Kyoto
    • Osaka
    • Green tea icecream
    • Eat on other than first floor, quieter, better food [9]
    • Midori Sushi, apparently best sushi restaurant ever, queue [10]
      • Shinjuku
    • Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
    • Komeda Coffe - Lots of small dishes, nice atmosphere
  • South America trip:
    • Rio De Janeiro
    • Chile, Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert
  • Trip to France:
    • The Great Dune of Pyla - Gigantic sand dune at the coast stretching 3 km [11]
    • Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix - Mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, cable car from 1035 m to 3842 m [12]
  • Trip to Spain:
    • Caminito del Rey - Old walkway used for maintenance of a hydroelectric power plant, epic heights and deterioration [13]
  • Trip to China:
    • Beijing:
      • (Tourist traps) Forbidden palace and Tiananmen square, the temple of Heaven and the beautiful Beihai park, the Great Wall at Badaling [14]
      • Old Hutongs of Beijing - back lanes of the city
      • Made in China a.k.a. Grand Hyatt - Perfect Pekin' duck, reservation recommended [15]
      • Shanghai’s Wet Market on Lianhua Lu in the Minhang District [16] - Guide service [17]
  • Trip to Canada:
    • Biosphère in Quebec - unique and spectacular structure [18]
    • Vancouver - Lovely city
    • Try Poutine - French fries and cheese curds [19]
  • Trip to Switzerland:
    • Zermatt, hike up to Hörnli Hut, 3260 m, tryo the Goulash [20]
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