Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South
Well after seeing Beerfest. Me and some friends have decided for a senoir trip to back pack through the old continent. Granted well do this in 20months but one cant plan ahead to much. We were planning to make use of the Hostels. I want to see places like London Berlin Amsterdam and PAris and this is probably the only time Ill get to do this and defintly the only time I can do it in a drunken haze 90 % of the time
According to my brother (who's done the whole backpaking europe thing) as long as your not Drunk'n'Disorderly you can sleep anywhere. Well in France you can. But this is the same nation where you still have torture chamber bathrooms. Accordin to him some place bathrooms are a hole in the floor with a light hanging from a wire. With toilet paper that is the same consistency as our paper towels. If there is any.

1.Anyway hostels are dirty fleebag places. My bro and his German buddy (an exchange student he met at high school) decided that sleeping outside in parks and rail stations was much cleaner than using the hostels. Which he likened to a toilet that hasn't been cleaned since WW2.

2.If you go to France, learn some French. The French are only snotty arse-faces to people who don't know French. If you know some French even if you have a horrible english accent or speak the Acadian dialect (like my brother) they are actually very nice. In a French sort of way. No offense Louis.

3.Always be on the lookout for roving bands of Australians. They always have copious amounts of alcohol, and are very generaous with it. When my bro went to Spain to run with the bulls, which he pussied out of. Why? Because a roving band of Auzzies told him that the locals will rob you blind while your running. So they went into the hills and had a beerfest. So my bro and an Auzzie had a drink off. Little borther won, after downing 16 beers.

4.Language won't always be a problem, in western europe. Most school systems require you to learn another language. According another of my bor's German friends in Germany you have a choice of english, french, russian, or polish. In the low countries most people know english. Italy too.