Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2
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@matteo-nunziati We are in Italy now! I'll be up your way in a little less than a week.
Roma today and tomorrow, then Napoli, the Orvieto, then Montecatini Terme.
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@scottalanmiller wow I really don't understand how you can travel so fast without losing your mind xD
Waiting for your news when you will see the night life in montecatini
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@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller wow I really don't understand how you can travel so fast without losing your mind xD
Waiting for your news when you will see the night life in montecatinivacation? Not a ton of need to stay in any one place more than 3 or 4 days.
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@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller wow I really don't understand how you can travel so fast without losing your mind xD
Waiting for your news when you will see the night life in montecatinivacation? Not a ton of need to stay in any one place more than 3 or 4 days.
and depending on the goals, 1 day might be enough.Wow my standard holiday is 1 week in the same city (usually a major one) OR one day in minor cites. But he is moving all around a continent day after day
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@matteo-nunziati A lot of American-esk vacations are hit all of the tourist traps and move on. See it, take a picture and onto the next location.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller wow I really don't understand how you can travel so fast without losing your mind xD
Waiting for your news when you will see the night life in montecatinivacation? Not a ton of need to stay in any one place more than 3 or 4 days.
and depending on the goals, 1 day might be enough.Wow my standard holiday is 1 week in the same city (usually a major one) OR one day in minor cites. But he is moving all around a continent day after day
Scott has done this sort of thing a number of times before.
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@DustinB3403 said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati A lot of American-esk vacations are hit all of the tourist traps and move on. See it, take a picture and onto the next location.
Exactly... The few times I've been, I spend 3 days in a city, with the exception being when i was at a convention in a city that was 3 days long.. I was there for 5 days so I could see the city away from the convention, but then it was right back on the road to the next city.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller wow I really don't understand how you can travel so fast without losing your mind xD
We are actually moving REALLY slowly compared to normal backpackers. We took ten days for a two day location because the niece wanted to just chill on the beach.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
Waiting for your news when you will see the night life in montecatini
I've spent some time there before, I know what it is like
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@DustinB3403 said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati A lot of American-esk vacations are hit all of the tourist traps and move on. See it, take a picture and onto the next location.
British, too.
Unless, in either case, it is to sit on a beach.
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@travisdh1 said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller wow I really don't understand how you can travel so fast without losing your mind xD
Waiting for your news when you will see the night life in montecatinivacation? Not a ton of need to stay in any one place more than 3 or 4 days.
and depending on the goals, 1 day might be enough.Wow my standard holiday is 1 week in the same city (usually a major one) OR one day in minor cites. But he is moving all around a continent day after day
Scott has done this sort of thing a number of times before.
Yeah, this is nothing at all compared to my GT1 trip of 2012 with little kids, 50% more time and like 300% more places seen.
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@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@DustinB3403 said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati A lot of American-esk vacations are hit all of the tourist traps and move on. See it, take a picture and onto the next location.
Exactly... The few times I've been, I spend 3 days in a city, with the exception being when i was at a convention in a city that was 3 days long.. I was there for 5 days so I could see the city away from the convention, but then it was right back on the road to the next city.
Yeah, it's a horrible way to travel because all you ever see are tourist things and you never experience a place. No way to learn the culture, get to know what a place is like. I normally try to spend weeks or months in a small village, let alone a city. But with the nieces, they just want to be tourists and eat American food. They are mostly here to see sites and check off items on a list, not to "experience" the place so much.
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i'm calling it the "turkey sandwich" tour of Europe. Every other meal is a standard turkey sandwich and fries like they'd make at home.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@DustinB3403 said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati A lot of American-esk vacations are hit all of the tourist traps and move on. See it, take a picture and onto the next location.
British, too.
Unless, in either case, it is to sit on a beach.
If you want beaches, I know a particular island that has plenty
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
i'm calling it the "turkey sandwich" tour of Europe. Every other meal is a standard turkey sandwich and fries like they'd make at home.
That's hilarious! I was going to ask if they are just trying to eat healthy, until I saw the fries thing...
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@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
i'm calling it the "turkey sandwich" tour of Europe. Every other meal is a standard turkey sandwich and fries like they'd make at home.
That's hilarious! I was going to ask if they are just trying to eat healthy, until I saw the fries thing...
They are complaining that they cant get anything unhealthy enough.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
i'm calling it the "turkey sandwich" tour of Europe. Every other meal is a standard turkey sandwich and fries like they'd make at home.
That's hilarious! I was going to ask if they are just trying to eat healthy, until I saw the fries thing...
They are complaining that they cant get anything unhealthy enough.
Really, like what? Pizza? Hotdogs? I know they have ice cream/gelato in Europe (can't believe gelato isn't in FF dictionary). OH wait, they're looking for pork reins, right?
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
i'm calling it the "turkey sandwich" tour of Europe. Every other meal is a standard turkey sandwich and fries like they'd make at home.
That's hilarious! I was going to ask if they are just trying to eat healthy, until I saw the fries thing...
They are complaining that they cant get anything unhealthy enough.
I don't think they are looking at the menus long enough. Heck, chicken, meat with some type of butter/cheese/olive oil sauce will bump up the unhealthy meter rather quickly.
Or
Your just going to to many darn health restaurants screwing with vacation eating habits.
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@pmoncho said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
i'm calling it the "turkey sandwich" tour of Europe. Every other meal is a standard turkey sandwich and fries like they'd make at home.
That's hilarious! I was going to ask if they are just trying to eat healthy, until I saw the fries thing...
They are complaining that they cant get anything unhealthy enough.
I don't think they are looking at the menus long enough. Heck, chicken, meat with some type of butter/cheese/olive oil sauce will bump up the unhealthy meter rather quickly.
Or
Your just going to to many darn health restaurants screwing with vacation eating habits.
If that is your definition of unhealthy, you are not American.
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@JaredBusch said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@pmoncho said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Dashrender said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
i'm calling it the "turkey sandwich" tour of Europe. Every other meal is a standard turkey sandwich and fries like they'd make at home.
That's hilarious! I was going to ask if they are just trying to eat healthy, until I saw the fries thing...
They are complaining that they cant get anything unhealthy enough.
I don't think they are looking at the menus long enough. Heck, chicken, meat with some type of butter/cheese/olive oil sauce will bump up the unhealthy meter rather quickly.
Or
Your just going to to many darn health restaurants screwing with vacation eating habits.
If that is your definition of unhealthy, you are not American.
That is just the tip of the iceberg.
Figure turkey and some fries comes in around 700 calories. Add some meat(chicken, pork, steak) with a cream sauce, it will bump to 1700 calories with 40 grams of fat.
We can get to 2400 calories if we ad a Caramel Frappacino with whip.
Also, don't forget the Vanilla Bean Cheesecake with extra whip. I am now up to 3200 calories and about 75 grams of fat.
Oh.... Don't forget the beer and glass of wine before dinner either.
That was Monday nights dinner minus the Turkey sandwich. I definitely eat like the American I am. :winking_face:
