Four Ways to Free/Low cost Travel Around Greece...and not only!Written by Liana Metal
FOUR WAYS TO FREE/LOW COST TRAVEL AROUND GREECE...AND NOT ONLY!By Liana Metal 1.Free lodging! Find a pen friend. Maybe you haven’t thought of this. It’s best solution to your budget problems, but you can’t have it overnight! Greek people are hospitable and so are other countries’ people if you become friends with. It’s simplest thing to do if you like writing letters or just exchanging cards and souvenirs. I’ve done it and a lot of other people have, why not you? Your friend will probably be happy to put you up for a couple of nights and show you around as well. The other alternative is to exchange your house/flat with somebody else’s abroad. There is a site online that will help you find a place . Try www.welcometraveller.org , they advertise ‘exchange homes free of charge’. Try also www.bigworld.com for offers and discounts. 2.Low cost travel Stay at campsites. The cheapest alternative to free lodging, at least in Greece. You save money and have fun . Find a campsite at www.greecetravel.com/campsites 3.Invest on a bike. If you like cycling, then you can do it. In Greece you can cycle to most places and see areas that are worth visiting. You can easily rent a bike , and if you are in Corfu you can try www.mountainbikecorfu.com
| | Experience the Strange and Twisted World of Internet CafesWritten by Jesse S. Somer
Being a novice of Internet and realms of technology in general, idea of hanging out in an Internet café scared me about as much as it used to when I first sat in front a computer trying to figure out how to turn thing on. Pictures of super-obese, nerdy, snotty-nosed tech-heads filled my head as well as visions of stagnant, sterile rooms crammed with blue screens flashing latest comic heroes and teen idols. Well, I just went on a trip to several countries around world and I ventured into this unknown sector, as I wanted to keep in touch with people back home. Although I admittedly didn’t visit many of these cafes (I needed a break from computer worlds of school and work), few I did see were quite different from what I expected.First stop was a café in Prague, Czech Republic. This was hidden down an alley but was next to restaurant so it seemed safe enough. I paid equivalent of just over $1.00 U.S. for a half hour on machine-not too bad eh? Now I don’t know if I was attacked by an evil spirit or just had something with my brain that day, but for some reason it took 25 minutes to just get into my hotmail! First of all, keyboard was different, and in weird ways I tell you. If you hit Y key it came out as a Z and vice versa. I was surprised later in London that their keyboard was also different from ones’ back home. I thought keyboards were universally same around planet! I finally got into my hotmail, sent a one sentence email and left. Looking around me as I departed I saw that most of people using computers were so-called normal folks like myself, mainly backpackers and tourists, but also businessmen etc. If I had more patience that day it probably would have been a nice atmosphere to be part of, I saw that they served coffee and tea, but as I was in a beautiful foreign place I needed to get out under Sun amidst real action. My other main experience in public Internet world was to be in North of London in a suburb called Neesdon or ‘Sneezdon’ as Aussie mates I met up with liked to call it. Here, Café was totally different from previous one and I assume –I don’t like to assume-that like people, each café is an individual entity with both positive and negative traits as well as bonuses and letdowns. This ‘café’ was in back of a mobile (cellular) phone shop and was just a tiny room with a handful of computers that no one else seemed to be interested in, everyone looked more focused on phones, but I have a weird feeling they might have been dealing something else ‘under counter’ that was sparking hot interest.
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