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Japan Rail Pass | worth it?

Whether this is your first time planning a trip to Japan or your 100th, the inevitable question is “will the Japan Rail (JR) Pass be worth it?” If you have never heard of it, read about the JR pass from the real website – there are plenty of third-party companies also trying to sell the JR Pass but the real websites lists authorized sellers. Here are the North America locations but more are listed on the site.

The short answer to the big question is, “it depends on where you’re visiting and for how long.” This post lays out the various options so that you may decide for yourself which deal will be perfect for your trip.

Comparing costs

My upcoming trip to Japan will be 12 days, 11 nights long and I will visit A total of three cities located in three…

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Paris Rip Off 2018

2018, Aging, Crayola 120 day challenge, humor, Paris, Travel,

kathy70

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I was fortunate enough to spend several days in Paris recently, this was before all the disturbances began. This was not my first trip there and I felt reasonably comfortable trying to navigate leaving the airport and buying tickets for the subway system. A helpful gentleman working at the airport directed me to another type of ticket. This was good for 1 week and valid on subway, buses and trains throughout Paris. Would reasonably get me from the airport to our hotel and everywhere we wanted to tour.

So we happily purchased the tickets and proceeded to board the next train bound for the city center towards our hotel. About halfway there the train stopped and they announced something in French which I could not understand. Then required all of the passengers to disembark. That train left with a number of announcements happening. Another train sitting on the next track…

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Le métro

life, metro, paris, city, transit, tips

Ellimaija

If there’s one thing you learn to use (and to hate) very fast when moving to Paris, it’s the famous métro. “Métro, boulot, dodo” (a French expression describing the Parisian lifestyle, that translates to “metro, work, sleep”) becomes very real, and it also becomes very obvious that it is the reality of millions of other grumpy Parisians as well.

Paris has a pretty extensive metro network, and when you first lay your eyes on the map, it can look a bit scary. How is anyone supposed to find their way in that labyrinth? And you haven’t added the RER (regional trains), busses and tramways to the equation yet. But don’t be too alarmed, because the truth is that the Parisian metro was made for idiots. Really. It looks complicated, but most of the time it’s super easy to navigate in those long tunnels, and connections between lines have been made…

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