The best pizza is in Saskatchewan.
I kid you not.
Always remember going to a heavy metal bar when I was about 18. My mates all bailed because of the shit music/strobe lighting. I stayed bit was full of nutters I felt I had to stay to look after the girls we had came with.
Actually turned out to be a good night, they had a skateboard ramp in the club (it was weird). It was dark, flashing lights, everyone was drunk and the humour of watching people fall off their skateboard. We would all cheer. Turned out to be a good night.
Cafe Bankeråt in Copenhagen was very different. Kinda weird arty/creep vibe. Good atmosphere though
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Favourite Beach - Gili Trewangan, Lombok, 30 years ago. Had the beach to ourselves.
Favourite vibe - San Fransisco was cool, exciting and welcoming when I went there. Even the supposedly dangerous areas were fun and were not particularly dangerous. According to comments above perhaps it isn’t the same now.
Favourite City - New York. Of all the cities I’ve been to, it’s the one I most want to go back to.
Favourite Food - I don’t have to go far to get my favourite food. It’s all here in Japan.
Favourite Drink - Long Island Iced Tea in Mad Dogs, Hong Kong (if it’s still going). That’ll get the evening off to a flier. Failing that, any really cold beer would do.
Favourite Bar - Don’t really have one, but you ever go to Kyoto I’d recommend going to Pub Africa.
Greatest view - On Bali. Seeing the sunrise over Mt. Agung (a huge volcano) while standing on the crater rim of another volcano, Mt. Batur.
A place to which I would never return - I have to second the nomination for New Orleans. Bad memories of that place.
Places I want to visit: Istanbul, Lisbon, Zanzibar and Knotty Ash.
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Hi, I asked my friend from Saskatoon if this was true and she said the pizza is ‘nothing special’.
Best pizza I ever had was in Lancaster.
I’m from there. I’ve had pizza all over the world - Rome, New York, Chicago, Toronto, etc etc, and the best is in Saskatchewan. I’m on my way to Canada now. When I return, I’m bringing a frozen pizza back with me so my family can enjoy it. 
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Surprisingly, Toronto had bad pizza, at least when I lived there, which was some time ago. Toronto has a large Italian community.
At the risk of sounding like a 19 year old Australian girl, do any of you have experience with Interrail?
I’m moving to NYC in the autumn, so I have some time to kill and a notion to travel Europe by train whilst I have the chance. I’m thinking two to three months. My route in progress is: Berlin - Prague - Vienna - Bratislava - Budapest - Belgrade - Sarajevo - Zagreb - Ljubljana - Venice - Rome - Milan - Marseille - Barcelona - Paris - Brussels - Bruges - Amsterdam.
Does anyone have any recommendations for smaller towns/cities/villages roughly along this route? A couple hours out of the way either side is fine.
(For what it’s worth, I know the UK, Portugal, Spain, France and Scandinavia well enough).
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Can’t add anything useful (I’m sure others will though) but am envious - sounds like a lovely trip!
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When in Prague it’s worth taking a trip to Cesky krumlov. Fantastic small town I believe Unesco protected. Great castle and used in few movies.
When in Italy I would really recommend going to Lake Garda. (Few hours from Milan). Spend a full day hoping on and off the ferry’s hoping between the small villages.
Also Sorrento and Pompeii are easy to get to from Rome. (Avoid Naples) .
It’s also worth considering an alternative route via Croatia (where they shot much of game of thrones) . Beautiful country, and from memory you can use inter rail to catch the ferry to Italy.
In the south of France, make sure you stop at carcassonne
Personally I would skip Bratislava and go straight to Budapest.
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hire a car from Milan (we used Europcar, It was $300CAD for a compact for 8 days about 7 yrs ago) and do the drive along the western coastline (Portofino) then turn inland at Pisa and sightsee Tuscany for a week. we returned the car in Rome. Loved driving through that area, so many unique little villages and sights to see in the Siena>Firenze>Montepulciano area that I wanted to live there.
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I would do Bologna on the way from Rome to Milan. If you’re going from Venice to Rome to Milan in that order, you’ll be heading past.
Bologna has the best food in Italy, hence its nickname, La Grassa, roughly translated as, Fatty Fatty Fat Fat.
Send me a PM if you do go to Italy, I have a million restaurant recommendations.
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Florence.
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Just list it here. Are you lying to us? There are only a few hundred thousand restaurants in Italy. You know some secretive ones?
Don’t make the mistake some of my old flatmates made and rock up and Monte Carlo casino in a clapped out campervan that breaks down in the casino forecourt.
Apparently all rich cunts get quiet upset at seeing how the other 99% deal with everyday life 
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If you travel between Venice and Rome, I’d recommend Ravenna to you. A wonderful little city with the most beautiful antic mosaics you’ll ever see in your life.
Of course, there are many more wonderful cities in northern Italy if you like it there: Parma, Vicenza, Verona, Florence, Siena, Torino and many others.
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Basically the whole of italy?
Funnily enough i’m Rome the now with the wife and in-laws.
Hope they don’t miss me tomorrow night for the footie
Nice post, mate, but the above? Come on, you’ll be fleeced by a few taxi-drivers, but Naples is an absolute beauty!
Could easily do three months in Italy.
Hoping to go to Puglia next year, which is well off the beaten track but apparently amazeballs.
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hahaha I’ve heard some stories, including some from the wife who visited there for work once.
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