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[Bella]

I'm gottdamned sick of people treating Puppy like a serious distro. As far as I'm concerned, it's a system recovery tool no different from Parted Magic or StressLinux - sure, you *could* use those as your main OS, but you wouldn't get much anything done.

There are no good medium-weight distros anymore... it's either obnoxious minimalistic stuff that can run on Zilog-based computers with 10k ram circa 1983, or distros that challenge Windows 7 or OSX in terms of sheer bloatedness. ><;;;

[NejinOniwa]

Blue Line: How the trip will go in most cases
Red Line: How I really want to spend the trip

Ho-me! This is an interesting bit of prospect. Awrite, let the demon give you a fair deal of hints on this stuff...

First off. With that route, the southernmost place you'd want to go is Switzerland. That far north in Italy isn't much to see aside from alps, and you can get your fair share of that elsewhere; Slovenia is backwater country and Austria just isn't all that much fun anymore (aside from, well, skiing). Prague has some interesting stuff but nothing you'd die from missing out on, and the parts of France you're going through on that route isn't much to have. Holland is cool stuff, Belgium is just strange and full of chocolate, but they're small enough to spare time for (and it's on the way anyway so might as well); taking extra time to go anywhere below Mont Blanc isn't all that fancy unless you're touring the South anyway, but then you'd be focusing on Rome and all that, which you're not, so yeah. Europe might seem small, but there's a hell of a lot of things that clutters transportation up, especially in the alpine regions, so unless you want to add 5 days of just driving or whatever to your fine, skip that. I've never been to Amsterdam, but I'd imagine it's a damn cool place (so say my reports as well); I visited Rotterdam once, though, and it was pretty rad.

IF you're going with the northern route, however, transport is unavoidable. The midwest of Europe is just a huge tract of land and random nations flung about; once you get into viking lands, distances get large. That said, the price is worth it imo. And if you're talking about partying, sure, it might not be as warm up here as in the south, but if there's one place that people know how to drink their bloody heads off in the summer...you get the idea. Visiting during midsummer also gives you the benefit of seeing the old pagan blood drive everything batshit crazy.
In any case, if you take the northern leg, there are 2 possible routes to enter through: East and West. Either you go up through mainland Germany through Denmark, across Stora Bält and drop one night on both sides of Öresund - Copenhagen and Malmö; Or you go via northernmost Germany or Poland, taking ferries from Rostock or Gdynia (the Gdynia area is a pretty damn party place in the summer, btw) to Sweden directly. Then you hit the E4 to Stockholm; after spending sufficient time there you either proceed northwest to get access to the Scandes and Norway - Östersund and Trondheim are both good bets for this -  following that you go down the mainland and fjords to Oslo and down to Gothenburg, ferry across to Denmark and back to europe that way. There is also the Eastern route where you ferry across the Baltic from Stockholm to either Helsinki, Turku (both in Finland), Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn or Petersburg, depending on where you want to start; after that you make your way downwards to get back into the central parts of the continent. The Eastern route takes a lot more time, though, and like has been stated, anything involving Russia makes for a hell of a lot more complications Visa-wise.

[Dr. Kraus]

if you're talking about partying, sure, it might not be as warm up here as in the south, but if there's one place that people know how to drink their bloody heads off in the summer...you get the idea. Visiting during midsummer also gives you the benefit of seeing the old pagan blood drive everything batshit crazy.
Gdynia (the Gdynia area is a pretty damn party place in the summer, btw)

Its time to party, now that I have this info the map has changed and I plan to stay a little longer...



This is going to be a trip to remember (or not if you catch my drift )

[NejinOniwa]

You, my good man, are certifiably insane.

[Dr. Kraus]

You, my good man, are certifiably insane.

Why thank you, I take pride in my party side (Thanks to my mom, whom used to party hard in her youth {lasted 2min36sec on a keg stand [keg was full] once and beat every guy at the party [top time for guys was 1min13sec]}) My dad also did something like this between high school and collage, said Amsterdam and München were his favorite party cities. Now its my turn and getting through customs will be simple and fast due to having a British passport and citizenship (Thanks to my mom).

[Chocofreak13]

from what i saw of the airport, amsterdam was nice. xD (of course, this was 9 years ago.)

the only places i reccomend visiting are switzerland (of course that's just national pride -w-), southern sweden (they had the most beautiful beach where my grandmother lived *tear*), and mot of all, Tivoli Gardens, aka Tivoli. It's in Denmark's capital, it's over 150 years old, and it has some of the original rides intact (updated of course). there's something there for everyone to enjoy, and if you get bored you can exit the park and go back in for the rest of the day (if i remember right). there's also tons of restaurants and shopping around the park, and all the people there are really friendly and some of them even speak english. given that i remember all this after 9 years, you can tell that i loved it. <33

my friend melissa reccomends York, England. home to tons of little shops, old buildings, and a VERY old gothic church, complete with crypt. -w-

[zjhentohlauedy]

i wish i could just teleport to places ;_;

[Red-Machine]

There are no good medium-weight distros anymore... it's either obnoxious minimalistic stuff that can run on Zilog-based computers with 10k ram circa 1983, or distros that challenge Windows 7 or OSX in terms of sheer bloatedness. ><;;;

Apparently Xbuntu (I think) is made for low-end systems, so that may be a good idea for Dy.

[Chocofreak13]

i need to go back here ;^;

[stewartsage]

I've had Xbuntu recommend to me for use on a 95 built computer.

Europe: A place I have no interest in visiting.

[Chocofreak13]

but why? :[

[Bella]

So much history, it's literally BORING.

The only places in Europe I really want to visit are Great Britain and the Mediterranean coast... Greek, Sicily, Southern Italy... and I wouldn't mind touring Scandinavia too. Of course there's Russia, but that's technically Asia...

Xfce + Ubuntu = extreme meh

[NejinOniwa]

Not until you cross the Ural, that is. And most of the civilized parts of Russia are in Europe (Moscow, Petersburg, Leningrad etc) so yeah.

[Dr. Kraus]

Lets all go to Siberia, now.

[Krizonar]

/whispers


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