Travel Blog: Insider Tips, Recommendations, and more!
I had discovered “Hot Dog Cold Beer” before my short trip to Budapest in autumn 2015. That small fast food restaurant serves first and foremost – as its name kind of gives away – hot dogs and beer, of course. But they do also offer some other creative fancy snacks like chips on a stick for example. Actually I am not that much into chips but I found that thing special enough to give it a try…
Chips on a stick at “Hot Dog Cold Beer” in Budapest.
You wouldn’t meet a lot of tourists if you went and bought a ticket for the Emirates Air Line, which opened in 2012. Far off the touristic ho-hum-sports of London City there is this neat ropeway near the ExCel arena. Not many people find their way here outside the fair times. Ho bad for all of those who miss this wonderful part of London. Good for me as I do not like crowded places…
The Emirates Air Line at the o2 arena.
This week the Picture of the Week is from the Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida in the USA.
View from the boat to the Disney’s Yacht Club Resort at the Walt Disney World, Florida.
I’ve been thinking about insider tips these days. What is it that makes an insider out of an average tip? Often they occur by the mistake of somebody else. An example would be an unguarded hole in the fence of a fun fair. Whoever knows about that tip will ask himself what consequences the spreading of that tip would have. Let’s say that person would use the hole himself to get free access to the fun fair, then why would he share this valuable information, and especially not with the public. Why not? Easy: Because if he did, then chances are the manager of the park will hear that over too and of course will get the broken fence fixed in no time. So this person would lose his or her free access to the park for ever. As long as we’re supposing people always like to increase their advantage, it’s pretty much clear that spreading insider information makes no sense at all. So how can you possibly receive true insiders?
A wildlife crossing sign: places with a guarantee for meeting real wild animals would be a true insider tip.
Beware of massive season 2 and 3 spoilers! Every big fan of The Walking Dead should include a visit of the filming locations when staying in Atlanta, Georgia. This year I finally took time for this self-guided tour. Starting up rather late I didn’t see many of the locations, as darkness cropped up… These locations are not the ones in the center of Atlanta but only some of those in the South of Georgia’s capital. The starting point of my 2-hours-trip was Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta.
A zombie-like advert for a restaurant at the street of Senoia, Georgia, where the film studios of The Walking Dead are located.
Being a great fan of filming locations I visited – apart from my The Walking Dead filming location tour south of Atlanta – some locations in the center of Atlanta, Georgia. Among them was the season 1 DVD cover location of this popular TV-series. Season 1 shows us how Rick Grimes is riding to Atlanta on horseback. So where is this place, which is not only a fantastic viewpoint to the Downtown skyline but also a true insider tip?
The view from Jackson Street Bridge in Atlanta: the cover for the first season of The Walking Dead.
To travel Europe the airline I like most is definitely Ryanair! There are several low cost airlines of course, like Germanwings, Easyjet, Wizz, etc., but you can’t fly cheaper than by traveling with Ryanair. You sometimes can get from some places in Germany to London, England for as low as twelve Euro including all tax and fees. Of course, that’s a deal you can’t get every day, but anyway, they really do offer great prices around the year.
Travel Europe the cheap way: fly with Ryanair.
