TFK International Business Travel Thread

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Julio_Geordio

@TheUlteriorMotive

Milan and Frankfurt are fairly awful places.

Brussels is an nawful kip. But I think in general Fagans point is valid. I think cities need a bit of history to give them a bit of soul. No surprise that the list of passable US cities are older ones.
Europe is great for that, cities with character.
The likes of Dubai and that, sure they are pile of bollox really.

We were in Fort Lauderdale and the guide on the boat tour points to a building, there’s the oldest building on Fort Lauderdale, here since 1905. 1905 ffs. There’s a post box down the road that’s older than that.

One of the most soulless places I ever visited was Eindhoven. What a dull place. The film in Bruges should actually be set there, because Bruges looks like it actual is a nice place. Anyway the whole city was leveled in WW2 and rebuilt. No spirit to the place at all.

I lived in Brussels for a while so I’m very fond of it.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

a big GGA man no less

[balbec]

When you know where to go in a city it makes a big difference. I’d be like that with Warsaw.

[mickee321]

@caoimhaoin 's diary of Australia was enough for me
i feel i could never top it, like i would only be disappointed, I anticipate ill never ever go there tbh but his chronicles of life there should be entered into the national archives or something

[Tank]

If you’re a single man in a pub in Prague after 10pm prostitutes will just come up to you and see if you’re interested. It will take you about 5 minutes to tell that they’re prozzies. A big indicator will be that they’re fascinated when you start talking about chemical engineering or accounting in KPMG or whatever it is you do.

[EstebanSexface]

the Irish prossies wouldn’t even let you pay for it if you told them that

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Very true. New York is like that. Took me a fair few trips to find the East Village and once you go there it’s the only place you’d go there.

[Julio_Geordio]

Prague is a great spot. Berlin is up there as well.
I’m not gone on Paris, I mean it’s clearly beautiful etc but I felt it was just a continuous price gouge really.

[EstebanSexface]

The arrondissements are so different from each other it’s scary - and there is no rhyme nor reason to them. A fascinating City. You could spend a month going to free galleries and wouldn’t have even scratched the surface.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@balbec

When you know where to go in a city it makes a big difference. I’d be like that with Warsaw.

That’s the truth. I’d be the same with Paris. I know it very well. And London.

[Julio_Geordio]

@balbec

When you know where to go in a city it makes a big difference. I’d be like that with Warsaw.

I’d say Madrid is like that too, I couldn’t figure it out.

It definitely helps in London to have someone with you who has an idea.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Cape Town is one of the more interesting and enjoyable cities I have been to. The CBD is has plenty of non descript and full of tall modern buildings but there is still plenty of beautiful old builidings from Colonel days like the city hall, once you move around there is loads to do and see with the bustling touristy harbour area, table mountain, the beach front bars and restaurants around Camps Bay and Clifton have a great vibe and it is full of history and things to do.

Johannesburg on the other hand is a rough enough kip of a place.

[mickee321]

@Tank

If you’re a single man in a pub in Prague after 10pm prostitutes will just come up to you and see if you’re interested. It will take you about 5 minutes to tell that they’re prozzies. A big indicator will be that they’re fascinated when you start talking about chemical engineering or accounting in KPMG or whatever it is you do.

sounds great if you’re a single man tho

[glasagusban]

Cape Town is a beautiful city and the drive south along by the sea is beautiful and hiking up to table mountain is spectacular too. I visited while a friend was living there. Then you drive in another direction and see the absolute poverty of so many people in the townships just outside, while the middle class in Cape town lived their upwardly mobile European lifestyle. I found that pretty fucked up to be honest, the chasm between the haves and the have nots. I also thought that you’d see more black people in bars and restaurants in Ireland than you would in Cape town.

[gilgamboa]

@TheUlteriorMotive

I’d like to visit Buenos Aires.

Great spot. Massive. Lot of different characters to the various areas in the city. Could spend months there IMO. Loved it. Great food. Short flight to Brazilian border. Great party town

[TreatyStones]

@Tank

If you’re a single man in a pub in Prague after 10pm prostitutes will just come up to you and see if you’re interested. It will take you about 5 minutes to tell that they’re prozzies. A big indicator will be that they’re fascinated when you start talking about chemical engineering or accounting in KPMG or whatever it is you do

That’s what a friend of mine said about the middle East “if they stay talking to me for longer than 5 minutes they are a prostitute”

[glasagusban]

Santiago in Chile is cool. Similar to BA.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Verona or veince if you go that way. I highly recommend Florence. Beautiful city.

[Batigol]

Another who goes to the western half of the US and stays in a city for the entire time is a mug.

Most spectacular countryside on earth*

*that I’ve seen

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Anything to be said that Paris is a shithole?