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what you on? where you from?

where you from, where you headed?

the swiss guy who was in dc and philly turned up in boston today...

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 11 October 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I just read Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe, which is an intermittently funny comedy about backpackers in India, and there are a couple of incidents there where people bump into people more than once at the Lonely Planet recommended places.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 October 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

well yes you would expect that. seems strange for it to be happening here in america where you think you would blend in more (i guess it only happens in the hostels here, whereas in somewhere like india people must go to the 'secluded' bit only to bump into 12 aussies)

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 11 October 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, mentioned as 'secluded' or 'unknown' in Lonely Planet = loads of backpackers. When I went to India we spent two weeks in a place called Puri, which was extremely low on foreign tourists (lots of Indian tourists, though), except one little corner where there was a group of the Lonely Planet types. I'm sure you're right about it only happening within hostels in America, though.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 12 October 2002 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Bratpackers in India = the worst!

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Mary, read William Sutcliffe's satirical novel Are You Experienced? - that's exactly what it's about, and it's pretty funny.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Best ever Lonely Planet-recommended hostel I stayed at was the one on Magnetic Island, off Australia's Queensland coast.

When I backpacked around Oz, I did keep bumping into the same people at different places. And yes, we did party a bit. Happy Days!

― C J (C J), Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

re gareth's initial post. i just wanted to say that EXACTLY the same thing went through my head more than once on my travels. problem being i wasn't on mind altering drugs at the time, so found such conversations v dull.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

there are 19 hostel-internationals in london, one of which is in...golders green! though it is named 'hampstead heath'. i was just going for a walk down a very sedate and well to do street and there it was

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

is there an age limit for the hostels?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 October 2005 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Which street in Golders Green? I used to live on North End Road, that's the road that goes up the Heath, it has the Old Bull and Bush on it.

― knife (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

tracer, MAYBE at some, but the one i went to in chicago had people who appeared to be in their late 40s.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 28 October 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

there was this book about backpackers in india
does anyone know the name
thanks

― sub-dwayne nelson (dr g), Friday, 28 October 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

are you kidding or can you not read 6 posts in?

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 28 October 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

when i was in a hostel in amsterdam, some dude was doing the satan snore. someone woke him up and he started screaming at him uncontrollably. he eventually barfed all over the floor. not cool

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 28 October 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

wellgarth road, nw11, knife

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

what WERE you doing there?

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

i went for a walk, and to take some photos. i got off the 210 at golders hill park, then walked into the extension, by...wildwood rd? and then into hgs and back. i was actually looking for a very 1930s formalist park which i dimly remember, but i couldnt find it. looking at the map, i really dont know what it could be, unless it is the jewish cemetary slightly up towards finchley?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

We used to park out by the extension and watch Richard and Judy walk their dogs.

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

the extension is very genteel

did you know, they have turned jack straws castle into apartments?!

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I saw it was boarded up. That's ridiculous.

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

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