This is starting to be a long and expensive trip!….Yeah, her Dad gave them the plane tickets…but they’re unemployed and supposedly broke.I expected them to just spend a memorable week or two in some cheap student hostel in Paris, living on bread and cheese!
I remember Spain as being the most friendly shopping environment for those with the least disposable income. Of course, that was in the 80s, and Claire doesn’t have the Bank of Mom and Dad refilling her account as needed.
The bars are more interesting there than shopping, anyway.
@SusanSunshine:that’s what we did with my (then) best friend, in 1988, when we toured the (then)W.Germany with interrail. That’s an international free train pass for all Europe. You have to only pay the IC supplements etc. We lived in hostels and ate cheese and bread! We were only 15 at the time and the police at the border thought we were runaways and called my godmother in the middle of the night!
@Uskoke: I studied at a Goethe Institut in 1988. My equivalent of their tuition included room and board. I stayed at a Studentenwohnheim or hostel, and their meal plan was a pack of tickets that bought meals at local restaurants. The best art of the experience was the food—Italian, Greek, German, etc. Schmeck gut.
There are a bunch of bars in Granada where they don’t even have food menus. If you order something to drink, then they will bring you whatever tapas they have. The more you drink, the more they feed you. Awesome!
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
This is starting to be a long and expensive trip!….Yeah, her Dad gave them the plane tickets…but they’re unemployed and supposedly broke.I expected them to just spend a memorable week or two in some cheap student hostel in Paris, living on bread and cheese!
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
Hiya Blackwolff — great to see you’ve been around again!
Plods with ...™ about 12 years ago
If all else fails, get hammered.Oh those crazy Americans
justalurkr about 12 years ago
I remember Spain as being the most friendly shopping environment for those with the least disposable income. Of course, that was in the 80s, and Claire doesn’t have the Bank of Mom and Dad refilling her account as needed.
The bars are more interesting there than shopping, anyway.
Uskoke about 12 years ago
@SusanSunshine:that’s what we did with my (then) best friend, in 1988, when we toured the (then)W.Germany with interrail. That’s an international free train pass for all Europe. You have to only pay the IC supplements etc. We lived in hostels and ate cheese and bread! We were only 15 at the time and the police at the border thought we were runaways and called my godmother in the middle of the night!
skeeterhawk about 12 years ago
@Uskoke: I studied at a Goethe Institut in 1988. My equivalent of their tuition included room and board. I stayed at a Studentenwohnheim or hostel, and their meal plan was a pack of tickets that bought meals at local restaurants. The best art of the experience was the food—Italian, Greek, German, etc. Schmeck gut.
Comic Minister Premium Member about 12 years ago
Next best thing.
lightenup Premium Member about 12 years ago
There are a bunch of bars in Granada where they don’t even have food menus. If you order something to drink, then they will bring you whatever tapas they have. The more you drink, the more they feed you. Awesome!