MY DAD SAYS 3 WEEKS IS THE MOST I’LL BE ABLE TO HANDLE OF EUROPE FOR BACKPACKING WITH A FEW FRIENDS?
Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by admin in Europe travel
I’m 18, male, springy in the U.S. Since May of 2009, whatever of my friends and I hit desired to movement to aggregation and packsack for individual weeks over this summer, of 2010, as this assemblage we’re seniors in broad edifice and we desired to organisation a “senior-trip”. I hit the business resources to backwards this as I’m commerce my automobile and hit money ransomed up, but my papa won’t earmark me to go for more than 3 weeks (my friends’ parents conceive more is fine). We desired to go to cities much as Barcelona/Ibiza in Spain, princedom in France, Prag in the Slavonic Republic, Pozsony in Slovakia, Budapest in Hungary, Bucuresti in Romania, Kiev/Odessa in Ukraine, and maybe Moscow in Russia…and see same 3 weeks is BARELY sufficiency instance to counterbalance and actually savor apiece city.
The most I’d be selection to go is belike 5 weeks, and hour of this is ordered in stone, but my important discourse is, what are whatever beatific points/arguments to attain with my papa so my instance could be extended? He doesn’t seem dead loath to center a housing prefabricated by me to modify my time, so I would same to hit whatever facts and points in my nous so that I could inform them to him in a beatific way.
I am exclusive asking for pointers most how I could meliorate persuade my papa to modify the time–I undergo these are the places I poverty to meet and hit finished my research, so please, no responses asking ground I am feat to every of these areas in the prototypal place.Thanks!
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Fia
08. Feb, 2010
I agree with you completely! I have done it twice, but once with a Contiki tour and once without the tour. Have you heard of them? You could go get a brochure from their office, not to sign up, but to use for your argument. Get the info on the tour that is closest to what you want and especially closer to the time you want. This shows that professional tours need this much time to bring backpacking tours through those areas in this amount of time. If you overshoot it, you can come down a little for your dad, and all is good. Like get a tour package pamphlet for 6 weeks, but say you agree this is too long and meet him at 5 weeks…. Go get him, you will not regret any extra day you win! Good luck.
crueltea
08. Feb, 2010
I think your best bet is to ask him why he thinks that three weeks is enough, hear him out. Then try to turn everything around. Be sure to focus on facts.
“Three weeks is enough time — you’ll be able to see everywhere you want to see in that time.”
“Hmm, I’m not sure about that. See, I’m going to have to spend xx days simply in transit. If I want to spend at least x days in each city, then that’ll take xx days. Add in one extra day to rest here and there, and it’s five weeks.”
“You can’t afford to stay there for five weeks.”
“Well, I can see that money is an important fact, and I agree that I have to think about my budget. That’s one of the reasons that I want to stay for five weeks — because my major expense is the airfare. I’ve calculated that a three-week trip would cost me xxx, and a five week trip would cost me xxx. That’s only xxx difference — for two more weeks, and a much more relaxed and meaningful trip. If I were to go back on another trip, it would cost me all that airfare again, which would cost a lot more.”
(BTW: You can really pretty much skip Bratislava. Stay longer in Budapest… it’s awesome. So fun and lively. I stayed at Yep Hostel there and it was fun… great bar right around the corner with hilarious bathtub fixtures and stuff. Prague is prettier but not as much fun.)