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Guest Post by Andrea Perullo
On a whim I took a trip to Buenos Aires 5 years ago. It might have taken me 14 hours to fly there, but it took me less than 14 minutes to become completely enchanted with the city. Little did I know that not only would it mark the beginning of a love affair with a gorgeous man (whom I am marrying in Buenos Aires next year), but also a gorgeous city. Buenos Aires has enveloped me, held me, and let me move through her barrios as one of her own. This is the city I will remember and return to over and over again.
These are my top 5 favorite things to do when I do return:
1. La Recoleta Cemetery: This cemetery is famous because Eva Peron and other important Argentines are buried here, however it is a feast for the eyes due to the incredible architecture and elaborate tombs found throughout. You can easily spend a day getting lost inside it.
2. La Casa Rosada: You know a city must be special if its offices of the President are pink! The spectacular building is found in the center of downtown Buenos Aires. The surrounding streets are filled with cafes, galleries, and boutiques, thus making the walk to it a pleasant one.
3. La Boca: This barrio has a notorious reputation for crime, but it should not be missed. If you travel there during the day, you will be safe, as there will be lots of tourists to keep you company. There you will find colorful houses and people dancing tango in the streets.
4. Calle La Florida: This mile long street is famous for its countless shops, most carrying leather goods. Argentina is known for its quality and inexpensive leather, whether it be a coat, purse, or shoes.
5. Most people do not realize that Uruguay is just a quick boat ride away! You can see another country and be back in time for dinner. The boat you take to Uruguay is called the Buque Bus (http://www.buquebus.com/cache/HomeARG.html). It is very upscale, though completely affordable, and is an adventure in itself.
Andrea Perullo is a Chinese Medicine Doctor by day, travel addict by night. When she is not treating patients, she is exploring the world or dreaming of the next place to visit. She also writes travel features MNUI Travel Insurance and blogs at My Beautiful Adventures.
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For the last 6 months, since Year 2010, I’ve been adding new travel tips, travel guides, experience or my travel photos to my travel photo blog at least once in 2 days, and it never missed (Except only when I was traveling Europe in May for 2 weeks)! But I’m facing the biggest challenge in my blogging habit since 2 days ago. My regular posting schedule is at risk! Why? South Africa’s FIFA World Cup 2010 had just started on 11th June 2010!! 
For 1 whole month until 11th of July, 64 matches between 32 countries would be played in 10 stadiums of 9 cities of South Africa, including Cape Town and Johannesburg. All matches would be played at either 1:30pm, 4:00pm or 8:30pm, or in my local time at 7:30pm, 10:00pm and 2:30am! I’m a big fans of World Cup and I’m going to sacrifice a lot of my sleeping hours! What about my blogging schedule?
I’m going to challenge myself for this 1 whole month of not dropping any articles in Travel Feeder and I’m striving to update my blog at least 3 times a week! How can I do that?
Thanks for all the supports from all the people around me, I have lots of motivations for me to keep adding new tips, guides, experiences and travel photos. Of course, the biggest inspiration of all, is my passion in travel and photography! They keep me moving ahead. They keep me traveling to more places in the world and taking more photos. They keep me blogging here to share my knowledge with the rest of the world, especially my loyal readers.
To win over the challenge from World Cup 2010, I have to kick start my travel stories in Europe at the same time! So stay around and don’t switch over to your TV life World Cup matches! Until then, I’m going to catch the 8th match between German and Australia later… – Travel Feeder
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Traveling to Europe is like a dream comes true to many of us, including me. Though more than 480 Millions travelers from all over the world are flying into this the smallest continent to visit one or more of its 27 EU (European Union) member countries, Europe is still one of the most expensive continent to travel to. In order to plan your Europe travel to appreciate more on your precious moments in Europe with limited budget, there are essential facts that you ought to know before you travel or plan to travel to Europe.
I’ve listed down here the Top 5 Europe Travel facts that I think are the most important:
- Visa. – Depends on your entry point, you need to check with your local embassy or EU website online whether you need visa to enter that first country of Europe. Once you gained access to your first E.U. country, you can travel to any other 27 E.U. countries freely without further visa. People coming from Commonwealth countries such as Malaysia, do not need visa to travel to UK thus to any other EU countries. So it’s in fact quite easier to plan for my Europe tour in this case. I did not apply any single visa for my whole trip to Europe!
- English is not necessary the most widely used language in Europe when you step out of UK. French, Italian, Spanish or Deutsche are equally important there. Beware of communicating in English with merchants, restaurants or even police in Italy or France, they might not understand at all. Even worse if they caught what you meant wrongly and answer you wrongly then serious communication breakdown would happen! However, communicating with hotels receptionists in English, be it Hotels in Edinburgh, Hotels in France or Hotels in Italy, did not give me much problems so far.
- Most merchandise buying from participating shops in EU are eligible for VAT (Value Added Tax) refund of up to 25% (Rate varied from 15% to 25% depending on country of purchase) at your exit point of Europe, which would be the last port to leave EU, if the goods were purchased within 3 months from the date of leaving EU. Always check with the merchant for availability and the minimum amount of purchase from 1 single receipt (could range from 50EURO to 175EURO. Fashion craving ladies from all over the world love to buy branded celebrity clothes, handbags and leather goods in Europe since those goods are much cheaper in Europe after the VAT reclaim.
- While most of the tourists attractions in EU travel destinations are within walking distance, if you are too tired to save a few euro, you can always take public transports which are very convenient, flexible and close to hotels and tourists spots. While not necessarily cheap to buy a single trip ticket, plan ahead and get a daily or 3-day travel card is more advisable. Single trip underground ticket in London is £4 while daily travel card for unlimited travel by tube, train or bus within zone 1 & 2 (which covers most London’s attractions) would cost you £5.60 only. Roma Pass is another cheap option to travel around Rome attractions for 3 days. Most Rome hotels are just next to public transport that could take you to all attractions around Rome.
- Though it is the smallest, Europe is also the most visited continent in this world with hundreds of millions visitors each year. So you must expect huge crowds in every travel destinations 365 days a year, whether free or entrance with tickets. Eventhough entrance tickets to those popular travel sites or museums like Vatican Museum and Eiffel Tower are quite expensive, you will still need to queue up for at least 45 minutes to get in! If there is an option, always buy tickets in advance online to skip the queue and save you at least 2 hours a day!
With these 5 common facts about EU that I have just shared, planning an Europe tour in future would be a breeze. However, there are off course other travel facts you shall need to know also from each one of the EU countries, like individual practices and cultures in each country. Keep updated from this blog to receive more upcoming FREE travel tips for London, Paris, Amsterdam and Italy by subscribing to my RSS feed or email. Until then… – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo blog
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