OaktownTraveler

This travel and travel posting year is coming to an end...

We have bid farewell to Danny and we have survived the Olympics of Greece and so much more in 2004!

On this thread I invite you to post the "Top Ten Europe threads of 2004". You have to do some research and if you know how to link then provide that. I do not know how to link so here goes my TOP TEN Europe Board Threads of 2004. It was tough to pick out of the thousands of threads...:

1)A Male Dominated Society

2) Is Asking For To Go Boxes Frowned Upon In Europe?

3) What Do You Dislike About Being A Tourist?

4) How Long Have You Been A Fodorite?

5)Pack As Fodorites- Pack Light!

6) Spain Trip Report Kaudrey Returns

7) Ok...Now That Things Have Been Fixed, Can We All Get Along?

8)What To Give Sister For Watching Son?

9) Ziana's Paris Whole Enchilada

10) A Heartfelt Message For Spain

Honorably and humbly mentioned: Oaktown's 8 part Travel Report for her 2.5 month visit to Spain...

Go, research and report your TOP 10 for the Europe Boards for 2004!

Jocelyn_P

Was Faith and Bambi this year or last?

Travelnut

I think #8 is on the US board...does that mean someone can pick another one to replace it?
I know which one I'd nominate, but I can't think of the poster's name.. Ah'l be ba-a-a-c-k...

Travelnut

Here it is, here it is..!
Trip Report: Mom and Teens Back from Fabulous European Vacation; Very Grateful for Fodor's Forum Advice!
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34513204

rex

Not volunteering to track down the URLs for all of these - - but part 1 of OT's trip report is http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34466659 - - and all the other seven parts have a link, successively from one to the next.

Best wishes,

Rex

April

I'm breaking the Europe rule right away but one of my favourite posts of the year (if indeed it was this year) was your very own Alaska report, Oaktown.

elaine

Male dominated society

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34527479

Jocelyn_P

My nominations:

Life Jackets on Gondolas in Venice?
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34476606

PLMN's Italy trip report with Mom and Dad
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34536308

We're still waiting for a happy ending from PLMN...

elaine

degas (where is he lately?) posted and refined several well-researched walks/itineraries for various Paris neighborhoods.


I can't find them all, but here is the one for the Marais

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34454657

elaine

oh, mustn't forget 111op's Paris Superthread, a great and ongoing resource

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34519236

I would also add ira's Helpful Information for Italy but it stared in 2003
Oh heck, here it is anyway, it certainly found its legs in 2004
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34443340

cmt

I like the European travel/culture trivia crossword game. It’s an outlet for my restlessness and keeps me from going brain dead during the many months when travel is just a distant memory. The game was started by BrimhamRocks in summer 2003, but has kept going on and on since then, with game threads #3 through 12 active during 2004. Players have come and gone, and various people have been obsessed with it for a few days, weeks, or months at a stretch. I’m not sure whether I should be embarrassed to admit I’ve been playing this since about the second week after it was invented. Here are the threads where the game was played in 2004 (when one thread gets too big we start a new one, continuing the same game):

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34441784

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34475108

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34497937

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34518909

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34524664

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34530354

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34539355

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34541642

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34547306

OaktownTraveler

Thanks Rex for the link. Thanks for the compliments everybody...

It does take time to scroll down through the pages. I cheated and picked from the 2004's that I was involved in...I do know how to click on my moniker!

Come on...I know their are some gems not listed. SMILE

indie

ellenem 's thread "If you don't like food...."
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...aine&fid=2

elaine

that last link isn't the one you want, that's me!

Iregeo

I don't remember if it was 2003 or 2004, but the thread around the time of the Emmys where Fodorites awarded each other with honors was hilarious!

P_M

My all-time favorite is Molvania:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...hText=molvania

Another fave is "Don't want to get arrested at the airport." It wasn't started this year, but deserves an honorable mention.

http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...at+the+airport

One more, called, "My girlfriend wants to change her birth year on her new passport."

http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...at+the+airport

Great thread, Oaktown Traveler!!

coccinelle

Elvira, Elvira!!!!

rex

to lregeo - - it was "Oscar night" and it was in fact, started (this year) by Oaktown Traveler, in person!

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34479378

Clifton

Ok, my own (and only) never-ending trip report aside, I remembered a few I could pull up.

The original hen party post aka "My lunatic sister in law is marrying a virtual stranger in Venice. Do I have to go to the hen night in Barcelona as well?"
http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...p;tid=34499938

"What if I Die on My Trip?"
http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...p;tid=34535023

Why "America" instead of "United States of America"?
http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...p;tid=34543498

"Where's Brussels?
http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...p;tid=34533958

111op

Hey, thanks elaine! You wrote a lot of stuff there -- more than I did.