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GarySeckendorf Dec 20th, 2013 01:26 AM

Gary Seckendorf - Best Places to Visit in Europe
 
Hi, everyone this New Year I am planning to visit to Europe. This is my first trip and I don't know much about Europe. As Europe is big a continent, so someone tell me the best places in Europe where I enjoy.
Thanks
Gary Seckendorf

mikelg Dec 20th, 2013 02:17 AM

Where to start...are you coming for a week-a month-a year-for life?

mjdh1957 Dec 20th, 2013 02:33 AM

Minsk, Scunthorpe and Torremolinos.

bilboburgler Dec 20th, 2013 03:00 AM

Hi Gary, how was your trip in September?

sparkchaser Dec 20th, 2013 03:13 AM

Maybe he forgot the went?


<i>Minsk, Scunthorpe and Torremolinos.</i>

I cannot believe that you left out Copenhagen and Santorini.

adrienne Dec 20th, 2013 04:04 AM

Are you leaving in a few days like the last trip? I'm surprised that your September trip left you with no knowledge of Europe nor where to visit. Have you tried reading guide books?

sparkchaser Dec 20th, 2013 08:09 AM

Maybe he had so much fun he forgot what happened. That happened to me one night in Vegas.

dfourh Dec 20th, 2013 08:38 AM

Go where you can get one of those walking sticks where you can hammer on little curved metal souvenirs of where you've been.

PatrickLondon Dec 20th, 2013 08:47 AM

>>Minsk, Scunthorpe and Torremolinos.<<

I thought they were a forgotten music-hall act. Like Wilson, Keppel and Betty, only with added slapstick.

Caliban Dec 20th, 2013 08:48 AM

Land's End plus 10 feet.

PalenQ Dec 20th, 2013 09:20 AM

I can tell you a lot about European trains and how for the average tourist only going to large cities trains are the best as cars are more and more useless in European cities and the public transports so good.

Great sites for planning a European rail trip: www.seat61.com; www.ricksteves.com and www.budgeteuropetravel.com - download the latter's free online and superb IMO European Planning & Rail Guide for lots of rail-themed itineraries, rail maps, etc.

jamikins Dec 20th, 2013 10:18 AM

Why include your name in your title...? Should it mean something to us?

AJPeabody Dec 20th, 2013 04:43 PM

Google "Gary Seckendorf" for a real hoot. He was born in Chicago in 1950, 1960, 1975, and asks questions all over the net in the same format, always using the name in the title and question. There may also be a real Gary Seckendorf who may be a financial advisor, and the troll may be trying to make him look foolish.

I am not Gary Seckendorf.

AJPeabody Dec 20th, 2013 04:51 PM

Oh, on the third google page is one where he posts saying he just bought a computer and needs to know how to get onto the internet!

janisj Dec 20th, 2013 04:55 PM

His first thread was posted just before he went back to school in the Fall. Now he is off on Christmas break.

DeborahAnn Dec 20th, 2013 05:38 PM

I'm thinking Gary is the new Walter Mitty ;;). Deborah

IMDonehere Dec 20th, 2013 07:05 PM

The best way to get around is walk. I would start in the Italian Alps wearing sandals and shorts and head for the Pyrenees. There is a nice B & B in Stockholm where you can stop for the evening. Order the burritos they are best in town.

Please provide a trip report.

sparkchaser Dec 21st, 2013 12:53 AM

I Googled him too and immediately wrote him off as a troll or someone pranking the real Gary Seckendorf.

bilboburgler Dec 21st, 2013 05:38 AM

"the real Gary Seckendorf." it's the internet sparky there is no real.

IMDonehere Dec 21st, 2013 06:12 AM

I love when people with false names get exercised over a fake person.

PalenQ Dec 21st, 2013 07:42 AM

maybe a type Gary Sickendork?

tomboy Dec 22nd, 2013 05:22 PM

Isn't Gary Sechendorf the primary programmer for Healthcare.gov?

Rubicund Dec 23rd, 2013 06:34 AM

He may be the new, or even the same as Dobby the Turtle.

annhig Dec 23rd, 2013 07:21 AM

Dear old Dobby, I rather miss him. [or her].

Dickie_Gr Dec 23rd, 2013 08:01 AM

Probably some syndicated travel writer expecting us to come up with his material.

God help him.

Dickie_Gr Dec 23rd, 2013 08:01 AM

We can tell him about tipping chambermaids using chip and PIN cards.


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