I must admit that very often I am prejudice against things. I make up my mind on something and being slightly stubborn I simple don’t change it with out being pushed a bit. A lot of this is based on the fact that I don’t like to pay for things. I really don’t like to spend money if I don’t have to. So I am always looking for deals and seeing if I can substitute a little elbow grease to save a buck. Of course I still do this a little but as I actually make a little money now I have been hard pressed to change my ways and take things easy. I still avoid guided tours for the most part and most add on. So for example when we went to London for New Years we got Subway passes and tried to pre-book attractions when ever possible and ran our own routine.
However talking to a lot of my friends that have traveled to London and they have had a lot of success buying city bus tours that allow you to get on and off at different places and take you all over town. So on a trip to Wales I let a friend talk me into a 5 pound bus tour of Cardiff. It turned out to be a really nice way to get a feel for the whole city and not just a few sites. Riding on the top of a double-decker bus is fun to boot. So that was the being of my new embracing of some organized tours. Also in May for our anniversary we took and organized tour that included dinner, a cruise, and a show. It was a little pricey but the things we did I never would have picked and enjoyed it a lot so once or twice a year I think we could do these kind of tours while traveling. Though I am still not sold on complete tour packages to tour a country, but I did see a cool High-Lands tour in Edinburgh I would have liked to do.
So now if we have limited time to see an area I look for a city-tour bus. As long as it doesn’t cost too much that is. The one in London is actually 15 pounds so that may be a little much as we could get around town for 3 days on that money, but in Cardiff, Liverpool, and Manchester they run 6.50 or less. The other nice thing about these tours is that they take you to places you may not normally think to go. So you get a more complete picture of an area, and they are normally good for 24 hours so if you wanted you could use the tickets to see a lot of sites with out worrying about how to get there, parking the car, etc. So now I too have to say, at least in the UK, if you have a day to kill I would recommend grabbing the city-tour bus in whatever city you are in.
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ok, just a little correction:
whales -- that big mammal thing that lives in the ocean
Wales -- is part of Great Britain
I think u meant Wales, baby :)
And I think that u have considered a guided tour to the country, remember India and Africa? Not that it's going to happen in the next 2 years or so, but u have considered getting a packaged tour for those countries :) (ok, Africa is a continent, but u know what I mean, Egypt I think we want to go to there that we were looking at tours :)) Ok, gotta go to bed, or else u are going to throw a fit or even worse fall asleep without me :)
Whales, Wales, huh, what are you talking about. I only see it written correctly. Maybe you were just too tired when you wrote that message.
:)
U little stinker, u changed the name this morning after u read my comment. Oh, well, that is fine. And I was not too tired when I wrote that, u were the one snoozing, I was wide awake and bored :)
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