On Feb 27, 12:20 pm, Dusty Furtile Morrocan
wrote:
> On the particular moment of Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:37:55 +0100 in
> relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Keith
> Anderson put forth:
>
> >If the latter, try and book hotels either near a station, or if in a
> >larger city, somewhere easily reached by the city's bus, tram or urban
> >railway network. As you'll be dragging baggage around with you, travel
> >as light as you possibly can. As on-train catering can either be
> >non-existent, pricey and/or limited choice, take some food containers
> >and buy food and drink in town before you undertake a long journey.
>
> The problem with staying at hotels near the station is that it's
> frequently a seedy area, and might be away from good places to eat and
> the main sites.
"Seedy" by European standards usually means safe, but kind of grungy
looking. There are very few neighborhoods near major train stations
that you would actually want to avoid - the two that come to mind are
Paris - Gare du Nord and Brussels - Gare du Midi. Most neighborhoods
near train stations tend to be centrally located, with good transit
links to other parts of the city, and to have cheap hotels and youth
hostels, and to have a lot of traveler services - Internet cafes,
service laundries, etc., making them a good place to stay for a
backpacker. |