Chatterboxes' club. Budget travelling

Wednesday, July 6 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

"YaponaKhata", 29, Freedom avenue




What do you know about budget travelling? Have you ever hitch-hiked? 
 
Let's discuss that & exchange some useful tips!

Explorations. Prague & Kracow

Beautiful Karpaty. Video

SWE. Railway Hunt

New 7 wonders of the world

Have you heard about the new 7 wonders of the world?

Do you know what are Machu Picchu and Chichen Itza?

If not, you can learn about them using this info (a worksheet which includes listening comprehension based on VOA podcast & other activities) and by watching these videos:

This is the part of "The Bucket List" movie with two wonders of the world. It is a great movie (starring Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman) and I strongly recommend you to watch it all. Anyway, this "wonderous" part includes the scenes of the Egyptian pyramids and the Taj Mahal. Download.

On the road again ...

... I can’t wait to get … You may recognize, it’s a song from “Shrek” and whenever I go on a journey, this melody is my ear-worm i.e. it is constantly playing inside my head.
The most pleasant season for traveling is in summer, at least for me. While deciding on the holiday destination, people usually differentiate between a touristy place (crowded and noisy) and one off the beaten track (secluded and not well known). Some people prefer visiting museums, theatres, cathedrals (churches, temples, mosques, synagogues etc) to spending all the vocation lying on a beach. I sort of belong to the first group.
As soon as you know the place you’d like to visit and have calculated possible expenditures required for this, you start thinking how to get there. There are three basic ways people can travel i.e. by air, by land and by sea. Let’s dwell upon each of them separately.

Travelling