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It's going to be a lot more work tailoring it to suit rather than take a tour. If you put up on here your desired destinations, we'll give you a hand finding the right travel deals (some posters on here are right travel bargain hunters). The hard part will be getting the accommodation right if you do it yourself. Location, travel time from airports or stations, quality and price are all going to take some time to sort out. Also depends on what you want to do, what's the balance for you between having fun / going out versus immersing yourself in European 'culture' and by that I mean all the arty farty shit?

Because the cost in terms of GDP from a global slow down or recession to the US is far bigger than the cost of the loan. It's a loan remember with an interest rates. Getting a rate of return on money is quite a luxury nowadays, low risk governments are issuing with bonds with negative yields.

Who? Me? Possibly The idea that Jack Ruby was outraged at the killing and trying to save Mrs Kennedy a trip back to Dallas always seemed laughably implausible.

http://www.fitdetroit.com/music/M_1423533013.mp3

What are we listening to? http://www.theguardian.com/music/ng-interactive/2015/feb/10/uk-city-music-genre-spotify-interactive

Brain washed.

http://www.domainephilippegilbert.fr/Domaine-Philippe-Gilbert,219.html

Fair point, the problem is choosing where to go. You can see a lot more on the train and get to see the scenery. He also wont be x-ray screened with his shoes off every 3 hours.

Menetou-Salon by the way. Its very close to Sancerre and Pouilly, has a similar terroir, specialises in pinot noir and cabernet franc but unlike the former two is very good value for money (cheap) but the gear is good. If you're in the middle towards Tours or Angers then Saumur-Champigny is another high quality / low price appellation to visit.

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My itinerary would be Train: London - Paris - Amsterdam (cost 200 euros) Plane: Amsterdam - Prague - Zurich (cost 400 euros) Train - Zurich - Milan - Florence - Rome (cost 200 euros) Plane - Rome - Madrid - London (cost 400 euros) I think you could easily beat that budget too, if you plan ahead and book early. This all assumes you're not on the 'no fly list'.

Rome is incredible, will never forget the first time I saw the Forum. You can get the train from Zurich to Milan, amazing journey during the day through the mountains. From there I would go to Florence which is a lot easier to see on a short visit. I would mix trains and planes. The SNCF site for France allows you to buy international tickets and the SBB site does the same for trains from Switzerland. You can do Amsterdam from Paris and Geneva so if you fly in there it gives you lots of options. My main consideration would be where to fly into and back out of again. You could arrive in London, train it down to Italy via France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, then fly to Spain and back up to London for the return. There's 2 weeks of a lot of travel.

That's damning.

Dont know how to put Spotify playlists on here - 20 years of M-Plant. https://play.spotify.com/album/142EftiPth8UvWWFIjjj2q

Alex has a hat just like that. Its his red wine hangover hat i think.

See Syro won a Grammy last night. Definitely shit now.

Put that Objekt Ganzfeld track on here when it was released, same story "been done before", "sounds like Speedy J" ( ) "nothing original" etc. I think those views miss the point. The Stones werent producing ground breaking music in the 60's, they were executing on an existing style in a way that was better than had been done before (give or take a few technical caveats). Rare to see 'groundbreaking' that is actually highly enjoyable music to dance to, which is the bottom line in this genre. I'm not stroking my chin wondering if the sound is too derivative or whatever, i just judge things on whether they sound good to me. That Objeckt track was eventually voted best of the year by the RA writers, so i know i'm not out on a limb with my tastes.

I dont know what being too clever for his own good has to do with whether the tune is funky and danceable. The production is clever i suppose, the rhythms are intricate and cleverly layered and the engineering (which is what really makes the difference) is exceptional. Its no good comparing it to something from the 1990s as the only way you would be able to bear listening to them both through the same medium was if a massive amount of remastering occurred on the old stuff. If he hadnt recorded it and someone unknown had, then i think everyone would be shitting themself at how self-assured it sounds. Very few electronic artists have the balls to go without obvious hooks but those that do, tend to get critical acclaim.

The Dark Shite.

I assume Meenzer is following this lot as they have entered to be the Finnish Eurovision candidates. The only mentally disabled punk band in the world?

Dont be racist.

Love a bit of sake me.

Loved this review on youtube for another track was just listening to. "poxy middle class nob twiddler churns out another ket-on-spoon certified stomper for members of the self-appointed 'UK underground' elite to strut about to like a pack of trainer obsessed peacocks, slurping on red-stripe and braying largely insincere and irrelevant horseshit at one another. big time swag, full on jacking mode, tops off, lets 'av it, jungles are massive... deep house life brooooooo! catchy tho"

Giving the podcast a listen. Really like this, kind of quirky and retro.

Did you not like Syro? Minipops is quality.