Europe is so small, it’s unfair.
If you are European you can get to another country in a couple of hours.
In fact if you live in some countries, and want to go anywhere you have no choice but to leave the country.
I live in NYC.
That means I am 2 hours from Philly, 4 to 5 hours from DC and
Boston, and at least ten hours from the closest cool foreign city,
Toronto.
In
Cambridge, we were six hours from
Montreal.
Meanwhile the annoying Portuguese girls who were doing their hair at 2 AM at our hostel in Sevilla keeping poor Tracey up only had to come 3 and a half hours from Lisbon. It ain’t right.
Furthermore, even if I could find cheap transport to
Toronto and
Montreal, there are no cheap hostels to stay in.
And traveling around the
US?
Forget about it.
You can drive forever and get nowhere, and although it hurt to pay 20€ for a dorm bed, the Youth Hostel in NYC is way more than $30.
Americans simply don’t have the small distances, cheap airlines and budget accommodations to make travel easy and affordable.
Which is a damn shame since as the world’s hegemon Americans more than anyone else need to get out there and travel. It might help us get rid of some of our gringo ignorance.
I am jealous of the Europeans who can go spend a weekend in
Paris or
Barcelona, when the most I can do is DC.
