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Now that I’ve been traveling again I realized something: Traveling, including exploring cities, has some similarities with certain genres of video games. I came to this conclusion, when I was watching a video about Link and his adventures recently. Let’s start with this: First you come in to a new town, which would be a new level, and you have no idea where you have to go (looking it up on google maps would be like cheating, and real gamer/explorer don’t do that!) So you simply start walking until you find something that’ll help you. Sure you talk to people if they might help you but unfortunately these people habe no explanation mark above their head. Advantage for the real life, though, they don’t give you any annoying side quests. So your first achievement would be to get a map to get yourself a view of the city. Luckily, most of the girls working in the tourist info don’t wear tall hats and have a long white beards … some of them seem better if they would. Now, when you h

Living in a hostel is only as good as you make it. The River Hostel, Valencia I bet there are a lot of people who can tell more bizarre stories than I can, still I want to present you a small list of kind of people you meet in a hostel: 1. the backpacker He’s the typical tourist you meet in every hostel during the main season. The reason why he’s here differs. Additionally there are a lot of subgroups of backpackers, from world explorers to the “my father has too much money”-traveler. Most of them are kind and open-minded and are glad to meet someone to explore the city with or simply to hang around. They just want a good time and like to talk about their experience and are interested in almost everything. They are grateful for any inside tip about local specialties, cheap bargains, distinct places, etc. They wont stop until they’ve seen everything and don’t mind if you still don’t know their name after four days as they already know so many people and meet new ones every