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Tips For Visiting Europe - Travel Tip Tuesday · Travel Mug Podcast

• 0:00
  Jenn: Hey, everyone.
• 0:00
  Jenn: Welcome back to travel tip Tuesday.
• 0:05
  Jenn: Um, Since we both just got back from Europe, I thought it would be funny and appropriate to do a quick things you should know before you go to Europe.
• 0:14
  Jenn: If you're coming from Canada slash like north America.
• 0:17
  Meggan: Oh yeah.
• 0:18
  Meggan: Oh yeah.
• 0:18
  Jenn: Just a few things that we've kind of both noticed while we were traveling.
• 0:23
  Jenn: And some things you should pack with you before you go.
• 0:26
  Jenn: And obviously I haven't been to all of Europe, but
• 0:29
  Meggan: I mean, I think something we should preface as well as dear Europe.
• 0:32
  Meggan: We love you.
• 0:33
  Meggan: Like,
• 0:34
  Jenn: we love you so much.
• 0:35
  Meggan: we're so not dissing you.
• 0:37
  Meggan: These are just interesting little factoids that made us go Hmm.
• 0:41
  Jenn: Things that I didn't expect.
• 0:43
  Jenn: Especially like the first time I was going to Europe, just things that I took for granted here that I didn't realize were everywhere.
• 0:52
  Meggan: exactly.
• 0:53
  Meggan: What do you got first?
• 0:54
  Jenn: Face cloths.
• 0:55
  Jenn: They don't really exist and I don't know why.
• 1:00
  Meggan: I don't know why I've even talked to Europeans and no one seems to have an answer.
• 1:05
  Meggan: I don't know.
• 1:06
  Meggan: I mean, I shower with one, so I enjoy a good face cloth.
• 1:10
  Meggan: I was going to take some, but then I'm like, I didn't wanna dispose of them.
• 1:15
  Meggan: And then I didn't wanna drag around wet ones.
• 1:18
  Meggan: And I was just like, you know what, I'm gonna have to just go with it.
• 1:21
  Meggan: But it is odd.
• 1:22
  Jenn: It is odd.
• 1:23
  Jenn: I did pack a couple from home and just a Ziploc bag to put them in.
• 1:29
  Jenn: If they were wet.
• 1:30
  Jenn: And we had laundry facilities in like three of the five places.
• 1:34
  Meggan: Oh, cool.
• 1:35
  Meggan: Cool.
• 1:35
  Jenn: So I just threw them in with my laundry whenever we were doing them.
• 1:37
  Jenn: But yeah, if you want those, take them with you because
• 1:41
  Meggan: I just, not, someone knows the why.
• 1:43
  Meggan: Like if someone does, I mean, it's fine.
• 1:46
  Meggan: Everywhere is different, but I'd love to know why.
• 1:49
  Jenn: No.
• 1:49
  Jenn: Yeah, same.
• 1:50
  Jenn: Also there probably won't be screens on the windows.
• 1:54
  Jenn: Um, So if you wanna breeze, it comes with bugs and in Scotland, it came with tiny midges, no see-ems that were horrible.
• 2:04
  Meggan: like, I don't understand this either.
• 2:06
  Meggan: Cuz like I underst- we all wanna breeze.
• 2:09
  Jenn: Yeah.
• 2:09
  Meggan: A fresh breeze is lovely.
• 2:11
  Meggan: But why don't you want one without bugs?
• 2:13
  Jenn: I don't know.
• 2:15
  . Meggan: I don't get it again.
• 2:16
  . Meggan: If someone knows the answer to this, please get back to us.
• 2:18
  Jenn: Top sheets don't seem to exist.
• 2:21
  Jenn: It's just the duvet, which was, is fine, except when it's hot and you can't open the window.
• 2:28
  Jenn: There's no air condition.
• 2:31
  Meggan: Yeah.
• 2:32
  Jenn: I like something on me.
• 2:34
  Jenn: I'm one of those sleepers.
• 2:35
  Jenn: I want, want something covering me, even if it's just a top sheet.
• 2:39
  Jenn: I did, I'm in like a Scotland travel Facebook group and there were people packing top sheets in the,
• 2:45
  Meggan: oh wow.
• 2:46
  Meggan: They're serious about their top sheets.
• 2:48
  Jenn: I know.
• 2:48
  Jenn: And like we said, air conditioning, isn't a thing, but it doesn't usually get that hot.
• 2:53
  Jenn: So.
• 2:54
  Meggan: But climate change is coming people and you gonna need some AC and if not, at least a screen.
• 3:02
  Jenn: Yeah.
• 3:03
  Jenn: you gotta pick one,
• 3:04
  Meggan: pick one and go with it.
• 3:06
  Jenn: Carry change for bathroom breaks.
• 3:10
  Jenn: Places or like me you'll charge 40 cents to your credit card cuz you need to pee.
• 3:15
  Meggan: We did that as well.
• 3:16
  Meggan: A Euro please.
• 3:17
  Meggan: Okay.
• 3:18
  Meggan: Take my visa.
• 3:19
  Meggan: I need to pee.
• 3:20
  Jenn: I just need to pee!
• 3:21
  Meggan: Yeah.
• 3:22
  Meggan: Ridiculous
• 3:23
  Jenn: restaurants close early or may not be open on Sundays.
• 3:26
  Jenn: Yep.
• 3:28
  Jenn: And indeed, and also they close on non Sundays, they seemed to close earlier than we were used to.
• 3:38
  Meggan: And then some take longer lunch breaks.
• 3:40
  Meggan: Just aren't open at all.
• 3:42
  Jenn: I mean, the afternoon, if you wanna eat at 3:00 PM, you are in trouble in a lot of places.
• 3:46
  Meggan: Yeah.
• 3:47
  Meggan: So sorry for you grab a snack.
• 3:49
  Jenn: Yeah.
• 3:50
  Jenn: Yeah.
• 3:50
  Jenn: We did a lot of Tesco
• 3:54
  Meggan: yes.
• 3:55
  Meggan: Love a Tesco or Lidl one of the two.
• 3:57
  Jenn: And we found traveling as a group that restaurants do not split bills.
• 4:02
  Jenn: Or if they do split it, they'll split it equally.
• 4:05
  Jenn: So most of the time we got the bill all in one.
• 4:08
  Jenn: And then we got out our calculators and figured out who was paying.
• 4:12
  Meggan: Oh, see, I never went through that piece.
• 4:13
  Meggan: That's good to know.
• 4:14
  Jenn: Yeah.
• 4:14
  Jenn: It, every time we asked them to split the bill, they were like what like really?
• 4:20
  Jenn: Okay.
• 4:21
  Jenn: That's fine.
• 4:22
  Jenn: Whatever.
• 4:23
  Meggan: Sure.
• 4:24
  Meggan: and those are all really things.
• 4:26
  Meggan: I, 100% noticed all those things as well.
• 4:28
  Meggan: And the only one I wanted to add to that myself, cuz this is a very comprehensive list of, of interesting tidbits is the toilet paper.
• 4:38
  Meggan: I, I, I just simply don't understand what you have against soft toilet paper.
• 4:44
  Meggan: we came home and, and Peter's like the toilet paper here at our house feels like a silk blanket.
• 4:49
  Meggan: I'm like, I know I'm like why you into the rough TP people?
• 4:55
  Jenn: I didn't notice.
• 4:57
  Meggan: Maybe Scotland has some soft, because someone chimed in and said that England now is into soft toilet paper.
• 5:04
  Meggan: And I'm like, well, I'm not in England, so that's not helping me.
• 5:06
  Jenn: I didn't find that I also use thin-ish toilet paper at home.
• 5:13
  Jenn: It's like, A box from staples that like, there's no plastic and it's all recycled, cuz that's the way I roll I guess.
• 5:21
  Jenn: And right.
• 5:21
  Jenn: It's not the softest softest or thickest toilet paper.
• 5:25
  Jenn: So maybe I'm just used to it.
• 5:28
  Meggan: Yeah, no, this was thick.
• 5:30
  Meggan: Let me say that this was not a problem.
• 5:34
  Meggan: It was just painful.
• 5:36
  Meggan: And like, and I pity the fool that has like a stomach bug.
• 5:42
  Jenn: Oh yeah.
• 5:43
  Meggan: You won't be able to walk for a day, but anyway, thank God that didn't happen to me, but I digress.
• 5:49
  Meggan: I had to add that to the list.
• 5:51
  Meggan: Cause the TP.
• 5:52
  Meggan: It wasn't cool.
• 5:53
  Jenn: Gosh.
• 5:54
  Jenn: So for this travel tip Tuesday um, make sure to check out my trip report from Scotland that was released last week.
• 6:04
  Jenn: And next week we get to chat with Meggan about her trip to Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
• 6:11
  Jenn: Italy for lunch, crazy person
• 6:14
  Meggan: Liechtenstein for lunch.
• 6:16
  Meggan: Oh, you'll hear all about it.
• 6:17
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• 6:24
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• 6:32
  Jenn: I know it's a lot of things, but you can do it, I promise
• 6:35
  Meggan: we believe in you.
• 6:37
  Jenn: we'll chat soon.
• 6:38
  Jenn: Bye
• 6:39
  Meggan: bye everyone.