They’re just trying to be smug. If they don’t succeed, the can look like they’ve *proved* something, and they can be a champion of standing up for the demonization of the poor. If they do succeed, which is likely because they tend to have better education and culinary knowledge, they can still say “but it was sooooo…

Yes, Stockholm was also very expensive, but worth it in my opinion :)

Yeah, I went to Stockholm at Christmas and didn't feel cold :) Danish summers are supposed to be magical too!

How about a more unusual area of Europe? Some of the Scandinavian countries? I went to Sweden and it was simply stunning. Or maybe Iceland? The blue lagoon. the northern lights - all very romantic.

We'll have to agree to disagree then.

Look, I didn't find it upsetting at all, I've accepted several times now to several people that my initial advice was no longer relevant. I'm sorry if I snapped but honestly I don't know how many more times I can say it. Blame Kinja for not allowing me to edit my original comment. Some people have been polite to me…

The thing is Angelique, you need to read this article again very closely, because you are the embodiment of the millennial it is talking about. Racism is far more complex than racial slurs being yelled at you on the street, and the study was about people's perceptions of their own racism and recognition of their own…

I wish I'd never fucking said anything, I am so bored of saying the same thing.

That's wonderful that you've found it so easy to integrate, but with all due respect my personal experience has been quite different. I'm not going to go into it, because it's quite doxxing, but I am not plucking this opinion out of thin air.

1) Again, this was my personal experience. It's great that others didn't experience this.

Well, I'm going to bring out my annoying anthropology degree here, technically there's no such thing as race, biologically speaking. So all "races" are socially constructed and loosely based on collective experience/culture and sometimes appearance. Culturally speaking, Eastern Europeans are very different to Western…

And for the fourth time, I'll clarify that I should have included Ireland as an exception.

I will clarify for the third time that the Irish are an exception that I should have mentioned.

I did say right at the start that it was a few years ago, but I agree that a lot will have changed, especially recently. Things were just starting to change when we went in 2010 (or 2011?), and Cuban's were annoyed with recent government cuts - perhaps why I was noticing more tension and anti-American sentiment than…

Ok, I appreciate that, but it wasn't just based on that one experience. We were shown round Havana by an older man who was absolutely lovely, but discussed for a long time how much he disliked America. Every time a local started to talk to us they'd ask us if we were American first. The Canadians in Havana kept their…

I'm sorry that you disagree and would love to hear your explanations. I'm basing my knowledge on discussions with the UK foreign office staff and an extended trip a few years ago, along with my dad visiting a few more times for fishing.

Actual Cubans have to for certain costs, making extra income earned via tipping more useful as gifts. It's a fairly standard recommendation by most travel guides and authorities - the British Foreign Office was pretty insistent that it's the best way to get the money to the actual Cuban people, rather than in the…

For tips, that is. Normal transaction must be made with actual money, obviously.

They get a terrible exchange rate into pesos, no matter the currency. The whole system is set up so that the government takes the money out of the tourism industry. It's far easier for everyone involved to give gifts instead.

They are, that's what I meant - staying in a casa particulares and having delicious home cooked Cuban food? Great! Being led to an illegal restaurant? It will probably be ok, but shouldn't really be encouraged for the sake of the safety of the locals.