I spent 2 years working in Christchurch following the earthquakes there in 2011. The outdoor life wasn't really for me, hence why I decided to move on, but it's an absolutely beautiful country. Never saw much of the north island outside of the main cities, but I covered most the south island...
Depends what you guys are into.
Some great clubs, but you'll struggle to get into them being in a big group of young lads. Try Tresor, awesome night club that was quite easy to get into when there was 4 or 5 in our group.
Prenzlauerberg and Kreuzberg were the places to go when I was last...
Oh ok, from your original post I got the impression that you only wanted to visit to Vancouver. If you're going to use it as a base from which to start a road trip on the west coast then it's a good a place as any.
My friend and I drove from San Francisco to Vancouver a few years back...
I was looking forward to visiting Vancouver, but I found it quite underwhelming. I imagine it's a great place to live, but it's too spread out for the typical visitor, and the nightlife was piss poor in my opinion.
If you do the west coast fly into San Francisco and rent a car. You'll have a...
Flying into Tel Aviv, and will base myself there.
Going to do a night or two in Jerusalem and onto the Dead Sea.
Not too fussed about the weather, already frighteningly hot in Hong Kong...
Completely anecdotal story here, but I was talking to a Swede from NATO in a hotel while I was on holiday last Christmas in Istanbul and they mentioned how there is a general rule they hold that one NATO soldier is equivalent to 10 Russian soldiers (or thereabouts) who are mostly badly equipped...
Austerity has obviously had a massive impact on the Greek economy, but equally, the money has been lent to them at rock-bottom interest rates over a time-frame that I read is as long as 50 years. Other countries have also had to make difficult cuts, e.g. Ireland and Portugal, but their economies...
If Obama had carte blanche to introduce any gun legislation he wished, what could be introduced? Would it realistically prevent these sort of incidents happening?
The horse has bolted with gun control. Even if the production and sale of guns were banned tomorrow, how many would remain in...