bootyhuntah
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RE: How do you fill in time while travelling abroad?
C'mon man. Read books, eat the local food, study the language, practice speaking the local language with locals during the day, get a massage (SE Asia), go for an urban run to explore the city/town, find a gym, rent a bike, go to a local market, get your shoes shined, go shopping for clothes or visit a tailor if the locale specializes in that, visit microbrewery/museum/coffee shop/cemetery/local natural attraction/park/etc. Volunteer. Learn a new craft.
Get the intel for night life that night like find out what bands are playing or what events/parties are going down that night or the next ones. Ask bartenders, shop girls, the barber, people who are dressed well and seem friendly on the train/bus, etc. Make friends and exchange info.
Do research on next cities/towns/attractions to visit or good restaurants/cafes/bars for dates, etc. Trade stocks, start a blog, write a journal, learn/practice photography, learn meditation, take yoga or dance/cooking classes. Sign up for an adventure tour or pub crawl.
The opportunities are endless really depending on where you are. Use your imagination. For me it's usually always good coffee followed by exercise, day game, and a combination of the above recommendations.
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GlobalMan
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RE: How do you fill in time while travelling abroad?
The issue isn't not having enough things to do, it's always needing to "do" something to be content.
-Some Buddhist cunt, 204 AD, & GlobalMan, 2017
But seriously, as bootyhuntah suggested, there are endless things to do. But if you are defining "doing things" as non-stop being around friends and family, paragliding, busy work at a job back home etc then yes- there can be a lack of those things I suppose. But there is so much more beyond that to occupy the mind and body.
I could wander around just MBK Center alone for hours looking at gadgets, fake Diesel jeans, talking to girls, eating etc. No joke, some days in Bangkok I would spend hours in one cosmetics shop in MBK sitting in the makeup chair talking to the worker girls while they laughed at everything I said and ignored countless fat Saudi tourists. Then the DQ girls would wander over after some time and soon enough I was getting Blizzards handed to me for free just to get me to hang around a bit longer.
Maybe it's just different personalities. I could sit in coffee shop for 8 hours and never be bored, between talking to patrons, workers, laptop, watching people, thinking about business ideas..
If all my days were filled with "activities" or friends around 24/7 I think I'd go insane.
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Afarang
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RE: How do you fill in time while travelling abroad?
Hobbies.
Focus less on nightlife and more on things you're passionate about.
I was a little like you when I first moved. Going out all the time waiting for the sun to go down. I am not saying you're but I felt I was super unbalanced and had no sense of direction, my goal was just to get girls.
I reshifted my focus and took the time to try new stuff, read books, learn new skills, some things I really liked others not so much.
Since doing this my income, health and happiness has increased a lot (not saying you're not fit unhealthy, unhappy or poor).
Moral of the story I now love my days the hobbies more than going out itself. Just got to go out and find what you really enjoy doing. For me that happens to be football, badminton, squash, meeting friends for drinks, reading and growing my business.
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2017 11:42 PM by Afarang.)
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RE: How do you fill in time while travelling abroad?
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