I thought long and hard about what I could possibly write about our recent fortnight in Europe without rehashing every Lonely Planet, Thomas Cook, or other Travel Advisor type publication. After all every book, website and travel liftout in the newspaper will tell you about how great the Lourve is (don’t know, missed out for the second time, maybe next time), how fantastic Notre Dame is (went, saw the lobby and left), or climbing the Arc de Triomph (which I imagine would be heaps of fun).

Then it came to me, this guide should be something that you won’t necessarily find elsewhere, not that you would anyway, as I can’t write to save my life. It’s Shannon’s Guide to the World (or at least to the places he’s actually been) . And it shall come in various parts…. Maybe.

I see value in different things, both in time and money, on one hand I’m an impulse buyer/gamble anything/throw away money on a 18 Euro beer (just because), but on the other I’ll penny pinch, and bitch about spending money on a taxi when train/bus would have done similar for a third of the price. So this will give me a chance to push some goood (and bad) value things, at least in my point of view. But I’m writing it, so you’d expect that.

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