Are we all fucked?

[Kurt Cocaine]

I have friends in Dubrovnik and I always have a wonder at how they survive on the shitty Croatian wages there. It's expensive as phuck, even for Western Europeans... Doesn't help that some of the bastids like short changing you on your Kunas too.
Zagreb was far far better value for money. Although it's not on the coast...
Many's a dope got ripped off on that Dubrovnik wall. Not me though, I brought my own guide.. 

[warhead]

Dunno lad, they seem to be experiencing quite severe hikes in prices, at least for petrol.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/business/us-gas-prices-record.amp.html

Granted, the two times I've been there in a rental car, the prices were way lower than Irish ones (offset by laughably uneconomical to run motors), so I find it hard to be too sympathetic when that 4.25 gallon is costing me double that here.


I wonder what the Dubrovnik beer cartel's excuse for serving the exact same pint of fizzy pish at ten times the price of Belgrade is though 😯

Look, can not say I am a real expert, simply like to talk about things I don't know much about from time to time. I'm usually happy to be corrected. But I was under impression USA are quite non reliant on foreign sources of fuel. I'd bet at least a part of the reason prices in the USA went a bit up is not because of some kind of a shortage in supply, but because someone decided so.
Regarding Dubrovnik, it is a case of "they will sell something for as much as someone will pay for it".  Same thing as with San Marco square in Venice for example. If you want to pay a fortune for a coffee, it is on you.
I've mostly avoided Dubrovnik. Have been there a couple of times, took a walk around. Had something to drink once or twice and that is it.

[warhead]

I have friends in Dubrovnik and I always have a wonder at how they survive on the shitty Croatian wages there. It's expensive as phuck, even for Western Europeans... Doesn't help that some of the bastids like short changing you on your Kunas too.
Zagreb was far far better value for money. Although it's not on the coast...
Many's a dope got ripped off on that Dubrovnik wall. Not me though, I brought my own guide.. 

That is just the reality.......You'll get ripped off in countless places on the Croatian coast. The key is to avoid the more known places. Like anywhere else basically, I'd say.....
I like to avoid the Croatian coast for most of times. If you are interested in the sea, go to a smaller place and enjoy the sun. If you want to visit a lot of restaurants, drink in the bars, nightclubs....you'd be better off somewhere else. Weed and speed are cheap though.
And yeah, you've mentioned having a local guide in Dubrovnik. That always comes handy, right? Again, like anywhere else.

[Caomhaoin]

Cross the border into Montenegro and it's party time at much less damage to the pocket.

Even better is Nîs. Even though it's a bit of a shithole, the craic is 90 and if you have 10,000 dinars in your pocket, you are Prince Lazar resurrected. Some of the best quality women to be had worldwide live there also.

[Caomhaoin]

Speaking of bang for your buck, I'm going to be in Bordeaux for a day in a few weeks. How badly am I going to get pumped Chris? At least in Paris it's kind of funny getting charged 20 quid for two coffees and a bottle of water and the waiter keeps a straight face.

[warhead]

Cross the border into Montenegro and it's party time at much less damage to the pocket.

Even better is Nîs. Even though it's a bit of a shithole, the craic is 90 and if you have 10,000 dinars in your pocket, you are Prince Lazar resurrected. Some of the best quality women to be had worldwide live there also.

I was just driving through Montenegro once, but have never visited properly.
Girls in Nis are yummy and the food delicious!! I just love the place.

[Born of Fire]

Dunno lad, they seem to be experiencing quite severe hikes in prices, at least for petrol.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/business/us-gas-prices-record.amp.html

Granted, the two times I've been there in a rental car, the prices were way lower than Irish ones (offset by laughably uneconomical to run motors), so I find it hard to be too sympathetic when that 4.25 gallon is costing me double that here.

I'm living in Chile at the moment and there's heaps of huge American pickups everywhere here. I've no idea how anyone can afford to be putting petrol into the likes of a 6.2L F-150 Raptor. As an aside red indicators on some American yokes have to be the most retarded idea ever. It just looks like you've got a bollixed brake light instead of signalling a turn.

[Caomhaoin]

You engineering in Chile? A lot of Spanish lads head over there on short to medium term contracts.

[Born of Fire]

You engineering in Chile? A lot of Spanish lads head over there on short to medium term contracts.

Nah I'm not engineering. My wife is Chilean, she got offered a decent career opportunity back home so we said we'd give it a go!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Speaking of bang for your buck, I'm going to be in Bordeaux for a day in a few weeks. How badly am I going to get pumped Chris? At least in Paris it's kind of funny getting charged 20 quid for two coffees and a bottle of water and the waiter keeps a straight face.

It's noticeably cheaper than Paris, but you're still going to feel ripped off coming from Spain. As warhead was saying, there are plenty of cities where you can get totally ripped off in certain places if you really want to pay it. Like in Paris, I would never have a coffee on a "terrasse" anywhere within earshot, let alone line of sight, of any of the tourist traps. But it's true that in Paris you do find high prices even in unlikely places.

[Kurt Cocaine]

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[Caomhaoin]

Speaking of bang for your buck, I'm going to be in Bordeaux for a day in a few weeks. How badly am I going to get pumped Chris? At least in Paris it's kind of funny getting charged 20 quid for two coffees and a bottle of water and the waiter keeps a straight face.

It's noticeably cheaper than Paris, but you're still going to feel ripped off coming from Spain. As warhead was saying, there are plenty of cities where you can get totally ripped off in certain places if you really want to pay it. Like in Paris, I would never have a coffee on a "terrasse" anywhere within earshot, let alone line of sight, of any of the tourist traps. But it's true that in Paris you do find high prices even in unlikely places.

The last electricity bill and the wheel kicking anger of petrol station stops has me feeling ripped off here! Last time I was in France was going over to St Lary for one day when I was on holidays in the Pyrenees just hégire Covid. Everything double price effectively.

[Caomhaoin]

Biden is a gaffe machine. His handlers keep trying to 'contextualise' his comments, but the headlines all screech 'Putin cannot stay in power'. Ah but listen he's speaking from the heart, God bless him.

That's going to put the shits up Russians, ultimately galvanising them.

Don't these assholes have teleprompters?

[astfgyl]

He'd be funny if he wasn't so dangerous. The Hunter laptop stuff is hilarious though and so far not nearly as damning as it was promised to be.

[Caomhaoin]

Fox etc blew it way out of proportion, so an inevitable damp squib.

Read a cool quote from Bismarck yesterday, 'never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied'.