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This is my user page. I'm from Ravenna, Ohio and have lived in Ohio my whole life. I enjoy traveling locally to places like Erie, PA and Michigan when possible, and have gotten pretty good at the art of traveling on a budget.

*To Do:*

-Add things to various pages about places in Northeast Ohio, which right now are just blank pages or outlines. There's enough to write about here that it deserves more than a blank page.

-Add things to a few pages about Southern Ontario, on the other side of Lake Erie. The pages about that area are disorganized, and many of them are blank. I may not be able to add as much to these pages as I can to the ones about Ohio, but I took a trip to Ontario a few years ago and loved it, driving from Windsor to Niagara Falls and camping along the way. The Canadian side of the lake is a great off-the-beaten path place and I'd like to see more information available about it.

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User:(WT-en) Eileen.sanda

My name is Eileen Sandá. I grew up in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands and now I live here again after living in Denmark, Greece and Tórshavn since I was young. I work as a Tourism Coordinator in Suðuroy. I find the internet as an excellent way to find information about a destination, and I would like to contribute to share information about the Faroe Islands and escpecially about my island, Suðuroy, which is not so much visited by tourists, and that is a great loss for the people who travel to the Faroes and don't visit Suðuroy.

About my Island Suðuroy
The island is very special and different from the other. Even the people here are said to be different from the rest, we speak a diffent dialect and are said to have a different temper than the people from the northern islands. Suðuroy is more green the the other islands, that is due to the fact that the Faroe Islands are vulcanic islands and consist of three layers of lava. Suðuroy consists of the first and second layer, while the rest of the islands consist mostly by the second and third layer of lava. Because of this coal can only be found in Suðuroy. There were many coalmine here in Suðuroy, in the northern part of the island:Hvalba, Trongisvágur and Fámjin. But only one mine is still active, it is in Hvalba, and the coal workers are working in an old fascion way. Tourists can visit this coal mine by contacting the Tourist Information in Hvalba, phone: +298 237575 or the Tourist Information in Tvøroyri, phone: +298 611080. In Fámjin the first Faroese flag is hanging inside the church there. In Suðuroy it is very easy to reach most of the great natural sceneries, because roads are made to these places. The reason for that is sometimes by coinsidense and sometimes because of the British military, which made roads to places, which were suited for watching for enemy ships, submarines etc. This is the fact for Eggjarnar south of Vágur. There are two co-called Eiði west of Hvalba, which both have roads which takes you all the way to these beautiful places. Vágseiði west of Vágur also has a road all the way to the coastline. Beinisvørð, which is the second highest vertical cliff (in the sea) is easy to reach by car. Beinisvørð is the mountain west of Sumba, you can drive up to Hesturin from Sumba and park there, walk to the edge (and don't go to far) and watch the fantastic scenery on the westcoast. In clear weather you can see many of the other islands from this place.

My contributions on Wikivoyage

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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User:(WT-en) EinarKramer

I'm E inar K ramer. I'm from Nærbø in Norway. Currently living in Woodstock_(Georgia).

Have mostly worked with the Nærbø stub just for fun.

My personal website is http://einarkramer.22web.org

I'm pretty proud of my Kramer's Woden, skiltskjulern and my Hidden Camera Detector.

Don't support the con artist site eurochallenges.com nor con artist site coroner.pl. They steal userpages from real sites like wikivoyage.

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User:(WT-en) Eisenhower

Welcome.

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User:(WT-en) Eitch

This is a Wikipedia user page.

This is not a travel guide article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikivoyage, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eitch. If you'd like to contact me, leave a message on my talk page by clicking here and I'll respond to you there. You can see all my contributions here.

Me
Hello! I started here in December 2007, with this Svalbard edit. Since then I have contributed to the Greenland article.

I am a much more active Wikipedia editor than Wikivoyage editor. I am Eitch there as well.

Travel
I've done some traveling. Right now I'm most enticed by the Arctic and the Pacific (how's that for a mess?).

United States

 * Hawaii
 * California
 * Oregon
 * Washington
 * Idaho
 * Nevada
 * Arizona
 * Utah
 * Colorado
 * Oklahoma
 * Texas
 * South Dakota
 * Arkansas
 * Louisiana
 * Tennessee
 * Missouri
 * Iowa
 * Nebraska
 * Minnesota
 * Wisconsin
 * Illinois
 * Indiana
 * Kentucky
 * Georgia
 * South Carolina
 * Virginia
 * Ohio
 * Michigan
 * Maryland
 * Delaware
 * Pennsylvania
 * Connecticut
 * New Jersey
 * New York
 * Rhode Island
 * Massachusetts
 * Vermont
 * New Hampshire

Other North America

 * Northwestern Mexico and the Baja peninsula
 * Southeastern Canada
 * Southwestern Canada

Europe

 * France
 * Germany
 * The Netherlands
 * Spain (just Barcelona)
 * Switzerland
 * Italy
 * Moldova
 * Greece (mostly Athens)
 * England (London and environs, Avebury, Salisbury)
 * Denmark
 * Romania
 * Bulgaria
 * Hungary
 * Czech Republic
 * Austria
 * Serbia (just Belgrade)

Scandinavia

 * Sweden
 * Finland

North Atlantic

 * Iceland (just Reykjavík)
 * Greenland

Asia (western)

 * Turkey

Asia (southeastern)

 * Vietnam (mostly just Hanoi)
 * Japan (just the airport)

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Some planned articles Guatemala Petén - Flores - Tikal - Sayaxché (El Seibal, Aguateca) Guatemala City - Antigua - Pacaya - Monterrico Quiriguá - Puerto Barrios - Livingston - Río Dulce Honduras Copán - Roatán Belize San Pedro Costa Rica - San José - Fortuna (Arenal Volcano) - Manuel Antoneo

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I'm Eivind, a 21 year old man from Drammen, Norway. I have this goal that I want to have visited more countries than I'm years old, and so far, so good :)

I've contributed with quite a few thousand edits on real Wikipedia (especially no.wiki), where I was an administrator. Therefore, hopefully, I should be familiar enough with the whole wiki thing to contribute a little here as well :)

Countries I've visited

 * 1) Norway (yeah, I've been travelling quite some in my own country, so I like to count it in ;)
 * 2) Sweden
 * 3) Denmark
 * 4) Germany
 * 5) Luxembourg
 * 6) France
 * 7) Andorra
 * 8) Spain
 * 9) Gibraltar
 * 10) Austria
 * 11) Italy
 * 12) Netherlands
 * 13) Poland
 * 14) Czech
 * 15) Slovakia
 * 16) Hungary
 * 17) Ukraine
 * 18) Russia
 * 19) England
 * 20) Ireland
 * 21) United States of America
 * 22) South Africa
 * 23) Zimbabwe

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User:(WT-en) Ejoeblack

Who is Main Editor of Boracay Page
Have question.

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User:(WT-en) Ejtoll

Eric Jay Toll is a travel writer based in Scottsdale, Arizona. His work appears regularly in USAToday, LiveStrong, Trails, TrailsEdge, Golflink, and eHow. Eric focuses on the American Southwest, among other areas and writes of the great outdoors. He is an avid camper and travels with his chocolate lab, Hershey.

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User:(WT-en) Ekeralla

People have asked me what my favorite place was in Tahiti. I think there are several answers to this question. My favorite island in French Polynesia is Bora Bora. Called the most beautiful island in the world, Bora Bora graciously lives up to its title. Just an hour or so by plane from Tahiti, most visitors first see Bora Bora from the air. The sight is indeed something to behold - both stunning and breathtaking. Add to this Tahitian hospitality and you begin to understand what keeps visitors coming back. This is a romantic honeymoon location made by nature. There are many properties to choose from when staying on Bora Bora. There is Bora Bora Pearl Beach Resort for the most romantic honeymoon location, Bora Bora Nui Resort & Spa for exclusive luxury, Hotel Bora Bora premier property with an awesome beach, Sofitel Motu with it's tree top bungalows and the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort, part of the Orient Express Hotel chain. This is the best place for a tropical honeymoon or island honeymoon. But my favorite overwater bungalow was at Le Tahaa on a motu off the island of Tahaa.Luxury is defined at Le Taha'a, Private Island and Spa. This Relais & Chateaux property is the most luxurious in French Polynesia. Located on Motu Tautau on the coral reef, the resort faces the island of Taha'a on the lagoon side and offers an unsurpassed view of Bora Bora island on the ocean side. It offers helicopter shuttle between Bora Boar and Le Taha'a. This traditional Polynesian-style hotel offers roomy overwater and beach suites, private patio and tropical gardens, private swimming pools, spacious lounge and terras and private decks with direct access to the lagoon in an overwater suite. Words can't describe the beauty here so just take a look at the picture above and image yourself on a romantic honeymoon or island honeymoon. This tropical location is perfect for the romantic honeymoon on a secluded island. This is one of the best places for a romantic honeymoon. Ellen Keralla, Special Occasion Travel a Tahiti Tiare specialist. 1-800-691-0243 Ellen@SpecialOccasionTravel.com http://www.specialoccasiontravel.com

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Erik Monti

As of February 2009 I live in Buenos Aires. I've lived in Baltimore, MD for more than half of my life.

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Stealing from (WT-en) Evan I thought I should create a workspace page as a sandbox to create content that I hope will eventually contribute to WikiTravel Pages.

 * (WT-en) BsAs Learn

 * (WT-en) BsAs Eat

 * (WT-en) BsAs Crime

 * (WT-en) BsAs Taxi

 * (WT-en) Get In By Plane

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Crime:Many people travel in Buenos Aires without incident, but as with any large city crime is an issue for tourists and residents alike. Conduct yourself intelligently as you would in any large city.

The most frequent incidents of crime involve distraction theft, bag snatching and armed robberies in the street, in taxis and in restaurants. Distraction thefts commonly occur in public areas such as internet cafes, train and bus stations. You should keep a close eye on your personal possessions and bags at all times. In some public spaces you will find that chairs with webbing and clips to clip to your bag or purse to the chair. An aid in avoiding problems is, dress to blend in and avoid carrying lots of items. It safer to travel just the bare necessities in your front pocket.

In a common scam one person sprays something on the victum like hand cream mustard or the like. Another person tries to help the victum. There can be several people at once working in coordination. The object is to distract you from your belongings and in the chaos, steal them. Avoiding confrontation is their object so do the same. Ignore their help, focus your belongings and extracting yourself from the scene.

Another common occurrence is the slitting of handbags in crowded places. Be particularly attentive in popular tourist areas, such as San Telmo. You should avoid carrying large amounts of cash or wearing ostentatious jewellery.

Taxicabs that loiter in front of popular tourist destinations like the National Museum are looking for tourists. This may be inopportune for you. Your chance of falling prey to a scam increases in these situations, like having your money exchanged for fake currency. Stopping a cab a block or two away on a typical city street where others locals would do the same is good choice.

Avoid ever withdrawing money from an ATM at night.

Express kidnappings continue to occur. Victims are grabbed off the street based on their appearance and vulnerability. They are made to withdraw as much money as possible from ATM machines, the victim is usually quickly released unharmed. There have been some foreign victims.

Refer to the transportation section regarding taxis. Much is said about the dangers of taxis but you should remember that the city is full of taxis for a reason, the city runs on them and mass transit. Make sure you are hailing a legitimate cab and try to have currency small enough for the fair.

As a recent arrival I received a lively story from a taxicab driver about a couple of young women who were dressed extravagantly, carried many bags, and claimed they were from the UK despite their story about being from England not making sense. The driver was amazed by all of this. In his mind they did everything wrong. If you speak some Spanish taxicab drivers can be very informative despite all the traveler's cautions you receive. Sometimes your best defense as well is not alienating the residents of your host country.

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Eat
There are four basics you must try in Argentina. Everyone knows Argentina is famous for beef. The other three special items are empanadas alfajores and ice cream.

Try asado (beef/steak barbecue) at a parrilla, restaurants specializing in roasted meats. There are expensive parrillas, and more simple and cost effective ones,. The bife de lomo (tenderloin) is unbelievably tender in comparison to US beef and is more reminiscent of European cuts. Jugoso means rare (literally "juicy"), however the Argentine concept of rare is very different from that of someone from the States (perhaps its a tourist thing, but an American ordering rare is likely to get something between medium well and hockey puck). Don't be afraid to order "azul" (blue), you will not get a blue steak, more like an American Medium Rare. If you like your meat bloody it might pay to learn words like "sangre" (blood), or to make statements like "me gusta sangre" (I like blood). Don't be afraid to spend two minutes stressing how rare you want your steak to your waiter- this is something no one talks about in guidebooks but every other American and Brit once you arrive will tell you the same thing.

It would be difficult to walk in any direction for more than 3 minutes and not encounter a place that makes empanadas.

As well few places hold in high regard ice cream as is it is held in Buenos Aires. There are many other things to enjoy but you would do well to start here.

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Learn Spanish
Many people interested in learning Spanish choose Argentina as an inexpensive destination to accomplish this. You will hear Argentine's refer to Spanish as Castellano more often than Españo, which betrays the county's individuality when it comes to the language, though there is logic behind their use of Castellano. Spain has several languages. The dominant language is Castilian or Castellano. Spanish in Buenos Aires is Rioplatense Spanish. The Spanish of Argentina uses the verb form of voseo instead of tú. While the Spanish of Argentina is beautiful, it is slightly unusual sounding to the rest of Latin America. If you are lucky you will pick up a little of the slang of Buenos Aires known as Lunfardo, and is influenced by several other languages.

There are several options for studying Spanish. You can attend one of several fine schools, study individually with a tutor, or there are social groups where people get together for the purpose of talking in each others languages to improve their skills.

Schools
Schools provide a very rigorous schedule, typically, of intense study. Be wise, if you have spent 3 weeks in classes and find yourself getting overwhelmed, a week off will help your brain catch up. There is the occasional student who has been in classes for 6 weeks who's brain is clearly suffering from overload. The schools would rather keep you in class, so it's up to you to pace yourself.

 * Universidad de Buenos Aires, Laboratorio de Idiomas

 * Centro Universitario de Idiomas

 * Enforex This is a satellite school from Spain. There is no mention as to whether they teach Spanish of Spain or if they follow Argentine Spanish. They are located in Microcentro and have a capacity for 200 students in 20 classrooms.

 * Ibero This school has received attention in guide books. Their method of education is TEFL, a highly regarded method. You can expect, given their foreign press, a higher concentration of the younger backpacker crowd and a higher turnover of students. There has also been observed a high turnover of teachers and other difficulties.

 * Gorilla (this portion is just a marker. clearly gorilla is not the term, but this serves as a reminder to write about this)There are schools where the formal portion of education is a minor component of the program and the majority of the educational experience is a gorilla style immersion into Spanish, where the class moves to a public setting after some formal education to learn Spanish in a practical setting.

Tutors
Many very qualified teachers advertise on craig's list, which is more known by foreigners on the Buenos Aires page than locals. Often these teachers have formal education in teaching language and prior or current experience in a school of language. As well, you will find people posting to trade time to informally improve in each others language without a formal structure.

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By taxi
Taxis are not the quickest way to move around the more congested parts of the city, especially during rush hour, as traffic jams are common. Still, you will find that taxis are usually rather inexpensive, convenient, and exciting (in a white-knuckled, the roller-coaster-seems-to-have-some-pieces-missing kind of way.)

These days safety of traveling by taxi has improved considerably. For details refer to Buenos Aires. If you are uncomfortable hailing a taxi on the street you can have your hotel or restaurant call a taxi for you.

Ezeiza International Airport ()
Ricchieri Highway, Km. 22. Tel. +54 5480-6111 - International and some domestic flights use the Ezeiza International Airport (referred to as Aeropuerto Internacional Ministro Pistarini), located in the suburban area named Gran Buenos Aires, about 30-45 minutes from downtown by highway. Planes fly to most countries in South America, the United States, and Europe. Non-stop service to the U.S. is available from Atlanta (Delta), Dallas (AA), Miami (AA), Houston (Continental),New York (AA, United & AR) and Washington, D.C. (United).

Some flights from Aerolíneas Argentinas to Ushuaia leave from Ezeiza during peak season, so check which airport you fly into or leave from.

There is also a useful Aerolínas Argentinas flight direct to Sydney, with a stop in Auckland and a twice-weekly Malaysian Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur via Cape Town and Johannesburg. Direct flights to Europe are available with British Airways (with a stop in Sao Paulo), Lufthansa , Iberia , Air France , Air Comet and Aerolíneas Argentinas. Also Air Canada flies from Toronto via Santiago. There is a departure tax of $18 USD (about 54 pesos) for all international flights, which can be paid in pesos, US dollars, euros or credit card.

From the airport there are the usual taxis, private cars (remises), buses and minibuses.

Trips on the comfortable Manuel Tienda León coaches from EZE to Retiro cost 40 pesos (as of October 2008). The coaches leave every half hour - less frequently during evenings. From the Retiro Terminal, a smaller van will deliver you to any downtown address for an additional 5 pesos. Manuel Tienda León also offers transfers between EZE and Aeroparque. Tickets can be purchased from their booth just outside of customs.

Prepaid taxis (remises) from EZE to downtown cost about 120 pesos. They are your simplest and safest transport from the airport. As you exit customs there are booths on either side of the receiving area of the airport. Some of the prepaid remises will provide you with a 20% discount coupon for your airport return. If you manage to hold on to this coupon, dial them directly to come and collect you and save yourself 20%. You must also present the original receipt to receive the discount.

Hailing a non-prepaid taxi is not recommended for tourists, but if you do, be aware that there is a 2 peso toll and a 0.80 peso toll if the driver goes by the autopista (as should be done); the tolls will be added to your fare. You should select a taxi that is dropping someone off. It works out to around 50 to 55 pesos to downtown. You should not do this unless you have some familiarity with Buenos Aires and speak Spanish well.

The cheapest way to get downtown is to take the number 8 bus (formerly number 86). The stop is just outside terminal B arrivals, you need to walk 100 meters. The bus will take almost 2 hours to get to the Mayo square, going straight on Rivadavia Avenue and then on Hipolito Yrigoyen street. It will cost 2 pesos to get downtown. Be ready to have coins to use them on the bus, you can get change at the counters where the airport tax is paid or at any airport shop. This is not advised for someone unfamiliar with the city. Be mindful of your surroundings and avoid the common scam mentioned in Stay Safe.

If you are returning to Ezeiza from downtown, be sure to ride the 8 bus that says "AEROPUERTO" as there are several 8 buses that go to other places. The bus stops all along Mayo Avenue and then Rivadavia Avenue. It can take more than two hours to get to the airport from downtown (longer than the trip in from the airport), and the bus can get extremely crowded. If you are at all pressed for time, or short on patience, it is highly recommended that you skip this bus and take a taxi or remise.

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By plane
Flights from Buenos Aires and the rest of Argentina are usually more expensive for foreigners. This can pose a problem for short-term travelers who do not have time to take a bus to places like Iquazu Falls, Bariloche, Ushuaia, etc. These tourists are often advised to find smaller travel companies/agents that can help them find lower prices on lower flights, deals that larger online travel sites would not have access too.

Ezeiza International Airport ()
Ricchieri Highway, Km. 22. Tel. +54 5480-6111 - International and some domestic flights use the Ezeiza International Airport (referred to as Aeropuerto Internacional Ministro Pistarini), located in the suburban area named Gran Buenos Aires, about 30-45 minutes from downtown by highway. Planes fly to most countries in South America, the United States, and Europe. Non-stop service to the U.S. is available from Atlanta (Delta), Dallas (AA), Miami (AA), Houston (Continental),New York (AA, United & AR) and Washington, D.C. (United).

Some flights from Aerolíneas Argentinas to Ushuaia leave from Ezeiza during peak season, so check which airport you fly into or leave from.

There is also a useful Aerolínas Argentinas flight direct to Sydney, with a stop in Auckland and a twice-weekly Malaysian Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur via Cape Town and Johannesburg. Direct flights to Europe are available with British Airways (with a stop in Sao Paulo), Lufthansa , Iberia , Air France , Air Comet and Aerolíneas Argentinas. Also Air Canada flies from Toronto via Santiago. There is a departure tax of $18 USD (about 54 pesos) for all international flights, which can be paid in pesos, US dollars, euros or credit card.

From the airport there are the usual taxis, private cars (remises), buses and minibuses.

Trips on coaches such as Manuel Tienda León from EZE to Retiro cost 40 pesos (as of October 2008). The coaches leave every half hour - less frequently during evenings. From the Retiro Terminal, a smaller van will deliver you to any downtown address for an additional 5 pesos. Manuel Tienda León also offers transfers between EZE and Aeroparque. Tickets can be purchased from their booth just outside of customs.

Prepaid taxis (remises) from EZE to downtown cost about 120 pesos. They are your simplest and safest transport from the airport. As you exit customs there are booths on either side of the receiving area of the airport. Some of the prepaid remises will provide you with a 20% discount coupon for your airport return. If you manage to hold on to this coupon, dial them directly to come and collect you and save yourself 20%. You must also present the original receipt to receive the discount.

Hailing a non-prepaid taxi is not recommended for tourists, but if you do, be aware that there is a 2 peso toll and a 0.80 peso toll if the driver goes by the autopista (as should be done); the tolls will be added to your fare. You should select a taxi that is dropping someone off. It works out to around 50 to 55 pesos to downtown. You should not do this unless you have some familiarity with Buenos Aires and speak Spanish well.

The cheapest way to get downtown is to take the number 8 bus (formerly number 86). The stop is just outside terminal B arrivals, you need to walk 100 meters. The bus will take almost 2 hours to get to the Mayo square, going straight on Rivadavia Avenue and then on Hipolito Yrigoyen street. It will cost 2 pesos to get downtown. Be ready to have coins to use them on the bus, you can get change at the counters where the airport tax is paid or at any airport shop. This is not advised for someone unfamiliar with the city. Be mindful of your surroundings and avoid the common scam mentioned in Stay safe.

If you are returning to Ezeiza from downtown, be sure to ride the 8 bus that says "AEROPUERTO" as there are several 8 buses that go to other places. The bus stops all along Mayo Avenue and then Rivadavia Avenue. It can take more than two hours to get to the airport from downtown (longer than the trip in from the airport), and the bus can get extremely crowded. If you are at all pressed for time, or short on patience, it is highly recommended that you skip this bus and take a taxi or remise.

Aeroparque Jorge Newbery ()
Located in the Ave. Rafael Obligado. +54 4576-5300 extension 107/122 (Information: 4576-1111). Most domestic flights use the smaller Jorge Newbery Airport (referred to as Aeroparque), 10 minutes away from the downtown area. You can take a taxi (25 pesos) or bus from there.


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User:(WT-en) Eldang

I am also a wikipedia editor. Rather than maintain two user pages, I'll just link to mine over there: my wikipedia user page

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I am a 60+ year old man currently residing in the middle outer edge of nowhere suburbs of Washington, D.C. in Fairfax County, Virginia. While I currently reside in Virginia, home is the Pacific Northwest in general and Seattle specifically.

I love to travel, and for whatever reason my travels in the past 20 or so years have focused on Spanish speaking areas including Spain itself, Central America, and South America. I am also a Francophile and have spent a fair amount of time in Paris and the Provinces. Family ties and the close proximity of British Columbia to Seattle mean I have spent a great deal of time in Canada.

Walking is hobby, and I have done several long distance walks including the Camino Santiago in Spain twice, once starting at St. Jean Pied-de-Port and the other at Somport. I have also done long distance walks in France including ones the Cevennes and the Massif Central. Closer to the Us, I have done numerous shorter hikes in the Cascades, the mountains of Southern California, and in the Appalachians.

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User:Buzzy

Nationality: Earthling Ethnicity: Homo sapiens Religion: None Sexuality: Whatever Date of birth: 4 May 1987 Current residence: London Previous residences: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Puerto Ayora, Bangkok

Where I've been
These are the places I've visited, and can therefore contribute to:

Countries
Eurasia: Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, China (HK), Czechia, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Laos, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Sakartvelo, San Marino, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Wales Africa: Ethiopia Oceania: Australia (ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, VIC), New Zealand Namerica: Unitedstates (AZ, CA, FL, NV, NY, OR, UT, WA) Samerica: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru

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User:(WT-en) Electricotter

Hi, I'm currently living in Exeter, U.K. I've travelled a bit in Europe, Russia, Iran and the Indian subcontinent. My travels over the last year have have been to India, Nepal, snowboarding in France, Iran during the presidential elections, and the Netherlands. I've been doing a few edits on the Exeter page when I get the time to.

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ElectricSocks
I'm planning on travelling, rather than have travelled many places. When I come back there'll be a list of where I've edited and where I've been.

I've lived in: Northern Ireland, Edinburgh, and Serre Chevalier, a ski resort in France. I've been to: Various places in England, Scotland, and Ireland. I've also visited New Zealand and Germany. I'm planning on going to: Argentina, Brazil & Peru. (This is only next travel plans, I plan to see as much of the world as possible.) I speak: English and a little French.

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test of moves

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Book project
What we need to make Wikivoyage books.

Front page
We need a good looking front page with our new logo, the Wikivoyage name, the name of the book (i.e. name of region covered by the book), appropiate picture, and creative-commons logo, and text.

We should somehow elect a picture for each bookworthy destination--Country, major region, big city. Maybe like the featured images on commons.wikipedia.org. Then make it possible for a book-script to automaticly choose it, ie using CSS or a naming convntion.

It takes up too much paper space to have the CC logo on every destination. It is better to display it prominently on the front page.

We need to display the Wikivoyage logo on the table of restaurant far away, others travellers will be curious about this guidebook.

Table of Context
The online Wikivoyage has a hierarcical inline TOC. I.e. a contry article only lists major regio and a few cities. We should generate a full separate TOC of countries, regions, cities. Maybe "See" entries should be included in the TOC.

Index
We need an index. What should be in it? Countries, regions, cities, disteicts, "See" and "Doo" entries. We could make a template that would add a word to the index, LaTeX style.

Phrasebook
Each country and relevant region should use a standard way of denoting Phrasebooks for languages in that area. I.e. Irish, English for Ireland, Kurdish, Turkish, Arab for Kurdistan.

Other common articles
Thera can be other background articles than phrasebooks, we want to include in books with some books, i.e. Malaria, Wine tasting, Ottoman history.

Attribution page
Instead off naming a handful of contributers on each destination it would be better to have one or two full pages attribution for the material in the book.

Images
Printers have a much higher resolution that monitors so the bookscript should get images in full size and produce a new thumnail from that.

The Wikivoyage 100 KByte limit on images do limit the quality of printed images.

Maps
Most maps are thumbs which is fine if you are online. In a book a thumbnail of a map is useless. What e need is to generate fullpage maps from SVG's.

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= Elgaard print test =

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My wichlist that I think would make Wikivoyage more usefull (apart from working on the destinations of course)

Printing, per destination

 * Bigger maps. The maps are way too small when you are under a lamppost on a dark rainy day. There is no "enlarge" button on paper. Either we should just make all maps bigger, or change the MW software so that printed maps are bigger than on the screen.

 * Better printed resolution Currently the resolution is set to work for currents monitors. Paper has a much higher resoultion (typically at least 7000x5000 per sheet). Printed images should be based on the the full-size image. Maps should converted directly from SVG to postscript or printer-pixels.

This is a common problem for printing and electronic offline use. The script on User:(WT-en) Elgaard sort of works, but the isin template seems like a better way. Maybe even combined with the geo template.
 * Selecting articles for printing and offline use

 * offline electronic use. There are many formats. The simplest is probably HTML. wget works perfect except that the "edit" links are a bit annoying on a small screen when offline.

 * offline paper use. Given that we already can select the destinations/articles to print, there are two problems:

 * Ordering. We should have a policy like. Phrasebooks first, then the rest depth-first, on the same level sorted north-to south, east to west. Maybe using some hinting templates.

 * * Printing. The moditied html2ps almost works, but still not good enough e.g. most charater sets are not supported. Parsewiki also does not quite work. Wikimedia has a page-template, that could be used to generate books dynamically, but that does not seem to work on Wikivoyage. Especially we have to allow more than one article on a page and still handle page-breaks in nice way.

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