{"id":4398,"date":"2014-01-02T21:08:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T05:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2014-01-02T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T05:08:23","slug":"help-decide-go-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2014\/01\/help-decide-go-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Decide Where to Go In July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a while back, i bought one of those cheap tickets from Los Angeles to London on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwegian.com\/\">Norwegian<\/a>, with the intention of using it as a jumping-off point to go somewhere else. at first i thought it was going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/Skye\">Skye<\/a> (one of my goals), but for several reasons, it&#8217;s moved off my short list, to be replaced with Iceland, Croatia, and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve listed pros and cons for each but i&#8217;m suffering from analysis paralysis &#8212; any suggestions would be very welcome! note that this will be a workation, so i&#8217;ll be doing my usual exploring until mid-afternoon, then working from the airbnb (or hotel, though not preferable) until bedtime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcmap.com\/mapui?P=lgw-kef,lgw-tun,lgw-dbv&amp;MS=bm\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4399\" alt=\"map\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2014\/01\/map.gif\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>timing-wise, i would do stuff that requires full-day commitments early on in the trip since it&#8217;d be July 4th weekend, but i&#8217;d likely stay put and base out of a major city for the rest of the following week. for analysis purposes, let&#8217;s assume flights all cost around the same amount of money (which they do) and are not mile-earning (which they are likely not).<\/p>\n<h3>Iceland<\/h3>\n<p>this is also on my bucket list (where Skye is still remaining, by the way), but cost-wise, it seems like it might just be worth it to just wait until Icelandair has a sale? i would be saving money for sure, but the next two destinations i think are more expensive in general so it might be more worth it to go to them instead? i do not know this to be a fact, though.<\/p>\n<h3>Tunisia<\/h3>\n<p>Tunisia has recently come on my radar (not sure how it got there) and i\u00a0<em>really<\/em> want to go. the only thing that&#8217;s holding me back is the questionable internet that&#8217;s there. i suppose i could ask potential airbnb hosts about their connection speeds, but i don&#8217;t know how reliable their answers are. i&#8217;d likely stay in <a href=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/Tunis\">Tunis<\/a> for most of my trip, if that makes a difference.<\/p>\n<h3>Croatia<\/h3>\n<p>i&#8217;ve always wanted to visit Croatia*, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/Dubrovnik\">Dubrovnik<\/a> and environs (including the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/Bay_of_Kotor\">Bay of Kotor<\/a> in Montenegro, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFlightDeal\/status\/418834495077220352\">a suggestion by The Flight Deal<\/a>) have come highly recommended. my main problem is that i&#8217;m not sure i can spend a whole week in Dubrovnik and my requirements for starting work in the afternoon (and requiring speedy internet) seem to preclude much moving around, no? it&#8217;s pretty much a bus-based system to get in and out of Dubrovnik (or ships, but that&#8217;s hella slow) so i am not sure how well that&#8217;d work since other sights\/sites are not that close.<\/p>\n<p>(*i&#8217;ve only ever passed through on a train from Budapest to Ljubljana&#8230;goodness, nearly 8 years ago. i remember the Zagreb train station, but that&#8217;s about it.)<\/p>\n<p>so? any reasons to choose one over the others? halp please!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a while back, i bought one of those cheap tickets from Los Angeles to London on Norwegian, with the intention of using it as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":4399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Help Me Decide Where to Go In July -- Iceland, Tunisia, or Croatia? #travel #f2b","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[859],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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