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I hope Rodolfo keeps the gym equipment. It is convenient to get a basic improvised workout scheduled in when you are waiting for Mr. Right Now.

Canadians are the worst overstay offenders in the USA volume wise, about 1% of Canadian visitors there, or close to 100,000 annually. Poles can visit Canada under our simple Travel Authorization. Perhaps they are crowding us out. The US is snubbing them unnecessarily.

Great that you are flexible about being paid in drugs.

Oh, I just read that the ETIAS application will arbitrarily be registered within one specific member state for each three-year authorization. There is apparently no centralized integrated registration across the member states. That would explain the requirement to identify first entry. I would guess that the fees are thus specifically streamed in a balanced way among the states rather than chopping them up from one central point of distribution.

One ETIAS requirement that does not make sense is identifying and commiting to a specific member state initial entry point. Since returning home is essentially a 'reset' for subsequent re-entry to Europe, one could make multiple consecutive entries, from outside Schengen, into many different member states as first point. I do not know why the first visit within the three-year authorization should be different. It would seem that the jumping off point is obtaining the authorization. First entry point specificity might make sense for tracking each new visit. Of course, it would be burdensome to apply anew for every deviation from the initial visit first entry point. Perhaps it is a means test, assessing that the person, on initial visit, can identify travel plans with accommodations and financial capability, prove it has been thought out, etc. Then possibly more relaxed assessment for repeat visits. I don't know. Apparently, each country does have its own specific daily means of subsistence standards, but it would be onerous to assess this for each member state entry within a visit. The website is rather poorly designed, with each section essentially repeating the same thing.

At the risk of disturbing the delicate mental processes of rigid, overly literal thinkers, one might consider one's passport as another distinction without a difference, in basic functional terms. I am ancient enough to recall not needing it for some international travel. The main differences are needing it to return to Canada and my Queen explicitly requesting the safe passage abroad of a much younger queen.

I believe the Godwin reference was used simply as an example of the ways a thread can quickly degenerate in the context of disagreement. That he did not choose the exact comparison according to another's standards, or otherwise put forward a different view, does not point to mental instability. I thought he was sufficiently on point. Anyway, now perhaps we have Mvan's Law: As a contentious online discussion continues, the probability of a Bavarian cuckoo clock gif emergence approaches 1. Don't deposit your eggs in our nests, spinning the narrative to defend your point, and expect us all to incubate them. Neither the cuckoo clock nor muezzin is much of a burn, though, as they are simply temporal alerts.

I think I grasp this ... One poster (gratuitously?) described him as muezzin-like. He is comparing that comment to (approaching) Godwin's Law: As an online discussion continues, the probability of a reference or comparison to Hitler or Nazis approaches 1. In this case, an Islam reference he thought did not fit the narrative. Not unhinged, just assuming comprehension.

For Canadian readers, the visa waiver application will require a "biometric" passport. If you have a 10-year passport that was issued prior to July 1, 2013 and expires later than December 2020, you will likely have to replace it, earlier than renewal time, with the proper version for travel commencing 2021.

Through the edit function, only within 60 minutes. You can backspace delete everything you typed. The post with your name symbol will not be deleted but will show a blank field ... we usually type [delete] so readers know the intent of the poster.

I suggest you use the search field here for a little but dated info. Espaço 165 is also near it and looks nicer. However, they are both quite a distance north not far from Galeão airport. You would likely be in proximity to favela areas. For the savvy and adventurous, perhaps?

I would rather be rejected by an Airbnb host, though that is unlikely and is reportable under their non-discrim code, than risk walking into a situation being in a home that may be known and targetted by homonegative (with indifferent law enforcement) elements within its community. The Parisian adult male starting the company had reportedly been denied a stay request in Barcelona (!) ... sorry, don't buy it. He also implied that Airbnb policy allowed hosts to ask about orientation. Wrong. All he had to do was report the host. However, obviously it his and consumer prerogative to deviate from mainstream listing platforms. Other than 'entire place' I have stayed in Airbnb 'private rooms' with 3 families and with 1 single person and never been asked anything personal such as marital status, etc despite plenty of social exchange with them including at times attending social gatherings with their friends as an invitee. Hosts care more about how you rate them than who you fuck.

Clube 117 and Sauna Point 202, 'bro'thels in Rio de Janeiro named for the number of their street address.

What would be key for me is not being counted among a group of shitheel assholes making it impossible for 8th floor or other residential hardworking Carioca occupants to get their needed rest. Invitation-only and ambiguous business branding may be a way to get around zoning restrictions at others' expense.

However, I cannot be impressed since the IG latest post is 30 months ago. I cannot verify the hours but here is other possibly helpful info. It is on the 9th floor, perhaps a party space on the top floor of the building. Closest Metro Carioca. The phone number is a guy's Whatsapp.

The Instagram page might help, particularly if this place is as yet undiscovered here.

Wherever you stay, if you blend sights and sauna venues you will likely need to travel locally most days via Metro or a ride app. The key for me is proximity to a Metro station. I have stayed on three different Metro lines and total travel (no charge, in my case) has been about the same each visit. I have liked that Lagoa, usually my last activity of the day, is walkable to Santa Cruz Metro where there are also many excellent dinner options if I have not yet eaten. I have also stayed within two blocks of there, meaning travel to more tourist areas in the daytime ... six of one, half a dozen of another in terms of the time of day travel will occur. I usually try to choose a top floor (penthouse/cobertura) apartment without adjoining neighbours, so I endure less annoying noise. Reasonably priced smaller modest ones are not plentiful, so location near a Metro station within ten stops of my destinations is the main determinant. I would likely choose my preferred type of accommodation even if Über would need to be my main source of transport, as long as there were other amenities within a short walk. I am usually back home before the Metro closes. I have not hosted guests. I do not know if Lagoa's change in location will be near a station. However, Über is inexpensive.

Hahaha ... good catch, thanks. Mea maxima culpa. Two possible explanations: One, I am dealing in COP for a trip to Bogotá mid-September, and will purchase an initial batch this week. Two, a uniform fantasy subliminally on my mind.

Beware ads or invites for small intimate sex party gatherings thru Grindr in Mérida. I received a few this winter and I was informed by a local that they are fake and an attempt to catfish from you an admission fee.

I found the entrance to Gym MP, corresponding to the location and the two indoor photos above. Perhaps one can be too dickstracted to attend to one's surroundings, and should wear a helmet and safety boots. It may have been 50COP rather than 20 for single use. Too negligible to recall.

Yes, it is Colonial, 358 El Conde, upstairs. One of the local physique competitors, Juan Carlos Feliz, put me through a routine there. ---- MP is quiet weekdays, but evenings and Saturday crammed, with every piece of equipment utilized and people usually taking turns "working in". The vibe is more conducive to social cooperation and light interaction. Two photos. There is a set of stairs at the back, going to the second floor, with a "massage" sign. (Most of the serious top-level competitors train at one of the many SmartFit locations, not very convenient to the colonial district.)

Just go to the n/e corner of the park, walk a few steps west on Simon Bolivar and cross over to the lane running north ... a few retail kiosks on the right bordering the small crummy park behind it. On your left, a row of old buildings. I think the owner/coach, Melvin Pizzini, has labelled it MP "Y" (ie, YMCA logo) or something like that. The entrance is a metal grill door. If I recall correctly, no A/C. Maybe cooling fans. Packed from 5 PM. He is old-fashioned, no listing, no website. Single day use 20COP?

I believe you are describing elderly Melvin P's little postage-stamp one-buck gym, perfectly adequate most times, opposite some kiosks on a small travessa that is not labelled on most maps though I believe this laneway is technically called Rosas.

Being alive is risky. Assuming, for the sake of illustration, 4 of the 6 million annual visitors are age 20-64, about 9,000 of them have but a year to organize their Dominican Republic vacation selfies. Technically, applying this death rate, about 180 visitors per year would be expected to return home in a body bag. These facts are obscured in the context of isolated foul play. The odds are far worse for the standard retirement set.