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wheremybayesat (edited )LinkI recently spent a lot of time travelling around the south of Spain and Portugal in a converted minibus. The seats had been stripped out and replaced with… a bed, bench seating, a small kitchen...I recently spent a lot of time travelling around the south of Spain and Portugal in a converted minibus. The seats had been stripped out and replaced with… a bed, bench seating, a small kitchen with gas for cooking. We had a pipe on the roof which acted as a solar shower, an an awning to act as shade / a wind sail on hot days. Also, we had a solar panel on the roof attached to a controller and battery for overnight lighting, phone charging, and refrigeration.
Now, the benefit of this setup is, unlike a purpose built ‘obvious’ camper-van which has to park in designated camping sites, we could park anywhere without attracting much suspicion.Waking up to the sunrise in a mirador lay-by on the side of a hill overlooking the vast valley below, or sitting and drinking coffee from out kitchen on wheels right on the beach… ahh, it’s an experience like nothing else.
If it’s something you haven’t considered, I’d highly recommend it. There are companies which will rent campers that you can try out, and if you like it, consider buying in and working on your own! It’s a great hobby!
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Also, Definitely visit Andalucia if you have chance. The people are amazing, the food cheap, and the scenery beautiful. There is a huge islamic influence on the historic architecture, which makes for some cool contrasts. Driving makes this much more enjoyable as you can go off the beaten path, but Andalucia does also have a well developed, cheap and quite nice coach system. Trains are not great in this region, unfortunately.
I have noticed what you have noticed in the past, and I have wondered what the implication is for, when meeting people in public, realising that we are both avid fans of reddit.
I have had a reddit account for a long time, and over years I have tried to curate my subscribed subreddits away from ragebait and towards subreddits with more high-quality and constructive discussions, or otherwise niche things I'm interested in. In that time, the default subreddits have also changed to include more clickbaity content, and previously quite nice subreddits have devolved into low-effort content.
So when I am talking to people about reddit, I have to wonder, are we talking about completely different websites? Looking at the default feed, I think it's possible.
Then I wonder, does it give a different impression about me than I intended?
Who knows. I think there's definitely a relationship between popularity of an online community and the quality of discussion, previously called the Eternal September problem, where people flooded in without regards for the previous culture, but now also a problem due to bots posting low-effort content for… advertising reasons I guess?
As other people in this discussion have commented, once people start treating it as a game of 'who gets the most popular posts', then posts which trigger an emotional response beats thoughtful and nice content.