Never negotiate with a hooker and 10 other tips learned while backpacking through Europe

June 5, 4:51 PMLouisville Travel ExaminerZach Everson

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Bonus tip: Never pass up the chance to drink and comapre camears with guys named Yoshi,
Yoshi and Kenta. (Photo: I have no idea)

What Rick Steves doesn't tell you:

-Drinking $1 beers since breakfast might exacerbate the affects of a 4 a.m. absinthe nightcap.

-Hungarians will kick your ass in foosball.

-Contrary to most negotiations, the longer you haggle with a hooker, the more you will pay. In the end, if she doesn't get what she wants, neither do you.

-No one in a hostel ever raved about how much fun they had partying with an Israeli.

-Watch the Australians, have fun with the Australians, but do not imitate the Australians. Their bodies can handle things, like sledding down 27 steps and crashing into a door inside a hostel in Prague, that ours cannot. What energiizes them will kill you.

-You're wasting your time talking to the American college girls spending a weekend in a hostel during their study-abroad program. Share that information with the Australian guys too--they'll thank yoy and maybe start calling you "mate."

-Coked-out girls in the basement of a hostel in Istanbul will think you're cooler if you smoke American cigarettes.

-Everything in a Turkish bazaar is 20 percent cheaper if you have boobies.

-While the government in Amsterdam might regulate the cost of marijuana, it does not control the price of a glass of water.

-In Italy, save your number twos for museums.

-When a young Turk you meet at a restaurant offers to take you out for a night in Istanbul, only agree if you've stashed your money and passport elsewhere and are ready to Forrest Gump it out of a bar where you've just rang up a $450 bill for four drinks (two of which were for the Russian blonde, your new friend ordered for you).