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Anyone got holidays booked this year? Going anywhere nice? Something for the weekend, sir?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:56, 127 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
I tend to just do nice weekends.
I am saving up though. I want to go to Florence or New York.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:58, Reply)
My landlord has this place in Cumbria. It's one of my favourite places in the world. Drinking wine under a tree in this enclosed garden with a big view of sky.
I never go for more than three days but it feels like weeks by the time I get back.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:01, Reply)
I can be away for three weeks or more and it never feels like long enough.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:08, Reply)
Getting there is great (unless delayed in airports or in an uncomfy seat on a plane for a long time).
Being there is marvellous.
Coming home is shite.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:14, Reply)
Coming home is lovely. You've had a nice time, but here's your own bed, your family and friends, and Walker's crisps.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:16, Reply)
I can go away for three weeks and have no contact with anyone back home.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:22, Reply)
just, under a different name
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:25, Reply)
I didnt realise that they lead such disappointing lives
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:01, Reply)
that a dead walrus will yield up to 8 quarts of milk. I can't tell you how often this has come in handy.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:02, Reply)
to lactating female walruses (walri?!).
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:40, Reply)
and choose my destination the day before setting off.
It needs to fit the following criteria - hot and sunny, with tropical fishies. The hot and sunny is for my tuther half, the fishies are because I want to do stage one of my scuba diving qualification. I suppose the third criteria (criterium?) would be no fuck off giant sharks!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:59, Reply)
Criterion is the singular. Criteria is the plural.
Lots of people get that one wrong.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:09, Reply)
I knew it wasn't criteria, but couldn't remember the singular
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)
and thus criteria is correct?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:13, Reply)
when discussing the first two things and then the third was an afterthought and so it fitted into the sentence as a single criterian. If you replace criteria/on with cat/s it works.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:39, Reply)
It's great if you find a good location, somewhere like Shamel-Shek is a good enviroment.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:03, Reply)
I was thinking of doing the very first stage here in Manchester in a swimming pool and finishing it up in the tropics. I was thinking of Egypt, the red sea is supposed to be the best. I went to Sharm el Sheik a few years ago and did snorkelling there, it was beautiful.
And the seafood is unbelievable.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:32, Reply)
If you're confident in the water, that's fine, but if not, you'd need to build up the trust again. Whatever you do, look up the centre on the website, there are loads of fake PADI places, and they're normally uninsured and extreamly dangerous. Don't think "Well, they're english, they have to be offical" eaither. What would be quite nice is to do the whole lot there over a week on a two week holiday with a guy with his own dive-boat. It's a bit costly doing it that way, but you'll get the chance to see other things, and it really would be a holiday of a lifetime.
The golf of mexico is great, or at least, it was, not been there since it's turned comercialised into the american version of an 18-30s greek island.
There is also worth considering... Australia/New Zealand, Maldives and The Carabian.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:49, Reply)
You can get a normal compact digital camera and a case for it, which won't be to bulky and can do video too. I know it's a bit of an expense, but it can be amazing.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:50, Reply)
Turkey. Sharm is ok but I would never go there ever again - definitely the strangest place I have ever been but then I am not a diver - ditto the fab seafood tho. And quad biking at dusk was awesome.
*note to self - the desert is hard packed sand and thus a proper supportive bra is required, not a bikini top...*
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:26, Reply)
was the beggars constantly shouting "baksheesh" at you and the men trying to flatter you into buying things by telling you you have the beauty of the lotus flower. Which I do, of course, but that's not the point.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:41, Reply)
part of the reason I want to do it is plans to emigrate to Australia in the next few years. Although once again my irrational shark fear comes up.
I might try and make a holiday around the diving and see if that fares me better. Thanks for the tips, I am pretty gullible when presented with a fancy website.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:38, Reply)
It's the only time they can get away because of Sweary junior but it's on the island of Kos so should be ace.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:03, Reply)
it was full of fat tatooed northerners
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:02, Reply)
I didnt see any fatness, tatooedness or northern-ness (no flat cap, whippet or woodbine)
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:08, Reply)
I'm just a bit more sophisticated than the average one.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:09, Reply)
I haven't been for nearly a year now, I used to spend two-months-on, two-months-off there.
I've lost my love of that place, but have to go for buisness more than anything.
I really really want to go to New York at somepoint this year.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:02, Reply)
We could put flowers in our hair and wear jogging bottoms and run through Central Park waving our arms around like Phoebe does in 'Friends'.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:04, Reply)
On that island there Cyprus?
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:13, Reply)
Are you into bars and clubs, nice restruants, home comforts such as fry-ups and chain places, obscure places in the middle of mountain ranges, chilled out time.... all sorts really, the island really does accomidate everyone.
The north can be a bit borring for a long period of time, but if you go down to the south side and spend a few days in the north, that's what I would do.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:21, Reply)
was looking for a short break (a week max) but I enjoy, ahem, more cultural type stuff, restaurants and nice beaches. Perhaps more (too?) expensive, but I really don't like the touristy home comforts, pubs, etc.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:23, Reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralimni
It's remote enough to have it's unique nice things, posh enough to have nice things, close enough to AyaNappa (if you fancy some more 'western' comforts) and close enough to the boarder to visit Famagusta and even The Karpaz.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:30, Reply)
Devastation will ensue.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:04, Reply)
I've heard many of their rarer species have difficulty processing too much mirth.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:07, Reply)
So that'll be ok then.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)
I'm rather excited.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:14, Reply)
bring your best fighting stick, the cornish are a belligerent bunch
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:07, Reply)
I'll be travelling in a HORSELESS CARRIAGE so I imagine the locals will be too in awe to get fighty.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:12, Reply)
Home of the first road car, first safety fuse and older than America
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
Her mums very ill at the moment and when I said "I'm fucking off to Charlestown for saturday night on the 3rd she wasn't too happy.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:45, Reply)
one of the weeks will be staying here
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=reef&ie=UTF8&ll=58.204458,-6.924439&spn=0,359.993032&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=58.204422,-6.92462&panoid=e-U_Mp4Or3s2_8htMkhiYg&cbp=12,178.96,,0,4.52
can't wait!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:07, Reply)
the other place we are staying doesn't have such a nice view, but it does have its own sauna...
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:08, Reply)
The place my gf and I are off to this year is a house in France, also with its own sauna!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)
Staying here:- www.b3tards.com/u/b57e6b3cb060614f0330/danescombe.jpg
Near Tavistock.
It will be great, and I'm taking my tellingscope.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)
I have no idea what to expect
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)
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(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:22, Reply)
from people trying to sell you stuff.
Apart from that, it's apparently very nice. Well, so my mum and dad once told me.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:12, Reply)
once the street urchins have finished dipping their grubby little hands into your pockets.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:16, Reply)
they unzipped a leather biker jacket pocket took my money and then the cheeky gets did the zip back up! I was pissed up though.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
they actually do have Jawas. Not so many Sand People though, and they're the ones you really need to look out for. Easily frightened, but they soon return, and in greater numbers
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:27, Reply)
Really sweet tea, awesome water-pipe smoking things, camels, bedwin camps (go to a real one, rather than a tourest one), the desert stars at night.... basicly, a bono song.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:43, Reply)
And show Monty that not all women are mad fuckers, while Gonz shows me his favorite sweet shop.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:16, Reply)
Should take a few minutes.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:27, Reply)
I may come too and prove him right
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:45, Reply)
to visit one of our best friends who's doing TEFL out there. She Skype-chat'd me today to say she's found a market which sells loads of stuff for making Ballroom dresses. And some pubs for me.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:18, Reply)
I'd say that I'm looking forward to eventually booking that. When we have some money.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:24, Reply)
She'll love you for it.
You should see the honeymoon suite. Especially when I've parcel-taped the cat-hairs off the bed.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:26, Reply)
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:06, Reply)
with the missus at the end of August. Can't wait! It's the first holiday I've been on off my own back for 7 years... (to clarify, I've been away with my parents and brother a couple of times in the last 3 years...)
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:25, Reply)
and a knackering hitch-hike to the east coast and back in two days last year, I haven't had anything like a proper holiday in nine years.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:28, Reply)
i count myself extraordinarily lucky that my parents saw fit to take my brother and i on holiday with them to Arizona a couple of years back, given that we're both 'grown-up' (ha ha) and don't live at home any more.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:31, Reply)
I've basically been pretty broke for a few years. Things are looking up now though!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:33, Reply)
is the business. In fact the whole of Hungary is worth seeing.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:28, Reply)
we were just looking for somewhere cheap and interesting. i just picked a few countries off a map and went hunting!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:29, Reply)
take a day trip to Lake Heviz. It's like a hot bath, only it's a whole lake!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:32, Reply)
asap.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:29, Reply)
It's not far away, cheap, as European capitals go, and worth the trip.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:34, Reply)
I'm gonna kick a motherfucking baboon in it's sweaty pink arse!
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:34, Reply)
again (we went there last year).
I'd rather go somewhere different, but the only two places I still want to visit are seriously out of my budget for a couple of years.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:34, Reply)
I've always wanted to go to iceland (the country not the frozen food supermarket although the chance to kick Kerry Katona in the box could persuade me)
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:36, Reply)
is probably the most expensive country in the world!
I suspect that if you can afford to go there, you could afford to go anywhere.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:36, Reply)
but the accomodation we found was reasonably priced (14 days for around 800 €, including 4/5* hotels and rented housing here: maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=61.428343,5.166664&spn=0.035713,0.154324&z=13)
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:49, Reply)
is in the B3ta calendar already, large tent, excellent food, 200+ real ales, 3 days booked off then off to Twickers to watch the Guinness premiership final on the Saturday.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:44, Reply)
i intend to sully the sanctity of his toilet, spare room, and possibly car.
i also intend to eta drink , be merry, and miss him and the place like crazy as soon as my ass crosses the river tamar on the return journey.
you better be ready you massive shirter.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 12:33, Reply)
or at his holiday home on the beach; it's on the edge of a nature reserve with wild ponies and other noble beasts and is incredibly tranquil. I could do with a dose of tranquil, I really could.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 13:04, Reply)
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