It's cold and miserable, time to think about holidays
A friend and I are in discussions on where to go on holiday next year. He's the kind of person who loves odd adventure holidays, and one suggestion was spending 10 days on the Amazon helping a conservation society count the wildlife and measure frogs...

I'm trying to steer him more towards Japan, telling him we can climb Mt. Fuji and beat up ninja. I think he's up for that.

Where would you love to go on holiday?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:23, 97 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

This is a hippy post
my post about guns was better.

How much are you willing to spend on the holiday?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

What post about guns? I like guns
£1k or so I reckon.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:26, Reply)

I deleted it because I'm really nice and stuff
www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/futuristic_guns_feature/

I don't know what I'd do with £1k probably road trip on the East coast of the US
(PsychoChomp, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:27, Reply)

Most kind, and I'll read that article cheers
He's already done a US road trip, but we both want to do Japan, so that's looking like the best option. Can only climb Fuji in July, giving me plenty of time to save.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:30, Reply)

Central and South America.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:27, Reply)

I'd love to do the Inca trail
And see Machu Picchu.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

I'm not really much of a Pokemon fan to be honest.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:29, Reply)

They have a fucking turnstile to get into Machu Picchu.
How crap is that.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:30, Reply)

Serious?
That makes me smile, but I'm not sure why!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

my friends did it
they said it's an exhausting trek, and when you get there after days of sweating and being bitten and peeing behind rocks, you are beyond shattered. then, just to cheer you up, coachloads of air-conditioned american tourists fall out of their luxury buses!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

Yes, nothing sounds better for a break from work to go work elsewhere
I want to go to India. Through cities, but also through the rural areas.
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

Back to Mexico again please
Fucking amazing, every second of it.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

My girlfriend really wants to go to Mexico.
Mostly to eat.
(Cave Duck, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:34, Reply)

Oh my God
The food was tremendous as was the proper all inclusive!!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

Sri Lanka because my sister is from there and I fancy visiting some part of India.
Nearly got there once but had to cancel last minute due to the civil war shennanigans. Ended up in Thailand instead.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Damn Tamil Tigers...
Thailand's wonderful though, would go back there in a heartbeat.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

those bastards made me miss my friend's wedding at st pauls cathedral with their protest last year
i was supposed to be doing a reading and everything. had to watch the ceremony through a grille on the ground floor, all dressed up for a wedding. the tourists thought i was mad.

i think they need to get their priorities sorted.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:35, Reply)

Confusing post
is confusing. How did the Tamil Tigers stop you getting into St Pauls if you were actually there?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:38, Reply)

oh
because despite setting off 2 hours early to travel about 6 miles, the tigers' protest had blocked every single road you could think of. AND the tubes were out because of engineering works. it took about 2.5 hours.

so i got to the cathedral but it was too late and the wedding was underway.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:49, Reply)

ah, I see
*sees*
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:55, Reply)

It's all over now anyway.

( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:38, Reply)

It was lovely but I had my heart set on Sri Lanka.
I'll get there one day. My mum says it's fantastic and the people are very friendly.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:40, Reply)

I'll go with you
if you want company :)
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:58, Reply)

Woo!
My sister might come with us too.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:00, Reply)

Ey!
If you admit man, I know Mark would love to go as well :)
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:15, Reply)

goooooooooooooooooood how do people afford this?
I want to go to places like this but it's like I'll never be able to afford it
*major jealouses*
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

My dad paid.
He wanted me to keep an eye on my mum. He thought she might wander off into the jungle and never be seen again : )

You'll get there eventually.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

I may, now that I'm trying to stop drinking, take my money I'd typically spend on alcohol and give it to my dad to save for me

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:00, Reply)

Great incentive to stay off the booze as well.

( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)

I know what you mean K
These natives have fuck all money, but can still afford to buy a gun and have a civil war.

Mental isn't it?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:40, Reply)

my ex said the music festival on mt fuji was AMAZING
depends on the holiday. if i only had 2 weeks, i'd have a week in tokoyo and a week in hawaii.

if work weren't an issue and i could have 3 weeks or more, i'd say a driving holiday down the coast of california and then across the states.

if i were taking a break to go travelling, south america for 3 months then australia and new zealand for 3 months.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

My sister had a month in Thailand and Vietnam
Then a month in Aus and NZ, followed by a month in South America. She says it's the best thing she's ever done.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:34, Reply)

i really wish i had taken a year out to go travelling
instead i decided to spend 2 years in lawschool. wtf was i thinking.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

Did that on the west coast of the US in the summer
*smugs the fuck up*

I can fully recommend it. Get a proper car though. Wanted a Camaro, had to settle for a drop top Mustang.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:40, Reply)

I'd love to go to Egypt, that's my dream holiday
But there's part of me that would love to go back to Lanzarote again, I went last year and really enjoyed it, best holiday I've ever had.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I have an awesome driving holiday planned
But I'll need several thousand pounds, several months off work and a suitable car in order to do it.

Sadly I currently have none of the above.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

Mongol Rally?
If you do it, and you need another driver...I'll do it!
(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:42, Reply)

No, the days
of Fiat Pandas and old Polos are long gone. It won't have quite the same attraction in a modern car that's quite capable of the distance.

I'm thinking about a round Europe job through the Swiss mountains and around the Riviera and stuff.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

I'm in my holiday place at the moment, and I'm fucking LOVING it.
I walked through snow today. It hasn't settled, but it was all over my clothes. :D
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:39, Reply)

I hate snow
I am currently residing in my own private vision of Hell. Still, I'm glad you're enjoying it.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:42, Reply)

Come up here
It'll be up to your waist.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:42, Reply)

I should be able to turn this into innuendo
but I'm not getting any inspiration.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:44, Reply)

to be fair though, my longjohns really do go up to my waist....

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:52, Reply)

If you're in the Midlands again next week
I'd imagine there'll still be enough to go sledging.
(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:43, Reply)

If I could afford to
I'd do the Mongol rally, or else fly out to India and travel my way around, through Nepal/Thailand/Cambodia/Indonesia etc and not come home again until I got bored, which I reckon would take a while. I'll probably never ever get to do it :(
I'm trying to persuade my sister to come to Morroco next year, half surfing, half Marrakech. I'll probably not get to do that either!
(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:41, Reply)

The Mongol Rally?
Is that a load of spazzers driving cars too quickly?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:42, Reply)

You drive from London to Mongolia
in a car that cost less than a grand or £500 or something (can't remember the details)

I'd love to do it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:44, Reply)

Didn't CHCB do this?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:46, Reply)

Yeah
Lucky wench *grumble mutter etc*
(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:47, Reply)

They changed it recently
because Mongolia got fed up with importing a load of old bangers. Your car can cost whatever you like but I think it has to be under 1000cc (unless it's a comedy vehicle) and it has to be less than ten years old. Which takes some of the fun out of it!
(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:47, Reply)

I would love to go to the christmas markets in Germany
even though I generally dislike christmas and positively hate shopping.

I'm so complex.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:44, Reply)

You should
it's a lovely atmosphere and so pretty! I would recommend the one in Birmingham but frankly although it's run by genuine germans all the shoppers are cunts and it's insanely busy.
(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:45, Reply)

They do one in Bath
but it'll just be full of slack-jawed carrot-crunchers gaping at all the pretties
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:48, Reply)

Yeah, sounds familiar...

(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:49, Reply)

Not everyone in the south west is slack-jawed.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:54, Reply)

There there.

( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:58, Reply)

Well, possibly not
but don't they get burned as witches?
(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:59, Reply)

Jeez, we're not savages...
we make sure they're a witch before burning them. Y'know, by torturing a confession out of them.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:06, Reply)

I'm doing this!!! My cousin is taking me.
I love my cousin.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:54, Reply)

Sweet
as they say in Germany; "May you have an orderly and efficient Christmas...HANDI HOCH! SCHNELL! RAUS-RAUS!!!!"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:58, Reply)

I'd like to go back to America.
Maybe the west coast and I do have an invite to visit MichaelS in Vermont.


Oh and I have to definitely go to New Zealand at some point and visit my friend or she will go mental with me.

Oh and west coast of Scotland is a must.

Oh and definitely back to Kos with DG and Tourettes.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:44, Reply)

you'd have to visit me toooooo

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

I guess I could pop by for some Tilapia : )

( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:55, Reply)

I make many many things better than tilapia
we could meet half way for a curry
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:57, Reply)

And you have to visit me in Aus, I'll take you on a driving tour up and down the great ocean road.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:54, Reply)

I keep reading that as anus!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)

I do regret that that we didn't manage to do the trips to Lapland to see reindeers and santa and stuff, when the children were younger.

(Cave Duck, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 14:55, Reply)

I'm taking your advice and taking the kids to Disneyland next year
Booking it tonight!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)

Good for you. I'm sure that they'll love it.

(Cave Duck, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:05, Reply)

That's the plan!
My daughter will be 4 and a half and my son will be nearly 2

We are spending the last of our compensation money on it
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:11, Reply)

I went last year
No kids, only us adults, and we still enjoyed it like mad!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:03, Reply)

Well
South America to start with. Next year will possibly be a month around the Canary Islands, so Mark can see them properly, but it all depends on where we're living.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)

I went to Porto Del Carmen in Lanzarote last year
Touristy as hell, but I loved it.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:07, Reply)

There are few places in Lanzarote that aren't turistic
but it's very pretty. I hope my brother can come with us, as he was living there for 2 years and knows the place perfectly.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:14, Reply)

I've spoken to Aber about the Canaries
I love them!! Been to all of them now and love Los Gigantes in Tenerife
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:16, Reply)

Have you?
I haven't been in El Hierro or Fuerteventura, so you beat me there!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)

Ahh, not El Hierro

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)

Oh, c'mon!
There are not even 2" of snow around London and they have started cancelling flights from Gatwick. Really? Does the country have to come to a still everytime a bit of snow falls? Tens of countries manage with 10 times more snow. We've been told for weeks that it's going to snow.

I don't think it affects my flight, but it's still unbelivable.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:13, Reply)

Heathrow and gatwick have flights taking off and landing every 90 or so seconds.
They cancel some flights so they have a chance to grit the runways every hour or so.

It's perfectly believable.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)

If it's like that, then yes
But that's not what you see on the news. However, I'd understand better if they delayed the flights so they can grit the runways, rather than cancelling them.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:30, Reply)

Then everyone would be delayed.
I figure it's better for them to cancel some and then the other planes take off on time.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)

But that's unfair
to the people who has them cancelled.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:34, Reply)

Then everything would just get progressively later until the system falls apart
They start off cancelling UK internal flights because people can use trains instead. Then northern europe, and so on. It does make sense.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:35, Reply)

Then why has London City shut?

(berk, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:30, Reply)

Because it's shit.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)

because it has a very short runway and no margin for error, what with it being in the river.
So if it gets slippy they don't risk it.

Plus I imagine there is a visibility issue.

Mind you, Embra airport was shut all yesterday and that has quite a lot of snow facilities.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)

It's not a great excuse
But we don't get it regularly enough to have the infrastructure in place to cope with it. It's not worth Gatwick's while to have loads of snow clearing equipment and de-icing stuff that would be redundant every other year. Plus, most places that have serious snow don't have the flight densities that Gatwick and Heathrow do.

Same argument goes for road snowploughs, gritters etc etc.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)

I think it is worth it
Last year they lost loads of money. A lot more than would have been to buy the clearing equipment.

Same argument goes for all of the country having to stop for 1 or 2 weeks.

It's been 3 years on a row, now. I'd think that is quite regular.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:34, Reply)

It's not, or they would have bought it.
One thing these people have is a sound business sense, even if it seems not. If it was worth it financially they would have bought them

It's not just buying the kit. It's storing it, maintaining it, paying trained operators who may only work for 2 weeks a year, etc etc

It's only been 2 bad years, and it's only been a week so far this time. Before that, there was probably 10-15 years with no serious disruption in the south east
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:38, Reply)

you should see grenada
you aren't allowed on the runway at all if it is raining. it rains ALMOST EVERY DAY! we were delayed for about 3 hours waiting for the rain to stop, most annoying.

also when we went to florida last year, we landed back in manchester with all the snow. the steward said that the day before the same plane had been stuck on the runway for 8 hours because of health and safety concerns about ice on the runway, and they had run out of food/drinks etc. can you imagine... a 9 hour flight and then 8 hours stuck on the runway, how horrendous.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:42, Reply)

I've wanted to visit the middle east for ages.
I'd like to see more of India as well. I've never had a sun holiday but a mate recently went to La Reunion and it looked lovely.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:25, Reply)

I got an opportunity to work in India for a year
but it'd be without Mark, so I won't go for it. It'd be good, though, I'd love it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)

Why can't Mark go?

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:44, Reply)

He's very racist.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:55, Reply)

I see.

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 16:00, Reply)

He could get a job in a call centre and change his name to Sanjay.
As the bloke called 'Steve' who called me earlier from some Indian call centre didn't sound much like a Steve to me.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:59, Reply)

Japan for me, ta.
All of it, the madness of Tokyo to the countryside to everything in between. And I'd also like to see the Orang-utans in Borneo.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 16:15, Reply)