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Post by wikki on Oct 17, 2015 5:48:03 GMT 2
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Post by sophie on Oct 17, 2015 6:31:16 GMT 2
Another vote for Cairns. I learned to dive on Fitzroy island. Great diving in the area.
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Post by katje on Oct 18, 2015 19:57:46 GMT 2
Doing a three day trip to Mexico soon.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 19, 2015 9:46:20 GMT 2
Off to Birmingham for 3 days. Mrs Faz was born there so we'll be doing the rounds of family and friends.
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Post by rikita on Oct 22, 2015 9:31:33 GMT 2
a friend of mine from australia just told me she is planning to rent a cabin in rjukan, norway, for two weeks in february, and asked if i want to join them for a few days. very very tempted - and for now it looks like i could get cheap flights to oslo ... just gotta figure out how much it'd cost me to get from oslo to rjukan, and how do-able that journey would be with a toddler, and all that ...
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 22, 2015 12:07:16 GMT 2
Next trip: a weekend in Germany in December, the annual visit to the christmas market with my sister. Can't wait !
Then... 3 weeks downunder for Christmas and New Years. Can't wait either, haven't seen the relatives and friends from there in 3 years!
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 22, 2015 12:28:12 GMT 2
arrived in venice today... tomorrow we begin a week's cruise on the adriatic...
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Post by wombatrois on Oct 31, 2015 15:54:32 GMT 2
Wikki - don't forget you need to leave around 24 hours between diving and flying (after you've been diving). Cairns is OK. December is box jelly fish time, but the islands and off the coast are generally jelly fish free. Be prepared for less than perfect weather, though (although you might get lucky). It is the wet season.
We will be in Singapore and Thailand after Christmas. It will be 18 months since the last trip, so REALLY looking forward to it.
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Post by wikki on Nov 2, 2015 4:49:58 GMT 2
Wikki - don't forget you need to leave around 24 hours between diving and flying (after you've been diving). Cairns is OK. December is box jelly fish time, but the islands and off the coast are generally jelly fish free. Be prepared for less than perfect weather, though (although you might get lucky). It is the wet season. The plan changed a bit ( of course, why would you make a plan in the first place anyway...) The few days that I have before work I will stay in Melbourne with friends and then end of January I have a week off. and thats when I will go up to the reef, gives me more time. Thanks for the heads up for the weather, I guess I should start with my actual research |
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Post by tzarine on Nov 9, 2015 0:02:09 GMT 2
just returned from santa monica, ca on tuesday
$31 one way flight on jetblue
2 nights free @ the fairmont
thanks, credit card points
relaxing weekend
ate tacos
went to cool japanese rest
walked along the pier
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Post by sunshine on Nov 10, 2015 21:57:42 GMT 2
Back from Marokko....was great.....then in December Elsass for a weekend......and you never know, next year around Easter maybe Berlin.
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Post by rikita on Nov 11, 2015 1:00:59 GMT 2
hey, if you come to berlin, how about meeting up for a coffee?
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Post by sophie on Nov 11, 2015 3:48:26 GMT 2
Glad you liked Morocco!
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Post by rikita on Nov 11, 2015 17:37:20 GMT 2
having heard anything more about norway yet, so not sure that will work out, but agreed with my cousin in munich that a. and i will visit her in spring ...
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Post by OnlyMark on Nov 11, 2015 18:39:18 GMT 2
It may be that I can grab two or three weeks holiday next February/March away from the family. Mrs M could well be going to see a friend in Colombia before that and so to be fair, I said I'd slip away by myself afterwards. With the new eVisa scheme up and running for India and reasonably cheap flights I'm tempted to go again. I have looked at Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Belize instead.
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Post by sunshine on Nov 11, 2015 19:57:43 GMT 2
hey, if you come to berlin, how about meeting up for a coffee? Yes, I'll let you know once I know exactly when....that would be great meeting you. |
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Post by rikita on Nov 12, 2015 1:02:35 GMT 2
sounds good!
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Post by OnlyMark on Nov 13, 2015 14:51:47 GMT 2
Just booked a special offer business class flight with Finnair from Malaga to Delhi. I'll probably then get an internal flight somewhere else in the country. Maybe Chennai this time, though it could be Bengaluru/Madurai/Kochi/Kozhikode. Somewhere in the south anyway.
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Post by rikita on Nov 13, 2015 16:20:17 GMT 2
oh, if you go to kozhikode you could go to wayanad from there ... i thought wayanad was very nice ...
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 13, 2015 17:48:57 GMT 2
And if you go to Chennai head south to Mamallapuram. We liked it very much.
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Post by OnlyMark on Nov 13, 2015 18:22:41 GMT 2
I'm still in the early stages of thinking where to go but I'll certainly bear both suggestions in mind. I'm even considering not renting a car this time and getting trains/buses.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 13, 2015 19:06:36 GMT 2
From Chennai airport we took a taxi to Mama. It was something like £10. After Mama we took buses and trains.
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Post by OnlyMark on Nov 13, 2015 19:30:33 GMT 2
Did you book the trains on Cleartrip? What about buses? Just turn up? I presume they were for shorter journeys.
I'm looking into getting an Indrail pass, possibly.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 14, 2015 0:17:09 GMT 2
Did you book the trains on Cleartrip? What about buses? Just turn up? I presume they were for shorter journeys. I'm looking into getting an Indrail pass, possibly. For trains we bought tickets before we went on Cleartrip. Buses we just turned up and some of the journeys were 5 or 6 hours. We booked our accommodation in Mama because I knew where I wanted to stay (not where Gobhoza and Geekie stayed). We also booked in Cochin but when we arrived at the place they said they had never received our email. This was a lie as they had emailed back to confirm our booking. However we found somewhere much nicer to stay so all was well. Everywhere else we just looked as we had no rigid itinerary. |
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Post by rikita on Nov 14, 2015 1:09:34 GMT 2
we took the bus from kozhikode to wayanad and just showed up there (as with all the other busses in kerala). sometimes had to wait a while/took a moment to figure out which bus goes next, but never had real problems ... (okay, we sometimes had to stand for the first few hours, but that was from small places where the bus arrived already full, not from the busses starting point). i really liked cochin too ...
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 14, 2015 11:02:07 GMT 2
We found bus stations confusing in India. We found it best to find a driver - any driver - and ask him which was the right bus for us.
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Post by OnlyMark on Nov 14, 2015 11:49:26 GMT 2
I find most things confusing in India.
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Post by rikita on Nov 15, 2015 1:39:36 GMT 2
there was one bus station where we got the best seats in a still empty bus. except, shortly before leaving time, they changed the assigned bus for the journey and announced it in malayalam. so we only found out when we were suddenly alone in the bus, so then we had to hurry, and ended up without seats on the bus that was actually going. but we still got where we wanted to go.
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Post by sophie on Nov 15, 2015 2:10:07 GMT 2
Heading down the Oregon coast next week with some family.
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Post by sunshine on Nov 15, 2015 19:40:49 GMT 2
Just booked a special offer business class flight with Finnair from Malaga to Delhi. I'll probably then get an internal flight somewhere else in the country. Maybe Chennai this time, though it could be Bengaluru/Madurai/Kochi/Kozhikode. Somewhere in the south anyway. Sounds good. I'm thinking of going to India next year, Kerala.... Are internal flights there o.k.? |
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