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Post by happytraveller on Jan 11, 2016 20:38:59 GMT 2
Next trip is a trip to hospital. Hysterectomy on thursday gah! Oz was much more fun!
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Post by sophie on Jan 11, 2016 22:23:06 GMT 2
good luck, ht, and think to plan a recuperation trip to a beach after you are cleared for travel but before you return to work!!
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Post by mapletree3 on Jan 12, 2016 21:29:34 GMT 2
A month long road trip through Europe in the spring. Starting in Berlin and going to Prague, Budapest, Vienna then through northern Italy and ending up with a week or so in the south of France to park the car and relax for awhile. Anyone along the way to stop and see?
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 12, 2016 23:57:38 GMT 2
A month long road trip through Europe in the spring. Starting in Berlin and going to Prague, Budapest, Vienna then through northern Italy and ending up with a week or so in the south of France to park the car and relax for awhile. Anyone along the way to stop and see? We'll be in Treviso towards the end of July (but that doesn't count as spring, I guess). |
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Post by mapletree3 on Jan 13, 2016 0:48:58 GMT 2
Oh too bad...we're looking at April/May.
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Post by rikita on Jan 13, 2016 1:14:48 GMT 2
if you have questions about berlin or want to meet up, you can send me a message!
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Post by mapletree3 on Jan 13, 2016 1:49:49 GMT 2
Thanks rikita! We'll be there for four days around mid-April. Just starting to get organized now, I'll send you a message with our travel details in a day or so.
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Post by Tilly Star on Jan 18, 2016 14:37:04 GMT 2
Next month I'm going to Ibiza for a long weekend, to visit a friend and read and run a lot I hope...then I come back and go straight off to Prague for 5 days with the kids to visit my brother and his lot. Looking forward to that week of adventures.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 21, 2016 0:20:43 GMT 2
We are off next Tuesday for our annual escape-winter holiday. Back in last summer I found that travelling to Bangkok on Qatar Airways from London was £600. If we travelled from Paris it was £350. No-brainer. So we will catch a flight from Bristol to Paris, then on to Bangkok. We have a few days in the Big Mango to acclimatise then head down south. Beach places, national parks, bird watching, island - I hope I have done my research properly.
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Post by kuskiwi on Jan 22, 2016 8:36:12 GMT 2
Safe and happy journey. Looking forward to a photo essay by Mrs Faz.
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Post by nutraxfornerves on Jan 25, 2016 23:57:44 GMT 2
Chile. Atacama desert and Easter Island!
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Post by Ria on Jan 27, 2016 23:12:37 GMT 2
Chile. Atacama desert and Easter Island! Mega jealous! |
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Post by rikita on Jan 28, 2016 1:11:36 GMT 2
also jealous ...
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Post by shrjeff on Jan 28, 2016 15:00:34 GMT 2
off to the u.s. west coast next week for the rest of the month...
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Post by missalaska on Feb 3, 2016 21:01:46 GMT 2
Need to get things together, Zanzibar is less that 2 weeks away.
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Post by shrjeff on Feb 4, 2016 1:44:40 GMT 2
off to the airport in a few hours... seattle for the weekend and then california until the end of the month...
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Post by OnlyMark on Feb 5, 2016 17:40:30 GMT 2
Need to get things together, Zanzibar is less that 2 weeks away. Need to get things together, India is less than 2 weeks away. |
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Post by rikita on Feb 6, 2016 1:18:19 GMT 2
Need to get things together, Zanzibar is less that 2 weeks away. Need to get things together, India is less than 2 weeks away. need to get things together, norway is less than a week away. (then again, not that much i need to prepare, but i wanted to join in) |
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Post by shrjeff on Feb 6, 2016 14:45:51 GMT 2
Need to get things together, India is less than 2 weeks away. need to get things together, norway is less than a week away. (then again, not that much i need to prepare, but i wanted to join in) like sabi, want to join in: need to figure out what we forgot! we be in seattle... |
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 8, 2016 3:29:41 GMT 2
Today we are off to Kaeng Krachan national park, or actually a guesthouse just on its border. This is a plc a much favoured by birders so Mrs Faz is excited.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 8, 2016 3:30:09 GMT 2
Today we are off to Kaeng Krachan national park, or actually a guesthouse just on its border. This is a plc a much favoured by birders so Mrs Faz is excited.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 9, 2016 8:03:06 GMT 2
We are in Baan Makaa, just outside Thailands largest national park. It is great. Birds are everywhere. The guesthouse is surrounded by jungle walks. There are numerous little lakes. At the moment we are waiting for our lunch to be coked and Mrs Faz is concentrating on a bird table shared between many birds and squirrels. Tomorrow are going into the park itself with another woman staying here with a 4 wheel drive and a guide.
Lunch has arrived: fried rice and chicken and a stuffed omelette. I think Mrs Faz is too preoccupied to eat...
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Post by rikita on Feb 10, 2016 14:54:29 GMT 2
leaving for norway tomorrow morning ...
even though it's just a long weekend, i have that pre-travel nervousness i always get ... worried they might not accept my handluggage (didn't book checked luggage and don't want to, as i want to catch the bus an hour after the plane arrives - so i stuffed everything including a very oldfashioned ski suit into my backpack and hope it is still small enough), hoping a. and mr. r. will get on alright (as my mom got sick, so the much-anticipated trip to grandma won't take place - which also means that a. will notice much more that i am not here, rather than herself being the one who goes away ...)
strange how i always get worried and nervous before traveling, no matter how often i do it and how much i love it ...
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Post by OnlyMark on Feb 10, 2016 15:19:00 GMT 2
Rikita, with all the travelling I've done I still get nervous. There are so many people/officials that can say no to something or try it on or just ask a question I don't have an answer to. Mrs M can talk her way through things a lot better than I can. You're not alone.
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Post by rikita on Feb 10, 2016 17:03:53 GMT 2
good to hear i am not alone ... my nervousness usually disappears once i am there. i suppose in part being nervous beforehand is a way of my brain telling me to prepare for things ...
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Post by OnlyMark on Feb 10, 2016 17:49:14 GMT 2
I always have a feeling of relief as soon as I'm sitting on the plane. But it's not until I'm through and out the airport at my destination, especially if I need a visa to enter the country, that I can properly relax. I'm always trying to be prepared for the unexpected and to make sure I have everything, every bit of paper and stuff, that I'll need.
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Post by rikita on Feb 11, 2016 0:12:10 GMT 2
and have you ever had any of these unexpected situations? i got into all countries i went to, so far (though there was a long hold up when crossing from romania to serbia 15 years ago, as they wanted us to pay the fee to enter the country only in currencies we either did not have or only had big notes of, hoping we just give them the big note and let them keep the rest, maybe), but a turkish friend with who i once traveled from turkey to bulgaria got turned away at the border. was kind of a strange feeling to go on in the train without her ...
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Post by Hedonista on Feb 13, 2016 0:28:04 GMT 2
It has just kind of sunk in how much travelling we will be doing this year, not that I am complaining, only now added it all to my diary and still missing a lot for the second half of the year:
Feb - Malaysia and Macau
March - Manchester
April - Lancashire
May - London
June - London again
July - Bordeaux
October - Malaysia for my 50th bday celebrations
August we will stay put in Portugal for sure but no idea yet what September, November and December will bring. The great thing is that Mrs H will be with me on all but my trip to Asia this month :-)
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Post by OnlyMark on Feb 13, 2016 10:55:07 GMT 2
Hedon, out of all those I bet you're really excited about Manchester!
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 13, 2016 13:33:02 GMT 2
Glad Mrs Hedon gets to travel with you.
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