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Post by wikki on Sept 1, 2017 12:58:37 GMT 2
Not going to Huston...... Good that I didn't book a flight yet.
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Post by shrjeff on Sept 1, 2017 15:16:53 GMT 2
so any idea where, instead of houston, wikki?
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Post by wikki on Sept 1, 2017 17:39:50 GMT 2
No idea yet. It was just announced. I guess they work really hard to place us some where else. We were supposed to be there for 2 weeks.
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Post by kuskiwi on Sept 2, 2017 21:17:20 GMT 2
Getting a bit of flack for my plans to go to Myanmar following the latest atrocities however discussions with someone who travels there regularly have kept me up to date and I'll be well away from the area in question.... but as usual the stay at homers are the ones giving me grief.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 2, 2017 22:28:45 GMT 2
kiwi, don't listen. a friend of mine is a "teacher of teachers" there. He loves the place. Tell the stay at homers that there is no perfect country on this planet, and Myanmar is much better now than it was.
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Post by shrjeff on Sept 3, 2017 6:17:53 GMT 2
when we were there we were told by the minorities that they preferred 'burma' as 'myanmar' is an 'inclusive' whitewash to conceal that the country is definitely run by the bamars... outside of the Rohingya area on the Bay of Bengal things should be quiet... enjoy, as annie says - no place is perfect... and bagan blew me away... i found it more impressive than angkor...
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Post by kuskiwi on Sept 3, 2017 9:21:19 GMT 2
I still have difficulty referring to it as Myanmar... it is Burma to me but have to be politically correct sometimes.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 3, 2017 10:38:52 GMT 2
What we call foreign countries and cities is inconsistent. I would say Burma. I have an Indian friend who resolutely sticks with Bombay. In South Vietnam a lot of locals refer to Saigon. I don't say Ellas or Deutschland. But I don't go as far as Churchill who referred to Livorno as Leghorn.
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 3, 2017 11:44:30 GMT 2
India does have a lot of places that have changed names. Invariably though, when I try and use the new name for a place I am often met with blank looks and a "Where?" then a "Oh. You mean.....(insert old name)"
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 3, 2017 12:46:38 GMT 2
I must put on my toga and try asking for a train ticket to Eboracum.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 3, 2017 15:31:20 GMT 2
I so wish IanUK were still posting. You could discuss Eboracum with him.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 20, 2017 10:10:05 GMT 2
Mrs Faz has gone to London so today I am going to Bath. Does that count as a trip? The bus leaves in 14 minutes so I better get a move on.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 20, 2017 12:49:01 GMT 2
it does!
enjoy.
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 20, 2017 13:17:54 GMT 2
How far is it to the Bath Room?
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 20, 2017 13:48:05 GMT 2
lol!
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 26, 2017 19:48:59 GMT 2
Tomorrow we are going to Bourton on the Hill for 2 days. Our daughter has bought a house there so we are being gardeners to try to create some order. There is no wifi so it is back to the Dark Ages.
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Post by sophie on Sept 27, 2017 2:19:18 GMT 2
So we had a nice few days in the States, enjoying the hot springs and hiking trails. We might go away next week if the weather cooperates.. otherwise it’s end of the season for our RV. I am off to Hawaii for a week in early November for my next holiday.
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Post by shrjeff on Sept 27, 2017 11:27:13 GMT 2
sadly we're down to only 3 booked trips so far until next summer...
end of october a jaunt to belgrade
mid-november a two week trip on the aurora cruise ship seeking aurorae in northern norway
mid-march a 3 week trip to vietnam and bangkok...
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Post by kuskiwi on Sept 28, 2017 19:23:35 GMT 2
1 hour flight after work tonight to go the big smoke to celebrate granddaughters birthday which is being held at the artificial ski run. Fortunately Grandmothers are excused from skiing. It's not my best skill.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 2, 2017 12:31:44 GMT 2
We are off to spend a week in La Palma (in the Canary Islands but not to be confused with Las Palmas), staying in the island capital of Santa Cruz. Weather should be sunny and either 25/26 or 30/31 (depending on which forecaster one believes). It is not very touristed though cruise ships do visit. We have rented a small apartment in the historic centre.
The only downside is that our outbound flight leaves tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. So we are off to spend the night in a hotel at Gatwick airport. The Premier Inn is very convenient - we just cross the road and we enter the terminal.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 2, 2017 13:29:11 GMT 2
safe flights, Baz!
I'm off to London in a couple days. Only for a short stay.
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 2, 2017 13:39:22 GMT 2
for our trip to search for aurorae we fly to and from gatwick... we wound up reserving the Bloc hotel which is just INSIDE the south terminal a few yards (or meters as your wont) from the railway station which we will use to get to southampton... figure that that's even more convenient (though we won't have a time problem) as we don't need to become oriented to the airport and find out how to access the hotels from the terminals and vice versa...
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 3, 2017 16:55:50 GMT 2
Let us know what the Bloc hotel is like. We stayed at the Premier Inn because it is just metres from the North Terminal which EasyJet flies from. When we went into the North Terminal at 4.20 this morning it was unbelievably busy.
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 3, 2017 18:31:13 GMT 2
i shall duly report when we go in mid-november...
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 6, 2017 22:43:19 GMT 2
Going to Cuba next month. It's been about 20 years since the last time.
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Post by sophie on Oct 7, 2017 2:50:08 GMT 2
Bought my ticket to Colombia for March
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 11, 2017 0:48:31 GMT 2
Received my tarjeta del turista for Cuba today. So silly to have to pay 27 euros for a little piece of paper. That's more than the rate I will pay to rent a villa in Old Havana.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 11, 2017 10:01:35 GMT 2
enjoy, K2!
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Post by tzarine on Oct 16, 2017 21:32:12 GMT 2
back from 3+ weeks in japan
from the frozen north - sapporo & hakodate to the christian south nagasaki
love the jr pass + cheap ana miles conversions
even went on the nakasendo trail - well, just 10 km
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 28, 2017 16:01:50 GMT 2
off to belgrade tomorrow for a few days... sadly it is predicted to be cooold... highs of only 10C... brrrrr...
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