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Post by auntieannie on Oct 28, 2017 16:19:22 GMT 2
yes, europe is cooling fast now. be safe, jeffy and mrs!
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Post by rikita on Oct 29, 2017 14:35:09 GMT 2
we'll go to mr. r's hometown for just a night in a few weeks ...
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Post by kuskiwi on Oct 30, 2017 3:18:44 GMT 2
Two more sleeps and I head to Myanmar for three weeks. Transit via Singapore but no chance of catching up with Lumi as very quick transfers.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 30, 2017 10:46:19 GMT 2
have a safe trip, kiwilady! enjoy! a friend of mine is a teacher trainer there.
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Post by OnlyMark on Nov 2, 2017 18:33:41 GMT 2
I'd like to go to Myanmar.
So far we are going to Livingstone in a week or so, then it is Zanzibar for Christmas, unfortunately we are having to book things early for next Easter as well but we'll be just going to a Lodge in the bush. The next problem is when we are in Spain next summer we tend to have a few weekends away. Most places are heavily booked even now so we are scratching around a bit for where we can go.
There will also be a trip to Germany, probably May time.
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Post by rikita on Nov 9, 2017 16:45:00 GMT 2
going to mr. r's hometown tomorrow, just for one night, for his brother's birthday. they haven't been speaking much in the last years, so that'll also be the first time he (the brother) gets to see a. ...
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 9, 2017 16:46:15 GMT 2
wishing your family the best of trips, riki.
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Post by rikita on Nov 10, 2017 2:52:52 GMT 2
thanks!
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Post by shrjeff on Nov 15, 2017 11:49:45 GMT 2
made it to tromso... tomorrow to alta - the northernmost point on the trip... still hoping to see some aurora but the weather is not being cooperative  |
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Post by sophie on Nov 16, 2017 6:28:12 GMT 2
I think it is near Alta that there is world heritage site .. huge rock with carved reindeer pictographs.. used thousands of years ago ..
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Post by shrjeff on Nov 16, 2017 7:32:50 GMT 2
I think it is near Alta that there is world heritage site .. huge rock with carved reindeer pictographs.. used thousands of years ago .. yep, we're slated to visit the museum tomorrow - but the ship staff say the carvings are covered in snow at the moment... |
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Post by sophie on Nov 16, 2017 17:44:31 GMT 2
Too bad, shreff, it is (at least for me) awe inspiring. Will you be going to Nordkap? I remember some wonderful sculptures there...
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Post by shrjeff on Nov 17, 2017 18:03:30 GMT 2
at the museum there were some examples of the carvings on display... tomorrow we start heading down south, stopping at stavanger on our way back to southampton... we are at 80 degrees longitude so have a long way back to southampton's 51 degrees!
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 18, 2017 7:40:26 GMT 2
Well due to a hole in my pocket and a lack of fiscal funds, being on Queer Street just around the corner from Poverty Road, I won't be making any trips soon, but I am enjoying reading about and living vicariously reading about everyone else's trips.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 18, 2017 11:23:44 GMT 2
So Netsuke can have some vicarious pleasure, Mrs Faz and I are walking to Yate this morning (our Chipping Sodbury is contiguous with Yate). Yate is not a pretty place but it has more shopping possibilities. As an experiment I once put Yate city centre into our sat nav. We drove until Sean (we have chosen an Irish accent for our sat nav guide) announced: "You have reached your destination." The city centre of Yate is apparently a roundabout with a view of a supermarket and hardware store.
I think our Netsie will not feel she is missing anything with this description of today's upcoming trip.
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 18, 2017 22:06:23 GMT 2
I went to Lausanne today, to attend a conference. Got "declawed" train tickets, paying about a quarter of usual price for the journey. (would be half price without the half-price pass.
once in town, I took the metro and each stop has a different sound on the PA system, to help with recognition, I imagine. The first one north of the train station sounds like a loo being flushed, another one sounds like horses, etc...
the conference was mostly really good and I got to meet new people.
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Post by Voy on Nov 19, 2017 17:04:36 GMT 2
well - not exciting, but I'm starting for Fla on Tuesday - with a bunch of nice stops, with good friends and at Williamsburg en route.
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 19, 2017 23:08:40 GMT 2
Be safe on the road when you go, Voy! it was slippery tonight.
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 20, 2017 20:51:24 GMT 2
Thanks for your story about Yates, Baz. We would describe it as blink and you'd miss it. When we were in Tassie - real name Tasmania, called Tassie by us - we'd gone to Tasmazia and the Village of Lower Crackpot for the day and found there's a place called Nowhere Else and after seeing the signpost, we just had to drive there to see it. There really is nowhere else like it! .jpg) |
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 20, 2017 23:10:07 GMT 2
Ah, tassie! love tassie! I'll go back one day. maybe.
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Post by kuskiwi on Nov 21, 2017 9:47:30 GMT 2
Home from Myanmar. Will post some photos and a bit of blurb when my feet hit the ground again
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 22, 2017 3:40:29 GMT 2
Bought my ticket to Colombia for March We just bought tickets to Colombia in December - woohoo!! |
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Post by tiltedflipcurves on Nov 23, 2017 10:56:51 GMT 2
Off to visit family for Thanksgiving in a couple of hours. I definitely should be sleeping right now but have been awakened by litigation stress.
Have re-booked for next summer the trip we had to cancel last summer, to Catalonia and/via Iceland. Hoping against eruptions in the politics of the former and the volcanoes of the latter. But trip insurance for sure!
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 23, 2017 11:44:47 GMT 2
litigation stress go away from tilted and other potters! and happy thanksgiving to USAnian potters and their families!
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Post by sophie on Nov 23, 2017 15:49:53 GMT 2
Yesterday I canceled my trip and flights and adventure tour to Colombia. I felt sad. I don’t know if I will be able to do this sort of travel again. The future of overseas travel after a deep vein thrombosis is a bit murky.
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 27, 2017 21:06:19 GMT 2
Yesterday I canceled my trip and flights and adventure tour to Colombia. I felt sad. I don’t know if I will be able to do this sort of travel again. The future of overseas travel after a deep vein thrombosis is a bit murky. I know it's very serious, and the future is uncertain - but there's certainly plenty of hope that you'll be able to travel that way again. Will have my fingers crossed for you. It also sounds like you have already figured out lots of coping mechanisms for now. ANd a least you have a LOT of overland possibilities ahead of you - you could drive all the way to Colombia if you had to! |
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 27, 2017 21:07:38 GMT 2
p.s. Sorry for trying to be super optimistic. I know sometimes you just want to rant a bit and not have someone try to (as my husband has worded it) "blow sunshine up your ass".
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Post by sophie on Nov 28, 2017 1:10:20 GMT 2
Scrubb, optimism is s good thing!!
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Post by welle on Dec 6, 2017 23:00:17 GMT 2
Off to Florida later in the month. Hopefully I'll get to do some snorkeling.
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Post by Voy on Dec 7, 2017 15:36:06 GMT 2
Welle - if you are anywhere on the lower Atlantic coast... I think there should be a potter meet up!
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