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Post by auntieannie on Aug 12, 2018 10:00:20 GMT 2
yesterday, I went to Milan, Italy.
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Post by shrjeff on Aug 12, 2018 19:41:38 GMT 2
and today i went home from milan...
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Post by Scrubb on Aug 13, 2018 16:46:11 GMT 2
Hey, I got to meet up with sophie on my holiday! Went for a lovely walk with her lovely self, husband, and dog; then she made a delicious lunch. Such a nice visit!
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 17, 2018 19:50:19 GMT 2
In October we are going to visit our old haunt in the Lot, mainly staying with friends. We have also arranged to have dinner with one-armed Hugh and the French army veteran Nicole. We anticipate the usual fireworks at the meal.
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Post by wikki on Aug 19, 2018 13:41:50 GMT 2
Off to Ecuador tomorrow morning. Then Colombia. Back home in December.
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Post by Kate_R on Aug 31, 2018 13:22:48 GMT 2
Have booked a few days away during the school holidays, staying with alpacas.  |
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Post by shrjeff on Sept 1, 2018 5:37:30 GMT 2
next month off for week in tbilisi... we have only heard good things about georgia but may take a day trip to armenia while we're there  |
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 1, 2018 10:15:34 GMT 2
Jeff, if you have only heard good things about Georgia then I advise you to avoid going to Gori. Stalin was born there.
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Post by shrjeff on Sept 1, 2018 14:13:00 GMT 2
baz, we're just going to hang out in tbilisi, though may take day trips here and there... my sources are from the stans and they are reporting on the food and architecture...
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 1, 2018 17:33:56 GMT 2
Sounds good, Jeff
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 6, 2018 12:02:32 GMT 2
We are off for a long weekend in the Cotswolds staying with one of Mrs Faz's daughters. It will be a family gathering, celebrating her birthday. Depending on which weather site you look at, Saturday (The Day) will either be raining all day or only having a sprinkle inn the late afternoon.
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Post by Voy on Sept 7, 2018 13:54:20 GMT 2
I'm about to collect 20 lobstahs to take to the annual reunion weekend in Nantucket
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Post by sophie on Sept 8, 2018 1:54:35 GMT 2
I am yearning to go somewhere.. but have too much company coming this month! Hopefully we can get down to the states for a quick trip in a couple of weeks to the hot springs in Olympic National Park.
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Post by sophie on Sept 9, 2018 4:19:43 GMT 2
Actually, all of a sudden, several trips are a possibility: Thailand and LAos in January, Ecuador in March and UK and Ireland in May... my head is spinning!
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Post by tzarine on Sept 13, 2018 18:09:49 GMT 2
tzarevich on gap year was in london for spring break, then rio & sao paolo
we all went to arizona for family
then london & paris (during world cup victory which was fun)
then the berkshires to drop him off @ college
that's the clan's travel so far
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Post by Big Iain on Sept 14, 2018 11:18:15 GMT 2
I am off to Catterick in beautiful Yorkshire (UK) tomorrow for a race. Just an overnight stay and then home sadly.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 17, 2018 17:59:11 GMT 2
we had 4 free nights for the park hyatt
could not get to the maldives bc of our schedules
so played tourist in town
lovely to be all posh
driven around in new benz
soaking in jacuzzi
using empty state of the art gym overlooking central park
the room was larger than our apt!
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 19, 2018 10:21:35 GMT 2
Mrs Faz is off to London for a get-together with old chums. Me? I am going to Bristol today to do a bit of shopping and also to work out where the rerouted bus stops. Tomorrow I have a medical appointment (I am a volunteer to monitor the effect of lowering my hypertension medication). And on Friday I am going to Bath.
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 23, 2018 22:07:51 GMT 2
Let me see, hmmmm, Zimbabwe in October (driving), northern Zambia around Christmas (driving), Colombia February (flying and just booked the tickets). Then there was something in April, maybe heading back to Spain for a visit, then........ can't remember but Mrs M seems to have it all mapped out.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 30, 2018 10:18:53 GMT 2
Tomorrow we are off to stay with Mrs Faz's sister in Romsey for a couple of days. But before we travel to Romsey we are going to Winchester to have lunch with Writeon. Remember her?
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Post by wikki on Oct 2, 2018 19:33:40 GMT 2
Day after tomorrow I will be off to the Yasuni National park for few days, before I make my way north to the El Angel national park and everything ( almost) between El Angel and Quito. ( everything happens in Ecuador)
then my travel (work) continues in Bogotá, Columbia.
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Post by OnlyMark on Oct 2, 2018 21:25:08 GMT 2
I'll be in Bogota in February. Only for a day though before moving on.
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Post by wikki on Oct 2, 2018 22:58:29 GMT 2
I will be there only until mid December.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 5, 2018 10:24:26 GMT 2
Tomorrow we are off to France for 12 days. We'll be visiting the area we used to live in (the Lot/Dordogne) and mainly staying with friends. One interesting thing is that we are staying a night in the house we sold in 2014. Nice people bought it and we saw it two years ago so what they have done to the garden will not be too much of a shock (unless they have vandalised it further). And the night we are staying there we are going to dinner with one-armed Hugh and the former French army tank Nicole. They are so awful that we always come away with wondrous tales.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 6, 2018 3:19:23 GMT 2
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 7, 2018 10:07:31 GMT 2
all packed... off tomorrow early for tbilisi for a week...
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Post by OnlyMark on Oct 8, 2018 13:49:40 GMT 2
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 8, 2018 23:19:19 GMT 2
I am totally trapped for the next two months while a new roof is put on my building. Since my principal room is directly under the roof, it is out of the question that I be away at any time. Also, I am having a new roof window installed while they're doing that. It's only 20,000 euros for all of this, no big deal.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 9, 2018 14:20:18 GMT 2
stay safe, Mark!
K2, that's a very good price for it all.
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 11, 2018 15:38:03 GMT 2
we are enjoying our stay in tbilisi... the 'old' part of town dates from 4th century through the persian period... the 'modern' part dates from 1801 with the russian conquest... with the collapse of the russian empire in world war I georgia managed to assert its independence - which lasted about 3 years before it was taken over by the soviets through 1991... there was a period of vast corruption but they have now worked things out so everything is booming! lots of construction and tourists... every other store is a wine bar, celebrating the fact that apparently wine was originated in georgia about 8000 years ago! they have an indigenous way of making wine as well as literally hundreds of different varieties of wine grapes... they have these huge clay jugs which they bury in the ground and use for both the fermentation and aging... if in the european tradition only the juice of white wines is fermented and then aged (or not) in barrels and red wines have only the skins with the juice for the fermentation period, here they press the grapes, both red and white, and stick everything in the kvevri (the buried amphora), seeds, skins, twigs, etc.
we tasted the same grape treated in both methods... while we are red wine types we found (so far) that both reds were innocuous at best... the european style whites were also blah but some of the kvevri fermented and aged whites were interesting - one was kind of like a dry sherry...
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