Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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As yesterday was the start of the summer solstice and also the longest day of the year does anyone have any fond memories of their favourite holiday or where do you intend to holiday this year.
I have spent many a holiday in the Philippines visiting my wife's family. Here is the view from our 'local' in her hometown of Baler in Aurora.
Pure hell and with ice cool locally brewed beer at about 40p a half pint it's a chore but one has to fulfil ones family commitments.
Marek
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Keith Sansum1
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MAREK;
I have found memories of the villages around york
lovely place and all around yorkshire
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I was lucky enough to do a round the world trip in 96 and have three favourites, Bali, Singapore and Tahiti. The people were lovely and the places so striking and different from the UK. I am also rather fond of Venice having spent my honeymoon there. Later this year I hope to go back to Capri and visit Pompeii.
Brian Dixon
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oooh jean i've been to singapore,i liked it so much i stayed there for 3 years.
the only trouble was i had to come home when my father got posted back to the uk.
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Jeane
Did a around the world trip.It's a pretty cheap way to visit multiple countries. As well as others I took in Bangkok,Fiji,Australia and Honolulu stopping off to ride the Trolley cars in San Francisco then onto Hollywood ,a real treat for a film fan like me.
Difficult to do now though with Natascha turning up in a Gooseberry bush!
Marek
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Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Oh Marek its a hard life but someone to go through hell, sure looks nice in that local of yours
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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Marek
that really is stunning and looks very relaxing too. I have just been to Germany and Austria for 8 days and had a great time - despite the weather. Amongst other things we visited Mozart's birth place in Salzburg and Hitler's 'eagle's nest' in Berchtesgarden. Amazingly this was built for him in 13 months for his 50th birthday present but he only went there 14 times due to his fear of heights!! I couldn't help but consider the differing nature of the two Austrians; one hugely creative the other hugely destructive.
Jeane
I visited Capri a couple of years ago and it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited. I envy you your return trip.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Jean and I went on a round the World trip some years ago, visiting Bali, Hong Kong, OZ, New Zealand, then on to Tahiti and finally LA and then home - fantastic.
I think we loved Hong Kong, Bali and Tahiti the best, but the others were lovely too.
All before Jean's kidneys died of course.
Roger
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Marek, I used my redundancy money at the time to see the world in style and stayed in some amazing hotels - well I figured I was only going to do it once but then I ended up going back to a fair amount of it the following year!
Mark Capri is so pretty, it's like stepping back in time to the 50s/60s, I almost expected to see glamorous movie stars in sunglasses and scarves sipping cocktails and smoking cigarettes in those little cigarette holders!
I would love to see Egypt one day (when it's a bit safer - will that day ever come?) and I would also like to see the palaces of St Petersburg.
Closer to home I love Scotland, Bath, Nottinghamshire and Oxford.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the palaces in st petersburg(leningrad when i went there) are astonishing, the treasures therein are endless.
you really need a lot of time to see everything, the city is stunning too.
when i went it had to be in a package tour which had it's good points, you were taken straight in to places rather than queuing for hours outside like the locals had to.
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Jeane
What a great way to spend your redundancy cash. Was it Capri where Gracie ''it's turned out nice again'' Fields spent her latter years? I suppose you get to Capri by boat?
Luckily my rtw ticket was Club and First Class courtesy of the taxpayer in those good old pre expenses scandal days.
One of my scariest trips was through the Iron Curtain,once by car and twice by rail. The East Germans really knew how to search you and your bags leaving no stone unturned! Going through the border control with the search lights , watchtowers and signs depicting ''Achtung Minen'' and displaying the skull and crossbones gave me the willies.
USSR was a no go for me 'cos of job and family but it's all changed since the Cold War years.
Marek
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I thought it was a good idea too Marek
Yes we flew to Naples and got the boat across to Capri.
Ha ha ha, I think the only place where they went through my suitcase with a fine tooth comb was Israel. I did get stopped in San Francisco as when my handbag went through x ray there were fine traces of cocaine on it, now before you think whaaaaatttt and nearly have a heart attack like I did
, it was (at the time) quite common because of traces of it on dollar bills which you then transfer to your bag/coat/etc
I like the way the Japanese sterilise the notes before the come out of the cash machines.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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oh well my york holiday got lost in all that
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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No it didnt Keef,a few years ago we decided to explore the North,we have some lovely places in this Country and as we have got the dog,we hire a house and use that as a base to see things in that area.OK the weather is not all that good,but hey you can't have everything so in the last few years we have been to;
Oban with trips to Iona and Fingles Cave
Haltwhistle with trips to Durham and Lindisfarne
Garsdale on the Carlisle /Settle line
Alnmouth for Alnwick and Berwick and Beamish,and last year
Cromford in Derbyshire for visits to Matlock Crich tram museum and Chatsworth,this year we are going North again to Whitby.
Visits to Heartbeat Country ( why are they stopping do the TV programme) York etc.What a lovely country we live in
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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john;
lovely boyo
have visited many places throughout the UK and continue to do so
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The Shambles still a great place to go in York and the Minster has a stone remembering Romes first black Caeser who died in York on his way back to Italy.
Marek
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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your right marek,
but the villages around York all around north yorkshire even better
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Keefy
Know the area pretty well as it was in my region when working for the Prison Dept.
Marek
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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MAREK;
Don't think i ever met you in your employment lol
keighley(steam railway)
leeds
harrogate
howarth(fantastic place)
skipton
plus many more
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Alec Sheldon
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I was lucky enough work on a motor yacht for two seasons in 1966/67 and sailed all over the Mediterranean, Majorca, Malta, Italy(including Capri Jeanne) but mostly the Greek Islands and Turkey up into the Black Sea. The best two years of my life and got paid for it as well. That was some holiday, but we did work hard. Here is a photo to prove it. Also a photo of a holiday that I had at home in 1963.
I am on the left outside the Parthenon and on the right at Blackpool.
