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and that's me away to Alicante, Spain, at the end of September.

Sun, sea, sand, well actually none of that, my sister lives inland. But if there is anyone on CS not a gazillion miles from Bedar, Almeria, gies a shout, would love to meet up for a lunch and my sister is much nicer than I am.

Now to earn the money to pay for it all: leaving the car in airport parking, organizing a house-sitter for the animals, all the other costs that bounce up beaming just when you think you've paid for it all. Yikes.

So am travelling to Holland and i welcome suggestions on the best places to go and visit!
I am soooooo very excited so any good ideas will be appreciated and may be i can bump into 'Mr Right' on my trip lol!

But will she sail? When a ship is ready to sail, the ship’s master will hoist the Blue Peter. This is to indicate that the crew must hurry on board otherwise they will be left behind.

Sometimes it is such a jolly port, that enough crew may decide to stay behind and then the ship cannot sail. The ship must linger so a new crew can be assembled. However, if enough crew returned to sail, there may still be a mutiny as soon as they are at sea, forcing the ship back to port?

Will she complete the journey or turn around? This is a jolly port and few ships have sailed never to return. Sometimes the ship is renamed and repainted for a sneaky return and a surprise attack. What will it be? Will the ship sail?

The Blue Peter

I have this awesome, but old, Japanese guide book about living Japanese style and I so want to go, not a package tour, a real poke-around. Who wants to come along, even for just a few minutes, in imagination?

It all sounds so incredibly exotic. Chapter headings include

*exchanging greetings
*using the bath and toilet (Japanese ones ARE different!)
*using the public bath
*typhoons and earthquakes
*travelling on the cheap (I'll quote from that one in comments)

*visiting a hot spring

I posted a video, then deleted it, it was all street markets and Western-style entertainment, thanks but no thanks, got that here.

Anyone been? Even better, lived there?

Do you have a nagging feeling that you need to take a rest and run away from your daily routines?
How do you cope that feeling?

That kind of feeling is running around now
and I am stuck of paper works, I can't run away


I should be patience to 'run away' from my daily routines in December


Counting down is starting

Im travelling around thailand in december and january
Any ladies like to join me

All languages have their colloquialisms and pet sayings.

I lived in Finland for many years, and apart from Finnish being one of the most difficult languages to learn, the sayings can make a direct translation seem like so much gibberish.

It needs a good knowledge of the coloquialisms to make sense of the content of some of it.

I have found this with some other languages as well.

Has any one else had this sort of experience?

I see a lot of people did some extensive traveling around the globe. Well, I also did a bit of traveling in my day. I visited a number of neighboring states and I had an extended visit to Angola, and few shorter visits to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, & Botswana, all by courtesy of the South African Defense Force.

The hotels were generally bad and the food was worse, so we mostly slept in the open veld eating canned food and drinking water that we carried with us. I don’t think they had any airports at the time because we had to jump out the flossies (transport planes) from 600 feet. What I enjoyed most of these visits was the complete lack of passport control. They never asked us for passports. There were no delays in entering or leaving the country.

I even met a celebrity like Dr Jonas Savimbi on two occasions. He was such a charismatic man! I wonder why they assassinated him.

I did not find the people very friendly; they were shooting at us on sight without asking any questions. It is no wonder we went there armed to the teeth. Maybe they did not want to encourage tourism at the time.

No chance for a game of golf, but we did play some Hopscotch on the minefields.

Regrettably, I never got to see Luanda. We were 38 km from the Angolan capital when we decided to go home. It is strange that we never got to see the capitals of any of the countries that we visited. The only exception was Windhoek in Namibia, which we saw quite often. At least they had a better sense of humor, they did not shoot at us.

Actually, I would like to visit those countries again. I wonder if tourists are more welcome now.


May you enjoy this day.

PS. I’ll be missing for a few days. I’m leaving tonight.

I used to love to travel. Canada, Australia, Africa, America, Europe, been there (bits of) and done that (most of). I still like exploring new places, but the problem is getting there.

Flying is pure misery. I've got long legs, I'm claustrophobic, and I hate crowds. Being wedged in a cramped seat a mile above the ground in a metal tube with a few hundred people is about as close to hell as I hope to get. Chomping valium like smarties is all very well but seriously messes up the first day or two of the holiday.

I never felt the urge to go on a sea cruise. Being trapped in a hotel which is bobbing up and down doesn’t immensely appeal.

And I live on an island. There's only so far cars and trains will get me. Yes, I know there's a tunnel to Europe. See claustrophobic, above.

Failing friendly aliens, I will have to wait patiently for the invention of an effective and efficient teleporter. One which doesn’t need to be checked for flies or for that matter cockroaches or any other life form that could be incorporated into my DNA.

yes....if you are smart enough .... ....there is lot of things one can do here.....in business.... ...where there's a will, there's a way .... .... ....not necessarily.....you need huge amount .... while you can make money here.....and do the touring all over India ..... .....all the best .....