biffs travel thread.......

[sjhall]

Texas to see the mother & father-in-law.... Maybe go Austin & Huston

 

[Badged01]

Now you're speaking my kind of language Biff!! Please will you organise a poll for me? ....... :wub:

You get my vote! About time he started keeping you in the custom you could get used to ......

 

[D Skelton]

I know it's off topic as it isn't exactly a foreign destination but have you ever been to the Lake District? It is the most beautiful most tranquil place I have ever been and is often voted the most beutiful place in the world.

If you wanna go on an adventure then I would recommend Basra! I went back there for a week a few years back and it is a very strange place in that what was once a kill zone is now a holiday destination! Travel North from there up the Shat Al Arab on the Route 6 towards Amarah and stop off in Al Qurnah and see the Garden of Eden and the tree that Adam supposedly took the apple from. From there up to Baghdad which I never spent any time in but have heard from many of my friends that it is an amazing place to visit.

One place I've always wanted to visit is China, urban and rural! I've always had the urge to walk the Great Wall from end to end, how possible this is I'm sure others will say but I've heard it is and can be done in a month.

Just my two cents

 

[markc123]

Well im off to zante to get ruined with my mates.

Pretty sure its not your guys cup of tea lol!

 

[Des 56]

I know it's off topic as it isn't exactly a foreign destination but have you ever been to the Lake District? It is the most beautiful most tranquil place I have ever been and is often voted the most beutiful place in the world.

No,but would really like to go there one year
It looks like a ideal place to have a holiday for me and her indoors,it appears to be beautiful countryside,lovely walking country and best of all,somewhere new

Austria has always been my favourite destination,in the summer,not when the land is splattered with that dreaded white stuff and the people walk around with long thin planks tied to their feet

If the lake district could guarentee some manageable weather I would jump at the chance

 

[Guest55]

Texas to see the mother & father-in-law.... Maybe go Austin & Huston

Austin is great , spent a week in texas on a usa tour.

 

[Guest55]

Well im off to zante to get ruined with my mates.

Pretty sure its not your guys cup of tea lol!

i'm sure you'll feel at home with all the other chavs & oik's. ;-)

 

[Megavolt]

Not got a bad year coming up

Week on windermere in April with my boat fishing
Week at port Logan in Scotland fishing
Long weekend at nefyn north Wales fishing

Family hol
two weeks somewhere the mrs wants.

Watch for pick pockets on the trains in Amsterdam there rife with them

 

[telectrix]

i detest both golf and fishing . first one you lose your balls and bring nothing home, and the second you lose your tackle and bring home nothing.

 

[Megavolt]

i detest both golf and fishing . first one you lose your balls and bring nothing home, and the second you lose your tackle and bring home nothing.

Ha. Not a great fan of golf but love fishing In any form. my only problem is never get enough time to do it As work always get in way

 

[danzor]

Ukraine has some cheap deals at the moment!

We're looking at Europe this year as the Mrs wants some where "safe" this year.

I have not done to much of Europe as that's for later in life, but Hvar is pretty nice!

 

[Rockingit]

Austin is great , spent a week in texas on a usa tour.

It was Houston where I met the girl I talked about earlier! Great place, though Austen is just full of oil workers.

 

[D Skelton]

Ukraine has some cheap deals at the moment!

We're looking at Europe this year as the Mrs wants some where "safe" this year.

I have not done to much of Europe as that's for later in life, but Hvar is pretty nice!

I'm seriously considering doing Chernobyl later this year!

 

[Guest55]

It was Houston where I met the girl I talked about earlier! Great place, though Austen is just full of oil workers.

the austin i visited had some of the best rock music , punk bars & rockabillie bands in the us ;-D

i didnt see any oil workers ? its a university town with a alot of fitness / cycling businesses when i visited in 2010

 

[Guest55]

I'm seriously considering doing Chernobyl later this year!

yeah , then onto a siberian route 66 tour in your tank ............

;-)

 

[danzor]

I'm seriously considering doing Chernobyl later this year!

Is that even safe yet?

She's just booked Mykonos for September, luckily I've got a few stag-do's!

 

[Rockingit]

the austin i visited had some of the best rock music , punk bars & rockabillie bands in the us ;-D

i didnt see any oil workers ? its a university town with a alot of fitness / cycling businesses when i visited in 2010

Precisely why I've been there several times on tours! When I said oil workers, it was more a reference to the executive, rather than grimy rag, type of worker. If you were on the tourist trail then you probably escaped them - feel lucky - they make a damn loud noise in hotel bars!!

 

[SJD]

the austin i visited had some of the best rock music , punk bars & rockabillie bands in the us ;-D

i didnt see any oil workers ? its a university town with a alot of fitness / cycling businesses when i visited in 2010

I hope you took a look at the bats as they leave the bridge at one end of the centre around dusk in their thousands, quite impressive. I also liked their slogan, "Keep Austin Weird".

 

[shanky887614]

Is that even safe yet?

She's just booked Mykonos for September, luckily I've got a few stag-do's!

You can go there but no telling what the radiation will do to you.

 

[D Skelton]

Is that even safe yet?

Yes, for short visits. There are strict restrictions in place and you can't get within the 25km exclusion zone without having all your papers in order and you have to either be fully tracable or be accompanied by an official travel guide. You can't stay for more that a day within the exclusion zone and you can't take anything from inside the exclusion zone out.

You can get within 100m of the reactor to view it!

Apparently spending a day there is about the same as having five chest x-rays, not very good for you but nothing to worry about if it's only a one off.