biffs travel thread.......

[Guest55]

woke up this morning with some inspiration for my next foriegn adventure , so im writing it down now while still fresh in my mind.
was considering a week in barbados this year but cant be arsed with another 11 hour flight after my trip to san francisco in sept.

so im thinking fly liverpool to carcassonne , spent a couple of days with my uncle in the south of france , then TGV across western europe , overnite stay in Paris , finish in Amsterdam for a few days of bright lights big city , then fly back to manchester
always enjoy train journeys so its looking good on paper , should be able to do it in around 8 days at minimal cost

anyone else got any exciting proposed travel plans they'd like to share ? or even ideas they want to sound off on ?

 

[MDJ]

Well I am travelling over to the Dark side Biff so have fun on your travels and see you around somewhere. Don't forget to watch the rugger today M8.

 

[Badged01]

so im thinking fly liverpool to carcassonne , spent a couple of days with my uncle in the south of france , then TGV across western europe , overnite stay in Paris , finish in Amsterdam for a few days of bright lights big city , then fly back to manchester always enjoy train journeys so its looking good on paper , should be able to do it in around 8 days at minimal cost

You could get the same thrills and excitment for a lot, lot less if you still used Liverpool as your hub but did trips to Blackpool and Rhyl instead -- beaches, sun (maybe!), glamourous lights, thrills and spills and train travel

 

[Rockingit]

Very long story short (and telling touring tales in the playground....) but a number of years ago (when I was in between the former and the current Mrs R) I found myself in Prague for a week with an especially gorgeous young american thing that I'd first met in Texas months earlier. We, er, had some fun for a few days and then she realised that a whole big bunch of photos were missing from off her camera. Now, to a Yank on a back-packing adventure around Europe this was a big deal. She reckoned that they'd been accidentally downloaded in some internet cafe in Paris a couple of weeks earlier. So, instead of me just flying back to Bristol the next day, I instead took a 2 day sleeper train with her Prague>Frankfurt>Brussels>Paris to go and find this cafe and see if by some chance they were still sat on a drive there. They weren't, of course, but we drowned our sorrows on some cheap fizz in the Champs Elysees before catching the Eurostar back to Waterloo together and she flew back to the States. That was the most fun time I've ever had on a train!!!!

Oh...and I was wetting myself laughing when I had to explain to an American why it was that when the German train conductor apologetically announced they were running ten minutes late, that all the Germans tutted and the Brit on board let out a yell of "Yes!!"

Biff - go and have fun matey, the world's a big place.

 

[High Tower]

Nothing exciting here, just the annual two motorcycle pilgrimages to Ireland for the northwest 200 and the IOM for the TT

 

[tidyboiler]

Well Geordie and I, both being Pisceans are drawn to water......... so it's going to be dangling our feet off the pier in South Shields or having a trip to Seahouses to see the seals. Rhyl does have a lovely beach though....................

 

[Badged01]

And a Blackpool you can get a ride on the donkeys down at the beach too!

 

[Kamikaze]

biff55 no journey to France is complete without a trip to Nantes to ride on the mechanical elephant.

 

[Guest55]

Well Geordie and I, both being Pisceans are drawn to water......... so it's going to be dangling our feet off the pier in South Shields or having a trip to Seahouses to see the seals. Rhyl does have a lovely beach though....................

being stuck on the hard shoulder of the M6 sounds more appealing than any of those places lol !

tell geordie to get his wallet out and whisk you off to the bahamas ;-)

 

[Guest55]

Well I am travelling over to the Dark side Biff yorkshire ??


so have fun on your travels will do !

and see you around somewhere you would if you knew what i looked like :-D


Don't forget to watch the rugger today M8. in the same way fish forget how to swim.......;-)

i've a feeling tickets for next years RWC are going to cost alot more than i originally planned hence scaled back travels this year..........

 

[Guest55]

And a Blackpool you can get a ride on the donkeys down at the beach too!

donkey rides are only available may - sept unfortunately , but the beach is quiet and tourist free at this time of year ;-)

 

[tidyboiler]

being stuck on the hard shoulder of the M6 sounds more appealing than any of those places lol !

tell geordie to get his wallet out and whisk you off to the bahamas ;-)

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

 

[Guest55]

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

option 1 bahamas
option 2 rhyl
option 3 little chef on the A56

its gonna be a close call..........:-D

 

[Plonker 3]

Just got cycling trip planned at the minute from Glasgow to Carlisle, taking in the lochs and coast on the way. Carrying all our kit on panniers, camping at night, proper back to nature for a few days. But always have a good time doing them.

Lochs and Glens South - Map | Sustrans

 

[Marvo]

I used to enjoy hitchhiking holidays when I was young free and single. Used to go for a couple of months at a time, my favorites were North Africa including Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Mail and Niger and 3 months in Mexico, Guatamala and Belize. My travel nowadays is limited to business which is usually all boring in hotels and big cities.

I feel like I might be missing out though cause I've never been to Rhyl.

 

[Guest55]

I used to enjoy hitchhiking holidays when I was young free and single. Used to go for a couple of months at a time, my favorites were North Africa including Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Mail and Niger and 3 months in Mexico, Guatamala and Belize. My travel nowadays is limited to business which is usually all boring in hotels and big cities.

I feel like I might be missing out though cause I've never been to Rhyl.

nice. would like to visit morocco too.
mexicos great , been there twice with the ex.

 

[Guest55]

Just got cycling trip planned at the minute from Glasgow to Carlisle, taking in the lochs and coast on the way. Carrying all our kit on panniers, camping at night, proper back to nature for a few days. But always have a good time doing them.

Lochs and Glens South - Map | Sustrans

ah , another cycle fan....
did a mtb tour of sth france 3 years ago , but i like the sound of a UK coastal jaunt , in summer of course

 

[Plonker 3]

Well not serious mountain biking, got a hybrid. Usually do about 40-50 miles a day nice leisurely pace away from all the hustle and bustle of the busy towns and major roads.

 

[ian.settle1]

Well Geordie and I, both being Pisceans are drawn to water......... so it's going to be dangling our feet off the pier in South Shields or having a trip to Seahouses to see the seals. Rhyl does have a lovely beach though....................

About the only other good thing about Rhyl is the road out

 

[dan86]

my holiday plans are 2 weeks in Greece at start of may. not sure about rest of year yet.