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Post by Northy on Feb 15, 2019 8:12:48 GMT
I always research and do my own shore excursions, much cheaper. Been to Rome with Mrs and 2 youngest a few years ago, February half term was quiet and pleasantly warm. Italy itself is a place I've never been to Northy. I recently spoke to fel about it Think I'd like to spend a while touring The lakes appeal to me but the historic side appeals to my wife due to her classics degree Dunnner fancy a fortnight driving tho 😁 I'm quite envious of all your tours mate, I follow you like a stalker on Facebook 😉 Have a look at a central base and get the trains
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 8:27:25 GMT
Italy itself is a place I've never been to Northy. I recently spoke to fel about it Think I'd like to spend a while touring The lakes appeal to me but the historic side appeals to my wife due to her classics degree Dunnner fancy a fortnight driving tho 😁 I'm quite envious of all your tours mate, I follow you like a stalker on Facebook 😉 Have a look at a central base and get the trains If I was a 21yr old student with a bag on my back I would do, but there's No way I'm lugging the Cod ess's cases mule train of bags and cases all over Italy 😁
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Post by Northy on Feb 15, 2019 8:50:46 GMT
Have a look at a central base and get the trains If I was a 21yr old student with a bag on my back I would do, but there's No way I'm lugging the Cod ess's cases mule train of bags and cases all over Italy 😁 No, just go to somewhere like Florence, stay there for a week but get a train to Bologna/Venice/Verona/Rome for a day. Fly into Pisa on Ryanair or easyjet from Manchester (i think they do), you can leave luggage at the train station, see the leaning tower, then get on a train to Florence and base yourself there and get a day trip out, search on thetrainline.com/europe for destinations
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Post by elystokie on Feb 15, 2019 9:01:10 GMT
If I was a 21yr old student with a bag on my back I would do, but there's No way I'm lugging the Cod ess's cases mule train of bags and cases all over Italy 😁 No, just go to somewhere like Florence, stay there for a week but get a train to Bologna/Venice/Verona/Rome for a day. Fly into Pisa on Ryanair or easyjet from Manchester (i think they do), you can leave luggage at the train station, see the leaning tower, then get on a train to Florence and base yourself there and get a day trip out, search on thetrainline.com/europe for destinations This site is good for rail travel stuff as well - www.seat61.com/Europe-train-travel.htm
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Post by Northy on Feb 15, 2019 9:09:12 GMT
No, just go to somewhere like Florence, stay there for a week but get a train to Bologna/Venice/Verona/Rome for a day. Fly into Pisa on Ryanair or easyjet from Manchester (i think they do), you can leave luggage at the train station, see the leaning tower, then get on a train to Florence and base yourself there and get a day trip out, search on thetrainline.com/europe for destinations This site is good for rail travel stuff as well - www.seat61.com/Europe-train-travel.htmI think we would need to put a high vis vest on Mary with a destination plaque around his neck and make sure the stewardesses and guards get her to the destination correctly
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Post by murphthesurf on Feb 15, 2019 12:52:29 GMT
Whatever sort of cruise you decide on……… Bon voyage! That's a BBC report on cross channel ferrying after brexit.
Nice one, Enners. Yeah. Typical BBC. They'll also be having Carol Kirkwood predicting showers of 'something unpleasant' followed by thunderstorms of hail and fire, the farming correspondent promising plagues of frogs + clouds of locusts, and the resident 'ask the doc' person giving it the big "everyone will be coming out in big black festerin' boils as soon as we leave" stuff - and all of this during the darkness for three days. Can't wait! Glad I voted out.
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Post by elystokie on Feb 15, 2019 13:10:10 GMT
I think we would need to put a high vis vest on Mary with a destination plaque around his neck and make sure the stewardesses and guards get her to the destination correctly I actually did this for a mate once - printed out a 'Please wake me at Portchester' sign on A4, laminated it and put some string through a couple of holes so he could hang it around his neck. He would fall asleep regularly on the train home from Pompey when we'd been out on the piss and wake up in Southampton, cost him a fortune in taxis. He did actually use it
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Post by murphthesurf on Feb 15, 2019 13:15:42 GMT
I think we would need to put a high vis vest on Mary with a destination plaque around his neck and make sure the stewardesses and guards get her to the destination correctly I actually did this for a mate once - printed out a 'Please wake me at Portchester' sign on A4, laminated it and put some string through a couple of holes so he could hang it around his neck. He would fall asleep regularly on the train home from Pompey when we'd been out on the piss and wake up in Southampton, cost him a fortune in taxis. He did actually use it Most of the people on 'ere would've waited until he'd gone to sleep and then changed the sign to 'Edinburgh'. Including me.
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Post by bathstoke on Feb 15, 2019 13:27:15 GMT
Get yourself down Greenham Common
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Post by murphthesurf on Mar 4, 2019 21:13:29 GMT
Inside the cruise ship during a storm.........This reminds me EXACTLY of what happened on a crossing of the North Sea x Fred Olsen Line I did en route to Norway yonks ago. 'Vicious weather' wasn't in it & we were later told it had been the roughest crossing for over 11 years. Virtually all the passengers AND crew were violently 'ill' and I was one of about only a dozen people who didn't chunder, purely because dignity said 'NO WAY'. I think the ship was at 45 degrees one way or the other the whole way across and it was a mega experience I wouldn't like to repeat. In the clip all the stuff starts sliding around big-time at about the 2.50 mark:
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Post by musik on Mar 5, 2019 0:32:32 GMT
Since the globe is overfilled with terror, new viruses, war, poverty, crime ..., I have no intention of going anywhere. Why should I?
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Post by Northy on Mar 5, 2019 8:55:03 GMT
Inside the cruise ship during a storm.........This reminds me EXACTLY of what happened on a crossing of the North Sea x Fred Olsen Line I did en route to Norway yonks ago. 'Vicious weather' wasn't in it & we were later told it had been the roughest crossing for over 11 years. Virtually all the passengers AND crew were violently 'ill' and I was one of about only a dozen people who didn't chunder, purely because dignity said 'NO WAY'. I think the ship was at 45 degrees one way or the other the whole way across and it was a mega experience I wouldn't like to repeat. In the clip all the stuff starts sliding around big-time at about the 2.50 mark: I use to love a good storm, had one down off the falklands which was off the beaufort scale, wave came over the ship and into the funnels and tripped all the engines and thermally cracked the exhausts, that was a scary moment, when I was speaking to the officer of the watch he said he thought we were gonners, and that was in a Navy destroyer.
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Post by murphthesurf on Mar 5, 2019 11:15:09 GMT
Inside the cruise ship during a storm.........This reminds me EXACTLY of what happened on a crossing of the North Sea x Fred Olsen Line I did en route to Norway yonks ago. In the clip all the stuff starts sliding around big-time at about the 2.50 mark: I use to love a good storm, had one down off the falklands which was off the beaufort scale, wave came over the ship and into the funnels and tripped all the engines and thermally cracked the exhausts, that was a scary moment, when I was speaking to the officer of the watch he said he thought we were gonners, and that was in a Navy destroyer. Bluddy 'ell! Glad I missed that one - I'd have been screaming the place down. Tbh Northy I thought it would be Lozza who'd be replying, describing far, FAR worse conditions they used to encounter regularly in the RN and telling me to get a grip! PS: Oh, yes, now I remember - you're our other ma'elot. In a post a week or two ago I knew there was Loz, Dutchy, Ely and someone else but I couldn't remember who the other was. My most humble apologies! xxx
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Post by Northy on Mar 5, 2019 12:42:56 GMT
I use to love a good storm, had one down off the falklands which was off the beaufort scale, wave came over the ship and into the funnels and tripped all the engines and thermally cracked the exhausts, that was a scary moment, when I was speaking to the officer of the watch he said he thought we were gonners, and that was in a Navy destroyer. Bluddy 'ell! Glad I missed that one - I'd have been screaming the place down. Tbh Northy I thought it would be Lozza who'd be replying, describing far, FAR worse conditions they used to encounter regularly in the RN and telling me to get a grip! PS: Oh, yes, now I remember - you're our other ma'elot. In a post a week or two ago I knew there was Loz, Dutchy, Ely and someone else but I couldn't remember who the other was. My most humble apologies! xxx there is another one, two dutchy sounding lads I think
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Post by murphthesurf on Mar 5, 2019 20:23:27 GMT
Having just come back from my first big Holiday in god knows how many years i want to try a cruise, maybe in August. Unfortunately it is just me, as i have recently lost a few nearest & dearest etc, so i want to know what to go for?, thinking of All Inclusive. Any travel/site/ship tips? please bear in mind it's just for me, i know i will have to pay more, but still. Regards Have you decided on anything yet, carls?Isn't it supposed to be the case that cruises are full of rich old widows looking for lerrrrrrrrve........ ........and that as a result of this any single men going on cruises are the equivalent of impalas in a field full of hungry lions???
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Post by tuum on Mar 6, 2019 2:48:45 GMT
Get your self on a music cruise. I know of a couple of people who have done the 7 day rock cruises out of Florida. Apparently, there are other music cruises...soul, country, 80's etc. Most tastes catered for. I don't think cruising comforts were the main attraction for the rock cruise but the ones I know who went were American professionals in their mid-50's who would want more than a basic level of comfort. I think the monsterofrock cruise is the benchmark (I mean most expensive). monstersofrockcruise.com
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