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chive

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I don't really travel except the odd trip to Scotland to see my family and at the moment I don't even own a current passport but I saw this and now I desperately want to do this. It has travel book written all over it.

What would your fantasy holiday be?

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It's one me and the mrs have been planning for our retirement!

A musical tour of the USA.

Fly into Chicago and sample the blues clubs therein. Drive down through the country stopping off at all the various music locations such as Gracelands, Memphis, Nashville until we reach the Mississipi Delta to finish off at the birthplace of the Blues.

I cannot wait.

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finish off at the birthplace of the Blues.

I didn,t realise there were any cotton plantations with slaves left in the States. [Biased]

But why end there? Continue on down to New Orleans for the blues and jazz.

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Penny S
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I've just booked on a cruise to Norway and the Faroes in 2015 for a total eclipse and northern lights, and only just made it, despite having had my eyes out for it for years. And I got a single cabin (half the size for twice the money, but for this I won't quibble).
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I don't think cruise ships are my thing (I'd probably start pushing people overboard around day 2), but a total eclipse?! I'm officially jealous now.

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Kelly Alves

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quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
I've just booked on a cruise to Norway and the Faroes in 2015 for a total eclipse and northern lights, and only just made it, despite having had my eyes out for it for years. And I got a single cabin (half the size for twice the money, but for this I won't quibble).

This sounds very cool. Good for you!

My sis and I have been daydreaming for years about eventually seeing Machu Picchu, but, dire poverty aside, from what I understand you have to have really good physical fitness to pull that off-- at the very least, strong lungs and well-developed lower body strength. It's a great incentive. [Big Grin]

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I've been to Machu Pichu and didn't know anything about that! Though we took the bus rather than walking the trail. I guess you'd have to be fairly fit to do the latter.

Amazing place, def worth saving up to get there.

That train tour also looks great. I'd love to see North Korea, though of course I guess you get a very controlled and filtered view of it.

I'm fairly widely travelled but I really want to go to Ethiopia. Particularly to see Lalibela and other cave churches.

One day.

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Seriously cool. I don't have the clothes for it! And it's a small ship - I've been on one before and saw the giant things looming over the Med and realised I would definitely not like them. This one has Chris Lintott (Patrick Moore's successor) as a lecturer. (The other was also educational. Can't be doing with nothing to do except play cards (can only play cheat), go to the salon, and lie about on deck. And eat.)

What I do hope is that it isn't cloudy. I've seen one of those in Cornwall. Interesting, in a monstrous crow flew over sort of way, but not the full experience.

I have waited till retiring, and found that it is now a sparse time for eclipses in sensible places. I wish I had known about sabbaticals for that sort of thing back in my working life.

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My dream is to walk the John Muir trail from Yosemite to Mount Whitney, 3 weeks backpacking through the Sierra Nevada . May well remain a dream as even if I could get fit enough, I have never found anyone daft enough to do it with me and I wouldn't feel confident about doing it alone.

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Given funding and time (and a suitable companion): Fly into Heathrow, lease a car, and drive clockwise around the isle of Britain (near the coast where possible) with excursions farther inland.

(Nope, don't have funding, time or a companion.)

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LeRoc

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I had a couple of holidays travelling through Africa or Central America by public transport, I guess they would qualify as my dream vacation.

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About twenty years ago I saw a trip advertised that I desperately wanted to go on. Unfortunately, I didn't have the money.

It was a trip through the Northwest Passage on a Russian icebreaker. The quest for the Northwest Passage had always gripped my imagination, and this would have been fantastic.

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quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
I've just booked on a cruise to Norway and the Faroes in 2015 for a total eclipse and northern lights, and only just made it, despite having had my eyes out for it for years. And I got a single cabin (half the size for twice the money, but for this I won't quibble).

That sounds fabulous [Smile] I saw the eclipse over Northern France in the late 1990s and we got a clear view as a window broke in the clouds - it was beautiful, especially as we were on a cliff and the sea birds all went quiet until 'dawn' when we were treated to a loud chorus. But I'd love to see the Northern Lights.
My dream trip since childhood has been to visit Mauritius, home of the golden bats and pink pigeons of the Gerald Durrell books. But the trip in the OP would come pretty close to my other half's dream trip and does look amazing, perhaps I should work on him for that one!

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quote:
Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
...My dream trip since childhood has been to visit Mauritius, home of the golden bats and pink pigeons of the Gerald Durrell books...

[statement from the Yorkshire branch of the Mauritius Tourist Board]

You should definitely go. I've been a few times as I've got relatives there so am kind of biased, but it is a genuinely stunning place. Sadly there isn't much in the way of bats outside of the conservation centres, but it's pretty good for fish and the kind of iguanas that wander into your kitchen if you leave the door open. Best seen by ignoring your travel agent and going self-catering.

[/statement from the Yorkshire branch of the Mauritius Tourist Board]

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Everywhere. I want to visit the world. I hate being still.

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Kelly Alves

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quote:
Originally posted by Yangtze:
I've been to Machu Pichu and didn't know anything about that! Though we took the bus rather than walking the trail. I guess you'd have to be fairly fit to do the latter.

Amazing place, def worth saving up to get there.


Yeah, I guess I should have said-- I wanna try conquering those stairs.I understand this is makes me a crazy person.

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Easy - the French pacific islands: New Caledonia, Fiji, Wallis & Fortuna, etc. In the best of all possible worlds going via Reunion in the Indian Ocean.

Why? Well, apart from the fantastic scenery (I've been lucky to go to a couple of Pacific islands years ago) the Francophone islands offer the best of all possible world - fantastic natural wonders, marvellous seafood and French cooking [Smile]

Of course, if you can't get that far, try either Martinique and Guadeloupe in the caribbean or Mauritius: the local bus service in Mauritius is excellent and cheap [Smile]

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One of the curators from our local natural history museum just wrote an article in the newsletter about his time in Mauritius. It looks fascinating, especially the hybrid religion and roadside shrines featured in the article.

We recently determined that you could probably spend many years exploring Mexico without getting sick of it, and at half of the price of a trip to Europe from here. So we are starting in on the Spanish baby Einstein videos, in hopes of starting that project.

The actual exploration will take place over many trips, but since we are talking about fantasy holidays, how about a month or two in Mexico, with the only dates on the itinerary being the arrival in the D.F. and departure from a beach hotspot. I'd like to tour the baroque cities of the highlands, eat several meals in Puebla and Oaxaca city, go find a lovely deserted beach in Oaxaca state, drive from ruin to ruin in the Yucatan, sample the famous bar snacks in Merida, and then unwind from all of that driving and eating on a beach where they will bring Pacifico beers to my seat. Sure, that last part's not the "real Mexico," but I would have earned it by that point.

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Everywhere, but particularly Russia, Scotland, Scandinavia (especially the fjords) and the mountainous areas of the US. I like cold climates!

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I've got two fantasy holidays, both of them boat-related.
The first (and this might even be do-able one day) is to hire a Norfolk wherry for a holiday on the Norfolk Broads, with a copy of Coot Club and The Big Six by Arthur Ransome to keep me company. There is a firm that hires out wherries for holidays - though I'd have to get someone along who knew how to sail.
And when I was in Turkey, I visited Bodrum, which has the most wonderful harbour full of sailing ships of all sizes. Many of them are built nearby, in the traditional style. They're called gulets. I would love to hire one of those for a swashbuckling cruise around the Greek islands.

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I want to go on a tea tour in India and then China You travel around the country, stopping at tea estates, see the process from start to stop. I want to watch the monkeys pick Gold Monkey Oolong in China, smoke Lapsang Souchong, See the mists in Assam, put on English accents in Darjeeling. I want to drink jade pearls, tipple hairy crabs, and romp in valleys reeking of jasmine. I want to sing sing sing of tea while dancing in starlight and rain. Who's with me?

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Add a side trip to Sri Lanka to that tea tour, and you might convince me.

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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
I don't think cruise ships are my thing (I'd probably start pushing people overboard around day 2), but a total eclipse?! I'm officially jealous now.

I've just been looking on the company facebook page with a series of photos from the far east. I might end up feeling the same - all relentlessly smiling people, very few shots of anything other than relentlessly smiling people (OK, the plaque from the peace memorial at Nagasaki was in there.) but at least they weren't all togged up in fancy dress for dinner. There were some funny shots of lifeboat drill with the flash reflected off the hi-vis parts of the jackets, and one underexposed shot of people looking at the eclipse - I assume. The sequence needed weeding. I booked an inside single cabin, assuming I wouldn't spend much time there, but I think I might just end up regarding it as a monastic cell. It looked like the sort of church I don't go to.
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I've been living mine since 1997 here in Kerala but really fancy popping over to Siem Reap in Cambodia sometime to see Angkor Wat the largest temple complex in the world. A friend is going there early in 2014 but I don't think I can join her, which is very sad! [Waterworks]

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My other fantasy holiday is to go to Iceland. I want to see bubbly mud, volcanos and the Aurora Borealis. I just need to get over my fear of flying first.

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My dream holiday:

Solo Kayaking in the Finnish lakeland for a whole long summer, just me and my boat, camping wild on little skerries, enjoying the freedom and the silence.

- (I used to sample this on long weekends back in the years when I lived in Helsinki, but I'd love to make a really long holiday of it)

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quote:
Originally posted by chive:
My other fantasy holiday is to go to Iceland. I want to see bubbly mud, volcanos and the Aurora Borealis. I just need to get over my fear of flying first.

Or you could take a boat.
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My chief disappointment about the eclipse trip is that it isn't one of those that included Iceland. Have to do that separately.
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quote:
Originally posted by chive:
My other fantasy holiday is to go to Iceland. I want to see bubbly mud, volcanos and the Aurora Borealis. I just need to get over my fear of flying first.

Or you could take a boat.
Aaah I won't mention my other fear - boats. [Hot and Hormonal]

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Living as we do on one edge of the Mediterranean Mr L and I have talked about how interesting it would be to do a trip of a complete circumnavigation of the Med through the countries which surround it. Lots of interesting places to visit on the way but unfortunately in current circumstances some of them may not be very safe for traveling. [Frown]
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Yes, in an ideal world I'd do that too.

(My ideal world would be one where there weren't currently any wars and single women travellers were treated with courtesy and respect wherever they went.)

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Ooh, a me too for Iceland and the Northern Lights.

I had a plan years ago to go round England on public transport and go to one place in each county that I hadn't been to. In the end it was too much for my then finances and would have taken too much time to complete the tour in one go. Maybe one day.

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Aaah I won't mention my other fear - boats. [Hot and Hormonal]

How are you on tunnels? You might still be able to get off this island by Eurostar and then the whole of Europe is open to you. You might not get all three of bubbly mud, volcanoes and the Aurora Borealis in the one locale, but Scandinavia might still have something to offer you.
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Originally posted by chive:
My other fantasy holiday is to go to Iceland. I want to see bubbly mud, volcanos and the Aurora Borealis. I just need to get over my fear of flying first.

Granted, I am not a doctor, or even a pharmacologist. That said, this might be a time for better living through drugs. My brother, who used to be a white knuckle flyer, now gets all the way across the Pacific to visit his mother in law in South Korea courtesy of powerful anti-anxiety meds. Have you given that any consideration? Iceland from the UK takes, what, three hours? You'd probably still be feeling nice and loosey-goosey by the time you were at your hotel. For a dream vacation, I think you can do it.

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You guys are selling me on Iceland. I have to say, I couldn't stop looking at it last time I flew over it. So much.... white.

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Originally posted by chive:
My other fantasy holiday is to go to Iceland. I want to see bubbly mud, volcanos and the Aurora Borealis. I just need to get over my fear of flying first.

Granted, I am not a doctor, or even a pharmacologist. That said, this might be a time for better living through drugs. My brother, who used to be a white knuckle flyer, now gets all the way across the Pacific to visit his mother in law in South Korea courtesy of powerful anti-anxiety meds. Have you given that any consideration? Iceland from the UK takes, what, three hours? You'd probably still be feeling nice and loosey-goosey by the time you were at your hotel. For a dream vacation, I think you can do it.
I use powerful anti-anxiety drugs to leave the house, let alone fly [Biased]

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quote:
Originally posted by Lucia:
Living as we do on one edge of the Mediterranean Mr L and I have talked about how interesting it would be to do a trip of a complete circumnavigation of the Med through the countries which surround it. Lots of interesting places to visit on the way but unfortunately in current circumstances some of them may not be very safe for traveling. [Frown]

Alas the Med. has always been like this. I suppose the best period was in the early seventies when it was just possible to visit every country, though Libya and Syria were difficult.

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Mr B and I go on a great holiday in about a month - a cruise to Noumea and other islands and then a flight to Tahiti, specifically a bungalow over the water in Bora Bora. It is a celebration of retirement from work and a chance to escape Winter. Can't wait! [Yipee]

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Alas the Med. has always been like this. I suppose the best period was in the early seventies when it was just possible to visit every country, though Libya and Syria were difficult.

Libya was pretty much out, but I went to Damascus then. You could get round most of the Med in those days - except for the Eastern Bloc, of course, and anything behind the Iron Curtain.
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Mr C was 60 last weekend and to celebrate I took him on his fantasy holiday.

We went to the Monaco Grand Prix. We stayed in Nice and went racing on the Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. We had seats in grandstand B for the grand prix which is opposite the Casino.

We explored Nice on the Friday including a visit to the Marc Chagall museum.

Photos here

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Alas the Med. has always been like this. I suppose the best period was in the early seventies when it was just possible to visit every country, though Libya and Syria were difficult.

Libya was pretty much out, but I went to Damascus then. You could get round most of the Med in those days - except for the Eastern Bloc, of course, and anything behind the Iron Curtain.
Oops! I forgot about Albania, but everyone except Norman Wisdom fans did. Yugoslavia was a bit odd. You could (IIRC) get to a few places, like Dubrovnik and Split but other places were more difficult.

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Sioni Sais: You could (IIRC) get to a few places, like Dubrovnik and Split but other places were more difficult.
I've been to Bled during the Iron Curtain days, it wasn't very difficult to get there.

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Sioni Sais: You could (IIRC) get to a few places, like Dubrovnik and Split but other places were more difficult.
I've been to Bled during the Iron Curtain days, it wasn't very difficult to get there.
I never went in 'Iron Curtain' days, but went to Dubrovnik last year. I rather liked it, but it was a bit hot! (late July/early Aug.)

We're going a bit farther down the coast this year, to Budva in Montenegro (Crna Gora).

If I ever get around to watching 'Game of Thrones' (reading 2nd book at the moment [Smile] ) I understand that quite a bit was filmed in and around Dubrovnik.

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...Fly into Heathrow, lease a car, and drive clockwise around the isle of Britain (near the coast where possible) with excursions farther inland....

Don't try to drive in Bristol: I did and it was no fun! Don't drive in London either: go by Underground or black cab. Why not ake a train to Cornwall from London and start your journey by car from there? We did, a few years ago and with my good wife navigating, I stayed out of trouble!

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My dream holiday would be to go to every Formula One race, have a pit pass, stay at the finest hotels and go to parties with journalist credentials.

It's never going to happen but I can dream, can't I?

In actuality, the only F1 race I ever went to was Long Beach in 1975: I bribed a rent-a-cop to stand at the hairpin curve.

Realistically, we may go to the USGP this year or next: too early to say. We would have free lodging courtesy of my sister and her family who live near by.

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