Summer Trips
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I would have kept that to myself. I don't think my wife would be any more forgiving if it had been 15-20 seconds or 15-20 minutes. I couldn't get it done in 15-20 seconds even on a bet.
You need to remember you're on a board full of xenophobes.
Exactly. Fuggin Europe. Eye-ties, Pollocks, the Dutch, dudes with stupid haircuts hitting on my girlfriend in languages I can't understand. Pass
Other places that I'd rather go. My plan is to avoid air flight for the next year or so.
Unless something happens this will be the first time in about twenty years that we are not going to Europe. We are trying to work out a trip to Bulgaria and Romania but so far we've had no luck.
I've only been once, but it was a pretty epic month-long mini-retirement. We visited London, Paris, and our best friends met up with us for a week in Italy. We made a pact to do a big couples trip at least every five years. That was 2009, and well ...
Next time I'd like to visit Spain. I'm picturing a fountain and a leather sack full of red wine, Hemingway style.
My wife did a high school trip and then studied at the Sorbonne for a summer in college so she's been a little more than I have.
If you held a gun to my head I'd have to say London, but we did different kinds of things in the different places so each one had its high points.
We started and ended the trip in London and spent a little more time there than the others, so we were able to kind of settle in and find some less touristy things to do.
We started and ended the trip in London and spent a little more time there than the others, so we were able to kind of settle in and find some less touristy things to do.
Like you, most people will say the place they stayed the longest. London, Paris, Rome, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong are considered cross roads of the world.
I could never live in London or any other large city. Love to visit but don't want to live there.
Did you get to go outside the city? Stonehenge is not too far south of London, so is Bath which is a great little town.
Bath is also awesome. Stonehenge doesn't live up to the hype.
Here's the thing about Europe. If I'm over there, I want to go to the major cities. Call me young and dumb or whatever, but I have zero interest in going to the small, quaint towns and like staying in B&B's and shit like that. I don't want to backpack through Europe. I can backpack through the Appalachians for a ridiculously cheaper amount.
It's probably one of those things I'll want to do when I'm 50 like y'all, but as for now, I'm 26. If I go to Europe, I want to go somewhere I can communicate (so Britain) and a big city. I've been to various places in the English countryside and I disliked it immensely except for Bath.
Speaking of Europe, Germany and Poland are currently playing each other in Euro '16 (soccer). I can't imagine that there's ANY bad blood or hurt feelings between those two nations at all . . .
I have to agree with you about the English countryside but they are just as many countries in Europe where the countryside beats the large cities. Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Greece, come to mind.
I would love to go to Norway -- that's a country where I'd like to go outside the cities. The fjords and landscapes there are incredible.
I guess my main thing is I don't want to go where I can't communicate. Call me a xenophobe or whatever but I feel very uncomfortable to downright annoyed when I'm around someone speaking another language I can't understand. I hate it. An additional problem is I'm a very, very cautious driver, so I'd be pretty terrified to drive in a different country (which I assume you'd have to do when you're going to the sticks).
ETA: Basically my problem is I'm super close-minded to other cultures in the U.S. (!!!) much less other countries. I don't mean to be and I try not to be, but I am. It's a big character flaw I'm trying to work on, especially since my current girlfriend is an opera singer who speaks fluent Italian soooooo.....that's been an interesting transition for me.
Spain is a great country. We spent 3 weeks there last year.
I like checking off far-flung bodies of water that I've sailed in, so I'd like to go sailing on the Med, or the Bay of Biscay, or the English Channel.
Europe has a great rail system, you don't have to drive if you don't want to. As far as the language goes, I have found that if you just learn to say "hello" "thank you" "toilet", and learn their money system you will be OK, once people see that you are trying to use their language they will tell you that they do speak a little English, Except for the French...lol. With the EU being what it is you don't even need to learn a lot about the money. 75% of Europe is using Euro's. I value an experience far more than an object like a car, boat, money in the bank etc. Nobody can take an experience from me.
I love being in a port where Yachts from all over the world are anchored.
I know what you're getting at, but "backpacking through Europe" isn't even remotely the same thing as "backpacking the Appalachians." The former is about immersing yourself in local culture. The latter is about escaping all culture.
No reason to apologize for that. It makes perfect sense. Somebody visiting the U.S. might want to visit NYC, Boston, and D.C. but not check out upstate New York or Maine. It's all about making the best use of your time and everyone's priorities are different.
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Absolutely. That's a factor, although not the predominant one, in my desire to travel to Australia and New Zealand. I'm pretty determined when it comes to this type of thing so I'll definitely find a way to make it happen. Would also like to make trips to Scandinavia, the Southern Cone (Argentina/Chile/Uruguay), and Scotland/Ireland.
Let's talk about something fun. This is the first time in more than 15 years that my wife and I are not going overseas for vacation. We do have a annual trip to Ocracoke planned for September. Where are you guys going or where have you been this summer?
I leave tomorrow (this) morning for the Canadian Maritimes. Rather than try to upload photos to a file sharing site so I can poast them on OOTB, I might just put them on Twitter and poast the link. Much easier.
Currently eating at Roger's BBQ in Hogansville, GA (western, central GA)
Their 'cue comes chopped or sliced, and their two sauce options are mustard sauce and tangy sweet red sauce.
Lord help me.
Their 'cue comes chopped or sliced, and their two sauce options are mustard sauce and tangy sweet red sauce.
Lord help me.
Back to Wrightsville Beach this weekend. Still can't believe how much stuff it takes for two small people to spend two nights away from home.
I'll be on the river again this weekend. Drinking Busch Light, and chewing tobacco (yeah, the quit didn't stick, wanna make something of it?) and fishing. Can't do those things in Europe, sooo, I'm out. In all seriousness, if I didn't have kids or if I had a ton of money and didn't have to work, then maybe I'd take a trip to Europe. But there's a lot more I feel I need to see here before I go there. And Europe probably wouldn't beat our parts of South America. No interest whatsoever in going to the middle east or far east. Australia and New Zealand would be cool but those places are to hell and gone from here. Seems like a major pain in the ass to take a trip there.
Going to IOP, SC later this summer.
Going to IOP, SC later this summer.
I wasn't raised on NC cue, so I happen to like all styles of sauce....
Except for mustard. It is an abomination and should be sent back to the dark corner of hell from which it came.
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