Just came back from Barcelona, what a city.
The British summer is feeling distinctly more shit now I've come back.
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Just came back from Barcelona, what a city.
The British summer is feeling distinctly more shit now I've come back.
Booking New York for first week in December shortly. Any recommendations outside of the obvious?
I think we'll stay in Brooklyn, fancy doing a Rangers game or the Knicks given the time of year we are going.
The Charleston pub in Williamsburg - free pizza with every pint :drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adamski
That's what I'm talking about! Great shout!
Off to the Cayman Islands in October with a couple of mates. Can't wait for that shit.
Trips to New York are vastly improved by making sure your flight's destination says New Orleans, Charleston, Montreal, San Francisco, Toronto, Seattle, or Boulder.
If you are going to persist with that foolishness the Rangers game is a great idea. Go to a Jewish deli (even if run by Koreans) but make sure they are selling schmaltz and chopped liver. Or go to a soul food place that is serving Southern 'meat and three' style and get the collard greens.
Just back from a week in London and Paris. Paris was lovely. I thought it might have been vast and overwhelming, but not at all.
Me and my mother went to Highclere Castle (the Downton Abbey house) today, and it was heaving with Americans and Asians. I tripped on a step and took a knee, and these three Japanese behind me lolled exactly like you would expect dirty Japs to lol at somebody, like they were getting off on it but were too polite to make it obvious.
They were probably laughing at the fact you go on excursions with your mother.
We've brought the dog back to Portsmouth, and it's up the road. It's not like we went on a coach trip.
I had a night out in Portsmouth the other day, eight years on from meeting Maz there. It was shitter this time.
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Originally Posted by lewis
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Originally Posted by magic
Caps.
It's a dump. I know it has the Navy and London close by, but where does all the money come from?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I'd go anywhere with mine. She wouldn't get to see half the places otherwise and she'll be long enough gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
I've arrived in Lisbon today, after a week in the south of France. I think I've actually forgotten what normal life is like.
I can't big time better than that Charlie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Three weeks around Eastern Europe have done the same. Although it's with the girlfriend which is great but when you wish to go on the lash in Budapest and she's moaning about bed at 22:00, then the dream dies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Scotland was great. Anyone considering going to Iceland should just do the North Coast 500 instead (unless you're going for the girls). People all friendly as well.
The Isle of Raasay was amazing.
While interning in India, the missus and I spent our break week in Thailand, and I absolutely fell in love with the place. The beaches are gorgeous, the food is delicious, and on the whole, the people are friendly. We stayed a couple of days in Bangkok, a night in Krabi Town, and a few nights each in Ko Phi Phi and Ko Lanta.
Looking to go back when I'm on exchange in Australia and hopefully explore more of the place (especially the northern bits: Chiang Mai, Pai, etc.) and take in a full moon party.
Highly recommended, gentlemen.
Did you enjoy Irn Bru?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoonsky
It was alright. No worse or better than Coke but at least something different.
Irn Bru and vodka is the key, son.
If that's the key then hopefully you never find the lock.
Can vouch for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
Vile.
Cold Irn Bru from a glass bottle is for the day after your vodka.
Outside of an Irish bar showing Sky Sports and serving a roast in 35 degree weather, Tenerife wasn't anything like the tacky neon mess you get elsewhere on the island. Teide and La Gomera are amazing.
Sitting in the airport waiting to fly home to Louisiana for my uncle's funeral in New Orleans while reading news stories about the flooding in Baton Rouge with up to 20,000 people displaced. Second time I've flown back to a natural disaster but at least this time it is not in my hometown.
My friend swears by la gomera. Says its a bit of an arse to get to though.Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
Got any snaps of it wullie?
I was told the only way to get there is the ferry from Los Cristianos, although it does have some kind of airport so that might be bollocks. The tour we did takes in pretty much the whole island, and it's bizarre how you go through a tunnel in lush forest under a mountain and then come out in a bare lunar landscape.
La Gomera
http://i.imgur.com/cVVXQKB.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PhRrjxl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/HLHw4YO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/27jGhNg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/66ALog6.jpg
Teide
http://i.imgur.com/3JKSuGv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WwoFnnJ.jpg
Tenerife is underrated for stuff like that.
Great pictures @wullie.
Had to fly from Phoenix to Atlanta then back to New Orleans. On the flight to Atlanta, the pilot pointed out the flood zone which you could see from the plane. It is insane because that area is where we evacuate to from New Orleans during hurricanes because it doesn't flood. Towns like Livingston will have 50,000 plus homes that are all a total loss because none of them will have flood insurance. At least between our famed Cajun Navy and the National Guard there is some semblance of actual disaster response this time instead of cops barricading a bridge with shoot to kill orders.
Pretty sure I walked past Toby in Krakow yesterday.
On top of a possible Toby sighting, I have to say that Krakow was a brilliant destination for a long weekend trip. Loads of interesting stuff to see, compact enough to take on on foot, beautiful women and everything is dirt cheap.
Only just missed you, spent all last week in it and got home Friday. Absolutely brilliant spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pen
Speaking of glamourous locales, how was your visit to Scotland, Giggles?
I'm just at my mum's after a few days in the Isle of Man. Was planning to go somewhere more exciting but was having issues getting my passport sorted. Confirmed my suspicion that I'm more than happy spending a few days mooching about a place in my own company so at some point next year if there isn't a more appealing option of a holiday with somebody then I'm definitely going to see somewhere new in Europe.
It ended up a bit of a bust as I flew up from London a day late and had to go in across 3 different shifts so I had no chance to get up into Glasgow. Did get an epic feed in a Toby one night at 10pm though :drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Also, road works. Jesus Christ the road works.
I came there last Thursday so we did have one evening of possible close calls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
I stayed in the Garden Inn the last night so I may have been leering at you coming from the airport while I was out having a fag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pen
Trying to book more short trips around Europe as I really enjoyed Krakow and I don't have that many vacation days to use. London and Stockholm are probably the next two on the list after Copenhagen as a birthday getaway in few weeks. If only I wouldn't have to work at all :(
Also, I checked if I did see Toby and I'm pretty sure I did as he was in Krakow that day according to Facebook.
3 of us qualifies as a TTH meet, even if we didn't know it at the time.
We need to start posting our travel plans live on twitter as we move so this doesn't happen again.
Should get your own Whatsapp group.
We wouldn't do well at the LADBANTER so I propose something civilised like SMS group messaging.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adamski
The banter we have is monumental. Imagine if ladsbible was even more epic.
I've seen it but haven't been able to duplicate it even with my bestest efforts.
http://www.youngpioneertours.com/int...nal-2017-tours
Been looking at these. Some of them look pretty suicidal but others look pretty great. I love the idea of the Antarctica one but it's pretty unlikely I'd ever go through with it. Think the Caucasus one is winning so far.
Their 'Eurasian tour' looks a laugh and a half.
They make it sound like you need to be a quite dangerous nutcase to get the most out of it.Quote:
The tour starts in Beijing, with an overnight stay and optional visit to the Mausoleum of Chairman Mao, before embarking on the 6 day epic that is the Trans-Mongolian, or the “party train” as it also known. We already have a number of people signed up for this part, so if you are considering taking the train anyway, why not join us fun young people?
Following our arrival in Moscow, we start to fully embrace Soviet nostalgia by visiting all of Moscow’s top sites, before taking the train to the most Soviet of all republics Belarus and its capital Minsk, where we will be seeing such treasures as the former residence of Lee Harvey-Oswald, as well as staying in our own little pimping apartment.
This leads us on to group 3, our big group, where we will be visiting not only Pripyat (Chernobyl), but also doing the extreme missile base tour, as well as sampling the night time delights on a bar crawl. Our contacts in Pripyat mean, we can usually sneak in some secret sites that we are not even allowed to blog about!
After group 3 leave us in Kiev, group 4 will continue firstly to Odessa, then onto Tiraspol, capital of the breakaway republic of Transnistria. If you do not know anything about the place, Google it. And if you want off the beaten track, this is it. We really mix it up here by having one night in a very very Soviet hotel before transferring to a slightly more luxurious offering in the countryside, a true Soviet time warp. Following a few nights here, we visit Moldova, the only ex-Soviet republic to vote the communists back in, before taking the overnight bus to Bucharest, which as a flight hub and will make it easier to arrange onward flights.
Group 5 completes the full communist chic element, with us visiting the former homes of Ceausescu, Tito, and Hoxha, via Romania, Macedonia and Albania, as well as visiting the contemporary hot spots that are Mitrovica and Kosovo before finishing in Albania.
Group 6 will be moving on to the beautiful capital of Montenegro – Podgorica. After a days exploration, it’s across the border to Belgrade to take in the sights of this incredible city, before moving onto Sarajevo, Mount Igman to see the abandoned and crumbling ruins from the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games., Zagreb and a final night as we say goodbye to group 6 in Ljubljana and cheers each other one last time with promises of reunions!
For our first ever Group 7 Eurasian Tour, we truly complete the adventure before traveling along the rest of the Iron Curtain through Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland, meaning all former Warsaw Pact countries being visited throughout the trip.
Someone on my Facebook friends list going on that is how I found out about the service. I gather he's just back from spending two months in Hebron so you're probably right.
I went to North Korea with 'YPT'. They certainly did a good job on our tour.