The Travel Thread

[Lewis]

Are you ready for bicycle central?

[Bernanke]

Is that some Dutch reference I'm not getting?

[Lewis]

Holland. Bikes. Arse... Never mind. Tell us about the job.

[Bernanke]

Ah. That hasn't been an issue for years, I've gotten annoyingly Dutch with my bike-habits.

I'll bump my Portugal/Balkans queries and take it to the proper thread.

[Raoul Duke]

Lisbon/Cintra/Cascais is what I did a few years ago. Was a great week

[Kikó]

First idea that has been on the to do list for about a decade is Andalusia, but I can do without 45 degrees so I think that's out of the question.

Another option is doing Porto + Lisbon. I haven't been to either and feel like there'd be a decent amount of people traveling there still so the hostels aren't completely empty. If I fly to one and out from the other, is there anything I should add to the list on the way between them?

You could try and fit Obidos in but it's sort of going away from Lisbon rather than towards Porto. There's also the coastal towns like the one for the famous surf, in Nazare. Sintra is also amazing.
Also Coimbra is one of the oldest university towns which you can visit. In Porto, you can go onto the Duoro which is also stunning.

He isn't having to assemble his meals dressed like a dentist, so his holiday > your holiday.

😂😭

[Waffdon]

Anyone been abroad at New Year? Am I best just booking Canaries/Madeira if I’m after decent weather?

[randomlegend]

Going to the Maldives for our second honeymoon, like the basic bitches we are.

[Waffdon]

I was looking at the Caribbean but I’ll get my balls snipped off for spending too much on a holiday when we’re buying a house next year and an engagement ring for her.

I wouldn’t mind Funchal but she’s been there a few times on a cruise at NY for the fireworks so would probably be a waste

[Spikey M]

I would keep it basic this year as there's alot of countries still shitting the bed over Covid. I'd probably just book last minute tbh.

[Giggles]

It got me out of holidays the past couple of years so for a big wave at the start of next summer.

[randomlegend]

You hating holidays is so on-brand

[Waffdon]

I would keep it basic this year as there's alot of countries still shitting the bed over Covid. I'd probably just book last minute tbh.

Yeah, I was just gonna be right before we leave anyway which is what I done pre covid half the time anyway.

[Giggles]

You hating holidays is so on-brand

Airports, not holidays. I’m not going to turn into a quivering mess and start soiling myself in them but they’re just one queue after another and I cannot abide queueing. I don’t mind being away so long as it’s not too weird a spot.

[randomlegend]

Airports, not holidays. I’m not going to turn into a quivering mess and start soiling myself in them but they’re just one queue after another and I cannot abide queueing. I don’t mind being away so long as it’s not too weird a spot.

Oh that's more than fair. Airports are the fucking pits.

[Shindig]

It's the waiting around that bores me. Turning up a couple of hours early only to be airside within 30 minutes. Although that was before covid.

[igor_balis]

Top Ireland is good.

[randomlegend]

It's in the name.

[Spikey M]

[igor_balis]

On the pull with @Boydy later

[Don]

It truly doesn't get better than Top Ireland and I say that having only experienced Belfast.

[randomlegend]

Going to the Maldives for our second honeymoon, like the basic bitches we are.

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_...hi_Island.html

All booked. 9 nights here in a water villa with a night either end in Doha.

I am now broke af.

[Shindig]

Not gonna lie, Doha looks like the last place you want to be skint in.

[randomlegend]

It's just a stopover to make the flight times more bearable.

[Shindig]

Ah, fair as fuck.

[Spikey M]

Fucking fair as fuck, that is.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

There's no fairer fuck.

[igor_balis]

You'd know all about that aye

[Spikey M]

Go on then. Name one fuck fairer than that.

[randomlegend]

I can't help feeling you're all being a bit unfair.

[Shindig]

All's fair in fuck and fuck.

[Giggles]

Stay with the natives rather than the planters anyway Igor and don’t go down the belligerent proddie route. Much more craic with the fake Irish than the fake British.

[Spikey M]

Probably showing my ignorance here, but I always thought a Englishman in Belfast would have to stay away from the Republican parts for fear of having reversible knees fitted?

[Giggles]

Probably showing my ignorance here, but I always thought a Englishman in Belfast would have to stay away from the Republican parts for fear of having reversible knees fitted?

Not at all. They know the English are largely clueless when it comes to it all, and they’re far less stuck in the ways anyway. I’d rather be English meeting republicans than Irish meeting loyalists anyway. The latter are ten times more hard core.

[Giggles]

Same as an English fella in Dublin or Cork has far less hassle than Irish in Antrim or Carrickfergus.

[Spikey M]

Yeah I has zero problems in Dublin and didn't really expect too. I just expected Belfast to be a bit more on edge, but I suppose you're probably alright unless you go walking walking around the wrong estate. But the same is true for London I suppose.

And Carrickfergus is definitely a made up place. I'm not having that.

[Giggles]

Yeah I has zero problems in Dublin and didn't really expect too. I just expected Belfast to be a bit more on edge, but I suppose you're probably alright unless you go walking walking around the wrong estate. But the same is true for London I suppose.

And Carrickfergus is definitely a made up place. I'm not having that.

Carrickfergus is one of those Lewis jimmy dreamlands that’s black as fuck. Absolute no leeway - fenians out. We used to play them in something as insignificant as American football and you’d middle aged women calling us taigs and spitting on us.
Belfast is grand in the city centre as it’s just taken as no hassle, though the fake Irish are still more craic i somewhere like laverys. You just don’t want to stray outside that.

[igor_balis]

Me and my mate went to a fairly quaint seeming proddy place and @Boydy said fucking hell watch out for the UVF

It seemed pretty chill but as we left I did spot the jukebox was set on "loyalist favourites"

[Lofty]

If you wander in the wrong pub you'll know. Some lad from work did it a few years back. Barman was pointedly ignoring them and when they complained he pointed to the sword hung above the bar and explained it was used to decapitate Englishmen. They got the hint

[igor_balis]

Useless twat @Boydy has passed out by the pub. My mate has left in the Uber cus the driver refused to take him. I have 10 minutes to wake up the cunt before the next one arrives.

[Danny]

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_...hi_Island.html

All booked. 9 nights here in a water villa with a night either end in Doha.

I am now broke af.

Maldives is one place I really want to go. The wife is a terrible flyer though so it might remain a dream.

[igor_balis]

Update: some northern Irish spastics keep shouting stuff like"he's fucked" and keep lobbing fucking bread rolls at us. Boydy currently snoring and unresponsive. I want to die.

[Waffdon]

Put a bit of your gear in his gums.

[igor_balis]

I was too much of a pussy to take any on the ferry.

[Waffdon]

I’m surprised you’re still standing. I can’t handle my drink whatsoever ever since stopping.

[Lofty]

I reckon Boyd is still happily asleep in the gutter surrounded by bread rolls.

[Boydy]

I don't remember any of this.

Starting to feel vaguely human again now. Still a bit rough though.

[niko_cee]

Explain the bread roll thing.

[igor_balis]

I don't remember any of this.

Starting to feel vaguely human again now. Still a bit rough though.

As I said, I'm mostly pleased you didn't choke on your own vomit and die.

[igor_balis]

Explain the bread roll thing.

The bar we was at, the sunflower, was surrounded by big buildings - not sure if flats, hostel/hotels or both, but I heard some lads laughing and talking about how fucked @Boydy was, and then they started lobbing fucking bread rolls at us from above. I couldn't identify which window they were coming from.

It wasn't even a short, intense burst, they would just lob one every fifteen minutes or so. I pathetically staggered into the middle of the street and did a kind of 'come on lads' plea, like some shit substitute teacher, to no avail.