Got my new passport and the picture is truly awful. Hungover, unshaved, hair all over the place. Looking forward to being taken into a room whenever I try and enter a country.
Got my new passport and the picture is truly awful. Hungover, unshaved, hair all over the place. Looking forward to being taken into a room whenever I try and enter a country.
This is 2022, they can't touch us out of fear, it's the suited clean-shaven white men that are in for it now.
Travelling through airports with the Arab - me on a British passport, him on an Iraqi passport - was fun. The Germans in particular were no fans of his general existence.
Booked up for another cruise in April. This time to Sicily, Corsica, Pompeii, Capri and Civitavecchia (for Rome I think). Ł875.00 PP after discounts. Should be slightly better weather wise - wanted to do Caribbean or Miami this year but dates just don’t tie in with school teachers annoyingly.
Ł875 each to be surrounded by the general public all day. Christ.
At least he’ll probably make it through passport control.
Honestly, cruises sound like a great way to see a lot of places in a relatively short space of time. And to get really, really ill.
I'm heading to Chicago in March.
Chicago
Might still be cold as fuck in March though.
Yeah, it's looking pretty British.
Their winters are far worse than ours. Dunno about March though.
It's booked. 7 days and a trip through Dublin airport on the way back. Top Ireland.
We'll all chip in for a video blog and you can have a free trip. Ł50 from me.
I hope you enjoy massive metallic beans and grid-based traffic systems.Originally Posted by Shindig
It's booked. 7 days and a trip through Dublin airport on the way back. Top Ireland.
The Field Museum was pretty cool as well. Loads to totem poles and other Ancient Americas type stuff
Anyone been to Dubrovnik? Got an open week in May and this is top contender at the moment.
Croatia in general is class.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64994967
Oof. Glad I'll not have to deal with that on my way home.
Probably end up running better when they get the army in to do it unlike the usual G4S drones [as with the border force strike]. That or a good terrorism window.
I'm in Valencia this weekend for the Fallas festival. Stupidest decision of my life. Entire city ground to a standstill so that some massive effigies can be set on fire and 10 year old children launch Catherine wheels down busy streets as their parents clap and cheer. Also a lot of creepily dressed up women, as is normal in catholic countries.
Every single trombone player in Spain was pelting it until 5am last night. It currently sounds like Lord of the Rings final battle is occurring a couple of blocks away.
Do they police tape all off-licences and the like over the Easter weekend over there or is that more of a central american/third world catholic thing?
Depending on your outlook, I suppose it could be worse, don' they hold the tomato festival down that way?
This is the only mental image of Jimmy I can muster.
It happened in Ireland when I was there. Only service allowed was in hotels which consequently meant ours was rammed.
That’s only on Good Friday. Or actually, was only on Good Friday - the law was removed in 2018.
Christmas Day is the only day the pubs are closed here.
I've been to that before. Got caught there for an Arsenal game I tagged along to with some mates. It's proper mental how is is essentially 24/7 fireworks/explosions. Can barely have a conversation at midday with someone 2ft from you
Yeah, it's absolutely insane in a way that is quite hard to describe. Random people just setting off massive firecrackers in every street, all day, for the sake of it. The absolute pride and joy of the city (no one seems to have gone to work for at least a week) and completely batshit mental with very little rhyme or reason to what is going on. Would get banned in about 8 seconds in the UK.
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Just leaving Marrakesh after a few days in the medina. It’s good fun.
Well, getting over to Chicago was a piece of piss. Above ground it's mostly nice with plenty of old stuff to gawk at.
Underground you get the customary mentalists riding the rails. Moreso than NYC, if I'm honest.
John, your football post have reminded me, I'm flying into Uncle Ho's backgarden at end of April and returning from Hanoi on mid-may. I've got chatgpt working on it but please do offer any words of wisdom on the trip. Hoping to do a week at a beach location but otherwise, yet to decide on anything.
Stuck on the L train to the airport because of a silly bugger on the tracks. Thankfully the flight to Dublin was late in.
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Spend as little time as possible in both Hanoi and HCMC. If you have a free 3-4 days, get to Ha Giang (8hr bus north from Hanoi) and drive "the loop".
Best beaches are Qui Nhon, Mui Ne or the island of Phu Quoc.
Danang is a decent smaller city, Hoi An is full of tourists but has a nice beach and old town, Hue is shit. Dalat is a nice few days in the mountains, but a bit of an arse to get to/from. Sapa has nice but full of tourists and scammers.
Nha Trang is Blackpool.
Ajaccio is a great place. Naples and Palermo are both absolute shitholes. Palamós has a lovely beach and is a nice wee town.
Tempted by Croatia for a 2 week summer holiday - prices seem a bit mental though.
I'm going to Croatia in a few weeks. They've just (officially) changed to the Euro so I reckon that's contributing to the prices.
I’m still getting used to Summer holiday prices when the schools are off so it’s probably mostly normal. I still can’t believe I spent Ł2800 for 10 days in Tenerife last year during the school holidays. Can get to Cancun for 14 days for that.
I just booked my flight back to the UK this summer. $2800. Business one-way, otherwise it was >$4k
Robbing bastards.
I'm in Poland right and have been this week. Will be flying back on Wednesday probably.
Look at Nan keeping her Facebook updated.
It's a wonderful app.
To move it from Nan to creepy Uncle, I will say that there are a crazy amount of hot Polish and Ukrainian women around. Shame they won't look at me.
Eye contact costs more, iirc
Sevilla on Thursday. 💪
https://elektrowniapowisle.com/
Currently here in the food hall. It's an old powerplant that has been converted into a shopping mall and flats. It's pretty cool and the Vietnamese food I had wasn't bad.
#NanLife.
This has thrown an uneccessary spanner into the planning ffs, you've gone against a lot of what I'd read on my intensive 10 minute research.
Your lack of enthusiasm towards Hue and Hoi An has me now at this:
3 days/2 nights in HCMC - District 1 hotel, will have a spa day (any recommendation?) and a Mekong Delta cruise booked.
6 days/5 nights in a resort in Blackpool
4 days/3 nights in Danang - Day trip to Son Doong Caves
8 days/8 nights in North - Maybe 3 days in Sapa trekking and whatnot and the rest just mincing about Hanoi. Maybe Halong Bay and Ba Be Lake too.
Talk to me. Yet to arrange travel after Blackpool but would have liked to experience a night train. Are they decent or to be avoided?
Trains are great, just make sure to get a VVIP/VIP ticket (flat bed) and take your own shit paper.
Danang and the caves will be great (are you going with Oxalis?), as will the Mekong. Sapa is nice, but if I were you (and you can drive a bike), I'd head to Ha Giang instead - but lounging around Sapa will also be decent, but quite busy with tourists. Couple of days in Ha Long will be fine.
Blackpool will be ok if you get a decent hotel near the beach - it's a weird city - and not a lot to do - perhaps shorten it a few days, and add more time out on the road in the north, or head to Qui Nhon - it's the next place that will become popular - great beaches, if not a little underdeveloped tourist-wise or Mui Ne which is a ready-made beach town with lots of restaurants and stuff.
Haven't booked yet but Oxalis do a 1 day-er that looks good. Yeah, I'm going to stay off the bikes as with the missus and she's not to be trusted on them (nor am I tbf). She's also pushing for a long stay at a single resort so I'm happy to bend over on that and give the bitch her Blackpool. I just need my Vietnamese food to be happy.
Cheers for those posts, think we're there now.
I'm a twit
I'm sure he's got it in hand.
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