There was a pair of Americans in the pub yesterday with really thick southern accents. So annoying, I don’t think I could cope visiting America.
There was a pair of Americans in the pub yesterday with really thick southern accents. So annoying, I don’t think I could cope visiting America.
I'm a twit
I'm going to LONDON this weekend. Hopefully not getting stabbed.
DC was a solid trip. Can't recommend it enough. Looks like a great place to drag the kids around. Just be wary that you could wind up with teenagers in the hotel room next door who act completely and utterly retarded.
I was staying in Crystal City which had plenty of options for food and drink and you could spot planes landing/taking off at Ronald Raegan National Airport. Surprisingly, the noise wasn't that big of a deal. Legitimately the most civilised US place I've seen so far.
Anyway, now for my chance to moan about baggage. I'm sick of doing that song and dance about checking in cabin bag bags because 'its a full flight, sir' The amount of overhead space we had flying out of Heathrow was fine. If airlines don't want to run that risk, keep that shit as one cabin bag per customer. Don't give them to option to buy more.
Got taken to Gran Canaria on a family holiday staying in an all inclusive resort where the aim of the game appears to be “help with your niece occassionally and float in the pool”.
Managed to avoid getting burnt to a crisp today, which was a nice bonus.
The (probably only) positive I can give Gran Canaria is the temperature is indeed hot. There’s nothing here that aside but sea (although it does look nice).
Right, she's really on my case now after a few years of no holidays. Want something nice and quiet-ish, not resorty. Something small, no buses or that shite, where we can bobble around and just see what's what. Some sights be nice. I had Seville or something like that in my head from reading guff here, but recommendations appreciated.
Basically Sorrento is the greatest place in the world to her, so that kind of thing somewhere else. With maybe more architecture for me.
Sicily then, if you want Sorrento plus architecture minus Brits.
Sicily is the king if you like historical stuff. Seville is lovely but sounds bigger than what you're after.
Cheers folks. I think we had a flying visit to Sicily once on a boat from Malta. Would you stay in Catania?
I loved Naples for that but it is a bit rough round the edges and you do have to hope the city isn't in an argument with the mafia over whether they'll pick up the bins that month but its part of the charm.
Brits are grand, anything under 17 isn't.Originally Posted by Ben
Don't mind a good bit of walking, we'd do savage miles on holidays. It's not so much historical we want, just old looking and some oooh buildings.
I mean, you could do Andalucia but stick to the smaller places like Granada, Cordoba, Cadiz? Alhambra sounds like the ballpark for compromising sight to see between the two of you.
Cadiz is an absolute beaut actually. Not sure if there's a full holiday's worth of stuff in it (in fact I'm certain that there isn't) but it's a lovely place. Will be hot in the summer, mind.
Ooooh buildings reminds me of Lucca, genuinely interesting to walk around but I think you're done after 2 days.
All my posts have made me realise that I've done all of Western Europe but only ever been to Madrid for Spain (which I thought was largely shit)
I'll have to look all of those up because they're not soccer teams.
Wait, are we talking August or so? Then yeah maybe inland Spain is not ideal.
July or August anyway, for her school holidays, which always means brats.
Seville is really beautiful, we had a great time. When are you planning to go though? Because in the height of summer it is genuinely too hot. Not unusual to get above 40c and all the locals run away to the coast.
San Sebastian is absolutely brilliant if you're down for getting stuck into the Pintxo bars. Favourite city we've been to by far.
Edit: oh whoops, didn't read properly. Yeah Seville is too hot at that time.
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Doubt you'll get many kids in Sicily. And while hot, will be bearable.
Porto is a winner. Perfect for 3/4 days, especially if you take a day trip down the Douro. The city itself all funnels into the river, which – while very touristy – is still very spectacular. Then you have all the port houses and rooftop bars, great food, lots of nice parks, some great historic buildings and sights, and so on.
That said, if you're thinking about a week, 10 days, or two weeks, it's not going to be ideal. But then, you could always pootle on down through Portugal to Aveiro, Coimbra and onwards to Lisbon, or go north to Guimaraes and up to the national parks. Or even all the way up to Vigo and Santiago in Spain.
Wasn't Sicily on fire last summer?
Yeah. Was in the 40s when I was there
Global warming. I was there like 6 years ago and I remember it being around 30C but due to always being fairly close to the coast it didn't feel too hot.
I'm camping in the middle of buttfuck nowhere. Pretty awesome, but having no data/WiFi is sickening.
I'd be more concerned by the river made of pure shite and the high risk of landmines.
Probs not even any pubs offering accessible sheperd's pie.
I sometimes have a fantasy that if war or nuclear disaster breaks out, I'll run away to a place that looks like that and live out my days like a hermit, ensconced in nature. Of course, about 500 million people will also have the same idea so there'll be a Dunkin Donuts on the banks of that stream within weeks.
You can literally see the floor of the river, dofus. I mean, I'm not drinking, but it's pretty clean up in the mountains.
Flew back from Spain last night and one of the flight attendants made me want to grind my teeth to powder.
He thought he was hilarious and constantly made jokey remarks on the PA system when delivering news. To top it off after we landed and were being taxied to the terminal he started doing one liners which seemed to have any 40+ year old woman in hysterics.
It was painful.
I believe that’s now called rizz.
I'm a twit
That cable car and Toboggan in Funchal is not worth the 3 hour combined queue. My god. woman.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68723697
We really are shit. The "oh but we're a busy airport" excuse doesn't fly when Schiphol have had the new scanners for years now.
I went to Rome this week. The Colosseum (and bits around it) is fantastic, and so is the Pantheon. The Vatican Museum is a bit crap, what with it being essentially a second rate art museum, and the Sistine Chapel is underwhelming; but Saint Peter's Basilica is incredible. Castel Sant'Angelo is pretty crummy but worth the climb up, the Trevi Fountain is nice if you're tall enough to see over the crowd, the Spanish Steps are alright, and the hill to the West is a decent walk for the view.
It was nice to mooch around because it's quite small and full of interesting bits, but literally every inch of it is 'the tourist bit' plagued by Indians selling phone chargers and Africans asking if your trainers are football colours to sell you shit ('Newcastle shoes, brother?' the SS actually Roots me old son get lost). Apparently round about now is the quieter season, but it was still pretty busy around the attractions, and Chinese people can't use standard stairs let alone olden days uneven ones. It's also fucking filthy, with litter everywhere, graffiti on every wall that isn't behind a protective fence, and probably one public toilet in the entire city. The quarter of a mile around the train station in particular is a disgrace.
I like the pizza by weight system, and I feel like somebody offering that here would do well; but then I also think you would get dickheads ordering x amount, hearing the price, and then asking for less. I don't know. Good trip, and the flights cost less than my last on-peak train from Portsmouth to London.
Share the selfies.
There was a chicken shop in Birmingham that kind of did this when I lived there. It was great. You walked in with a pocket full of shrapnel after a night out and asked boss man what he'd give you for Ł2.47.
He never actually weighed anything, obviously. But it was good fun.
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Like a less focus grouped version of that Cadbury advert.
I'd like a piece of chicken please . . .
The only picture I took. By the ninth one I had started to appreciate their way of doing it.
How were the Turkey Dinosaurs?
Probably slapped on a pizza tbf.
Some of the things they do slap on their weighed pizza looked pretty suspect.
What’s the best area to stay in around Barcelona area? Well, anywhere from Tarragona to Costa Brava.
Feel like it’s going to be family central but cruise is leaving from there and would rather spend a week in the area rather than flying somewhere else.
I stayed in Eixample and it was a cool area, well connected to all the things you'd want
Ye Eixample is the best for a short-ish stay. You get to avoid the really touristic spots while still being close to them and it also has probably the best nightlife in the city.
Costa Brava has great beaches, but I'm not sure I'd choose to stay there unless you generally want something more chill, especially since Barcelona can get quite (disgustingly so) hectic in the summer months.
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Not going away this year because we've got to replace both the cars and get the house render fixed, so looking to do a big one next year.
Planning on a safari in South Africa for a few days and then over to Mauritius for a week lazing about on the beach.
Should be banging.
Looking at here for safari:
https://www.shepherdstreegamelodge.com/
And here for Mauritius:
https://www.paradisecovehotel.com/en
at the moment.
Going to Paris next weekend, excited to check out this place.
The irony of the most appealing British deli I've ever come across being in France.
He's a heretic catering to the ponce market, and needs to get back to the rainy homeland and soak up some misery to remind himself of why our cuisine and national character is like it is. We didn't build an empire and win two world wars by putting fennel in our pork pies.
I'd sign a national decree right now making it law that pork pies must contain fennel. Fennel and pork are born for each other.
Fennel is disgusting.
Clunge should be deported.
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