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Post by treehugger on May 7, 2013 10:34:51 GMT -5
I have confirmed flights for Seoul, Amsterdam, DC, Cape Town and Rome for this year. More travel than I have done in YEARS - combined!!!  I am soooooooooooooo happy. So, tell me your travel brags? |
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Post by lillielangtry on May 7, 2013 10:53:49 GMT -5
Yay!That sounds great!
Nothing booked yet, but I'm seriously thinking of going to South America in November and if it works out I will be SO happy.
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Post by Raised_By_Wolves on May 7, 2013 11:41:48 GMT -5
nice! all in one trip or separately?
unfortunately i have no travel brags this year (still recovering from last summer's Norway trip, the wallet that is.). have to save for Japan 2014. this christmas i'm going to southern Germany as usual.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 7, 2013 16:39:17 GMT -5
Yay, though sadly I don't see Sydney on that list.
We realised our plans don't fit our budget, so travel is more likely to be Tasmania (still a flight over water, but in the same country)
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Post by mei on May 7, 2013 16:57:50 GMT -5
wow, some nice destinations on that list.... enjoy!
halcyon, well, at least tasmania has some of the most stunning scenery in the country. not a bad place to go to ;-)
i'm flying to tokyo next week - for work, but still very cool.
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Post by Sticktoria on May 7, 2013 17:56:33 GMT -5
I paid for the twig's first passport today. Off to France next month. It's not the most daring of destinations but he will only be three months by then so I think it's as daring as I can cope with. Not least because the complexity of the travel arrangements gives us a day and a half of car travel at each end of the holiday more or less. Hey ho.
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Post by poppy on May 7, 2013 19:19:35 GMT -5
I'm in the dreaming stage for my next adventure. In the meantime may have a trip to Sydney or Gold Coast who knows what will happen.
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Post by tzarine on May 7, 2013 20:33:18 GMT -5
zoe,
awesome!
i've been this year to; dubai, abu dhabi, madrid & san sebastian
tzarevich is going to camp this week
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Post by SoulCurry on May 8, 2013 20:10:01 GMT -5
Malacca this month. HK & SL the next. Haven't thought beyond June 2013.
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Post by treehugger on May 9, 2013 7:17:07 GMT -5
nice! all in one trip or separately? All separate trips... 10 days in Seoul this month and a week in Cape Town (Sep) for work plus Kampala likely also in Sep, weekend in Amsterdam in June, 3 weeks in DC/NoVA visiting family July/Aug and a weekend in Rome in Dec... phew! Can't quite believe all that travel after the past couple of years, feel like I need to pinch myself. Stick, you are doing well. Sprog2 hasn't even got a passport yet, slacker that I am. His most adventurous trip to date was a weekend in Wales! |
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Post by watsoff on May 12, 2013 21:50:24 GMT -5
Zoe, your plans sound cool, I'm envious, especially if you have a job that sends you to Cape Town and Kampala. Five days ago I decided I needed to get back to Fiji, so this Saturday (18th) I'm outa' here for 5 weeks (via Seoul). Next year the plan is 5-6 weeks in Japan again, then later an Alaskan cruise with three other old tarts from the OT on LP. I'm not a cruise fan but have always wanted to 'do' the Inside Passage, so it looks like I'll get to do it in 2014.
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Post by sophie on May 13, 2013 9:02:40 GMT -5
Muppet, that sounds great! Leading to anything permanent?
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 13, 2013 9:10:54 GMT -5
I'm thinking road trips to Sydney and Melbourne in my new car in the next 9 months. But they aren't as exotic as overseas. Forgot, one week in Solomon Islands as token location expert at someone else's expense.
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Post by scicaro on May 16, 2013 5:10:25 GMT -5
We've been to Tenerife and La Gomera already and I've been in Sweden and Norway for work. Also been to UK to visit family and will do that again the summer. Might try and get to Vietnam to visit little sister next year.
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Post by krazykatie on May 18, 2013 0:16:34 GMT -5
What's with everyone coming to Seoul these days? Not that I'm complaining  I'm going to the UK for a month which is something I never thought I would be excited about but I am! |
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Post by scicaro on May 18, 2013 2:25:52 GMT -5
Also just sent off mini1's passport for renewal so won't be going anywhere til the new one comes.
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Post by MsMitty on Jun 28, 2013 5:54:48 GMT -5
Like Zoe, I have not booked much travel beyond my own country for what seems like ages, but since taking part in a rowing event in France last Oct, I am making up for lost time.
I took part in the Vogalonga, Venice, in May, coxing my crew in a beautiful 30 year old Italian rowing boat. I joined my son on a family holiday in Normandy in June, and am looking forward to a quick look at Helsinki and a four day rowing tour in Karelia, Finland in July. Oh, and in August will very likely be rowing 113 miles of the River Thames!
At last, I have something to contribute to the travel chat!!
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Post by treehugger on Jun 28, 2013 6:08:36 GMT -5
That all sounds really exciting, MsMitty, some great destinations : )
Sadly I had to scratch Amsterdam, too much work this weekend.
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Post by crazycat on Jun 28, 2013 6:11:36 GMT -5
I am very jealous of everyone! I have only done work trips so far this year overseas and even they are much less frequent than normal. I went to Shanghai in February and have another trip there planned at the end of the year. May also have a couple of work trips to Singapore in September and December.
Privately I did a weekend to Melbourne over Easter and have another one planned in August. We're going back to the UK for two weeks in October for the wedding but I don't really class going back to my home town as a holiday. We are having four days in Dubai on the way back though which I'm looking forward to. Haven't been there before and not somewhere that is top of my list of must see destinations but I'm looking forward to doing nothing for those four days!
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Post by tzarine on Jun 28, 2013 11:08:46 GMT -5
crazycat
dubai is interesting.
tzarevich loved all the modernity.
i loved the winding streets of deira & riding the abra across the creek to the souqs.
although it was really touristy, i enjoyed the night trip to the desert. there's a camp w belly dancers, buffet dinner (chicken kebabs, hummous, tabouli) & all the shisha i could smoke
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Post by crazycat on Jun 28, 2013 22:57:05 GMT -5
Thanks tzarine.
I've looked at those desert trips so good to get some positive feedback.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 29, 2013 11:32:32 GMT -5
normally i would not do something like that, i would have preferred an overnight camping trip, but i love being in the desert. tzarevich spent most of the evening sandboarding.
if you want, i'll dig up the name of the company we took.
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Post by sprite on Jun 30, 2013 6:31:14 GMT -5
living in brunei for most of this year, so a very long trip. have done a few weekends in malaysian borneo (they have alcohol!!), and a week in thailand. in one week i'll be in vietnam for nearly two weeks, following with a couple days in KL visiting a local friend.
i'm not totally interested in SEA, to be honest, but when we had the chance to come here, it seemed stupid not to take it. and it has been good fun.
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Post by crazycat on Jun 30, 2013 19:00:10 GMT -5
That would be great tzarine. Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 19:24:44 GMT -5
I am so envious it hurts a little.
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Post by lizby1 on Jul 2, 2013 14:19:49 GMT -5
Zoe what is your job? I want it.
I have been to London, Scotland, France (twice), am going to France again in July, Devon in August and then France again. Thinking of a winter/Christmas, maybe Bruges.
So not very far, but so much more than I usually do.
I have a savings account for a long haul - in about three years time!
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Post by tzarine on Jul 2, 2013 15:10:34 GMT -5
crazycat,
here is the link:http://www.hormuztourism.com/
they were great. i knew people who paid a lot more for basically the same trip.
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Post by crazycat on Jul 3, 2013 0:09:02 GMT -5
Thanks tzarine. Looks great. Did you do the 6 hour trip ot just the dinner in the desert one?
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Post by treehugger on Jul 3, 2013 3:50:16 GMT -5
Zoe what is your job? I want it. Travel is by far the best part of this job. To be honest, it's the main/possibly only thing that keeps me excited about doing this for the next X many years. The irony is, that apparently when they were discussing me vs other candidates they thought I would be resistant to travel because I have kids (I don't know this obv!) - hahahah! |
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Post by tzarine on Jul 3, 2013 14:37:45 GMT -5
crazy,
we did the six hour trip.
i forgot, everyone got a free henna design, too.
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