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Post by whothingie on Jan 31, 2021 15:03:53 GMT -5
we have it all. Money no problem. Time no problem. Fitness - nothing creaks, groans or hurts, you whizz up steep hills, come down safely, and have cast iron stomachs. Covid obviously isn't around or any of the other nasties.
You can take your significant other, or kids, if you wish, as long as there are no moans, I'm tired, are we there yet? or can we go to McDonalds?
OH... and you have NEVER been there before.
Where would you go?
me: Mexico Valley of the Butterflies.
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Post by tucano on Jan 31, 2021 15:07:46 GMT -5
I'd really like to travel some of the Silk Road, particularly the 'Stans.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jan 31, 2021 15:42:29 GMT -5
Antarctica. Or one of the sub Antarctic islands like Macquarie Island
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 31, 2021 16:52:15 GMT -5
Amazonia! Peru, Colombia, Ecuador.
Plus about 3000 other places: that's an impossible question.
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Post by sophie on Jan 31, 2021 17:12:12 GMT -5
Like Liisa, too many to pick just one, but parts of Siberia are right up there as I want to see some of places I heard about from my parents who spent time in the gulags compliments of Stalin.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 31, 2021 17:42:13 GMT -5
Africa to see giraffes in the wild.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 31, 2021 18:27:51 GMT -5
Oh my gosh sophie - so glad they made it out!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jan 31, 2021 20:03:17 GMT -5
This thread title is giving me a Kylie Minogue ear worm,
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Post by wombatrois on Feb 1, 2021 3:55:50 GMT -5
Georgia! (The country)
And about 3000 other places too, just like Liiisa.
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Post by mei on Feb 1, 2021 4:45:12 GMT -5
I'd really like to travel some of the Silk Road, particularly the 'Stans. yes, this one for me too I think. Although I'd like to include Iran in that trip too. And the more I'm reading about Indonesia, the more I want to go. Combined with a few more SE-Asian countries (Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam). Too many to choose! |
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Post by weeg on Feb 1, 2021 5:45:25 GMT -5
Rafting down the Grand Canyon. I know it's not very exciting, but it's been on my to do list for nearly 20 years.
And the skeleton coast. Nothing like a drizzly Scotland to make a person want to look at hot rocks!
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Post by whothingie on Feb 1, 2021 22:47:25 GMT -5
Lots of fabulous ideas and we are an adventurous lot.
Sophie - that would be so bitter sweet coupling the knowledge that they got out with what they had to endure to do so.
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Post by kneazle on Feb 2, 2021 0:30:57 GMT -5
This thread title is giving me a Kylie Minogue ear worm, I'm glad it's not just me! The obvious answer is Everywhere. More specifically I guess one of the more expensive plans would be New York staying somewhere really swanky, Broadway tickets the works. And given I've got endless money in this situation there'd be an epic pissup for those in NYC and nearby. |
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Post by whothingie on Feb 2, 2021 1:50:00 GMT -5
I'm obviously the wrong age group. No idea of the song.
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Post by kneazle on Feb 2, 2021 1:53:52 GMT -5
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Post by whothingie on Feb 2, 2021 2:19:22 GMT -5
Thanks. I need to expand my tv and music knowledge.
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Post by riverhorse on Feb 2, 2021 3:20:12 GMT -5
For me it would be Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, to see the HIPPOS!
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 2, 2021 5:55:09 GMT -5
I didn't know it either, whothingie! My excuse is being in the northern hemisphere, but that's not really an excuse because I know who Kylie Minogue is (she's on a Nick Cave record!)
If we're also talking endless money, after my eco-tour of Amazonia I would need to travel around the world and have a series of RTW pissups. If this really is post-plague fantasy-land and I don't need to get back to work, I would do that on ships.
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Post by weeg on Feb 2, 2021 9:45:29 GMT -5
I didn't know it either, whothingie! My excuse is being in the northern hemisphere, but that's not really an excuse because I know who Kylie Minogue is (she's on a Nick Cave record!) If we're also talking endless money, after my eco-tour of Amazonia I would need to travel around the world and have a series of RTW pissups. If this really is post-plague fantasy-land and I don't need to get back to work, I would do that on ships. Northern Hemisphere is no excuse. She was a HUGE star here at the time, thanks to a teatime soap opera which was compulsory viewing when I was in school. She remains a massive star here - I mean they wrote a Dr Who christmas special around her! |
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 2, 2021 17:45:10 GMT -5
She’s actually a bigger star in the UK than Australia.
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 3, 2021 5:08:56 GMT -5
She’s actually a bigger star in the UK than Australia. She move to England in 1987 and has lived there ever since. She still has Australian citizenship and has “earned” herself British citizenship by living, and working, there. If she likes London so much she can bloody well stay there! |
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Post by riverhorse on Feb 3, 2021 6:19:18 GMT -5
Wow, Phar, tells us how you really feel!!! Why the venom towards Australians living elsewhere?
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Post by wombatrois on Feb 3, 2021 9:33:02 GMT -5
River there's a whole section of society atm that shows that enmity, often towards the Australians trying to get home in this pandemic world of ours. It's really weird.
Second only to the weirdness of toilet paper stockpiling, which happened again this week in regions not even going into lockdown in WA!
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Post by kneazle on Feb 3, 2021 14:41:08 GMT -5
I didn't know it either, whothingie! My excuse is being in the northern hemisphere, but that's not really an excuse because I know who Kylie Minogue is (she's on a Nick Cave record!) If we're also talking endless money, after my eco-tour of Amazonia I would need to travel around the world and have a series of RTW pissups. If this really is post-plague fantasy-land and I don't need to get back to work, I would do that on ships. Northern Hemisphere is no excuse. She was a HUGE star here at the time, thanks to a teatime soap opera which was compulsory viewing when I was in school. She remains a massive star here - I mean they wrote a Dr Who christmas special around her! See we were so far behind with Neighbours that by the time her episodes started screening here she was already a pop star. I managed to convince my mum to let me watch the first episode she was in and she didn't come on until the end. Mum really wasn't impressed as she could have been watching the current affairs show on the other channel. |
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 3, 2021 15:20:55 GMT -5
Imagination is a wonderful thing, it can take you anywhere in the world, through any time era. As time is not of the essence in the OP, one could travel all around the world visiting every country and by the time you arrived back to where you started, it would be time to go off md do it lol over gin!
I’d like to travel across Russia via the Trans Siberian Railway from Vladivostok to Moscow making certain stops along the way. First, I’d fly to Seoul, stay there about a month, visiting historical sites, eat red ginseng, take Korean cookery classes. I’d have a photo taken of me wearing hanbok and danghye. Head off down south to Busan for a bit. On to Vladivostok a few days then the train adventure begins. I’d change at Ulan Ude, go to Mongolia to Ulaan Baatar for the Naadam Festival.
Back to Russia to continue my journey, stopping at Lake Baikal, Irkutsk, and Yekaterinburg. Moscow, St. Petersburg.
Then to Deshaies in Basse-Terre Island, Guadeloupe for a while. Maybe go to Africa for Safari, see the wildebeest. Watch lions in the wild.
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Post by sprite on Feb 5, 2021 11:17:18 GMT -5
TransSiberian.
The Silk Road.
I feel like I should be more curious about Africa.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 5, 2021 17:47:37 GMT -5
Yes sprite... well, Africa sounds like a lot of work! I mean, South America is a lot of work too, but it's a shorter flight for me, and I speak Spanish better than French these days.
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Post by wombatrois on Feb 6, 2021 4:13:32 GMT -5
I will never get dr W3 to Africa, so I think it's out for me while he's around. Although I did start a conversation about Ethiopia a few years ago, sadly I think that place is now off the table.
South America is not somewhere that enters my travel consciousness much, although for a long time I yearned to go to Venezuela after reading a book, but again, I think this destination is off the table too now.
I think, on a more positive note, we utilised the small window of opportunity around 6 years ago and went to Burma!
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Post by tucano on Feb 6, 2021 4:44:09 GMT -5
I feel that I should expand my travel horizons a bit and travel more to SE Asia, Nepal, Japan etc. I'd love to go back to Indonesia. Would also love to visit some Polynesian islands but it is so ridiculously expensive to fly from here and I'd like more time than the 2 weeks holiday at a time I can take from work.
But I love South America and so does my husband (although he also has a thing for African countries and cold places like Greenland and Iceland. His travel dream is Svalbard).
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 6, 2021 7:32:20 GMT -5
I feel that I should expand my travel horizons a bit and travel more to SE Asia, Nepal, Japan etc. I'd love to go back to Indonesia. Would also love to visit some Polynesian islands but it is so ridiculously expensive to fly from here and I'd like more time than the 2 weeks holiday at a time I can take from work. Where are you from Tucano? I thought you lived in America. Living at the arse-end of the world as someone so inelegantly said, it is so expensive to travel nowhere in the world, except for New Zealand which is like just across the road so to speak - it is quicker to fly to New Zealand than it is for me to fly to Darwin or Perth! Which is why my first overseas trip was to New Zealand 🇳🇿 followed by Malaysia 🇲🇾 and Cambodia 🇰🇭. It is far cheaper to fly to SEA than to go to Europe. |
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