Hey, we're all in Newsweek!

Hi Robyn,

Did you know that we were seasoned jet setters?

That's funny! I know I could a lot more "seasoning". I will look forward to it!

I don't recall commenting on the beautiful sand at Jones Beach where as a teenager I enjoyed every summer day. I worked the evening shift at the West Bathhouse and Central Mall and would get to the beach in the morning and have a great time. And then were the beach parties at night.

The "seasoned" part implies we're not young! And as for sand quality, I thought here we spoke mostly of the lack of sand and the presence of gravel/rocks!

BC

Is "seasoned" the same as "salty"?

I've been "stewed", but never seasoned.

The Caribbean forum discusses sand quality quite a bit -- lots of references to white sugar to black volcanic.

So the newsweek article sounds like it was on vacation rentals? I hope our favorite rentals don't start showing "no availability" 12 months out...

Having just finished a glass of wine in an apartment here in Paris, I am feeling more mellowed than seasoned.

Anselm

all:

I know this sounds strange, but the most beautiful beach sand stretch we have ever come across (definitely "sugar" or "powdered snow" type) was in, of all places, the Lofotens, village called Ramberg.

How's that, Newsweek!

Stu T.

Anselm - only a glass? I'm suggesting joining me in another glass of the 'fruit of the vine'!!
artstuff- thanks for the info. Wish, oh how I wish, I was a seasoned jetsetter!

Haven't you seen all the threads on the south of France about which towns/beaches are sandy and which are pebbly? Shame on you, artstuff.

Thankfully they didn't mention the "Whats With All The Peas in England?" thread.

You can imagine how the people who read this will react when the first post they read has something to do with...
Should I take a laptop to Europe?

Should I buy a railpass?

Anything to do with the way things are, are supposed to be, should be, were, never were, never should have been, in the UK.

What should I wear to look cute?

Should we skip Venice?

Oh, Bookchick, I thought it meant more along the lines of being experienced and had nothing to do with age. That's why I was looking forward to being more "seasoned" meaning more travel experiences.

Yes, sand (or lack of it) is always mentioned when discussing the beaches of the French Riviera.

South of France beaches - sandy or pebbly? Santorini - volcanic or rocks? Naxos - best beaches? Amalfi - any sand? It gets discussed all the time!

tod, it's after 6 pm here so I'm now on the second glass, LOL.

I think fishee made a great point--all the good apartments are going to get booked up quickly.

Anselm

And if anyone is curious about bidet popularity and controversial definitions of the word "dingleberry", it's all covered:

I was in Cologne (I think it was cologne ) last year and there was a cafe called Dingleberries which my husband and his german friend wanted to go into. I refused because of the name. They didn't believe me when I explained to them my take on the word!

"The "seasoned" part implies we're not young!"

Bookchick, perhaps those of us who are only young at heart understand the implication!

I was half watching a segment on the Great Hotels on the Travel Channel the other day. I don't remember the name of the hotel, but perked up when it was stated they had imported the sand for their beach from the Bahamas. I started imagining how this was ordered (by the yard, grain, weight, or some sand measurement I'm not aware of), how it was transported and then installed. Kept me entertained for a while.

Giovanna, I have a friend who invited me to her "cottage" one summer a few years ago. The "cottages" there were all lovely mansions/villas of varying architectural styles, surrounding a lake. Karen, my friend, took me for a boat ride on the lake, and pointed out areas where some residents had sand "trucked in" to make the atmosphere on their property more like a beach. Karen herself had a dock for her two boats.

Perhaps I'm being oversensitive about the "seasoned" thing. In a couple of months I will experience a milestone birthday, and am unfortunately feeling even older than my actual age.

BC

I don't know about the "seasoned" part but I just LOVE being called a jet-setter.
suze

Does this mean new blood? If so, which of you will be performing the initial rituals?

Oh wow...I'm a jetsetter!

Maybe I can have that embroidered onto my luggage...

Does this mean that those who still have their old Fodor's pins will be automatically upgraded to 1 cl?

I don't want to be seasoned like a piece of meat... and what on earth is a "jet setter" ? I suspect I'm not that also...

Good question, kenderina. Who even uses that term any more? It's pretty 50's, isn't it?!

I wonder why they did not mention that "passing gas" thread...

lol, brazilnut!

Gee, I'm a jet setter?
I'd be happy to do more to earn that term (without being considered old...)!

And since some of the trips my husband and I take are in his Piper Cherokee are we also prop setters?

Hi K,

>what on earth is a "jet setter" ?

Back in the days when Jackie O was Mrs Kennedy, "Jet-setters" were the very wealthy, "beautiful people" who could afford to hop a plane in NY to shop and have dinner in London or Paris and return the next day.

As noted, the term is no longer appropriate since just about anyone can do that on FF miles.

PS,

Let me amend that from "just about anyone" to "one no longer has to be very wealthy".

In my case that should read....Seasoned Economy class jet setter

Since we always travel on stand by, can we be called stand-by jet setters?
arjana

Last time I heard the term jet-setter was ... well, a long time ago ... before I was born, I think.

Steerage set here

ahh, ok, thanks Ira These kind of people doesn't exist anymore...that's why the term got old , hahaha.

Yea, the term jet setter started soon after airlines started replacing prop planes with jets. I think it's ironic that someone so old they'd use the term "jet setting" would refer to us as seasoned.

Speaking of steerage... Has anyone ever traveled via freighter? I used to read that one could hop a freighter to, lets say, europe... and though it took a while, it was cheap. Anyone know anything about this? I am not considering doing so, but I remember thinking it would be adventurous to travel like that... But that was also when I was in college and not married. I am sure that my wife would view it as "adventurous".

Bob dobbs, my mother, at the age of 50, took her first trip out of the United States via a freighter to Japan (she left us 4 kids home with my non-domestic-but-fun father and a goofy-but-fun babysitter.) Mom had a friend who had some sort of connection with a shipping company, and they were the only two "non-crew" on the ship. That 3-month trip in the summer of 1961 radically changed her life -- among other things, it inspired her to spend the next 40 years of her life travelling to as many places as she could. She never travelled by freighter again, but she also never stopped talking about it.

My husband travelled by cargo freighter (which also took about a dozen passengers) from Australia to Europe some 40 years ago when he was a child. He has very fond recollections of their six week trip. In fact I can hardly ever recall him mentioning the trip in Europe itself, it's only the trip over he talks about.

I do recall reading several years ago that if you look really hard it is possible to still do a freighter trip but they are small freighters and probably just going around the Pacific a bit.

Economy seat jet setter.... is something like a coach potato?

I'm a coach-section CRJ-er.

Wow, I've always wanted to be a jet setters - never before realized I was. Awesome - and I am a seasoned one to boot!!!! heehee

queener...I'm something worse..I'm a low cost potato

Come to think of it maybe we should be offended, afterall!

seasoned = real old
jet setter = stuck in the 1960's

Im only 28 and consider myself a 'seasoned' traveller for sure! So far...ive been to 15 countries. Doesnt fit the old age definition.

Seems the freighter travel world is still active.

http://www.freighterworld.com/

This is even better than being named Person of the Year by Time.