Any suggestions for a magical place
Feb 7th, 2017 | 05:06 AM
#41
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Keren
That's for the tip, our school holidays are the end of October, beginning of November. Would work very well. I've never been bother by intense dry heat, have played football in Seville with the temperature at 44oC. Humidity destroys me.
As a mental test, any human being should try to exist in 30oC in the marshes of South Carolina with no breeze. It's no surprise the US invented air con (probably).
Woinparis
It is an English working cocker spaniel, has 120 years of breeding which leads it to be attracted to French poodles. Hence the fact that British streets currently seem to be full of Cockerpoos.
Hets
"Go on your own"
Your a bad influence !
My birthday is 18 months away, it will be a long haul but I will convince them to both to visit Israel.
That's for the tip, our school holidays are the end of October, beginning of November. Would work very well. I've never been bother by intense dry heat, have played football in Seville with the temperature at 44oC. Humidity destroys me.
As a mental test, any human being should try to exist in 30oC in the marshes of South Carolina with no breeze. It's no surprise the US invented air con (probably).
Woinparis
It is an English working cocker spaniel, has 120 years of breeding which leads it to be attracted to French poodles. Hence the fact that British streets currently seem to be full of Cockerpoos.
Hets
"Go on your own"
Your a bad influence !
My birthday is 18 months away, it will be a long haul but I will convince them to both to visit Israel.
. There is method in my madness.
Feb 7th, 2017 | 06:46 AM
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Hope you have a great time.
Once more I'll drag out and flog a bit on a practice my late sweetie and I instituted while we were in our 50s.
Do a three- to five-year travel "master plan," and develop budgets and priorities just as you would with other major aspects of your lives - education for kids, home repairs or improvements, retirement savings, etc. It's sort of like developing a bucket list, but then going the next step to engineer it and put it on a timeline.
In our case we used round-the-world air tickets which can make getting to far-away places much easier and cheaper than using ordinary tickets. Because they're good for a year, and because they're usually cheaper if you buy them and start your travels someplace abroad rather than at home (US in my case, UK in yours) you can break the travels with a long "stopover" at home, during which you go back to work or school, then pick up the ticket months later and carry on.
For example, this trip - http://tinyurl.com/jtd9j3r - would start in Norway (which is the cheapest place in Europe for these tickets for the time being) and take you to Doha, then back to Manchester for a return to work/school. Then later - big summer trip, maybe - it's off to South America, with visits to Buenos Aires, Santiago and Easter Island, then across to New Zealand and Australia, then up to Hong Kong, Hokkaido and Singapore before returning to the UK another layover, finally returning to Norway and possibly a ski holiday. (Of course this is just an imaginary plan; you could just as easily visit Siberia or Kenya or Bali or the Maldives.)
This ticket would cost £1999 plus taxes/fees in economy, or £5670 in business class (25% discount for under-12s.) It's good for a year from the first flight, and you'd earn enough frequent flyer points/Avios for a significant amount of award travel going forward.
(My wife and I would buy a business class ticket every other year; travel on the ticket in year 1 and on award miles in year 2, repeat. It made for something like 20-22 flights in business or first class over two years for something like £275 each. That's pretty good for New York to Miami in first class on American Airlines, pretty terrific for business class from Hong Kong to New York on Cathay Pacific.)
But the point is to do a big plan then set about implementing it. Just sayin'.
Once more I'll drag out and flog a bit on a practice my late sweetie and I instituted while we were in our 50s.
Do a three- to five-year travel "master plan," and develop budgets and priorities just as you would with other major aspects of your lives - education for kids, home repairs or improvements, retirement savings, etc. It's sort of like developing a bucket list, but then going the next step to engineer it and put it on a timeline.
In our case we used round-the-world air tickets which can make getting to far-away places much easier and cheaper than using ordinary tickets. Because they're good for a year, and because they're usually cheaper if you buy them and start your travels someplace abroad rather than at home (US in my case, UK in yours) you can break the travels with a long "stopover" at home, during which you go back to work or school, then pick up the ticket months later and carry on.
For example, this trip - http://tinyurl.com/jtd9j3r - would start in Norway (which is the cheapest place in Europe for these tickets for the time being) and take you to Doha, then back to Manchester for a return to work/school. Then later - big summer trip, maybe - it's off to South America, with visits to Buenos Aires, Santiago and Easter Island, then across to New Zealand and Australia, then up to Hong Kong, Hokkaido and Singapore before returning to the UK another layover, finally returning to Norway and possibly a ski holiday. (Of course this is just an imaginary plan; you could just as easily visit Siberia or Kenya or Bali or the Maldives.)
This ticket would cost £1999 plus taxes/fees in economy, or £5670 in business class (25% discount for under-12s.) It's good for a year from the first flight, and you'd earn enough frequent flyer points/Avios for a significant amount of award travel going forward.
(My wife and I would buy a business class ticket every other year; travel on the ticket in year 1 and on award miles in year 2, repeat. It made for something like 20-22 flights in business or first class over two years for something like £275 each. That's pretty good for New York to Miami in first class on American Airlines, pretty terrific for business class from Hong Kong to New York on Cathay Pacific.)
But the point is to do a big plan then set about implementing it. Just sayin'.
May 11th, 2017 | 09:51 AM
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Just thought I'd update.
We have booked 5 night at El Fenn, owned by Vanessa Branson.
It seems to be the absolute essence of our style and design, can't wait as we've only made a few wrong travel turns over the years. This one seems so much like the right choice.
No I have a two week break to plan for the summer of 2018.
Needs lots of animals in the mix for that one. Okavango possibly?
Before all that, The DorDOGne with the dog is next.
We have booked 5 night at El Fenn, owned by Vanessa Branson.
It seems to be the absolute essence of our style and design, can't wait as we've only made a few wrong travel turns over the years. This one seems so much like the right choice.
No I have a two week break to plan for the summer of 2018.
Needs lots of animals in the mix for that one. Okavango possibly?
Before all that, The DorDOGne with the dog is next.
