jay.perry Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Skeg Vegas in the summer holidays. The sights are out of this world. You will not believe your eyes!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 On 12/21/2016 at 12:01, Kevin (Mr T) - Joint Essex AO said: Would have to say New York. Been a few times now and the sights and sounds still make me feel like I'm in a movie! I first went there in 1974 - not at the lowest crime rate era! It was as if they had erected a film set just for my visit: Radio City, Chrysler Building (one of my favourites in the world), Empire State, and many other sights. Foolishly, I wandered off from my hotel on The Avenue of the Americas (6th) just along from Central Park at 10.30 at night to find a drug store for a shaver adaptor. I didn't get mugged, but not because I was street wise, but because of sheer luck I suppose. It's like being thoroughly vomiting drunk. you kneel on the bathroom floor and between retches, you tell your God that if only you survive you won't touch another drop. In Manhattan, especially during a 1979 visit when I thought we'd been car jacked on the way from JFK in our hire car (paranoia), I uttered a silent prayer to say that if I survived this visit I wouldn't set foot back there again. But, like the booze, it is simultaneously revolting/terrifying and irresistibly exciting and just as I have been in the room-spinning state many times, so have I been back to New York time and time again! It is one of the very few world major metropolises that I visited on business that has a soul. Off the top of my head there's also London (of course), Paris (in the seventies and eighties), Amsterdam, Jerusalem... I enjoyed several visits to Tokyo and loved a lot of it after I got over the disappointment with its apparent Westernised style, but once you scrape below the veneer, its Oriental spirit shows. Fascinating, certainly, but not exciting. Neither are Taipei, Brussels, Hamburg, Essen, etc. Milan does have a soul but mysteriously it seems to be centred on la Scala. Okay, I love Italian opera... Best place? very hard to choose but when I need to relax I travel in my mind to Slattadale on the shores of Loch Maree in Ross and Cromarty, or to the mountain along the road that my family and I climbed in 1988: Slioch. So near home in distance, but another planet in all other ways. So much world, so little time... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Yep there's nowhere like the UK i love spending time in my little touring caravan in the Lake District or the highlands in the far north of Scotland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain m Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 I was lucky enough as a child to have lived in several countries and spent 30 years traveling the world all expenses paid by a brilliant employer. Interesting the many mentions of Niagara falls , I lived in Toronto as a child and the best time to go is when the river is about to freeze and all the trees are iced over and again when it thaws and can take out up river bridges. My best experience, riding a horse at sun rise down the canyon to The Rose City in Petra Jordan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleggy the Spyder Man Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Moscow is incredible in places Egypt (cruise down the Nile) and a week in Luxor was also amazing for many reasons although I dont think I would go back For a family you have a job to beat Florida and all the parks You really have to love Wales and Scotland for something a bit closer to home Must admit if I had to pin it down to one place I think it would be Vegas - (we did the helicopter flight down to the grand Canyon whilst we were there) - all part of a road trip that took in LA to San Francisco (coastal road is amazing) then to Vegas We are thinking of doing similar again in a few years time but this time with kids and taking in some of the National Parks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleggy the Spyder Man Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Moscow is incredible in places Egypt (cruise down the Nile) and a week in Luxor was also amazing for many reasons although I dont think I would go back For a family you have a job to beat Florida and all the parks You really have to love Wales and Scotland for something a bit closer to home Must admit if I had to pin it down to one place I think it would be Vegas - (we did the helicopter flight down to the grand Canyon whilst we were there) - all part of a road trip that took in LA to San Francisco (coastal road is amazing) then to Vegas We are thinking of doing similar again in a few years time but this time with kids and taking in some of the National Parks Oh and Cadwell Park or Bedford Autodrome are also right up there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFKARM Posted December 23, 2016 Author Share Posted December 23, 2016 Funny all the comments on the Grand Canyon, I did the helicopter trip and thought it was quite disappointing. Although, obviously the helicopter itself was awesome.Ditto NYC, been twice and don;t really rate it, wouldn't go back. Agree on Thailand, Koh Samui was awesome, San Diego and Southern California was great, Cairns and the great barrier reef was a surprise hit for us as well. Disagree on Bedford and Cadwell, always tend to turn out to be very expensive trips...! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy (Sycho) Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 1 hour ago, RussH said: Funny all the comments on the Grand Canyon, I did the helicopter trip and thought it was quite disappointing. Although, obviously the helicopter itself was awesome.Ditto NYC, been twice and don;t really rate it, wouldn't go back. Agree on Thailand, Koh Samui was awesome, San Diego and Southern California was great, Cairns and the great barrier reef was a surprise hit for us as well. Disagree on Bedford and Cadwell, always tend to turn out to be very expensive trips...! We did the helicopter ride & I also found it very disappointing, the helicopter flys you into the south rim (I think). A few days later we drove to the north rim & that was a completely different experience & what I was expecting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 3 hours ago, Cleggy the Spyder Man said: Must admit if I had to pin it down to one place I think it would be Vegas - (we did the helicopter flight down to the grand Canyon whilst we were there) - all part of a road trip that took in LA to San Francisco (coastal road is amazing) then to Vegas That's exactly what we did this summer only from SF down then we flew to New Orleans. Driving across the desert was cool AF. Did you stop off at Hearst Castle? Amazing place! What did you this of San Francisco as a city? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy (Sycho) Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 57 minutes ago, Kyle said: That's exactly what we did this summer only from SF down then we flew to New Orleans. Driving across the desert was cool AF. Did you stop off at Hearst Castle? Amazing place! What did you this of San Francisco as a city? We did simlar started in San Francisco & ended up in L.A, loved San Francisco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Turner - Black Country AO Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Petra also takes some beating, the first sight of Al-Khazneh glimpsed though a gap as you reach the end of the 1km gorge is truly breathtaking. This and Petra as a whole was the highlight of a trip that also included visits to The Valley of the Kings and the. Pyramids. I must admit Machu Picchu and Angkor Wat are at the top of my want to visit list and I'm hopping to get to one or the other next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Our Youngest son has lived in Thailand for 11 years now, so we visit most years, twice this year, 7 weeks then 4 weeks, it's a hard life but someone has to do it While we are there we try to see something of the country, we have done most of the islands (3 weeks ago we went to Koh Samet, again) Bankok of course, We did a road trip to Kanchanaburi to see the Bridge on the River Kwai, Hellfire Pass and a few War Cemeteries, a very moving place when you remember what went on there. We've also done a couple of the neighbouring countries, only 1 1/2 hours on a plane. This year Cambodia for 2 weeks brilliant and also very moving. Last year Vietnam again for 2 weeks, what an amazing country, we started in the far north at Sapa near the Chinese border and then by way of 2 overnight train journeys, 2 overnight boat trips 1 internal flight and a lot of road miles ended up in Saigon and the Mekong Delta. Hanoi has to be the craziest place on earth the motor bike riders are like Kamikazi pilots. A few years ago Kuala Lumpur, just for a few days, but just like any big city. Next year we fancy Myanmar (Burma) Hanoi Sapa The Chu Chi tunnels, of course me being me i had to go down one of the smallest. Angkor Wat was a bit of a family outing. Koh Samet is nice and only 3 hours from Pattaya by road and boat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Faulkner Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 In comparison I have only been to the foot of our stairs. Do I get a prize for coming last, maybe the 'Need to get out more' Trophy. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 13 minutes ago, finkangel said: In comparison I have only been to the foot of our stairs. Do I get a prize for coming last, maybe the 'Need to get out more' Trophy. Aha, your secrets out! That's how you keep the miles down 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stoat Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 On 21/12/2016 at 16:28, Tom (T3OMF) - Cotswolds AO said: Another Vote for Stelvio It looses the appeal when you cycle up it with 80 miles already completed that day! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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