Originally posted by @trev33La Gomera ((Canary Islands) to stay in a Parador for a week in April. Then Isles of Scilly (St Mary's and Tresco) for a couple of weeks in July. Off to France in August visiting various friends in Brittany, Burgundy and Avignon) then finally three weeks over Christmas in the south of Spain. Oh, how I love being semi-retired!
Away to Colombia and Peru for 4 weeks at the start of Feb, have a little 3 day trip to Nice booked in the spring and couple of weeks in Greece in the summer. Oh how I do hate working and living in Europe.
What about yourselves?
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Originally posted by @pianoman1Semi? 🙄
La Gomera ((Canary Islands) to stay in a Parador for a week in April. Then Isles of Scilly (St Mary's and Tresco) for a couple of weeks in July. Off to France in August visiting various friends in Brittany, Burgundy and Avignon) then finally three weeks over Christmas in the south of Spain. Oh, how I love being semi-retired!
Originally posted by @great-big-steesStill teaching piano and doing the odd gig during term time (got to earn the money to pay for the holidays!)
Semi? 🙄
Next week, Bali and Komodo for 6 days. In March, 2 weeks in a camper van South Island New Zealand. After that, back to UK and home for a proper holiday, ie 30 plus years of retirement, hopefully....
I can't recommend Bali highly enough, provided you stay away from Kuta. Perfect temperature, great beaches, lovely people, very cheap to stay and live (air bnb has some outrageous bargains) and plenty of cheap airfares if you're on a budget. Just keep an eye on that volcano mind...
Originally posted by @ponderableWe’ve just booked there for a second year running;
As of now it looks like South France .
same hotel and at the same price as last year!
Originally posted by @trev33I find travelling to Cusco to be dreadfully sad. It's awful seeing the ruins of the Inca empire, destroyed by the Spanish.
Away to Colombia and Peru for 4 weeks at the start of Feb, have a little 3 day trip to Nice booked in the spring and couple of weeks in Greece in the summer. Oh how I do hate working and living in Europe.
What about yourselves?
Originally posted by @drewnogalHoliday to Spain, classic Brit tourist.
That must be very exhausting for you Leur.
You need to treat yourself to something special once it’s over.
As for my holiday plan? It will be 10 days in Spain or Portugal though tbh I’m just as happy staying at home and since retiring have big plans for a vegetable garden.
Originally posted by @huckleberryhoundI thought China was totally ghastly.I stayed in the most melancholic town in all of history, called Fangshan. What a dump.
Back to China for a month. We might go somewhere else asian while we're there.
Just to search something online took 5 minutes. It had to approved by censors first. I was tempted to search (they don't have Google) Tiananmen square massacre but I decided that I didn't like Gobi desert gulags.
Originally posted by @js357Devon - what a special place. Sidmouth is so pretty.
This year it’s domestic US travel, all family/friends oriented. SoCal, New England, Florida, plus some time on a river yet to be decided. Add me to the list of those who are happy at home. My wife has the travel bug which I benefit from, as she does the arrangements. Most recently with a friend, 3 weeks in Devon and London.
Originally posted by @great-big-steesGoing to Cuba (at least when I went) is like stepping back in time. The sanctions had that affect.
We are off, yet again, to Cuba on the 14th February then who knows where later on in the year. Probably a couple of trips to Quebec to visit family there (my dad and sister and her family) and hopefully some Camping...tent.