The 'Where Are You Going On Your Summer Holiday' thread...
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sleaterkinney
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Agree with what people say about turkey, it's great.
I don't take holidays in the summer, I wait until the weathers cold then go off somewhere warm.
I can't stand package holidays either, I just get bored sitting around by the pool.
I don't take holidays in the summer, I wait until the weathers cold then go off somewhere warm.
I can't stand package holidays either, I just get bored sitting around by the pool.
3 weeks in Peru in July, going on my own to live with a tribe of Shipibo indians. Well looking forward to it
Not lookin forward to the leeches, chiggers (burrowing tics) and fish that swim up your piss and lodge themselves right up your nob hole though
Is. this. true, yetman?
We all know how you're a fan of embellishment.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Is. this. true, yetman?
We all know how you're a fan of embellishment.
ha! yeah it is true (hence the spanish!) - my embelishments tend to be of the slightly more erratic or disturbed variety
This is something I've wanted to do for ages
3 weeks in Peru in July, going on my own to live with a tribe of Shipibo indians. Well looking forward to it
Not lookin forward to the leeches, chiggers (burrowing tics) and fish that swim up your piss and lodge themselves right up your nob hole though
You've been watching Grey's Anatomy!
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Funnily enough it was Piers from here who gave me the contact details of a couple of people who do this sort of thing there (he made a documentary a few years back called Jungle Trip where he went into the jungle and took Ayahuasca for a month hence me contacting him). You basically live as they live for a while, learning a new and totally different way of life while giving something back to their community and hopefully providing them with the help they need to keep their way of life as it is and has been for thousands of years - I think we could learn a lot from them
I have my own deeper reasons for going as well of course
Yetman
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No I havent! Should I?
Absolutely. It hurts, a lot!
Funnily enough it was Piers from here who gave me the contact details of a couple of people who do this sort of thing there (he made a documentary a few years back called Jungle Trip where he went into the jungle and took Ayahuasca for a month hence me contacting him). You basically live as they live for a while, learning a new and totally different way of life while giving something back to their community and hopefully providing them with the help they need to keep their way of life as it is and has been for thousands of years - I think we could learn a lot from them
I have my own deeper reasons for going as well of course
Fuck, that sounds like the bestest trip on here! Good on you! Dont forget to document it. I'm really interested in this.
Would love to do something similar but in the Amazons.DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Working holiday to spain. Me, my bro and my friend are driving a Luton vans worth of household goods to madrid. We're doing it slowly so as to have a few lazy days in the sun, and get paid for it.
frogwoman
Let them eat newts
Fuck, that sounds like the bestest trip on here! Good on you! Dont forget to document it. I'm really interested in this.
I know, innit??
Mapped
London town
My team aren't allowed to take any leave in August or September this year as we will have too much work on but I've plenty planned outside that already
There's a spot of camping somewhere in East Anglia this weekend, I haven't got a clue where yet, but I'm hoping the person driving us there does.
There's Glastonbury in June followed by a week off, probably spending most of it in the West Country after our traditional routine of getting cleaned up coming back down to earth at my Mum's in Gloucestershire. We're trying out Latitude Festival in July and off to Egypt for some diving and sunning ourselves by the Red Sea in October
This thread has reminded me to sort out some diving refresher lessons as I'm supposedly an 'advanced' diver, but I haven't been for about 9 years and I have forgotten everything.
but I've plenty planned outside that already There's a spot of camping somewhere in East Anglia this weekend, I haven't got a clue where yet, but I'm hoping the person driving us there does.
There's Glastonbury in June followed by a week off, probably spending most of it in the West Country after our traditional routine of getting cleaned up coming back down to earth at my Mum's in Gloucestershire. We're trying out Latitude Festival in July and off to Egypt for some diving and sunning ourselves by the Red Sea in October
This thread has reminded me to sort out some diving refresher lessons as I'm supposedly an 'advanced' diver, but I haven't been for about 9 years and I have forgotten everything.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Fuck, that sounds like the bestest trip on here! Good on you! Dont forget to document it. I'm really interested in this.
It is in the Amazons! Two hours up the river on a boat from Iquitos and then an hours trek into the jungle. They have pink dolphins in the amazon as well........as pirahna, crocs and cock-fish but hopefully I'll just see the dolphins
And yeah I will document it! Cheers mate
It is in the Amazons! Two hours up the river on a boat from Iquitos and then an hours trek into the jungle. They have pink dolphins in the amazon as well........as pirahna, crocs and cock-fish but hopefully I'll just see the dolphins
And yeah I will document it! Cheers mate
I'm still thinking how awesome this'll be...can you pm me some details of this please so that I can research? You wont come back the same, gringo, you do know that?!
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
I'm going to paxos via paris/bologna/brindisi with my teenage daughter as a sort of last holiday together
the bit i am most excited about is the overnight train paris to italy - i love little bunk beds - i have never had a berth on a train!
oh and olives and olive oil when we get there and swimming
the bit i am most excited about is the overnight train paris to italy - i love little bunk beds - i have never had a berth on a train!
oh and olives and olive oil when we get there and swimming
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
summer is unofficially over after this weekend and i didn't go anywhere
Zorra
Suburban lazarus
Uganda - Rwanda - Burundi at the start of October
Gonna stay here in Rwanda near the Volcano Park with gorillas etc
and go and stay on an island on Lake Victoria with a crazy British guy who bought the island in the 1990s. Plus it's going to be with New Boyfriend so it's all a bit
Then in November I'm going to the pyramids in North Sudan with a bunch of friends for a long weekend
and to a wedding in Iran.
Gonna stay here in Rwanda near the Volcano Park with gorillas etc
and go and stay on an island on Lake Victoria with a crazy British guy who bought the island in the 1990s. Plus it's going to be with New Boyfriend so it's all a bit
Then in November I'm going to the pyramids in North Sudan with a bunch of friends for a long weekend
and to a wedding in Iran.
Nougat
metalmonkey to the rescue
Amazing. Properly amazing. I dream of mezze in a restaurant called J23
People are genuinely the friendliest I have ever met. No overly pressuring sales people, just happy and talkative (at least this is the case in the Dalaman region where I've been).
300 days of sunshine a year. Perfect, clean beaches. Very well priced. A good standard of English spoken in the seaside resorts.
I suppose it could be seen as a bit Anglicised / working class for some people's tastes in the bigger resorts (Bodrum, Hisaronu/Ovacik, etc) but there's still plenty of the 'real' Turkey about if you take a wander of the beaten track.
The beach / national park at Olu Deniz is just amazing:
Can't wait to paraglide of the mountain top as in the third picture... and in the second pic you can see the hotel we're staying in. Best of all 4* hotel (with great reviews on holidaywatchdog.com), flights, transfers for 2 people came to £420.
If it seems like I'm raving about it, it's 'cos I was truly blown away by the place, the food and the people.
Do you mind me asking who you booked your holiday through? I am currently rustling up a DIY job for April in Bodrum and any hints, tips or leads would be great, epsecially if booking all in would be cheaper!
On the subject at hand, we spent 3 weeks in Africa in April and spending 10days in the Canaries in December so haven't really had a summer portion of a holiday abroad but much prefer spacing it out this way.
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