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yes yes Benway. But - well, I simply stopped caring a while ago. Not true, but I don't have the energy right now. And my fave places in Bangkok were not in keeping with the responsible sustainable tourism ethos.
Anyway, everyone knows Hastings is where it's at.
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Yes PTown is very gay, but close to us, so you could have at least given some kind of holler.
My favorite holidays were those spent visiting family in New Zealand - we'd go for months at a time and mostly just hang out. I liked experiencing the day to day in another country (it probably helped that we did a bit of touristy island-hopping on the way there - I loved Fiji).
Froopy and I took a cruise that I think has been my best holiday in the recent past. We had bought passage on one cruise and they called us up two nights before and said they had overbooked so offered us better cruise, half our money back and a couple hundred onboard credit. This worked out well because it meant we could afford the pay excursions. We went to the ruins in Tulum, Mexico and cave tubing in Belize. We bummed around snorkeling in Grand Cayman and in Honduras.
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I asked him your question years ago and he said he was doing it all by plastic. If this is the case, then surely he must be in some serious trouble now.
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I went to Vietnam a couple of years ago and I got to crawl through tunnels and shoot AK-47s and I got to think 'Saigon, shit. I'm still only in Saigon...'
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Last holiday I went on was mountain climbing in Snowdonia, which kicked ass, best holiday I've ever been on probably has to be Ibiza about 4 or 5 years ago, cheap booze, lovely food, including the best calamari I've ever had, dancing to a great set by Paul Van Dyk at the Cream closing party, going on a chillout cruise to Fermentura, a little island off the south coast, and paddling in the sea with thousands of tiny little fish bombing around your legs, and above all having much fun with some good friends. Great place.
I'm currently considering doing one of these, a friend just did one and really enjoyed it, as well as getting that feeling of doing something worthwhile, and part of me would really like to do something that actually matters for once, if only to assuage my guilt at living a comfortable existence while others wonder where their next meal will come from.
I'd also like to do the Inca Trail and visit Mt Fuji and countless other things though so we shall see, got a URL somewhere of a company who specialise in adventure type holidays but I can't find it, I'll post it later if I dig it up.
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: No, although I have been on that a few times. The Appelation trail is on the east coast; Utah is in the midwest. [/QB]
appalachian, surely? and it goes from the top of the north east all the way to georgia. but runs through tennessee too.
christ.
er. holidays. i haven't had a proper holiday for years, the last two years have been backwards and forwards over the atlantic or short city breaks. its so hard being white and middle class.
i wish i was vikram, running up debt, spending his inheritance on drugs, girls, child prostitutes and shooting ak-47s in vietnam.
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I don't know, sometimes I do wish I was vikram, but other times there's a chilling coldness in his words that pierces my heart like an icicle through a baby.
quote:Originally posted by doc d: appalachian, surely? and it goes from the top of the north east all the way to georgia. but runs through tennessee too.
I couldn't be bothered to look up the proper spelling. excuse me. Also, my knowledge of the middle states of the US begins and ends with Ohio.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I don't know, sometimes I do wish I was vikram, but other times there's a chilling coldness in his words that pierces my heart like an icicle through a baby.
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right now i am sitting at the dining table getting annoyed that i can't find teh cork screw. face/off plays on the tv. i'm not paying attention. am annoyed at this dining table, although it is nice enough in a young professional way. so wanted the graff tube door instead.
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alison walks in and I've got my back to her. I can hear from the whisper of fresh silk that she is wearing my new Calvin Klein shirt, even after I asked her not to. I tense my body and consider pretending to be asleep. A sharp fingernail touches the back of my neck; it feels like somebody just walked over my grave. I squeeze my eyes shut and try to sound natural and normal. "I've got some more pictures of nepal developed...if you're interested".
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she answers me with disinterested silence, and sweeps the floor under my chair with her bare foot. She knows that I can't stand that noise, but I'm too wasted to argue with her tonight. I can feel her eyes falling upon my possesions one by one. Each one rated and discarded for the next fix. Nothing is ever good enough. Eventually I clear my throat. "I...I wanted a different table...".
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tho this table is semi-opaque grey glass. i'm thinking if i put a couple of coloured spot lights underneath, facing up, maybe in a cold blue and a very light pink, together with a horizontal chandalier, it could look quite cool tho a bit too contrived.
we're gonna have two A0 portraits on either side anyway - one of patty and the other of... i don't know. any suggestions? i'm thinking one of my travel pics, maybe this or this.
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in other news - I just downloaded something and it went 4 times as fast as usual - my broadband has been upgraded to 2 meg while I've been at work!
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siobhan donaghy is playing. she really was badly marketed. a great pity. i am waiting for a girl with the same first name as a popular retro kids toy to come over. we shall order-in food from the oriental gourmet and she can tell me all about how shit her privileged life is.
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