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BS: Holiday away this year? Where?

23 Mar 08 - 12:38 PM (#2295914)
Subject: BS: Holiday away this year? Where?
From: Georgiansilver

I suppose I am quite well travelled although not yet been to the US or Canada. This year I am going to Malta for two weeks...new place new experience, new sights to see and plenty of warm sun. What about you? Where are you going this year and why?


23 Mar 08 - 12:42 PM (#2295919)
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From: artbrooks

Seattle - Northwest Regional Folklife Festival; Baltimore area - Folksong Getaway (together with a long road trip to visit all of the relatives).


23 Mar 08 - 12:45 PM (#2295922)
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From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor

Come to North America Georgian, before the Democrats get in and the dollar goes back up.


23 Mar 08 - 12:51 PM (#2295924)
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From: John MacKenzie

Going to France for a week or so in June

G


23 Mar 08 - 01:19 PM (#2295935)
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From: gnu

I'm going next door to me mum's backyard and watch hummingbirds from daylight to 7AM on nice days in June, July and August.


23 Mar 08 - 02:42 PM (#2295999)
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From: Jeanie

I'm going on my first holiday away in a hotel for years - yay ! My daughter has a training placement this summer with the RSC in Stratford on Avon - yay again ! When she's finished, I'm going across there and we're going to have a holiday. What will I being doing ? Lolling about in the hotel, messing about on the river, wandering the town, indulging in cream teas and watching all the plays. Bliss.

- jeanie


23 Mar 08 - 02:45 PM (#2296002)
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From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor

Gnu,

You should come down here and visit before the Democrats get elected and your Dollars go back to being second class ;-)


23 Mar 08 - 02:47 PM (#2296006)
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From: Rasener

Nowheer - can't afford it.

However tesco has paid for us to get across to Bruges for 10 days thanks to their £1 for £4 deals :-)


23 Mar 08 - 02:47 PM (#2296007)
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From: mg

If I can get a cheap ticket, I want to go to Dingle, Ireland and find some ancestors/relatives. mg


23 Mar 08 - 02:51 PM (#2296010)
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From: gnu

Yo, JtS... nope. Gonna stay here where my (tax) dollar pays health care. I am gettin old and I need it.


23 Mar 08 - 05:09 PM (#2296093)
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From: Emma B

My first ever visit to the U.S.A.!


23 Mar 08 - 07:59 PM (#2296179)
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From: dick greenhaus

Alaska...and then the UK for Whitby week. Glorious self-indulgence!


24 Mar 08 - 08:24 AM (#2296425)
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From: jacqui.c

As Kendall says "Why go somewhere when you're already there?"

We are hoping to get to N.Carolina to visit friends in late April and I'm going to the UK in August to catch up with the family and spoil my grandchildren (and maybe to get to some sessions as well).

Otherwise - we have everything here to make life good.


24 Mar 08 - 08:53 AM (#2296447)
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From: Bat Goddess

What Jacqui (and Kendall) sasy.

It's not much out of my way to be at the New Hampshire beaches. I'm within sight (sort of) of the White Mountains. Historical sites all around me or a reasonably short drive.

Alas, can't go too far afield this year (other than a spring music gathering a couple states to the south) because of lack of funds and uncertainties of a new job (which I don't have yet).

So my travelling will be done in books -- this morning I rounded the Horn with Howard Blackburn of Gloucester on his way to the Klondike for the gold rush. Just returned from "The Secret Heart of Asia" -- all the "stans" of Turkic (except for Tajikstan) people above Afghanistan and Pakistan. Didn't cost much, either.

Linn


24 Mar 08 - 09:14 AM (#2296460)
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From: Wesley S

From home in Texas we'll be going to London for a week at the end of May. We'll be celebrating my wife's 50th birthday.


24 Mar 08 - 10:26 AM (#2296503)
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From: Les in Chorlton

Try Cuba. Not without it's problems - some self generated - but it will probably challenge your ideas about the value of material goods and the value of music.

Amigos


25 Mar 08 - 02:46 AM (#2297031)
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From: mouldy

Just been to Sri Lanka, going to New Zealand in May to visit my son and the new granddaughter. I'll be camping in Scotland as usual in July, and then I'll be at Whitby for Folk Week. Wouldn't mind a hop over to Ireland in the autumn, but I might get a kitten instead!

I'll be going to New Zealand quite regularly now.

Andrea


25 Mar 08 - 09:21 AM (#2297187)
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From: Mrrzy

Giok, take me with you!

We will, with any luck, go to the beach in North Carolina... luvly!


25 Mar 08 - 10:00 AM (#2297209)
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From: Liz the Squeak

The choir has no tours planned for this year so our holiday was a weekend in Dorset, surrounded by family, sheep, bird flu and wind.

I had a fantastic time, but I don't think Manitas was so enamoured of the amount of fresh air that whistled round the chapel.

LTS


25 Mar 08 - 10:35 AM (#2297248)
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From: Catherine Jayne

Just a couple of folk festivals in the UK this year and a couple of trips to Scotland to see my parents and another 2 trips to Yorkshire, one for my brothers wedding and another to see my grandma. Can't do too much due to funds and moving so uk only this year.


25 Mar 08 - 12:10 PM (#2297316)
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From: Becca72

Possibly going to Phoenix, AZ in September to visit family out there.


25 Mar 08 - 02:23 PM (#2297413)
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From: GUEST,Play.Ford

Sidmouth.


25 Mar 08 - 02:30 PM (#2297422)
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From: mandotim

Couple of weeks in the west of Ireland in August. Can't think of anywhere better to relax!
Tim


26 Mar 08 - 09:08 AM (#2297913)
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From: Mrs.Duck

We are both likely to be out of work again soon so unlikely to get very far away. The cottage is already booked for folk week in Whitby so hopefully we will manage to get there.


26 Mar 08 - 09:28 AM (#2297930)
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From: GUEST,Essex Girl

Already had a week cruising up the Nile. Will be at Sidmouth for the week stewarding and at various other smaller festivals throughout the summer, then going to Marrakesh in November.


26 Mar 08 - 10:21 AM (#2297968)
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From: Liz the Squeak

Stewarding at Towersey... I'd forgotten about that, and a weekend in Hastings.

Other than that, we're holidaying in 'Save for new boiler' town.

LTS


26 Mar 08 - 10:36 AM (#2297978)
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From: Ruth Archer

I love Marrakech!

Not decided about location of "away" holidays yet, but will be at Towersey and Sidmouth. We are in the same cottage in Sidmouth this year, just behind the Bedford. Handy!


26 Mar 08 - 10:38 AM (#2297979)
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From: Roger the Skiffler

Well, we've just come back from a few days exploring Hardian's Wall (hello, pet), are off next month to the Isle of Wight( hello me loverly), a few days in Surrey later on (AIw Helaiw)and a couple of visits to Greece in the Summer:Skiathos and Kalymnos (Yassas). We haven't sorted out a UK Autumn break yet to coincide with my 65th birthday (no, I don't look it do I?), but with the few bob my dad left me (when I finish with probate) we're off to NZ for a month next year. Ain't retirement grand!

RtS


26 Mar 08 - 05:17 PM (#2298272)
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From: Liz the Squeak

If you do sort out a UK autumnal break, remember there's a house session at ours in London on the 25th October.

LTS


27 Mar 08 - 10:26 AM (#2298718)
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From: Roger the Skiffler

Thanks,Liz but I wouldn't want to empty your house!

RtS
(The man that talent forgot)


27 Mar 08 - 10:33 AM (#2298723)
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From: jeffp

I'll be going to Northern California in early July to fence in the USFA Summer Nationals. We're going early to tour the redwoods, wine country, the PCH, etc. Should be a lot of fun. Fencing is a good excuse to travel. I've already been to Richmond, VA and Chicago.


27 Mar 08 - 12:38 PM (#2298834)
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From: Bill D

A weekend of music with friends at an Inn in W. Virginia..starting tomorrow. It's a 5 hour drive, and is about all we can afford....if gas goes up even more, we may have BBQs in the back yard next year.


28 Mar 08 - 06:32 AM (#2299434)
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From: Eye Lander

Roger the skiffler - When will you be on the IOW, that's where I/we (miskin Man)and myself live part of the time. If you want any info on sessions, folk clubs let me know.

Jillie


28 Mar 08 - 06:34 AM (#2299435)
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From: Eye Lander

Oh forgot to say Andy and I have just had a week on a narrow boat on the Trentand Mersey. Brrr,bit chilly but very chilled in other ways,what a wonderful relaxing time we had.


28 Mar 08 - 07:59 AM (#2299466)
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From: Beer

If your looking for something to do come to Quebec on for the 18th and 19th of July. A festival of fun with our very own Bruce Murdoch and Garnet Rogers to boot.

http://www.applehollowmusicfest.org/


Beer (adrien)


28 Mar 08 - 08:23 AM (#2299475)
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From: Mrs.Duck

Oh how I wish we could, Adrien! Must buy a lottery ticket :0)


17 Apr 08 - 07:21 AM (#2318112)
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From: Diva

Oh I wish..a week somewhere warm would be brill but I am having work done in the kitchen and in the hall.......still theres a few festivals lined up; Girvan, Moniaive, Copshaw and Cullerlie....so far....


17 Apr 08 - 07:49 AM (#2318126)
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From: Scooby Doo

I have just come back from Portpatrick on the West coast of Scotland and then in August i will be watching the last preformance of this years Tattoo.I may go to Ypres in September October time.


Scooby.


17 Apr 08 - 10:30 AM (#2318264)
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From: Gulliver

Italy (Rome, Naples, Bologna) in a about a weeks time, then Austria and the North of Germany. Don


17 Apr 08 - 10:56 AM (#2318287)
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From: theleveller

Was going to Northern California but my car engine's just bust and I've got a bill for £3K, so not going anywhere (except for a drive).


17 Apr 08 - 11:36 AM (#2318313)
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From: ClaireBear

The planned destination of my annual educational camping trip with son Martin was Colorado, but with gas prices this high we might stay in California instead.

Only trouble is, the campgrounds are always terrifically crowded here.

Maybe Sequoia National Park, which last time I visited was not a major tourist destination, or perhaps somewhere down Highway 1. (Suggestions welcomed...)

And then in October, the Getaway of course.

Claire


17 Apr 08 - 10:53 PM (#2318907)
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From: Bill D

*smile*... I like that "of course". It was fun, huh?