Bad few Days :-(

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  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #22
    Eims said:

    we are heading to cavallino

    we are heading to cavallino on the adriatic...can't wait now.....i will need another seat coming home because of all the lovely food too ;-)

     

    Italy

    How beautiful! You are so right, great food, good wine, sunshine! What more could you want. If that doesn't refresh you nothing will.......maybe put the fitness thing off for a few weeks then!!! Lol.

    Djinnie x

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #23
    GSRon said:

    Italy..

    Do you need someone to carry your luggage..??   I was in Italy back in like 1986.. loved it.   Oh the wine... yes the wine..  OK, so I was with this tour group, and all the meals were arranged..  So I am seated at a table with a couple that do not drink wine..!  They started us with a nice bottle of white wine and then a red with dinner..  Oh, yes I DID drink both bottles..!!!  Thanks for reminding me of a great time..!  Have fun..!

    Ron

    Italy

    I bet you asked to be seated with that couple every meal time!! What a gift...lol.

     

    Djinnie

  • Galrim
    Galrim Member Posts: 315 Member
    #24
    Eims said:

    we are heading to cavallino

    we are heading to cavallino on the adriatic...can't wait now.....i will need another seat coming home because of all the lovely food too ;-)

     

    Good choice.

    Me and the family are driving down to Scardovari, also at the Adriatic, but much further north.

    /G

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #25
    Galrim said:

    Good choice.

    Me and the family are driving down to Scardovari, also at the Adriatic, but much further north.

    /G

    Scardovari

    How lovely, how long does it take you to drive there?

    Djinnie

  • Eims
    Eims Member Posts: 423
    #26
    Galrim said:

    Good choice.

    Me and the family are driving down to Scardovari, also at the Adriatic, but much further north.

    /G

    one year i would love to hire

    one year i would love to hire a camper and drive somewhere but i am terrified of ferries!!!  it would have to be to holyhead in wales and then drive to dover....the shortest time on a ferry with a valium or two would be ok....lol

  • Galrim
    Galrim Member Posts: 315 Member
    #27
    Djinnie said:

    Scardovari

    How lovely, how long does it take you to drive there?

    Djinnie

    20 hours if non-stop, roughly

    But we usually make a stop-over in southern Germany (I live in Copenhagen) :-)

    /G

     

  • MDCinSC
    MDCinSC Member Posts: 574
    #28
    Eims said:

    we are heading to cavallino

    we are heading to cavallino on the adriatic...can't wait now.....i will need another seat coming home because of all the lovely food too ;-)

     

    If I had my way . . .

    you would need another seat going, for ME!  Chalk me up as utterly jealous!

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #29
    Eims said:

    one year i would love to hire

    one year i would love to hire a camper and drive somewhere but i am terrified of ferries!!!  it would have to be to holyhead in wales and then drive to dover....the shortest time on a ferry with a valium or two would be ok....lol

    Irish Ferry Trip

    The Christmas before last we came back from Ireland on the ferry. We travelled to the port in the most awful weather. When checking the shipping forecasts all ferries including Brittany Ferries were cancelled. We were booked on Celtic Link as they were the only ones sailing from Ireland to France in the winter. At the port we discovered that they intended to sail, I went to the desk to query this, bearing in mind that there were gale force winds and high seas, I was assured that they would not sail if it was not safe.

    You know what the Irish Sea is like in the best of weather, always rough. Anyway we were not long out of port when the waves hit and the bow reared up off the water and came crashing back down. In no time at all anything that was not secured started fly around us. Christmas trees, decorations, chairs you name it. It was a night ferry, my husband, for the first time in his life got sea sick so he went back to the cabin. I was too scared to go down to the cabin so I stayed chatting to the lorry drivers, they said they had never sailed in such bad weather conditions before, quite a few were scared silly. They stayed up all night hanging on to the rails on the stairwell for stability, chain smoking, I stayed with them because it wasn't safe to move, I must have inhaled a pack of twenty that night, the smoke was so dense. The trip took nineteen hours, it was probably the most terrifying experience of my life.

    I love travelling on Brittany Ferries across to England, but you would never get me to cross the Atlantic up into the Irish Sea again, not even with a couple of bottles of vodka inside me. I hope that has allayed your fears some...lol. The Welsh route is a much better option.

     

    Djinnie x

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #30
    Galrim said:

    20 hours if non-stop, roughly

    But we usually make a stop-over in southern Germany (I live in Copenhagen) :-)

    /G

     

    20 hours drive

    Not that much difference to us then, I think it is around 16 hours from here. We normally have a couple of stops though, usually one in Annecy.

    Hope you have a great time, if the weather in Copenhagen is anything like here you will be craving the sunshine.

     

    Djinnie

  • Galrim
    Galrim Member Posts: 315 Member
    #31
    MDCinSC said:

    If I had my way . . .

    you would need another seat going, for ME!  Chalk me up as utterly jealous!

    Well...

    ...its a seven seat mpv and were a family of five. So if you and the mrs by sudden divine intervention wake up in Copenhagen around July 13, give me a call :-D

    /G

  • Eims
    Eims Member Posts: 423
    #32
    Djinnie said:

    Irish Ferry Trip

    The Christmas before last we came back from Ireland on the ferry. We travelled to the port in the most awful weather. When checking the shipping forecasts all ferries including Brittany Ferries were cancelled. We were booked on Celtic Link as they were the only ones sailing from Ireland to France in the winter. At the port we discovered that they intended to sail, I went to the desk to query this, bearing in mind that there were gale force winds and high seas, I was assured that they would not sail if it was not safe.

    You know what the Irish Sea is like in the best of weather, always rough. Anyway we were not long out of port when the waves hit and the bow reared up off the water and came crashing back down. In no time at all anything that was not secured started fly around us. Christmas trees, decorations, chairs you name it. It was a night ferry, my husband, for the first time in his life got sea sick so he went back to the cabin. I was too scared to go down to the cabin so I stayed chatting to the lorry drivers, they said they had never sailed in such bad weather conditions before, quite a few were scared silly. They stayed up all night hanging on to the rails on the stairwell for stability, chain smoking, I stayed with them because it wasn't safe to move, I must have inhaled a pack of twenty that night, the smoke was so dense. The trip took nineteen hours, it was probably the most terrifying experience of my life.

    I love travelling on Brittany Ferries across to England, but you would never get me to cross the Atlantic up into the Irish Sea again, not even with a couple of bottles of vodka inside me. I hope that has allayed your fears some...lol. The Welsh route is a much better option.

     

    Djinnie x

    djinnie thats exactly what i

    djinnie thats exactly what i would be afraid of!!!  i think the fast ferry to holyhead is the only option for me 1.30 hours and then drive down to dover and id be ok from there!!!

    eims x

  • Eims
    Eims Member Posts: 423
    #33
    Djinnie said:

    Irish Ferry Trip

    The Christmas before last we came back from Ireland on the ferry. We travelled to the port in the most awful weather. When checking the shipping forecasts all ferries including Brittany Ferries were cancelled. We were booked on Celtic Link as they were the only ones sailing from Ireland to France in the winter. At the port we discovered that they intended to sail, I went to the desk to query this, bearing in mind that there were gale force winds and high seas, I was assured that they would not sail if it was not safe.

    You know what the Irish Sea is like in the best of weather, always rough. Anyway we were not long out of port when the waves hit and the bow reared up off the water and came crashing back down. In no time at all anything that was not secured started fly around us. Christmas trees, decorations, chairs you name it. It was a night ferry, my husband, for the first time in his life got sea sick so he went back to the cabin. I was too scared to go down to the cabin so I stayed chatting to the lorry drivers, they said they had never sailed in such bad weather conditions before, quite a few were scared silly. They stayed up all night hanging on to the rails on the stairwell for stability, chain smoking, I stayed with them because it wasn't safe to move, I must have inhaled a pack of twenty that night, the smoke was so dense. The trip took nineteen hours, it was probably the most terrifying experience of my life.

    I love travelling on Brittany Ferries across to England, but you would never get me to cross the Atlantic up into the Irish Sea again, not even with a couple of bottles of vodka inside me. I hope that has allayed your fears some...lol. The Welsh route is a much better option.

     

    Djinnie x

    djinnie if you are passing

    djinnie if you are passing this way again pleeeeeeeeeeease let me know....

    eims xxx

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #34
    Eims said:

    djinnie thats exactly what i

    djinnie thats exactly what i would be afraid of!!!  i think the fast ferry to holyhead is the only option for me 1.30 hours and then drive down to dover and id be ok from there!!!

    eims x

    I agree and the P&O Ferries

    I agree and the P&O Ferries and Brittany Ferries have all been modernized, they really are a comfortable way to travel. The roads over here are so easy to drive on, never any congestion problems as long as you take the routes around the major towns.

    Djinnie

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #35
    Eims said:

    djinnie if you are passing

    djinnie if you are passing this way again pleeeeeeeeeeease let me know....

    eims xxx

    I certainly will, thanks! We

    I certainly will, thanks! We were in Tipperary, we had a great Christmas there....but if I am coming back it will be through Wales. My husband would not mind that though he was born there.

     

    Djinnie

  • Eims
    Eims Member Posts: 423
    #36
    Djinnie said:

    I certainly will, thanks! We

    I certainly will, thanks! We were in Tipperary, we had a great Christmas there....but if I am coming back it will be through Wales. My husband would not mind that though he was born there.

     

    Djinnie

    you gotta do the west coast

    you gotta do the west coast next time...

    eims x

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #37
    Eims said:

    you gotta do the west coast

    you gotta do the west coast next time...

    eims x

    Funny you should say that, a

    Funny you should say that, a fella we met in the local was from the west coast. He had some beautiful pictures on his phone of various places. He recommended quite a few, I have them written down somewhere. We were visiting family the last time but we would like to see more of Ireland when we get the chance.

    I like your photo, where was it taken?

    Djinnie

  • GSRon
    GSRon Member Posts: 1,303 Member
    #38
    Galrim said:

    Well...

    ...its a seven seat mpv and were a family of five. So if you and the mrs by sudden divine intervention wake up in Copenhagen around July 13, give me a call :-D

    /G

    Wales

    I love Wales..!  I have made 3 bike trips all over the UK, and Wales is a favorite..  For those that do not know, as you ride (or drive) in to Wales the road signs are in two languages, then you only get Welsh..  I love it..!!  AARRAFFF..!  that means stop..! (i think I have it spelled right.. or does it matter..??  heh).  The coast line is awesome, and the people are friendly...  I have some great memories of riding through Wales..!

    And as I go to the IOM, the ferry is mostly good.. just expensive compared to ferries going from the east coast to that big continent...  Heck I plan to be on that ferry boat mid August..!   Will be a fun time..!!

    Ron :)

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #39
    GSRon said:

    Wales

    I love Wales..!  I have made 3 bike trips all over the UK, and Wales is a favorite..  For those that do not know, as you ride (or drive) in to Wales the road signs are in two languages, then you only get Welsh..  I love it..!!  AARRAFFF..!  that means stop..! (i think I have it spelled right.. or does it matter..??  heh).  The coast line is awesome, and the people are friendly...  I have some great memories of riding through Wales..!

    And as I go to the IOM, the ferry is mostly good.. just expensive compared to ferries going from the east coast to that big continent...  Heck I plan to be on that ferry boat mid August..!   Will be a fun time..!!

    Ron :)

    Wales

    Hi Ron,

    You certainly get around with that bike of yours! Wales is lovely and the language colourful, the stop sign is a good indication but what about the village named:-

    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch ......

    ....try saying that after a few bevvies.

    It translates to " St Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave" very succinct.

     

    Djinnie

     

  • NanoSecond
    NanoSecond Member Posts: 653
    #40
    Djinnie said:

    Wales

    Hi Ron,

    You certainly get around with that bike of yours! Wales is lovely and the language colourful, the stop sign is a good indication but what about the village named:-

    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch ......

    ....try saying that after a few bevvies.

    It translates to " St Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave" very succinct.

     

    Djinnie

     

    Translation

    I thought it meant "Save the Whales".   :)

  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #41
    NanoSecond said:

    Translation

    I thought it meant "Save the Whales".   :)

    Lost in Translation

    lol!!... Very good!!

     

    Djinnie

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