The Travel Thread

fmf · Post by **fmf** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:15 pm

10 days to go til i go... Auckland, Bangkok, Laos (to stay in the trees with gibbons), spain, ze germans, UK, ireland. yay

resist · Post by **resist** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:16 pm

I'm taking off in early November, and will be gone for a while, probably a year or two. I'm not really gonna use a strict travel schedule, I'll just move on to the next place when I'm satisfied!

Starting in Asia - working my way up through Singapore, Thailand, China, India, Japan... then across to the USA. Haven't decided exactly where in the USA, but New York, LA & San Fran are definites. Then down to Mexico City. From there, on to Brazil, particularly Rio & Sao Paulo. Then, across to Europe. I haven't decided the plan for Europe yet. I spent 3 months there in 2004, so I've seen a few things, but theres a lot more I wanna get to! If my cash & energy holds out any longer, I'll be going down to Morocco, and Africa.

It's gonna be a blast!!

dj awesome · Post by **dj awesome** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:19 pm

i got back from vietnam and hong kong this morning.

HK was crazy - chaotic - lots of fun.

Vietnam was the same ... but in a different way.

Both totally different places! 18 days out of Melbourne was fantastic

Now NY and Tokyo is in November but with the same plan ... renting an apartment. Lynt - I'll email over the links I've found ... the apartment solution is a better one than hotels I think!

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:39 pm

I am supposed to be going to Japan for Fuji Rock this July.... now looks unlikely

Meh

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:40 pm

I so jealous right now

Must book some flights, then I will save better

Deliberating destinations- Cuba or mad kick back lush resort style holiday in Bora Bora or the like..

Post by **Friday** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:43 pm

stovequeen wrote:I am supposed to be going to Japan for Fuji Rock this July.... now looks unlikely

Meh

i'm so jealous right now too. i wish i wish i was allowed more time off work....

dust · Post by **dust** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:44 pm

stovequeen wrote:I am supposed to be going to Japan for Fuji Rock this July.... now looks unlikely

Meh

Thats shit babe.

I'm not going either. At least not this year!

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:45 pm

Friday wrote:
stovequeen wrote:I am supposed to be going to Japan for Fuji Rock this July.... now looks unlikely

Meh

i'm so jealous right now too. i wish i wish i was allowed more time off work....

yar.. don't like my chances of getting two weeks approved for June/July. Would mean i would have had 9 weeks in a calendar year...

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:46 pm

looks like i might be going to work on a project in india for a couple of months at the end of the year, which would be interesting. down south in bangalore, staying with a rich old man with servants and escorts to show me round.

then it'll be off to thailand for a few weeks with the english boy to spend new years, a couple of weeks trekking about followed by some serious beach bumming time.

just hoping it all works out because the india source is less than reliable. probably should book and just lock it in.

yenks · Post by **yenks** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:00 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:looks like i might be going to work on a project in india for a couple of months at the end of the year, which would be interesting. down south in bangalore, staying with a rich old man with servants and escorts to show me round.

then it'll be off to thailand for a few weeks with the english boy to spend new years, a couple of weeks trekking about followed by some serious beach bumming time.

just hoping it all works out because the india source is less than reliable. probably should book and just lock it in.

nice one Witty !!!

from what uve said, if i was you i would definetly go...
3 of my female friends just got back from India last week, and had the best time travelling theyve ever had (according to them). They were all worried about the culture shock etc and the fact that 2 of them were blondes and 1 was a red head, lol, they said they had everyone staring at them the whole time and calling out to them, but apart from that it was fine....

I must admit reading ur post i am very jealous, cos i love thailand to death, and India is in my top 3 desination to do list.

I miss travelling... Cant wait till the end of the year is up and i head to thailand myself. Planning to spend at least a month there around january next year.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:07 pm

with india, it's not the culture shock or anything that puts me off, it's the fact that the connection is my mum's partner and they have a pretty volatile relationship, so if that goes tits up, my plans to work there might as well. so it's a tricky one to call.

as for thailand...might see you there matey...jan is when i play to be there.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:24 pm

witty, just book it

you can live for nothing in india lady. nevermind the work. could NOT for work!

and re thailand- 'sif you'll be catching up with anyone- you'll be 'otherwise engaged'

LOL!

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:25 pm

gnat wrote:witty, just book it

you can live for nothing in india lady. nevermind the work. could NOT for work!

and re thailand- 'sif you'll be catching up with anyone- you'll be 'otherwise engaged'

LOL!

once again you speak wise words ma'am.

especially on the last point.

yenks · Post by **yenks** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:26 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:
as for thailand...might see you there matey...jan is when i play to be there.

alright thats a plan... well meet up and trek around thailand for a week or two, and start the melbournebeats "in thailand" posse.

and then plenty of

will incur

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:15 pm

yenks wrote:
witty_pseudonym wrote:
as for thailand...might see you there matey...jan is when i play to be there.
alright thats a plan... well meet up and trek around thailand for a week or two, and start the melbournebeats "in thailand" posse.

and then plenty of will incur

Hrm.. i have some more appropriate emoticons yenks:

menace · Post by **menace** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:31 pm

going to glasgow in MAY !!!!! :stoked: brazil ,india in NOVember ..off the hook !!

yenks · Post by **yenks** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:43 pm

nice one dude !!!

got it all booked ?

im gonna head down to get quotes for my thailand trip this week

menace · Post by **menace** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:52 pm

yenks wrote:nice one dude !!!

got it all booked ?

im gonna head down to get quotes for my thailand trip this week

aye !! leave for glasgow 16 of may !! relocating for a bit !!! ... has not kicked in :

have done nothing ..but pay for my ticket in nov last year
!!!

pitch helix · Post by **pitch helix** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:43 am

any of you corkies been to Peru?

Post by **lynt** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:40 pm

Corky!

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:08 pm

he looks exactly like my old chinese lecturer

Post by **lynt** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:34 pm

Christopher Guest for Corky St Clair wrote:I was shopping for my wife Bonnie. I buy most of her clothes and Mrs Pearl was in the same shop! And it just was an accident you know, we started talking... about panty hose, she was saying... whatever that's not the point of the story but what the point is is that through this accidental meeting... it's like a Hitchcock movie you know where you're thrown into a rubber bag and put in the trunk of a car, you find people. You find them. Something, is is it karma? Maybe. But we found him, that's the important thing. And I got Bonnie a wonderful pantsuit.

ArrBee · Post by **ArrBee** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:51 pm

I'm in China at the mo.

It's pretty good except the MSG and oil in the food.

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:53 pm

Hi RB

I love to shop at Corky St Clair

pitch helix · Post by **pitch helix** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:04 pm

peru or stfu

:teeeeeef:

Post by **lynt** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:07 pm

Dr. Pearl: People say, You must have been the class clown. And I say, No, I wasn't. But I sat next to the class clown, and I studied him.

pitch helix · Post by **pitch helix** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:10 pm

bloody corkies

Post by **lynt** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:57 pm

Who's got mad links to travel sites that can store your itineraries, hotels, etc.... I've got links for seperate countries, but it want it all on the one site so I know what the fuck I'm doing.

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:27 am

Anyone been to Morocco?

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:35 am

elysium wrote:Anyone been to Morocco?

/gnatty puts hand up

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:37 am

I THINK.... im going to go backbacking thru Tibet one day... or if i cant do the physical exertion thing ill have to somehow get in there to see what its like... that place is amazing!

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:51 am

gnat wrote:
elysium wrote:Anyone been to Morocco?
/gnatty puts hand up

excellent... did you enjoy it?

any tips? highlights?

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:04 am

LOVED its guts!

Marrakech was OUT OF CONTROL and I loved Fes. Covered a fair bit of it over a couple of weeks and spent some time at the end on the west coast in Essaouira. Another major highlight was laying back on the red sands of the Sahara and taking in a sunset- madness.

It lives and breathes, fair Morocco. Full of life. I would surely recommend it but have much to say on the matter and not enough time in between seeing clients to sprout on with the poetry and enthusiasm it deserves..

PM me your email and I'll send you the email I sent my friends detailing our Moroccan adventures- it's long but very descriptive and should give you a fair idea..

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:10 am

Thanks gnatty! you're a star.

PM sent

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:48 am

Email sent

reverb · Post by **reverb** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:27 pm

Booked yesterday: 1 x 12 month return, Melbourne to London via KL, connecting return flights - KL to Tioman Island for 4 days of diving as a stop over.

C a n n o t, f u c k i n, w a i t..

I is goin' 'ome for a while

Post by **lynt** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:01 am

When you in blighty? I'm there last 2 weeks of July!

reverb · Post by **reverb** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:43 am

lynt wrote:When you in blighty? I'm there last 2 weeks of July!

I'll be there then!!! Will be looking at doing some hard partying when I get over.. and of course some quality RnR before looking for work.

Staying at my Mums in Norf London, where abouts are you going to lyntos?

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:01 am

Got back from Japan today
15 days, full on mad hectic life style, had a lot of fun and did a lot of shopping.

I think i could really live in Osaka, i loved that city!!

Post by **lynt** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:25 pm

reverb wrote:
lynt wrote:When you in blighty? I'm there last 2 weeks of July!
I'll be there then!!! Will be looking at doing some hard partying when I get over.. and of course some quality RnR before looking for work.

Staying at my Mums in Norf London, where abouts are you going to lyntos?

Booka!

Um, I dunno where my crew are living... thinking North London as it sounds pretty familiar. Wicked. We'll have to exchange email addresses and all that malarky. Rad.

PahMaLa · Post by **PahMaLa** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:54 pm

Well travels start with baby steps I guess, in a couple of weeks, will be relaxing up in Toorang Lake in this beauty:

Cannot wait to get out of the city for a bit!!

reverb · Post by **reverb** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:12 pm

lynt wrote:
reverb wrote:
lynt wrote:When you in blighty? I'm there last 2 weeks of July!
I'll be there then!!! Will be looking at doing some hard partying when I get over.. and of course some quality RnR before looking for work.

Staying at my Mums in Norf London, where abouts are you going to lyntos?

Booka!

Um, I dunno where my crew are living... thinking North London as it sounds pretty familiar. Wicked. We'll have to exchange email addresses and all that malarky. Rad.

Wicked!! I can't wait till the event listings for June/July start appearing..

Post by **lynt** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:38 pm

Word! It's looking like a good summer

Post by **lynt** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:02 am

Anyone know a good place to stay at in Hong Kong? Close to shopping district, bars etc?

same o · Post by **same o** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:23 am

i've been thinking of going to bonydoon

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:38 am

Trying to plan my next holiday..

?Borneo volunteer thing with orangutans

?Cuba

Suggestions for 2-3 weeks holiday welcome..

Post by **lynt** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:46 am

Vietnam Natty. Cheap as, beautiful country, great people.

menace · Post by **menace** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:49 am

gnat wrote:Trying to plan my next holiday..

?Borneo volunteer thing with orangutans

?Cuba

Suggestions for 2-3 weeks holiday welcome..

Buenos Aires ..be there in november

fmf · Post by **fmf** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:48 pm

less than 48 hours to go til i fuck off! yay!

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:52 pm

fmf wrote:less than 48 hours to go til i fuck off! yay!

Good to see you both last Friday Fred. Did the bro spin up some fundage later

Have a wicked time. Tell Anika to text me and i'll give her my email addy.