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I love travel but some places are just too far to go when you are limited to a two week break. On my recent trip to Oz we met a guy in Sydney that had travelled from the UK to Sydney for a week !! It was his only option as he and his girlfriend were teachers and had travelled for a wedding.
Anyone done similar?
I went to a wedding in Sydney. Guy there in the army (Archie Sykes, 2 Rifles) had traveled from the uk to celebrate the wedding was there for 24 hours before returning to the Uk.
He looked asleep on his feet most of the time.
Didn’t see any point in that at all but well done for making the effort
Not a holiday but I did a day-trip for a meeting in Chicago once.
Vancouver, Whistler and Vancouver Island for a holiday.
Cuba
I heard someone on Radio 4 who who travelled to NZ for a one day meeting. The reason was, he said, to maintain his air miles or something. Apparently a few people do the same, jumping on a plane to Tokyo, arriving, then jumping on a plane back. His meeting was cancelled mid-flight.Originally Posted by Peajay
Apart froma three-week holiday to visit Australia many moons ago I have been to all the other countries I have visited (and that includes every country in Europe and quite a few further afield, including China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia & South Korea. I was meant to be in Kazakhstan and Kyrgystran next week, Azerbaijan next month and Argentina in November, all holidays and for less than 2 two weeks.
Trecco
I went to Australia for a week once. Wasn't really a holiday though. Left on a Sunday afternoon, arrived Tuesday morning. I was fine when I got there. It took me a week to get back to normal when I got back. Left Monday morning and got home late monday night. A 40-hour Monday.
when i backpacked around Oz, my best mate came for the 1st 10 days then had to get back to work
Pretty impressive (if you live in Australia)
Cancun
Antarctica which included the Falklands.
I went to Thailand flying into Bangkok for a 10 day visit. But to be fair it wasn't so far as I was almoast half way there when I started.
I had a 'freebie' there in the 80s ;-)
I watched one of those border security programmes, and security had suspicions over a French guy who had flown in to Sydney for a few hours before his return flight. After some deliberation they couldn't find anything wrong and allowed him through to buy some 'baseball hats'. One or two about Oz jet lag on here, now that's 'proper' jet lag, takes a good week to shake it.
Costa Rica. Well worth it then took a day trip to Nicaragua from there
Japan and South Africa the furthest for 2 weeks (Cape Town just further than Tokyo I think).
Been further, but always for a longer time.
Philippines. Great place.
Your travel-brag posts are the best on the interest, I've lost count of the number of times you have mentioned visiting every country in Europe
Your travel-brag posts are the best on the interest, I've lost count of the number of times you have mentioned visiting every country in Europe
Did you know TBG has visited every country in Europe
just saying
Yep, great place. Flying over from Singapore and the sea was a beautiful blue, turquoise around the many beautiful islands that you could see from the plane.
Stayed at the "City of Dreams" in Manila on the way back - incredibly luxurious, but a bit blingy, for £100 a night. I went to the Southern Island, which was on the FCO red list because of insurgency - so I travelled with insurance that was probably going to be invalidated as soon as I made a claim.
Vanuatu is next on my list.
Worst jet-lag I had was on that trip to the Philippines. We arrived at the hotel at 2am, slept until 7. For the next 6 days I was waking at 2am and was completely awake. On the sixth day, we drank with some locals, and we stayed up through the night until early morning. Spent the day just lazing around. Went to bed about 8pm - so about 40 hours without sleep, completely exhausted. Woke at 2am again. Only way i got around it was listening to 5 live on Tune in. It's a bit strange listening the the Drive Time show at midnight.
I really fancy the Philippines, but have no clue of where to go. Its my brides 50th in Feb and would love to look at somewhere like the Philippines. She wants a proper lazy chill holiday, we were going to do Singapore for a few nights and over to out fave place in Asia (Krabi) but would be interested in the Phllippines. Please let me know.
We all have our problems
great place, i did a few days as a dive master in Vanuatu, just helping a guy / company out while i was in sydney, it was all work though
some world class reefs and a WW2 ship with tanks still on the deck , really shallow so would only need a padi open water card t dive them
I regret not going with all my dive mates though, at the time i just didnt have the money, one of my lifes regrets thati might have mentioned it on here in the past
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