Favourite holiday destination?

Just a random question, this probably excludes Tring because he lives in some people's choice

I've been to:

Scotland twice
Wales 3 times
Northern Ireland
Ireland
France 5 times
Belgium
Germany
Spain 5 times
Gibralter
Mallorca
Ibiza
Turkey
Italy

The best were
1. Spain
2. Germany
3. Ibiza


The worst were
1. Turkey (bitten to death, only english people at hotel, rest were drunk scotts, ripped off numerous times)
2. Ireland (prices, just so high)
3. Scotland (well, it was glasgow


What about you?

Anywhere in Scotland other than Glasgow, oh and Dundee too

been to

Scotland

Wales

France

Belgium

Holland

Germany

Cant beat dear old Plymouth

best other country Scotland for the birdwatching, saw a Golden Eagle on my 65th birthday.

Cornwall
Spain
Poland
German
Norway
Denmark
Holland
France
Belgium
SW USA

Back to the States next year, not sure where yet but it's an amazing country!

Turkey x2
Malia
Ibiza x2
France x 3
USA
Poland
Holland


USA was the best, followed by Marmaris (Turkey) and Poland (a small town near Poznan and it was very cheap and hot in September)

Chemical Ali wrote:

Turkey x2
Malia
Ibiza x2
France x 3
USA
Poland
Holland


USA was the best, followed by Marmaris (Turkey) and Poland (a small town near Poznan and it was very cheap and hot in September)

Where about's in ibiza did you go?

Australia
Argentina
Cuba
USA (Las Vegas to be precise)
Assorted Scandiwegian countries

Andy_Symons wrote:

Australia
Argentina
Cuba
USA (Las Vegas to be precise)
Assorted Scandiwegian countries

What did you think of Las Vegas Andy?

The first day I was there it was great until I watched a TV clip about the homeless kids in Las Vegas and the life they have, then to see one old lady putting dollar after dollar in a one arm bandit for a period of about 24 hours made me want to run from the place!

The US is a remarkable country and I can't wait to return, but in some ways it's extremely third world.

Block4Green wrote:

Chemical Ali wrote:

Turkey x2
Malia
Ibiza x2
France x 3
USA
Poland
Holland


USA was the best, followed by Marmaris (Turkey) and Poland (a small town near Poznan and it was very cheap and hot in September)

Where about's in ibiza did you go?

San Antonio both times (in my yoof)

GOB wrote:

Andy_Symons wrote:

Australia
Argentina
Cuba
USA (Las Vegas to be precise)
Assorted Scandiwegian countries

What did you think of Las Vegas Andy?

The first day I was there it was great until I watched a TV clip about the homeless kids in Las Vegas and the life they have, then to see one old lady putting dollar after dollar in a one arm bandit for a period of about 24 hours made me want to run from the place!

The US is a remarkable country and I can't wait to return, but in some ways it's extremely third world.

That's pretty much how I saw it. I went there to accomplish one of those 'bucket list' events ($1000 on red at a Vegas roulette table - it won! I also rode a Harley down route 66) but I was advised about the areas to steer clear of. And the contrast between the glitz and glamour of the casinos and the poverty on the streets is unbelievable. I've travelled across the States (Post - Uni year out, innit) and the geography is remarkable, the Rockies are stunning, the desert around Vegas quite foreboding, and the Mississippi delta is just an astonishing area, but the levels of poverty, deprivation and crime in some areas of The World's Greatest Superpower defy belief, and reinforce my view that 'The American Dream' is more of a nightmare for many.

Andy_Symons wrote:

GOB wrote:

Andy_Symons wrote:

Australia
Argentina
Cuba
USA (Las Vegas to be precise)
Assorted Scandiwegian countries

What did you think of Las Vegas Andy?

The first day I was there it was great until I watched a TV clip about the homeless kids in Las Vegas and the life they have, then to see one old lady putting dollar after dollar in a one arm bandit for a period of about 24 hours made me want to run from the place!

The US is a remarkable country and I can't wait to return, but in some ways it's extremely third world.

That's pretty much how I saw it. I went there to accomplish one of those 'bucket list' events ($1000 on red at a Vegas roulette table - it won! I also rode a Harley down route 66) but I was advised about the areas to steer clear of. And the contrast between the glitz and glamour of the casinos and the poverty on the streets is unbelievable. I've travelled across the States (Post - Uni year out, innit) and the geography is remarkable, the Rockies are stunning, the desert around Vegas quite foreboding, and the Mississippi delta is just an astonishing area, but the levels of poverty, deprivation and crime in some areas of The World's Greatest Superpower defy belief, and reinforce my view that 'The American Dream' is more of a nightmare for many.

Snap!

I went with a mate for a few weeks, we done the whitewater rafting thing in the Grand Canyon, done the cowboy thing on a ranch and hired a couple of Harley's for 9 days touring around Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Fan-bloody-tastic time!

Did you hire the Harley's from Eagle Rider?

France
Belgium
Austria
Scotland (had a long-eared owl land about 10 yards from us and had the most wonderful view of a hen harrier ever, Pete!)
Israel
Wales (red kites when there were only about a dozen breeding pairs in UK)
Kenya
worked in Sudan & Israel.

I couldn't choose a favourite - each place was special in its own way.

knecht wrote:

France
Belgium
Austria
Scotland (had a long-eared owl land about 10 yards from us and had the most wonderful view of a hen harrier ever, Pete!)
Israel
Wales (red kites when there were only about a dozen breeding pairs in UK)
Kenya
worked in Sudan & Israel.

I couldn't choose a favourite - each place was special in its own way.

That's how I see it Knecht. I've had summers on the beach at Mullins Bay, Barbados. Totally idylic. But I've also had Christmas's in a Log cabin in the Alps - equally idylic!

I could probably narrow it down for a 'favourite beach'...

...in the UK - Sennen Cove, Cornwall
in Europe - Cala Bassa, Ibiza
worldwide - Mullins Bay, Barbados

Canada,Stayed on a ranch near Canmore in Alberta,4 days horse riding in the Rockies.like a dream

USA,LA ,SAN FRAN, Boston NY.
Mexico
most of the med
North Africa.
This year Vietnam
All of northern Europe+Norway and sweden

Never been to Scotland though,will do in the next few years,been close.Newcastle and Carlisle

Greenjock wrote:

Anywhere in Scotland other than Glasgow, oh and Dundee too

I actually am a half Scot,both my Mum and Dad from Inverness and Wick respectively,even my Brother was born in Raigmore hospital Inverness before the family up-sticked and went to Plymouth where i was born,raised and schooled, had a brief excursion back to Inverness to live once my Mum and Dad split up and i finished school, worked on a Salmon farm near Lochcarron (West Coast) for 6 months got pissed off and joined the Army (Scots Guards) 19 years later still doing that job, still holiday there annually, might go back their once i leave the Army, but i suppose its where the work is , cash is king as they say.

Amongst many other things I've never done, I've never been on a beach holiday. I'd be bored rigid by the middle of the first day, and beaches are better in winter anyway.

Cities, though. Eh? Geneva, Copenhagen, Dublin, Gothenburg, Edinburgh, Bruges, Glasgow (yes - fantastic art and architecture there), Stockholm, Prague, Belfast ... London's ok in small doses, too.

I also did Highway 61 from Memphis to New Orleans a few years ago and experienced joy and heartbreak in equal measure.

Anywhere that doesn't have access to the internet at the moment would do me.

Sydney

Wales
Scotland x 10 at least
N.Ireland
Eire x 2
Belgium x dozens
Holland
France x dozens
Germany x 5
Austria x 2
Italy x 2
Denmark
Norway x 2
Arctic Circle
Gibraltar (lived there)
Spain x 7
Moroco x 4
Bahrain
Aden (middle east Glasgow)
Cornwall x 100

Favourites
Austria
Belgium (cause it's boring)
Moroco

downthetrack wrote:

Canada,Stayed on a ranch near Canmore in Alberta,4 days horse riding in the Rockies.like a dream

USA,LA ,SAN FRAN, Boston NY.
Mexico
most of the med
North Africa.
This year Vietnam
All of northern Europe+Norway and sweden

Never been to Scotland though,will do in the next few years,been close.Newcastle and Carlisle

You feckin cowboy

I was born in Jamaica, same hospital as Bob Marley, not at the same time obviously, I'm far too young, so there's my claim to fame out of the way

Lived in Germany too, yep you guessed it Pa was a forces man, wish I had got to know him,

I used to go to Spain, I particularly love Mallorca, then the Brits turned it into a little Britain in the sun, so I went to Greece, Kos & Crete, then the Brits turned that into a little Britain in the sun, then I chose to go to Turkey, and loved that too, but now the brits are turning that into a little Britain in the sun... and the first thing the chav's complain about... how expensive they have all become, course they have you chav, they have to import all that crap British food & drink you've got to have whilst you're 2000 miles from home An example - whilst last out in Turkey, the British tourist parts, full of British touristy pubs & dining places, food & drink was the same price as in Blighty, however, we got ourselves up into the mountains a couple of times away from those tourist traps, had a 3 course lunch for the equilivant of £1.80, food was so fresh, I had to catch my own trout, and the 3rd course had to pick my own cherry's from the tree to go with the ice cream

1. Olluz Deniz (The Blue Lagoon) Turkiye
2. Palma Mallorca
3. Beecraig Park Linlithgow Scotland
4. Scottish Highlands (Invernesshire)
5. Lynton & Lynmouth North Devon
6. Lapland met the big fella in red, food was awesome, if you stayed away from the British crap on offer
7. North Cornwall
8. Dorset
9. Crete
10. Edinburgh

On that theme....

Worst Brits abroad experience: in a car-park in France and overhearing some British woman complaining seriously that the machine didn't take pound coins.

St Lawrence, near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.

seadog wrote:

Sydney

+1

Cairns.

Perth.

Melbourne.

Brisbo.

Etc.

knecht wrote:

On that theme....

Worst Brits abroad experience: in a car-park in France and overhearing some British woman complaining seriously that the machine didn't take pound coins.

On that theme but vearing slightly...

Worst Leisure/Theme Park experience abroad: "Fabi-land - Tunisia's answer to Disneyland". Bizarrely, that's exactly how they marketed it.

They had a 'rollercoaster', that was built from what looked (and felt) like poor quality grade scaffold poles, I kid you not. Never before have I so seriously feared for my life!

Best Theme Park: Six Flags Magic Mountain, and Hurricane Harbour Water Park, just north of Los Angeles. "Awwwwwwwsome!"

I went to the six flags magic mountain severely hungover- I did make several trips to the bogs to 'barf'