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Bit of a family history trip this year for us. I am a quarter Japanese - so travelling to Tokyo for 10 days in July. Then flying straight on to New Zealand as my wifes family are all from Christchurch. And I have an Aunt and Uncle in Auckland. Spending 2 weeks there. Then 5 days in Singapore on the way home.
Gonna be a trial on the flight(s) with 2 kids!3 -
Spending any time in Singapore itself?DiscoCAFC said:Going on a cruise from Singapore. Flying out next Wednesday. Can’t wait!0 -
Try Villas in Spain | Selected Self Catering Holidays in Spain (rusticaltravel.com)Boom said:Which website do people use to search/book villas? Normally stay in hotels but might give a villa a whirl this year.1 -
I'm sure they are very good...but simply a host for owners to market private property and based in Spain. If anything goes amiss whats your recourse?HastingsRed said:
Try Villas in Spain | Selected Self Catering Holidays in Spain (rusticaltravel.com)Boom said:Which website do people use to search/book villas? Normally stay in hotels but might give a villa a whirl this year.
Much better booking with an ABTA (or equivalent) member company if booking a villa only (such as Villa Plus), or a company with an ATOL licence if booking flights as part of a package agreement (recommended) such as Solmar (ultimately part of the same group as Kuoni)..
Other UK based villa suppliers that offer consumer protection are available...2 -
New York now booked for our silver wedding anniversary at the end of May. Ties in with the San Francisco Giants playing the Mets, so we will take in one, maybe two games of the series. The Dion musical still hasn't materialised so if it happens it'll be a bonus.4
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Lamzagrotte ten days in August0
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Budapest for 5 nights over Easter, two nights in Bournemouth in April then off to Mauritius in October for ten nights.1
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Those cities are very contrasting to each other, you'll enjoy.Algarveaddick said:New York now booked for our silver wedding anniversary at the end of May. Ties in with the San Francisco Giants playing the Mets, so we will take in one, maybe two games of the series. The Dion musical still hasn't materialised so if it happens it'll be a bonus.
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Enjoy mateAlgarveaddick said:New York now booked for our silver wedding anniversary at the end of May. Ties in with the San Francisco Giants playing the Mets, so we will take in one, maybe two games of the series. The Dion musical still hasn't materialised so if it happens it'll be a bonus.1 -
Might not be your thing but it’s not toooo far from the Gold Coast… Australia Zoo would be an experience. My sister lives in Queensland and is only a 20 minute drive from there and a 20 minute drive from to beach. Different life.CheshireAddick said:
Cheers mate. Sydney, gold coast etc are already on the agenda. If anyone has any suggestions around the Melbourne area / tips on places to eat and drink etc would be appreciated 😀.ElfsborgAddick said:
Only an hour by plane but squeeze in Sydney.CheshireAddick said:Heading off to Melbourne at the beginning of April for 7 weeks to visit our daughter and husband (who has picked up a football contract out there).
Any suggestions for things to see and do in that area?. We are planning to spend some time touring parts of the east coast too.
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Australia Zoo is a great place to visit. If on the Gold Coast I’d also recommend a drive inland to the Glasshouse Mountains, stunning scenery, lovely drive, a bit off the normal tourist route and all the better for it.Sage said:
Might not be your thing but it’s not toooo far from the Gold Coast… Australia Zoo would be an experience. My sister lives in Queensland and is only a 20 minute drive from there and a 20 minute drive from to beach. Different life.CheshireAddick said:
Cheers mate. Sydney, gold coast etc are already on the agenda. If anyone has any suggestions around the Melbourne area / tips on places to eat and drink etc would be appreciated 😀.ElfsborgAddick said:
Only an hour by plane but squeeze in Sydney.CheshireAddick said:Heading off to Melbourne at the beginning of April for 7 weeks to visit our daughter and husband (who has picked up a football contract out there).
Any suggestions for things to see and do in that area?. We are planning to spend some time touring parts of the east coast too.
As for things to do in and around Melbourne. A drive out past Torquay and along the Great Ocean Road is a trip I’d recommend.0 -
LargeAddick said:
Australia Zoo is a great place to visit. If on the Gold Coast I’d also recommend a drive inland to the Glasshouse Mountains, stunning scenery, lovely drive, a bit off the normal tourist route and all the better for it.Sage said:
Might not be your thing but it’s not toooo far from the Gold Coast… Australia Zoo would be an experience. My sister lives in Queensland and is only a 20 minute drive from there and a 20 minute drive from to beach. Different life.CheshireAddick said:
Cheers mate. Sydney, gold coast etc are already on the agenda. If anyone has any suggestions around the Melbourne area / tips on places to eat and drink etc would be appreciated 😀.ElfsborgAddick said:
Only an hour by plane but squeeze in Sydney.CheshireAddick said:Heading off to Melbourne at the beginning of April for 7 weeks to visit our daughter and husband (who has picked up a football contract out there).
Any suggestions for things to see and do in that area?. We are planning to spend some time touring parts of the east coast too.
As for things to do in and around Melbourne. A drive out past Torquay and along the Great Ocean Road is a trip I’d recommend.
I drove up the Great Ocean Road about 25 yrs ago. Stopped off at a small town called Lorne for the night camping. Went to the pub in the evening where it was free beer and pool night ! On the way back to the tent I bumped into a lad I had grown up next door to in Beckenham 15 years before totally at random and back at the campsite bumped into a couple I had spent 5 days kicking around with a couple of years before in Budapest. Fun times.
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A&K Villas and The Luxury Travel Book are both worth checking out.Boom said:Which website do people use to search/book villas? Normally stay in hotels but might give a villa a whirl this year.2 -
Sometimes things in life just cannot be explained. Of all the places in the world, these type of occurrences happen so frequently.Athletico Charlton said:LargeAddick said:
Australia Zoo is a great place to visit. If on the Gold Coast I’d also recommend a drive inland to the Glasshouse Mountains, stunning scenery, lovely drive, a bit off the normal tourist route and all the better for it.Sage said:
Might not be your thing but it’s not toooo far from the Gold Coast… Australia Zoo would be an experience. My sister lives in Queensland and is only a 20 minute drive from there and a 20 minute drive from to beach. Different life.CheshireAddick said:
Cheers mate. Sydney, gold coast etc are already on the agenda. If anyone has any suggestions around the Melbourne area / tips on places to eat and drink etc would be appreciated 😀.ElfsborgAddick said:
Only an hour by plane but squeeze in Sydney.CheshireAddick said:Heading off to Melbourne at the beginning of April for 7 weeks to visit our daughter and husband (who has picked up a football contract out there).
Any suggestions for things to see and do in that area?. We are planning to spend some time touring parts of the east coast too.
As for things to do in and around Melbourne. A drive out past Torquay and along the Great Ocean Road is a trip I’d recommend.
I drove up the Great Ocean Road about 25 yrs ago. Stopped off at a small town called Lorne for the night camping. Went to the pub in the evening where it was free beer and pool night ! On the way back to the tent I bumped into a lad I had grown up next door to in Beckenham 15 years before totally at random and back at the campsite bumped into a couple I had spent 5 days kicking around with a couple of years before in Budapest. Fun times.0 -
We are off on a 17 night cruise in just under 4 weeks, Miami to Barbados can’t remember where else we are visiting, wife’s 70th birthday present. In early October we are going on another 15 night cruise Southampton to Barcelona.2
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Sage said:
Sometimes things in life just cannot be explained. Of all the places in the world, these type of occurrences happen so frequently.Athletico Charlton said:LargeAddick said:
Australia Zoo is a great place to visit. If on the Gold Coast I’d also recommend a drive inland to the Glasshouse Mountains, stunning scenery, lovely drive, a bit off the normal tourist route and all the better for it.Sage said:
Might not be your thing but it’s not toooo far from the Gold Coast… Australia Zoo would be an experience. My sister lives in Queensland and is only a 20 minute drive from there and a 20 minute drive from to beach. Different life.CheshireAddick said:
Cheers mate. Sydney, gold coast etc are already on the agenda. If anyone has any suggestions around the Melbourne area / tips on places to eat and drink etc would be appreciated 😀.ElfsborgAddick said:
Only an hour by plane but squeeze in Sydney.CheshireAddick said:Heading off to Melbourne at the beginning of April for 7 weeks to visit our daughter and husband (who has picked up a football contract out there).
Any suggestions for things to see and do in that area?. We are planning to spend some time touring parts of the east coast too.
As for things to do in and around Melbourne. A drive out past Torquay and along the Great Ocean Road is a trip I’d recommend.
I drove up the Great Ocean Road about 25 yrs ago. Stopped off at a small town called Lorne for the night camping. Went to the pub in the evening where it was free beer and pool night ! On the way back to the tent I bumped into a lad I had grown up next door to in Beckenham 15 years before totally at random and back at the campsite bumped into a couple I had spent 5 days kicking around with a couple of years before in Budapest. Fun times.Littlewood's law
Littlewood's law states that a person can expect to experience events with odds of one in a million (referred to as a "miracle") at the rate of about one per month. It was framed by British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood.History
The law was framed by Cambridge University Professor John Edensor Littlewood and published in a 1986 collection of his work, A Mathematician's Miscellany. It seeks, among other things, to debunk one element of supposed supernatural phenomenology and is related to the more general law of truly large numbers, which states that with a sample size large enough, any outrageous (in terms of probability model of single sample) thing is likely to happen.
Description
Littlewood defines a miracle as an exceptional event of special significance occurring at one in-a-million frequency. He assumes that during the hours a human is awake and alert, a human will see or hear one "event" per second, which may be either exceptional or unexceptional. Additionally, Littlewood supposes that a human is alert for about eight hours daily.
As a result, in 35 days, a human will have experienced about one million events under these suppositions. Therefore, accepting this definition of a miracle, one can expect to observe one miraculous event every 35 days, on average – therefore, according to this reasoning, seemingly miraculous events are commonplace.
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We are only going to NYC Elfs - the Giants are playing away. Went to SF many moons ago (hence following the Giants), look forward to seeing the contrast - seems like NYC will be more like a much better version of LA...ElfsborgAddick said:
Those cities are very contrasting to each other, you'll enjoy.Algarveaddick said:New York now booked for our silver wedding anniversary at the end of May. Ties in with the San Francisco Giants playing the Mets, so we will take in one, maybe two games of the series. The Dion musical still hasn't materialised so if it happens it'll be a bonus.1 -
Southampton is lovely, you'll have a great time. Let me know if you need any recommendations of places to visit or restaurants.CharltonKerry said:We are off on a 17 night cruise in just under 4 weeks, Miami to Barbados can’t remember where else we are visiting, wife’s 70th birthday present. In early October we are going on another 15 night cruise Southampton to Barcelona.
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Only used them once, in Sept 2017 stopped at a villa for 1 week up in the Alpujarras Mountains, didn't have any problems, we stayed there as part of a month road trip to Spain.SporadicAddick said:
I'm sure they are very good...but simply a host for owners to market private property and based in Spain. If anything goes amiss whats your recourse?HastingsRed said:
Try Villas in Spain | Selected Self Catering Holidays in Spain (rusticaltravel.com)Boom said:Which website do people use to search/book villas? Normally stay in hotels but might give a villa a whirl this year.
Much better booking with an ABTA (or equivalent) member company if booking a villa only (such as Villa Plus), or a company with an ATOL licence if booking flights as part of a package agreement (recommended) such as Solmar (ultimately part of the same group as Kuoni)..
Other UK based villa suppliers that offer consumer protection are available...0 -
As I say I’m sure they are great and the villas they advertise are as well, but using them means you are booking a holiday without any financial or service protection.HastingsRed said:
Only used them once, in Sept 2017 stopped at a villa for 1 week up in the Alpujarras Mountains, didn't have any problems, we stayed there as part of a month road trip to Spain.SporadicAddick said:
I'm sure they are very good...but simply a host for owners to market private property and based in Spain. If anything goes amiss whats your recourse?HastingsRed said:
Try Villas in Spain | Selected Self Catering Holidays in Spain (rusticaltravel.com)Boom said:Which website do people use to search/book villas? Normally stay in hotels but might give a villa a whirl this year.
Much better booking with an ABTA (or equivalent) member company if booking a villa only (such as Villa Plus), or a company with an ATOL licence if booking flights as part of a package agreement (recommended) such as Solmar (ultimately part of the same group as Kuoni)..
Other UK based villa suppliers that offer consumer protection are available...0 - Sponsored links:
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That's the wife's area of expertise...but if in doubt stay clear....though they are a member of ABTA. There front page give's you there ABTA number.SporadicAddick said:
As I say I’m sure they are great and the villas they advertise are as well, but using them means you are booking a holiday without any financial or service protection.HastingsRed said:
Only used them once, in Sept 2017 stopped at a villa for 1 week up in the Alpujarras Mountains, didn't have any problems, we stayed there as part of a month road trip to Spain.SporadicAddick said:
I'm sure they are very good...but simply a host for owners to market private property and based in Spain. If anything goes amiss whats your recourse?HastingsRed said:
Try Villas in Spain | Selected Self Catering Holidays in Spain (rusticaltravel.com)Boom said:Which website do people use to search/book villas? Normally stay in hotels but might give a villa a whirl this year.
Much better booking with an ABTA (or equivalent) member company if booking a villa only (such as Villa Plus), or a company with an ATOL licence if booking flights as part of a package agreement (recommended) such as Solmar (ultimately part of the same group as Kuoni)..
Other UK based villa suppliers that offer consumer protection are available...
Hand-picked Holiday Villas across Spain (rusticaltravel.com)
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I'm going back to '97 the last time I was there, but there was a pub called The Blarney Stone three minutes walk from Maddison Square Garden. This was in Blondie's Heart of Glass video if that ticks your box for visiting.Algarveaddick said:
We are only going to NYC Elfs - the Giants are playing away. Went to SF many moons ago (hence following the Giants), look forward to seeing the contrast - seems like NYC will be more like a much better version of LA...ElfsborgAddick said:
Those cities are very contrasting to each other, you'll enjoy.Algarveaddick said:New York now booked for our silver wedding anniversary at the end of May. Ties in with the San Francisco Giants playing the Mets, so we will take in one, maybe two games of the series. The Dion musical still hasn't materialised so if it happens it'll be a bonus.1 -
Thanks Sage. I will look into that 👍.Sage said:
Might not be your thing but it’s not toooo far from the Gold Coast… Australia Zoo would be an experience. My sister lives in Queensland and is only a 20 minute drive from there and a 20 minute drive from to beach. Different life.CheshireAddick said:
Cheers mate. Sydney, gold coast etc are already on the agenda. If anyone has any suggestions around the Melbourne area / tips on places to eat and drink etc would be appreciated 😀.ElfsborgAddick said:
Only an hour by plane but squeeze in Sydney.CheshireAddick said:Heading off to Melbourne at the beginning of April for 7 weeks to visit our daughter and husband (who has picked up a football contract out there).
Any suggestions for things to see and do in that area?. We are planning to spend some time touring parts of the east coast too.1 -
Thanks Large Addick. We are planning to spend a couple of days doing the Great Ocean Drive. I will definetly take a look at Torquay 👍. Thanks for that.LargeAddick said:
Australia Zoo is a great place to visit. If on the Gold Coast I’d also recommend a drive inland to the Glasshouse Mountains, stunning scenery, lovely drive, a bit off the normal tourist route and all the better for it.Sage said:
Might not be your thing but it’s not toooo far from the Gold Coast… Australia Zoo would be an experience. My sister lives in Queensland and is only a 20 minute drive from there and a 20 minute drive from to beach. Different life.CheshireAddick said:
Cheers mate. Sydney, gold coast etc are already on the agenda. If anyone has any suggestions around the Melbourne area / tips on places to eat and drink etc would be appreciated 😀.ElfsborgAddick said:
Only an hour by plane but squeeze in Sydney.CheshireAddick said:Heading off to Melbourne at the beginning of April for 7 weeks to visit our daughter and husband (who has picked up a football contract out there).
Any suggestions for things to see and do in that area?. We are planning to spend some time touring parts of the east coast too.
As for things to do in and around Melbourne. A drive out past Torquay and along the Great Ocean Road is a trip I’d recommend.0 -
That's me off for a bit in Tenerife, nearly froze watching the game today, although second half was better, any way I'll be topping up the meter with a few euros ready for when FF gets over in February (I think)0
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Moi ?jonseventyfive said:That's me off for a bit in Tenerife, nearly froze watching the game today, although second half was better, any way I'll be topping up the meter with a few euros ready for when FF gets over in February (I think)1 -
I miss that British weather 😔
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Off to Tenerife for a week in April, Golf weekend/stag to The Algarve in June, 10 night family holiday to southern Spain in August, then a weeks golf in Turkey in November. Lots to look forward to.
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