Don't nobody go nowhere no more?

I do Colin.
In 15 minutes I'm going to Paris to take my daughter to her swimming lesson.

Hi dance girl! That just wouldn't be Paris France though, would it? The glasses of wine are on you and your daughter if it is.

Sadly no, it's Paris, Ontario. About 15-20 minutes down the road.
Anyway, she can't drink and swim...she's only 8!
Ah if only I were in Paris, France!

I just wanted you to know I went somewhere today

Et ça, quand même, c'est déjà quelque chose. Ten Brownie points to you, dance girl!

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Ten Brownie points to you

I got asked to leave the Brownies. Well, actually it was the Girl Guides, but the same organisation. I was a precocious child.

I think Fred and jr should contribute to this thread, as they are the big travelers. As I type this, I think Fred is walking around with a wad of Scottish money that he can't spend.

I believe the following requires, nay, demands, clarification:

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I got asked to leave the Brownies. Well, actually it was the Girl Guides, but the same organisation. I was a precocious child.

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I got asked to leave the Brownies. Well, actually it was the Girl Guides, but the same organisation. I was a precocious child.

Too much fascination with the Boy Scouts...?...?...

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Originally posted by dance girl:

I think Fred and jr should contribute to this thread, as they are the big travelers. As I type this, I think Fred is walking around with a wad of Scottish money that he can't spend.

Too late !Got back to Newmarket from Edinburgh on Monday, flew to Nice on Tuesday (am in Antibes now), return to Newmarket on Friday, am due in Galway on Saturday.At some point the Scottish money went.Fun thing about this is that Ireland and France use the euro, so euro coins issued anywhere are accepted anywhere (the banknotes are the same everywhere in the eurozone) but the English use sterling and don't accept Scottish sterling notes

Can't compete with my 19 year old daughter who announced one Friday that she'd then and there decided to fly to Thailand on the following Thursday, saying breezily 'I'll go on to Shanghai after and fly back from there'.She then spent an hour booking flights and arranging a visa and then went to the local doctor (free, of course) to take the one booster injection she needed. In the intervening period of three weeks she has been in Hong Kong and Beijing, all seemingly decided 'on the hoof', and when last heard of was in Tibet, having taken a train journey of 36 hours to get there.At her age I thought visiting France on my own was an adventure It's this kind of thing that makes me feel old.

quote: I was asked to leave the Brownies. Well, actually it was the Girl Guides, but the same organisation. I was a precocious child. DanceGirl

quote: Too much fascination with the Boy Scouts...?...?... Ritz

You know, ages ago I heard about a girl who was turfed out. Seems she happened upon a young scout having a private moment in the bushes, and said, "What a handy gadget to have along on a picnic!! Don't have to squat down and get poison ivy all over your bottom!!"

But I thought that story was apocryphal.

But Colin wants us to tell him all about where we have traveled to.
Now I have piqued your interest, and lured you all in here, tell us about some great travel destinations.


(You really don't want to hear about the rainy week I spent in Gloucestershire when I was 13, at the joint Girl Guide /Boy Scout camp! Suffice to say, after that episode I didn't earn any more arm badges.)

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Originally posted by dance girl:You really don't want to hear about the rainy week I spent in Gloucestershire when I was 13, at the joint Girl Guide /Boy Scout camp! Suffice to say, after that episode I didn't earn any more arm badges.)

Oh, but we do, we do, just try us...

What HAVE I started here?!!!!!!!! What HAVE I started?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And tell me - don't nobody get no arm badges no more?!

Okay, forget the arm badges, but did you get any hickey-badges????????????????

(Insert audible big sigh here.)

Oh DG what are you sighing about now? I'm trying to get them back on topic, but they are a totally unruly bunch.

Back to destinations:

Colin:

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Don't nobody go nowhere no more?

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And tell me - don't nobody get no arm badges no more?!

Are you sure you're in Paris? Or did you move to South London?

Okay, okay, don't be so grouchy! I had a wonderful trip to the Hebrides two years ago. The west winds blow all the time so the air is nice and clean. There are tons of birds on the isle I visited -- Eige, from whence (wow, hardly ever get to use that term!) my ancestors came in about 1790. No mains electricity, only one narrow road that follows the spine of the island, which itself is only about 11 km. long. In 1790, 500 people lived on it. Now there are about 70 year-round residents, and none are rich.

So that told me I had tough ancestors. If you can survive there, you can do well in the New World.

Talked to several British (from the industrial areas) and Continental Europeans who go every year for the peace and clean environment.

Well HEY! I just went to Reno in April (not so far away), and in less than a month I'll be going to Colorado Springs, CO to help drive my daughter back here (hubby is being deployed to Iraq and she doesn't want to stay there)

And this winter, probably over Thanksgiving, my SO and myself will be going to Cabo San Lucas for a week.

OK, OK, pax...

Several years ago I fulfilled a lifetime's ambition and went to the Orkneys & the Shetland Islands. The air was as pure and fresh as it is possible to imagine, and the views were magical. Having waited for years to see Shetland, the most northerly islands of the British Isles I fell in love with the Orkneys! Gently rolloing hills which emerged from, and disappeared into the sea...beautiful.

It ain't much, but I'm headed to Seattle---then to Chicago and eventually Champaign, IL this fall. It's not some tropical paradise, but at least I'm going someplace!