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scarecrow



Joined: 15 Dec 2004
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Location: Manchester, Up North
PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 04 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

bit of a traveller eh Tahir!!

twoscoops



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hanging up your flip-flops are you?

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Twoscoops wrote:
Hanging up your flip-flops are you?


Darn right, I'm not going anywhere with 3 little kids

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28100
Location: escaped from Swindon
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Twoscoops wrote:
Hanging up your flip-flops are you?


Darn right, I'm not going anywhere with 3 little kids


tis a problem isn't it You then get a bit of relief when they are old enough to travel with, get half fares and can be crammed with you into one room, then after that costs sky rocket again.

We are counting off the last few years until we get the freedom to travel again.


jema

*Fluffykitten*



Joined: 03 Dec 2004
Posts: 74
Location: Merthyr Tydfil
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Just got back from three days in eurodisney with the big man and the kids. Prices were extorionate!!! Only went cos Nicks mum passed away in the summer and left the kids some money to go on holiday and thats where they chose.
Physically recovered but doubt weather i'll ever heal mentally!! Not ever going abroad with them again until the little un is at least 20 yrs old Clair XX

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

So you're not interested in my travel books then?

scarecrow



Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 115
Location: Manchester, Up North
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

who wants to travel when we've got all those allotments, veg pages and livestock????

Sarah D



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

"Armchair traveller" is how I describe myself.

I'll get there one day.................Tibet, Bhutan, Chile, Bolivia, I'll be there....

jema
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

scarecrow wrote:
who wants to travel when we've got all those allotments, veg pages and livestock????


Travel ain't exactly ecologically sound, but we are none of us perfect, we are the products of all the influences on us, and I will admit to gaining massive enjoyment through travel

jema

Sarah D



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Travel can be "ecologically sound", for want of a better expression.

Discuss

scarecrow



Joined: 15 Dec 2004
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Location: Manchester, Up North
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If all we did was look afte the planet, it would be a very green, but very boring place!

At least the likes of us do our bit.

I'm sure that pound for pound we do more good than Kyoto could!

Sarah D



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yes, but do you travel?

jema
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have jetted to the US several times, Oz once and various other less distant places. Jetting is meant to be very very bad

But I do want to do it again

jema

Sarah D



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 11:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

"Jetting" IS very bad.

I have only ever been to Paris, once, a long time ago, at college.

I have never flown anywhere. but have been on a ferry. Don't want/mean to sound self-righteous, but have little desire to go abroad. In my mind, I would like to go to various places, but in my heart, I suspect I will never do that. That's fine, by me. Scotland is a big country...................

sean
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Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 04 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I/we don't fly, but if I'm honest I'm not sure whether that's an ethical decision, or just the way things pan out at the moment. I wouldn't fly the Atlantic for a short break, definitely. But if I had the chance to go to Canada for three or four weeks, I'm not certain how strong my moral objections to flying would prove.

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