Still is more expensive but I thought we were talking about experience here, and not bothering about cost? I'd like to ski in Korea, Japan, Lebanon, Scotland, South Africa, and Afghanistan all for the experience. I can barely afford to ski in NZ!
I can fall down and break my leg ANYWHERE and I don't need to be wearing a couple of floor boards to do it!
DITTO C-D Repped the pair of yoos (assuming the system lets me...) Alas not allowed to rep you CD! Back on topic.... A cruise from Miami to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. A return to Japan to see more of Tokyo and Kyoto and the north. An Antarctic cruise. A Baltic cruise. Rockies by train.
Next year is the year for visiting the WW1 battlefields Maestro - 100 years will have passed since the start. I am thinking of a short visit to some and a visit to the Menin Gate - that is another on my list.
True - forgot that! Skiing is beyond me these days with the state of my knees, but one day I'd like to go paragliding again - used to do it around the Great Barrier Reef islands years ago & would like to try it inland.
Someone on facebook came up with a wonderful idea, or I thought anyway. They said that as it was the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1, if people bought a packet of poppy seeds now and spread them randomly around the country side, then what a tribute that would be. Just natural grown poppies as opposed to the 'looked after' ones.
I am off to India again this year...... Mostly travelled and worked in the Himalayan region...... but not yet been to kerala and sri lanka... on the list
Just been watching a programme on the Discovery channel called 'World War 2 In Colour'. They have just mentioned Oradour - sur - Glane, and how the 642 inhabitants were wiped out by the SS, in their frustration at being hammered just after D Day.
Very moving place.... and they massacred people at the "wrong" Oradour.... and after the war they all got off...
It is quite near to us as well and I agree with Yorkie that it is a very moving place to visit. Of the 642 who were killed quite a lot did not live there. They had come into what was little more than a village as it was market day and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. There have been a number of books suggesting why it should have happened, one being that in a resistance ambush gold was captured and removed from the SS who had looted it down in the south of the country. As no one from the village would talk about the fighters in the woods, this was the revenge.
Kerala is beautiful...lovely food too...and it's worth going over the hills and tea plantations into Tamil Nadu where there are amazing temples in Madura (not sure about the spelling!).
