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  1. RAVENBLACK

    RAVENBLACK Well-Known Member

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    Thinking of booking a late holiday this year.

    Need to get away away and find myself after a turbulent few years.

    I was rather taken by Syria which looks nice with lots of desert areas where I can roam and ponder life's imponderables.

    Anyone been?
     
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  2. Bib Fortuna's Maw

    Bib Fortuna's Maw Well-Known Member

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    My mate's sister lives in Damascus.
     
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  3. SUPERNORWICH 23

    SUPERNORWICH 23 SUPERNORWICH

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  4. RAVENBLACK

    RAVENBLACK Well-Known Member

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    Is that where Jesus was from?
     
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  5. Otto Flayshow

    Otto Flayshow Well-Known Member

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    Surely, by definition, you can't ponder an imponderable.
     
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  6. RAVENBLACK

    RAVENBLACK Well-Known Member

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    I can.

    I can do anything.

    I'm magic, me.
     
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  7. SUPERNORWICH 23

    SUPERNORWICH 23 SUPERNORWICH

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    I am at my mum's farm in S Spain ****ing lovely ER I am supposed to stay 2 weeks but I'm going to stay most of October now.... Get a flight to Murcia and you can stay in the pool house.
     
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  8. RAVENBLACK

    RAVENBLACK Well-Known Member

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  9. Toby

    Toby GC's Life Coach

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    I'll happily chip in for your flights <ok>
     
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  10. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    We live in hope.
     
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  11. SUPERNORWICH 23

    SUPERNORWICH 23 SUPERNORWICH

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    This place would be **** without ER .
     
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  12. Bib Fortuna's Maw

    Bib Fortuna's Maw Well-Known Member

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    Aberdeen has ER and it's still ****.
     
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  13. Girvan Loyal 1690

    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    Where's venom anyway?

    Thailand?
     
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  14. RAVENBLACK

    RAVENBLACK Well-Known Member

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    They don't call me The ****meister for nothing.
     
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  15. Ponders Revisited

    Ponders Revisited Well-Known Member

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    Syria is an extremely beautiful country. The Syrian people are kind and generous hosts, and they know how to cook up some of the finest cuisine on the planet. Damascus and Homs are amongst the greatest centres of medicine, technology, and theology, and the museums are lined with treasures of unearthly beauty.

    Agreed, it is currently unsafe, but if you want to see the wondrous architecture, the crusader fortresses, and the breath-taking vistas, you must take certain risks.

    The Lebanon is also a must-see.

    And, no, I do not jest.
     
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  16. RAVENBLACK

    RAVENBLACK Well-Known Member

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    The Human League were so taken with it they wrote a song about it.
     
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  17. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    And Kim Wylde was mad about Cambodia.
     
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  18. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    And they know how to treat wimmin.
     
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  19. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    On an aside, i'm off to continue the hunt for Maddie in 2 weeks. :1980_boogie_down:
     
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  20. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    ...am not so sure she'll last another two weeks.
     
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