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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Smug in Boots, Sep 8, 2016.

  1. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    ....... it looks like we could be going here in the next few weeks.

    http://www.primelocation.com/overseas/details/41162445#rjZfAlOPcEg0Z2bS.97

    The plan was to drive to Paris, over the Alps to Lake Garda then on to Venice.

    These were all deliveries to supplement our holiday which we couldn't really justify otherwise.

    The plan was to get to Venice, see friends in Tuscany then come back home via Antibes and Paris.

    But we've just been asked to quote for a 'special delivery' to an island we've never even heard of.

    We've put in a quote of £2500 which we hope would cover the ferries etc.

    We've never even heard of the island so it's a chance in a lifetime.

    I never thought a raggy arsed pit village kid, like me, could ever dream of such things.

    BTW, I've had a drink <party>
     
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  2. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    Nice house in New York, 5th avenue for sale, $80 m !. I would love to go there for a week world's biggest Museum, book shop, store (Macey's) central park my brother went a few years back but he is a university lecturer. Stanhope is the furthest I have been on holiday !.
     
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  4. MrRAWhite

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    Sounds great mate..Enjoy...
     
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  5. Fentonpell

    Fentonpell Well-Known Member

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    I like Stanhope and the surrounding areas.
     
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  6. Gil T Azell

    Gil T Azell Well-Known Member

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    The curtains need a wash mind.:cheesy:
     
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  7. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Cheers mate, the pantomime is about to start!

    Just booked tonight's hotel in Paris 'bang' opposite the Notre Dame ....... just as well our lass didn't see the terrorist plot there this week.
    I'll just tell her the blokes in the sunglasses are hard line tour guides.

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    The hotel is normally over £100 a night but they've more than halved the price ....... perhaps following foiled bomb plots is the way to a cheap holiday <laugh>

    We have a delivery there then we're off over the Alps to Lake Garda for another drop in a weeks time.
     
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  8. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    How big is your transit van?

    99% of this board has also gone on holiday.

    Is it peak season in Syria?
     
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  9. Blunham Mackem

    Blunham Mackem Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    @commachio1 This is one of the biggest islands here, and I've checked, but the level of sympathy coming my way when football becomes the number 1 topic of conversation around the bar suggests that Smug and his wife aren't in the Maldives at this point in time.
     
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  10. ----HistoryRepeating----

    ----HistoryRepeating---- Well-Known Member

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    Drove through the Alps ten years ago, France seemed a happier place back then. :(
     
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