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I'm not sure about South Africa either. I've been a couple of time, once in the 80s when Apartheid was still happening. And again in the early noughties when I rode The Garden Route.

These days it feels like you'd have to be prepared to shoot the Bantu if they came for you. And I don't really want to do that. Enormous South African James says they have regular power outages there. And that's when they come for you.

Cuba and Japan are on my todo list.
Travelled the world, but somehow missed these 2
Ah! maewashigeri, guidan barri, uche uke, ichi ni san do go......sorted

Nowhere in particular... I've never felt the need to see the world's famous tourist spots, well maybe the odd 1 or 2 in the past , but I do like travelling and it's usually the journey that does it for me. So maybe a long camper trip, or car or bus or train. Bike trips don't involve Mrs D, so that's a different subject.

Ive always found being slightly "off grid" more appealing than being surrounded by camera's, hussle and bussle. I have been to a few place's and it's often the associated journeys that give me the fondest memories.

I quite fancy a trip like Moofo's Nepal gig, maybe do a few 2 - 3 week bike trips, Vietnam, Ecuador or the like.

Would like to go back to Italy, maybe next years World Ducati Week on the monster.

I'd like to see more of Italy, I've only ever been to Rome. There's stuff all over Europe I'd like to visit but I've only scratched the surface of Spain.

I'd like to see more of Canada now my son lives there. So far we've only done Montreal, Ottawa and Gatineau but some of the places he's visited like Churchill look incredible.

Ian wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 8:31 pm I'd like to see more of Canada now my son lives there. So far we've only done Montreal, Ottawa and Gatineau but some of the places he's visited like Churchill look incredible.

It's worth going just to see Niagara Falls. Been there 3 times

KungFooBob wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 8:48 am Japan, Cuba, Costa Rica.

I'd quite like a debauched weekend in Las Vegas too.

I went to Vegas a couple of times in the late 90s, it was mostly pretty tame, though there was a palpable under current of sleaze at Ceasars Palace, Reno was better if you wanted a Nevada "experience"

Yorick wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:21 pm

Ian wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 8:31 pm I'd like to see more of Canada now my son lives there. So far we've only done Montreal, Ottawa and Gatineau but some of the places he's visited like Churchill look incredible.

It's worth going just to see Niagara Falls. Been there 3 times

I went to Niagra Falls in 2000, I was under whelmed, it wasn't as big as I expected it to be.

Jody wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:26 am To be fair, I spend all winter in Courchevel and will be spending my summers close to Saint Tropez. If I'm not in either of those places I'll be in Cornwall.

Each to their own, but that does me just fine. As I like to say......

" Build a life you don't need to take holidays from "

gremlin wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 10:31 am

Jody wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:26 am

" Build a life you don't need to take holidays from "

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page"

Touche.

Liked both those posts, as agreed with them both - they are both great philosophies to live your life by ( I am retired, very fortunate, and greedy, and so do both )

Places I'd like to go, but probably won't

Japan - I'd like to go to the Suzuka 8 hour, but summer is the wrong time to visit Japan. I was going to go when I worked for Kawasaki but I got offered a better job about a month before the trip, the Japanese people I worked with didn't like Tokyo, but they did like London (this was in 2003).

The mountain ranges of Eastern Europe quite appeal to me, they look interesting.

Lot's of people say China, but it's such a big country I think you'd need to think about what you want to see, I've got invitations from a couple of friends to visit them there, both a near to Beijing, and I'd quite like to travel the length of the Yangtse.

A problem for me is that I still think I'm half the age I am and that I can still drive / ride big distances without getting tired, whereas the reality is a 500 mile day now knackers me for the following day. Which is great as I have a 500 mile drive on Thursday following a late night on Wednesday

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:28 pm

Yorick wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:21 pm

Ian wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 8:31 pm I'd like to see more of Canada now my son lives there. So far we've only done Montreal, Ottawa and Gatineau but some of the places he's visited like Churchill look incredible.

It's worth going just to see Niagara Falls. Been there 3 times

I went to Niagra Falls in 2000, I was under whelmed, it wasn't as big as I expected it to be.

My second visit was 2000. I was working in Toronto and my Canadian cousins took me there. Again

I also thought the Hoover Dam wasn't all that great.

Ian wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 8:31 pm I'd like to see more of Canada now my son lives there. So far we've only done Montreal, Ottawa and Gatineau but some of the places he's visited like Churchill look incredible.

We went to the west coast of Canada this summer, hired a car and toured round Vancouver Island then back over the Rockies to Calgary. We were there for 3 weeks and barely scratched the surface. Loved it

crust wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 6:55 pm I quite fancy a trip like Moofo's Nepal gig, maybe do a few 2 - 3 week bike trips, Vietnam, Ecuador or the like.

Would like to go back to Italy, maybe next years World Ducati Week on the monster.

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crust wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 6:55 pm
Would like to go back to Italy, maybe next years World Ducati Week on the monster.

If you fly into Bologna, which is worth it for the food alone, there's a very middling hotel called Hotel del Borgo a 10 min taxi ride from the airport. It has two things going for it: it's just over the road from the Ducati factory and museum (that Bologna suburb is called Borgo del Panigale) plus it's the Bologna office of HP Motorrad, who hire half-decent bikes out and I've used many times to have a week-long mooch about on whilst dumping the big bags there and travelling light.

Just sayin'...

Definitely Japan before you get too old.

It involves a shit load of walking and my wife and I only just did it in time. 2 years later and her arthritis has kicked in quite badly.
Now she wouldn’t be able to do the distances.

gremlin wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 10:03 am

crust wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 6:55 pm
Would like to go back to Italy, maybe next years World Ducati Week on the monster.

If you fly into Bologna, which is worth it for the food alone, there's a very middling hotel called Hotel del Borgo a 10 min taxi ride from the airport. It has two things going for it: it's just over the road from the Ducati factory and museum (that Bologna suburb is called Borgo del Panigale) plus it's the Bologna office of HP Motorrad, who hire half-decent bikes out and I've used many times to have a week-long mooch about on whilst dumping the big bags there and travelling light.

Just sayin'...

Bologna is (and it has some vv nice restaurants...and some vv nice cheap eateries too). One of the better places we had an office in.

I don't particularly like travelling for holidays and don't really comprehend the commonly held notion of having to be somewhere foreign to be able to relax. Almost everything that gives me pleasure is at home and although we have been places and enjoyed our time there,I'd be quite content to never do it again. Unlikely though,as Mrs.Skub likes to travel.

Skub wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 1:15 pm I don't particularly like travelling for holidays and don't really comprehend the commonly held notion of having to be somewhere foreign to be able to relax. Almost everything that gives me pleasure is at home and although we have been places and enjoyed our time there,I'd be quite content to never do it again. Unlikely though,as Mrs.Skub likes to travel.

My holidays are rarely relaxing

I'm very much hoping my next one isn't too