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Thinking about this, my dream and most realistic trip with MrsD would be a road trip by car. Cheap hotels would do and just go wtf we wanted.

No time restrictions, no caring duties at home. Just have a rough plan and drive. Probably cost a few bob but driving through foreign countryside is a great way to travel and to see the real country.

I've met folk who have flown to Oz, bought a car, go travel, then sell and fly home. Sounds nice.

Maybe one day, but her mother makes it out of reach atm.

Dodgy69 wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 2:58 pm I've met folk who have flown to Oz, bought a car, go travel, then sell and fly home. Sounds nice.

I did a years working holiday there 89/90. I bought a 600 Tenere and rode and worked my around.

Good fun but not my favorite trip. Cycling the Great Divide mountain bike route in 2017 is my all time favorite.

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.

I don't travel to relax, I'm not very good at relaxing

I like to experience new places, see new things, and eat nice food. My favourite holidays have usually involved a road trip (two wheels or four).

Oh yes for road trips. Buying a campervan a few years back unexpectedly turned out to be a bit of life changer! Zigzagging around Cornwall this year was brilliant! Next year we hope to go back to Spain in the camper as we did when we first got it, but find new routes across France to get there.

Oh I did remember one other place I'd like to visit and that's India, but not in the campervan!

Whenever I'm bored, I travel abroad; but ever so properly.
Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital Pee Ooh Ess Aitch, posh!




Actually, that said, I have got a bit weary of it of late. So many mosquitos, street grifters and open sewers.

Dodgy69 wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 2:58 pm
I've met folk who have flown to Oz, bought a car, go travel, then sell and fly home. Sounds nice.

In reverse. There was a time when, if you wanted a camper van in the SE you just turned up on the South Bank in 'that London' (behind the Shell building iirc) where there was a linear village of Australians waiting to sell their campers to the next lot of incoming Ozzies so they could either fly home or rent a flat and work in a bar.

MyLittleStudPony wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 5:13 pm Actually, that said, I have got a bit weary of it of late. So many mosquitos, street grifters and open sewers.

Skegness?

Living and working in China for 10 years gave me the chance to visit many places in that part of the world.

Thailand, Oz,Nz,Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore ,Hong Kong , Great Wall ,forbidden city , Tiananmen Square ,shanghai, Macao

The one place you should all visit ? Xian. The Terracotta Army. Truly the 8th wonder of the world

Go visit the museum in the city and visit the twin bell towers in the city

I’ll put some pics and video if I can get the hang of posting them

My wife is currently in California in her new Silicon Valley role and she loves travelling.


I love travelling and have been all around the world (except the US) but as I get older, I get really excited about exploring locally. Not a challenge I guess with getting older, or perhaps it is, but the Surrey Hills/South Downs, outer Hebrides of Scotland etc - these are the places I prefer. I can also think of nothing I'd rather do less than a week in Vegas.

Before I get too old, I'd like to go to Istanbul. It looks mental and I like that

Count Steer wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 5:16 pmThere was a time when, if you wanted a camper van in the SE you just turned up on the South Bank in 'that London' (behind the Shell building iirc) where there was a linear village of Australians waiting to sell their campers to the next lot of incoming Ozzies so they could either fly home or rent a flat and work in a bar.

There was the same in Oz, or at least in the late 90s. In Sydney you had to turn up to a floor of a multi-storey early on a Sunday morning to select from the parked rows of returning English with their campers, and then if you went up the east coast, the promenade in Cairns was where you parked up every day to try and catch people heading south.

We arrived in Cairns in mid-summer when nobody sane was there, so spent several fairly miserable weeks sat in 45* sunshine in a camping chair outside my van, waiting to show people the delights of our pea-green VW.

Years ago Greyhound and McCafferty coaches were a good way to travel cheap in Oz and elsewhere. On my own I'd probably still use but not with Mrs D. I quite like a coach trip, even overnighters and save a night's digs.

Count Steer wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 12:19 pm
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.

Speaking of which, I found an old business card (maybe from about 30 years ago) from a place in Bologna at the cheaper end of the range the other day. Made me smile. It was full of families and workmen tucking into grub like mama used to make.