Kid Dynamite 5881 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I'd love to take my bike through France and Italy in the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donaldstott 0 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Can you truly use "sensibly" in a sentence about driving in Italy ?? Guaranteed the 'budget' car I've booked will be an 800cc Fiat Punto. I expect to see some especially angry looking Maserati drivers in my rear view mirror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donaldstott 0 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I'd love to take my bike through France and Italy in the future Me and the missus (and 6 month old) drove all the way from Reading to Carcasonne in two days. It was a hellish drive in retrospect and bloody expensive. I probably spent 200 Euros in tolls alone. Nevertheless I would love it if I was by myself with a lot of time, plenty of stops. A bike would be a great way to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5881 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I've done Newcastle to Paris in a car in one day before. Not quite the same though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 My uncle drove his motorbike from South Shields to my auntie's house in Southern Spain a few weeks ago. He loved every minute of it despite some hair-raising moments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Just got back from Dublin with the girlfriend. Beautiful part of the country - we stayed with her cousin who took us on a few day trips. Visited Glendalough (phenomenal place), Newgrane and of course; the Guinnesses. Got my certificate for pouring the perfect pint of course. Even fit in an irish breakfast that would make CT blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13937 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 So we've voted (no, really) on the venue for our Eurovision get-together this year, a tradition that's taken us to cool places like Barcelona and Vilnius in past years. This time? Leuven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14495 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 So we've voted (no, really) on the venue for our Eurovision get-together this year, a tradition that's taken us to cool places like Barcelona and Vilnius in past years. This time? Leuven. Is that in Holland or Belgium?....home of Stella in Belgium, but am sure theres a place with an old University between Den Haag and Amsterdam with the same name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13937 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Is that in Holland or Belgium?....home of Stella in Belgium, but am sure theres a place with an old University between Den Haag and Amsterdam with the same name... The Belgian one. Should be good for beer and waffles if nowt else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14495 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 The Belgian one. Should be good for beer and waffles if nowt else. I love Blegium, its a fabulous place iyam. But some young shaver at work told me that made me the world's dullest man when I told him I enjoyed Bruges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 That's definitely a leftfield choice. Is there a big scene there or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13937 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 That's definitely a leftfield choice. Is there a big scene there or something? Not that I know of, but two of the lads live there, so they can sort out group bookings for restaurants and stuff. That tends to attract the votes, because we all know getting 30 gay nerds to agree on anything spontaneously is basically impossible (with the possible exception of having a wee boogie to Cascada). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 It'll be decent food and beer, makes a change to go somewhere like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13937 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I might set myself the challenge of not drinking the same beer twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idioteque 0 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Got back from Shanghai visting a mate for 2 weeks a couple of weeks ago, best place I've been to by far, went to Bejing for a few days too, that's much more British, I could see myself living there. Going to Amsterdam for 3 days next week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I love Blegium, its a fabulous place iyam. But some young shaver at work told me that made me the world's dullest man when I told him I enjoyed Bruges I spent 10 days in Maastrict when I was 16. It was..........................dull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13937 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I spent 10 days in Maastrict when I was 16. It was..........................dull. Place didn't treaty you well, then? Maastricht but Dad's quite lenient oh never mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idioteque 0 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I spent a mere 24 hours in Belgium watching Everton, a very dull place indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Place didn't treaty you well, then? Maastricht but Dad's quite lenient oh never mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14495 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 (edited) I spent 10 days in Maastrict when I was 16. It was..........................dull. Yeah but am a 40 something beer obssesive...shit, that makes me sound like CT....yeah you're right its dull as shit out there edit: actually, Maastrict is in the Netherlands, home of tulips, skunk and women in windows....whats not to like?? Edited June 4, 2013 by PaddockLad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 My mistake - you're absolutely correct - It's definitely in Holland. Maybe it's just so fucking dull that it ought to be in Belgium! You know it's dull when the highlight of the week is a bus trip to Aachen in Germany....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14495 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 My mistake - you're absolutely correct - It's definitely in Holland. Maybe it's just so fucking dull that it ought to be in Belgium! You know it's dull when the highlight of the week is a bus trip to Aachen in Germany....... your portrait of a teenagers life in central Europe is very touching... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Other than the trip to Aachen, we had an earthquake. The quote of the week was from my drunk friend with her head down the bog spewing after too much cider.... "Is it just me or is the room moving......" Just found this... On 13 April 1992 at 3:20 am, a 5.3 Mw[13] quake with its epicentre 4 km southwest of Roermond, Netherlands, and its hypocentre 18 km deep shook the border region for 15 seconds.[14] 30 people were injured in North Rhine-Westphalia alone, mostly by falling roof tiles and chimneys,[15] and there was considerable damage to buildings. Ground shifts of up to 2 m occurred, and sand fountains in a few locations.[16][17][18] The quake was felt as far away as Milan and London. The worst damage in Germany was in Heinsberg;[10] in the Netherlands the area of damage extended several kilometres northwest of Roermond. Total damage costs in Germany topped 150 million DM, in the Netherlands, 170 million guilders.[14][15] Aftershocks continued until 31 May. Some of our bunk beds in the Sportel de Dousberg were knocked over. That's the most dramatic thing that's happened there ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 26590 Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 (edited) Wasn't going on holiday this year as we've a lot on in the house and we've probably left it too late................ ........until today when I got my hols confirmed at work and in a rare 'Life's too short' moment have booked a Villa in Cyprus for about 8 weeks time. P.S. (Just for good measure). Edited June 5, 2013 by Howmanheyman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8946 Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Been looking for a 3 night European getaway, anybody got any left-field ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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