Three Favourite things to do
1 travelling first class by train in England .
2 Riding in a black cab in London .
3 Flying business class
Pete?
You are in the Travellers Corner ???
Is this meant to be about travelling or other ???
Might have been better under activities ???
I posted twice one for travel one for local
So what do you read ?
Books. What are your Favourite three things
At the present my three favourites are Nikita, Bella and Jacquiline
Shame Ali has gone she was my Favourite
Was she the one from Port Augusta.
what made her favourite ?
No she was from Adelaide she had class and long blonde hair .lovely family home in Adelaide Hills.
Ah the lovely family home inAdelaide Hills. Beauty and wealth. How did you let her get away?
It was another guys fault broke my heart
Pete
Ella is their mum and she is still here and not likely to go anywhere for quite a few years - most probably out live you - unless you have another 30 years left in you and become a centurian.
I don't know what you are talking about Abby I was talking about the Bachelor on channel 10 I thought you were.
I have always wanted to be a centurion even if I live to be a centenarian which will be in the 21st Century and read books in Latin.
Last night Anna got her Man on the Bachelor it was a terrific programme and as much as we were sorry to see Ali go my girls were delighted Anna was there at the end as she is an Ascham girl my daughters school .
Playing snooker with friends.
Consider letting them win.
Overcome such a thought with willpower.
Drob a ball, as they're having a shot. or cough. even fainting,to put them off.
One look at you is enough to put anyone off wabbit. Has Mrs wabbit ever had her eyesight checked?
1. Dinner (or lunch) with a group of friends with good conversation and a good wine.
2. Every moment of our annual trip to the UK and Europe.
3. A good TV show or DVD with my partner, a glass of wine, a plate of nibbles,, and our Cavalier, Charlie, on my knee snoring quietly.
Got to have four
4. Going to as many concerts and plays as I can afford.
You are doing well jaywalker :)
You get 4 out of three for that
My greatest love is going to China a couple of times each year. 2 or 3 weeks in that wonderful place makes me realise what is so wonderful about Australia.
Innes that's only one
Pete
I see it as 6 - six weeks of pure pleasure
Love to reminence with my wife of our days at school.
Learning ballroom dancing together, when 16.
Eating home grown vegetables,
Aw Seth that is so romantic
1. Watching the sun go down into the Indian Ocean and enjoying the amazing colours in the sky or alternatively the amazing night sky seen only in the bush.
2. The smell of the earth and colours of dust free foliage when we get rain after a long dry spell (plus the rainbows if we are so lucky)
3. Special one on one bonding times with my children or grandchildren however old or whatever we may be doing or talking about.
Simple and relaxing pleasures really.
Yes Viv :)
the basic pleasures are the best
1. sitting on the back porch watching nature's fireworks in a tropical thudderstorm. With doggies by my side
2. a long liquid pub lunch with an old friend
3. a good workout on the treadmill followed by a soak in the spa with a good drop of red.
Besides home where are your three Favourite places where do you get a buzz
Mine
1 inner London say two mile circle of Hyde Park Corner
2 inner Sydney say two mile circle of Lord Dudley in Paddo
3 country UK especially SW Devon
3a the new forest area especially Lyndhurst Hotel .
I know 1. like the back of my hand. Stayed at the intercontinental park lane across the road many a time.
Here is Jaguars to help you out with your thoughties
Don't you or your alta egos have anything to contribute to any thread .
Yes Jags I love that area I walk and walk . I used to live in Thurlough Square opposite the V and A where I kept an apartment for years .
1 to wake up
2 think [thats a prerequisite] shit its real realization and heaven is still a falsity
3 decide - will I wank now or later
4 decide again - bugger - ablutions before the world implodes on me yet again
Not appropriate Ackers if the site is to recover from the wrecking by Abbey we need quiet corners where we can discuss other subjects of interest or give the game away .
They are my valid favourite three things everyday. Number 5 is variable.
Yes aquatrek :)
It always is wonderful to wake up in the morning
Ackers do you have three favourite places .? Are you still going to South America ?
1 planet
2 tropics
3 here
Mexico > Guatemala > Belize > Mexico : Jan/Feb 2014
Pete - you sound as if you and I would have a lot in common travelwise. We now spend at least a week in London every year, always in the Russell Square/Bloomsbury area which we love so that is one of my favourite places.
The other is rural Yorkshire, from whence I hail - Richmond, Pickering, Thirsk - a Yorkshire pub - heaven!
Third one is Sydney Harbour - Circular Quay and the Opera House.
Ackers are you looking at Aztec or similar cultures there or why these three particular countries .
pETE: the Mexican/Guatemalan/Belize landscape is vast and diversified: sierra, volcanic, jungle, barrier reefs and has layers of historical cultures i.e. Maya, Aztecs etc. So I have planned 15 stays [all double with ensuite] at average $23 per person per night that will give us a glimpse of that whole region lying south/south east of Mexico City. I studied the question of who were its earliest inhabitants as the conjecture is Clovis down through the centre of Nth America or via the west coastal strip - which is now underwater but to my mind the most logical.
There is attached a theory that the people of the Americas moved South To North I saw a program on tv some time ago about a small remaining group in the South of Argentina who look like Aboriginals and have a DNA connection . http://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/clovis2.htm
Yes it does jaywalker I spend time in north Derbyshire around Bakewell love those tarts .
My friend I went to boarding school with has a cottage in Alport it is breathtakingly beutiful .
I stay in London now in Pimlico / Victoria just near Buck palace a lot of renewal going on.
We stay in Derbyshire too - old friends who live in Spondon just outside Derby and you're right, the scenery is stunning. Have you read the series of detective novels set in Derbyshire by Stephen Boooth? Very evocative of the area.
My partner is from South Shields and this year we spent two weeks in a lovely farm cottage in a villlage called Tow Law, just outside Durham - stunning countryside there too.
Rather than jump straight on the M1 I like to drive down the A6 from Bakewell to Derby it is a lovely drive then I take the Brian Clough drive? To the M1 at Derby I think it goes through Spondon .
No I am afraid I have not read the novels by Stephen Booth but will follow up at my Library.
I strongly dislike London per say, with the exception of the food hall in Harrod's. I can't imagine the cost of staying anywhere near Buck House. Having said that, I can't believe the scenic beauty of the English Country side.
Champagne and Oyster bar at Harrods, Innes ?
I stay with friends in Eaton Square Innes I think you will find the cost of living in London is cheaper than Sydney .
I have not seen anything in the World to compare with the food hall in Harrods Horribly expensive, but unbelievable. I am out of touch with the cost of living in London, Pete. It is 4 Christmasses back since my last holiday over there. It was $2 1/2au to the Pound then & a pint of bloody awful beer cost 6 or 7 quid. A lot has changed since. My wife comes from Harrow on the Hill & we have in-laws in Hi Wycombe.
What is it you strongly dislike about London Innes ?
Good job we are all different. I love London and could happily live there. We stay at least a week and sometimes two every year. Most things except petrol are cheaper in the UK than here including food, wine, coffee, books, DVDs, and clothes.
We have been staying at the Tavistick near Russell Square for nearly 20 years and it has not increased in cost as much as hotels here. Currently £101 a night double with full breakfast....equal to $170....equivalent in Melbourne $180. Pub meals are rarely more than £7..$12....even in the middle of London.
And the English countryside IS staggeringly beautiful especially "up north" and in the Cotswolds. I love Australia too but not to the extent that I refuse to acknowledge there are other places just as good or better in different ways.
Seggie. Memories! Wonderful times many years ago spent overseas. One that stayed in my memory was sitting eating fish and chips under a tree next to the River Windrush in Bourton-on-the-water in the Cotswolds. Heaven. Closer to home, Norfolk Island. We went there three times and enjoyed each time. Unfortunately now it is quite expensive, very different to the first time we went. Very pleasant folk there.
I love to reminisce Seggie fortunately I have always been in a position to travel and have lived in many countries. I really think that it is not countries that are different or appealing but areas . Which I think is exactly what Jaywalker is saying.
1 going to my pub on a Friday night standing on the pavement chatting with friends
2 sitting on the Sofa with daughter eating junk food watching junk TV
3 being alone reading .