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Where is the nicest holiday location you have been too?

Iceland.

Going again this summer.

Isle of Man also takes some beating, but it does have the added bonus of the TT

Mt Dad loves the TT.. Used to go there as a kid

All depends what kinda holiday you're after

Skiing i'd say Aspen, Colorado

Culture... Too many places to name but Turkey offers a lot

Scenery? Well maybe this'll shock you but Romania and Croatia have stunning vistas, South of France, Switzerland

And lets not forget the UK has plenty on offer

Have you been to Aspen Rob?

I cycled over the Alps a few summers ago. One of the most memorable holidays i've ever had. Southern Sweden is great for cycling too.

Switzerland and Austria have some lovely scenery, sadly just take them for granted as travel alot there. Croatia is nice as was Sardinia and Corsica, but too many mosquitoes in the summer, and not good for me to be around those damn things!

I found Hong Kong a fascinating place to visit too.

Aspen? Yes Gary.. Few years ago now... Like 24 years lol

Thailand takes some beating... Although feels like you've walked into an oven

Speed Couriers (Stansted) said:

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Aspen? Yes Gary.. Few years ago now... Like 24 years lol

Thailand takes some beating... Although feels like you've walked into an oven

Recall reading that EVERY day the temperature never gets below 80 degrees

Good call Gary this thread, Nice to know we can discuss other things than moaning about subbie rates, lack of work and good old Politics :)

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Speed Couriers (Stansted) said:

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Aspen? Yes Gary.. Few years ago now... Like 24 years lol

Thailand takes some beating... Although feels like you've walked into an oven

Recall reading that EVERY day the temperature never gets below 80 degrees

I have been to the Maldives twice, and the weather is the same has Thailand

Argate...

Sorry Argate.. The temperature is unprodictable, the scenery is as good as it gets, doesnt cost alot and your there in a jiffy :-)

If you don't like holidays that's fine, but don't interupt a good topic, you boring old fart.

I love holidays when I get the chance, but whats wrong with Argate? And who you callin a borin ol fart!

I wouldn't interupt a motorcycling topic or something you might find interesting, so please don't interupt this.

You carry on with your thread, dont let me interupt, dont want to miss the discussion..

Two of my most memorable unintentional holidays both happened when delivering ships to new owners abroad. 7 weeks in Las Palmas while waiting for the finance to clear on one, it never happened so we fetched her back to the UK and 6 weeks in Gibraltar en route to a tin pot African country that decided to have a political coup while enroute and we had to wait for the dust and blood to settle. I lost a fortune (to me) on both deals. Worst holiday, 10 days at a 5 star hotel on the IoM during August. Coldest period in living memory, low cloud so Jurby airshow cancelled and strong gales of wind that disrupted all ferry sailings so we couldn't have left if we had wanted to. And the grub was vile!

4 weeks in a campervan touring New Zealand is my choice, but when you go without a holiday for 25 years the cost per year isn't too bad.

Every day's a holiday :o)

Speed Couriers (Stansted) said:

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Every day's a holiday :o)

It is for YOU!

Mombassa..

Stayed at the White sands Hotel Dianni beach for 2 weeks and cost us just a £10 in train fare from Nairobi.

Potima Cyprus

Theres was not a lot there in 1981...

Pebble island May 1982 abt 5 hours

Not much to see plenty of wild life ... But the night certainly went with a bang ..!

I'd like to point out that the Isle of Man is not a holiday destination ... it's a place of pilgrimage.

Holiday wise, I'd like to bum around the highlands of Scotland for a week or two in a camper van. Or I'd like to revisit Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia.

Manadon Despatch said:

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I'd like to point out that the Isle of Man is not a holiday destination ... it's a place of pilgrimage.

Holiday wise, I'd like to bum around the highlands of Scotland for a week or two in a camper van. Or I'd like to revisit Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia.

You are of course correct, but it is also one of the nicest places in the UK. It's own micro climate due to the Snaefell Mountain range, some of the best scenery in the uk.
Unless anyone has actually seen Bikes racing on public roads at 200 mph it is difficult to grasp the attraction

RAPID LIGHT TRANSPORT LTD. said:

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Manadon Despatch said:

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I'd like to point out that the Isle of Man is not a holiday destination ... it's a place of pilgrimage.

Holiday wise, I'd like to bum around the highlands of Scotland for a week or two in a camper van. Or I'd like to revisit Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia.

You are of course correct, but it is also one of the nicest places in the UK. It's own micro climate due to the Snaefell Mountain range, some of the best scenery in the uk.
Unless anyone has actually seen Bikes racing on public roads at 200 mph it is difficult to grasp the attraction

My friend lives just outside ramsey on the tt circuit he has lived there for 8 years and loves it, he hates it when he comes back over here to visit family

To me the IoM is neither a holiday destination or a place of pilgrimage but just a lump of rock dumped in the middle of the Irish sea 'cos God couldn't think of a decent place to put it

I went to Barbados many moons ago, when I had a life and could switch off a phone on holiday LOL Lovely destination would love to go back, sadly the wife doesn't fly. I love going to Scotland to see family however another trip over to Eire is long overdue.

I'd love to go to St Petersburg and visit Norway to see the Northern lights

Stick with Scotland Tony

Eire is pretty boring, much nicer in Northern Ireland , IMO

moray couriers said:

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Two of my most memorable unintentional holidays both happened when delivering ships to new owners abroad. 7 weeks in Las Palmas while waiting for the finance to clear on one, it never happened so we fetched her back to the UK and 6 weeks in Gibraltar en route to a tin pot African country that decided to have a political coup while enroute and we had to wait for the dust and blood to settle. I lost a fortune (to me) on both deals. Worst holiday, 10 days at a 5 star hotel on the IoM during August. Coldest period in living memory, low cloud so Jurby airshow cancelled and strong gales of wind that disrupted all ferry sailings so we couldn't have left if we had wanted to. And the grub was vile!

You sure it was the Isle of Man ??

Quote from The Independant

Where shall I stay?

The Isle of Man has no five-star hotels. But at the Inglewood Hotel (26 Palace Terrace; 01624 674734; www.inglewoodhotel.net), the ownersnyway each to their have completed a stylish refurbishment of the 14 en suite rooms. Doubles start at £59, including breakfast.

I recall the Sefton being the only 'Luxury' Hotel.

Anyway, each to their own :)

I love to get out out of the Uk at least 3 times a year, and permanently in the future, the worlds a big place

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I went to Barbados many moons ago, when I had a life and could switch off a phone on holiday LOL Lovely destination would love to go back, sadly the wife doesn't fly. I love going to Scotland to see family however another trip over to Eire is long overdue.

I'd love to go to St Petersburg and visit Norway to see the Northern lights

Tell the wife it's safer flying than been on the M25 on a Friday night

Its claustrophobia as opposed to the risk element, until the point at which the Eurostar left St Pancreas I didn't believe she'd go through with it, doesn't use lifts either.

... On the way to Eurodisney

Rapid, we stayed for 12 long boring days at the Royal Hotel in Port Errin but it was about 25 years ago and might have had 5 star doss houses there then, might have been a 4 but for marks out of ten I would have given it 1 possibly 2. Never again! Cold wet and very windy, and no baked beans on the breakfast menu. How much worse could it get?

moray couriers said:

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Rapid, we stayed for 12 long boring days at the Royal Hotel in Port Errin but it was about 25 years ago and might have had 5 star doss houses there then, might have been a 4 but for marks out of ten I would have given it 1 possibly 2. Never again! Cold wet and very windy, and no baked beans on the breakfast menu. How much worse could it get?

Well well, Have actually stayed there myself and I agree it is Tired and apart from a lovely sea view room it was on the whole crap! I imagine about 70 years ago it would have been excellent. The weather though can blight any place you stay in. We once booked a lovely hotel in Altea, up the coast from Benidorm. Booked in and sat having a drink at seaside bar and the place looked great. Then it suddenly went cloudy, cooler and rained non stop for 3 days! Needless to say it was one of my worst stays anywhere!

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moray couriers said:

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Rapid, we stayed for 12 long boring days at the Royal Hotel in Port Errin but it was about 25 years ago and might have had 5 star doss houses there then, might have been a 4 but for marks out of ten I would have given it 1 possibly 2. Never again! Cold wet and very windy, and no baked beans on the breakfast menu. How much worse could it get?

Well well, Have actually stayed there myself and I agree it is Tired and apart from a lovely sea view room it was on the whole crap! I imagine about 70 years ago it would have been excellent. The weather though can blight any place you stay in. We once booked a lovely hotel in Altea, up the coast from Benidorm. Booked in and sat having a drink at seaside bar and the place looked great. Then it suddenly went cloudy, cooler and rained non stop for 3 days! Needless to say it was one of my worst stays anywhere!

Even Blackpool looks nice when the weather is good.

Hmmm.. Now you really ARE pushin it.. Blackpool?

Sad to say its become seedy and outdated.. Shame cos lookin at film of it in the 50's and 60's it opitimised what British holidays were all about

I think we've all become a bit more sophisticated since and expect more, and Blackpool just hasn't moved with the times

Not somewhere i'd want to revisit

Some memories should stay as just that... memories

Speed Couriers (Stansted) said:

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Hmmm.. Now you really ARE pushin it.. Blackpool?

Sad to say its become seedy and outdated.. Shame cos lookin at film of it in the 50's and 60's it opitimised what British holidays were all about

I think we've all become a bit more sophisticated since and expect more, and Blackpool just hasn't moved with the times

Not somewhere i'd want to revisit

Some memories should stay as just that... Memories

I was having a laugh Mr Speed, anywhere that's full of British folk is not for me.

Gambia takes some beating in my opinion also pattaya in Thailand is one of my favourite places. As for the Isle of Man the best week to go is the week after all those bikers have gone home (international cycling week ) :-) Carbis bay and st Ives are two of my favourites in England.

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Speed Couriers (Stansted) said:

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Hmmm.. Now you really ARE pushin it.. Blackpool?

Sad to say its become seedy and outdated.. Shame cos lookin at film of it in the 50's and 60's it opitimised what British holidays were all about

I think we've all become a bit more sophisticated since and expect more, and Blackpool just hasn't moved with the times

Not somewhere i'd want to revisit

Some memories should stay as just that... Memories

I was having a laugh Mr Speed, anywhere that's full of British folk is not for me.

So what about argate... as blackpool is full of ol codgers

LwsExpress transport solutions said:

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Gambia takes some beating in my opinion also pattaya in Thailand is one of my favourite places. As for the Isle of Man the best week to go is the week after all those bikers have gone home (international cycling week ) :-) Carbis bay and st Ives are two of my favourites in England.

Why anyone would wish to watch a bunch of Lycra clad pedal pushers is beyond me!

Before I with foolhardiness packed in being employed 24/7 I was working the west coast of Scotland transporting round timber on my wee 950 ton ship. The scenery and the serenity took some beating during the warmer periods but during the winter it's another kettle of fish altogether and today as I look out over the Moray Firth and watch a ship (Scot Ranger from Inverness to Varberg) plough into a big easterly swell makes me just a little glad I am now trying, with not a lot of success to earn a living ashore. But it's no holiday!

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LwsExpress transport solutions said:

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Why anyone would wish to watch a bunch of Lycra clad pedal pushers is beyond me!

Not all cyclists wear Lycra ! !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94VX0UR82fk