I need a vacation!! - Page 4

Spock · 08-15-2005, 01:13 PM

hmmm, not to bad then. When I climbed "the wild blue goose pagoda" in Shanghai it was something like 660 steps and I thought I'd die.

"death is an acquired trait"
Woody Allen

Artanis · 08-15-2005, 01:17 PM

Ha ha!

My children climbed up there too, and my youngest one is only 4. So I think you'll be OK

Spock · 08-15-2005, 01:19 PM

That's what kept me going. There and in other places where I about collapsed, I'd see these tiny tots in their little uniforms, tramping back down the steps I was having so much difficulty with. It just humiliated me to go on.

***Earniel*** · 09-21-2005, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

please do - it looks like a very interesting place!

As promised: Corsica holiday photo's (and don't worry, I will not bore those with dial-up with too many inserted images

)

Chalk cliffs of Bonifacio
Mountain village of SartÃ¨ne
Manganellu river
Prehistoric settlement ruins of Araghiu

I'll...er... move the numerous frog-ones to the frog-thread, shall I?

Butterbeer · 09-21-2005, 03:20 PM

when i think of corsica.. i always think of asterix in corsica... liked that one!

may be going to Cannes for a few days .. but probably not ... would like to go to the Med though ...

***Jonathan*** · 09-21-2005, 03:24 PM

I visited Corsica in 2002. Lovely island, I'd like to return someday.
EÃ¤rniel, those cliffs of Bonifacio look exactly as I remember them.

***Earniel*** · 09-21-2005, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Butterbeer

when i think of corsica.. i always think of asterix in corsica... liked that one!

That's one of my favorite albums.

It was pretty close to the real thing too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonathan

I visited Corsica in 2002. Lovely island, I'd like to return someday.
EÃ¤rniel, those cliffs of Bonifacio look exactly as I remember them.

Corsica is an island one does not forget lightly.

Where have you been besides Bonifacio? Have you stayed on the south coast or have you been to the north coast as well? We've always been staying at the south-coast.

***Jonathan*** · 09-21-2005, 05:08 PM

Actually we stayed on the east coast. We rented a car and drove around the whole island so we made brief visits basically everywhere - Porto-Vecchio, Ajaccio, Calvi, Bastia... However Bonifacio is the city I remember the most. We were supposed to make a boat-tour into the caves in the white cliffs but sadly, we missed the boat

. But that gave us time to closely examine the cliffs from land.

I also remember the huge yachts in the Bonifacio harbour. They were gargantuan! Probably had their own area code

The Corsican food is reason enough to visit the island. I've never had such tasty Mediterranian dinners. Seafood rocks.

We only stayed a week. EÃ¤rniel, how long did you stay?

***Earniel*** · 09-21-2005, 05:35 PM

Calvi! I can't remember ever being there, it's higher up and on the other side of where we usually go. But I know Bonifacio and Porto-Vecchio well. Ajaccio I know less since it's a 3 hour drive from where we usually stay and we only go there when we arrive on the ferry or return home.

I've been on one of those boat trips to the chalk cliffs, quite a few years ago. It was very interesting although not as interesting as that boat trip with a glass bottom. That was a real thrill but the next year they didn't offer those trips anymore.

Oh yes, those huge yachts!

We like watching them from the stair to the citadel of Bonifacio. Some look like driving villas! It's always fun to see what they're called and where they're from. It's sometimes also fun to see the people on those boats, they sometimes act so posh it's funny.

We always stay in a bungalow park some 20 kilometers from Porto-Vecchio. Corsica has been our holiday destination for over 25 years, ever since my parents' honeymoon there enchanted them. It's the only holiday we take in a year but then we also go for 3 weeks. So I've seen plenty of southern Corsica by now but it still doesn't bore me. Those great starry nights, the smell of maquis... Surely you've made at least one trip to the inland and smelled the maquis. I love that smell!

***RÃan*** · 07-12-2006, 08:08 PM

I thought I'd resurrect this thread, because I'm going to be gone for awhile this summer. We're taking an almost 4-week driving/camping trip, from July 27 to Aug 21, so that's where I'll be if anyone is wondering

We're going to the western national parks, like Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Mt. Rushmore, etc. I haven't been able to post much at ALL this summer - this has been the busiest summer ever!!!!! So I think I'll pretty much take the summer off of posting, and be back in the fall

Anyone else taking a trip?

Arien the Maia · 07-12-2006, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

I thought I'd resurrect this thread, because I'm going to be gone for awhile this summer. We're taking an almost 4-week driving/camping trip, from July 27 to Aug 21, so that's where I'll be if anyone is wondering

We're going to the western national parks, like Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Mt. Rushmore, etc. I haven't been able to post much at ALL this summer - this has been the busiest summer ever!!!!! So I think I'll pretty much take the summer off of posting, and be back in the fall

Anyone else taking a trip?

wow that sounds like fun! I wish I were taking a vacation! but *sigh* I won't be doing that till I graduate (again) and get a good job (hopefully I will this time!)...

have fun!

Spock · 07-12-2006, 08:48 PM

Recently back from 10 days abroad. Totally worth it but totally exhausting. Now I need a year without a vacation to rest up.

The Gaffer · 07-13-2006, 03:39 AM

Have a barry 'ane, Rian. Sounds like a brilliant trip.

Gwaimir Windgem · 07-13-2006, 07:56 PM

I'm taking a vacation; a week of discernment in a monastery. Not the monastery I want to go to, though.

trolls' bane · 07-14-2006, 01:59 AM

I'll be going to Laughlin for a few days, where it looks as though we'll be coming home and leaving like the next day for Laughlin. Wierd.
Also going to Orlando in August.

Spock · 07-14-2006, 10:56 AM

A monastery for one and Mouseland for another; we certainly have a diverse group here on the MOOT.

hectorberlioz · 07-14-2006, 04:10 PM

Yeah...I'm going somewhere alright

...back to the woods for more surveying.

Butterbeer · 07-14-2006, 04:15 PM

good journeyings Rian!

send us an occasional photo journal if you can!

best BB x

littleadanel · 07-14-2006, 04:27 PM

Croatia for two weeks in August

hectorberlioz · 07-14-2006, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littleadanel

Croatia for two weeks in August

*weeps* STOP BEING HAPPY!

I'm sorry LittleAdanel, it's not you. It's the fact that Vacation is a non-existent thing for me. *hangs head*

08-15-2005, 01:17 PM	#62
Artanis Greatest Elven woman of Aman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Having way too much fun with FÃ«anor's 7 Posts: 4,285	Ha ha! My children climbed up there too, and my youngest one is only 4. So I think you'll be OK __________________ --Life is hard, and then we die.

08-15-2005, 01:19 PM	#63
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	That's what kept me going. There and in other places where I about collapsed, I'd see these tiny tots in their little uniforms, tramping back down the steps I was having so much difficulty with. It just humiliated me to go on. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

09-21-2005, 03:24 PM	#66
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	I visited Corsica in 2002. Lovely island, I'd like to return someday. EÃ¤rniel, those cliffs of Bonifacio look exactly as I remember them. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and itâ€™s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry thatâ€™s ever been written. ☻

09-21-2005, 05:08 PM	#68
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Actually we stayed on the east coast. We rented a car and drove around the whole island so we made brief visits basically everywhere - Porto-Vecchio, Ajaccio, Calvi, Bastia... However Bonifacio is the city I remember the most. We were supposed to make a boat-tour into the caves in the white cliffs but sadly, we missed the boat . But that gave us time to closely examine the cliffs from land. I also remember the huge yachts in the Bonifacio harbour. They were gargantuan! Probably had their own area code The Corsican food is reason enough to visit the island. I've never had such tasty Mediterranian dinners. Seafood rocks. We only stayed a week. EÃ¤rniel, how long did you stay? __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and itâ€™s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry thatâ€™s ever been written. ☻

09-21-2005, 05:35 PM	#69
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Calvi! I can't remember ever being there, it's higher up and on the other side of where we usually go. But I know Bonifacio and Porto-Vecchio well. Ajaccio I know less since it's a 3 hour drive from where we usually stay and we only go there when we arrive on the ferry or return home. I've been on one of those boat trips to the chalk cliffs, quite a few years ago. It was very interesting although not as interesting as that boat trip with a glass bottom. That was a real thrill but the next year they didn't offer those trips anymore. Oh yes, those huge yachts! We like watching them from the stair to the citadel of Bonifacio. Some look like driving villas! It's always fun to see what they're called and where they're from. It's sometimes also fun to see the people on those boats, they sometimes act so posh it's funny. We always stay in a bungalow park some 20 kilometers from Porto-Vecchio. Corsica has been our holiday destination for over 25 years, ever since my parents' honeymoon there enchanted them. It's the only holiday we take in a year but then we also go for 3 weeks. So I've seen plenty of southern Corsica by now but it still doesn't bore me. Those great starry nights, the smell of maquis... Surely you've made at least one trip to the inland and smelled the maquis. I love that smell! __________________ We are not things.

08-15-2005, 01:13 PM	#61
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	hmmm, not to bad then. When I climbed "the wild blue goose pagoda" in Shanghai it was something like 660 steps and I thought I'd die. "death is an acquired trait" Woody Allen

09-21-2005, 03:20 PM	#65
Butterbeer Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: here and there Posts: 3,514	when i think of corsica.. i always think of asterix in corsica... liked that one! may be going to Cannes for a few days .. but probably not ... would like to go to the Med though ...

07-12-2006, 08:08 PM	#70
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I thought I'd resurrect this thread, because I'm going to be gone for awhile this summer. We're taking an almost 4-week driving/camping trip, from July 27 to Aug 21, so that's where I'll be if anyone is wondering We're going to the western national parks, like Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Mt. Rushmore, etc. I haven't been able to post much at ALL this summer - this has been the busiest summer ever!!!!! So I think I'll pretty much take the summer off of posting, and be back in the fall Anyone else taking a trip? __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

07-12-2006, 08:48 PM	#72
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Recently back from 10 days abroad. Totally worth it but totally exhausting. Now I need a year without a vacation to rest up. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-13-2006, 03:39 AM	#73
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Have a barry 'ane, Rian. Sounds like a brilliant trip.

07-13-2006, 07:56 PM	#74
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I'm taking a vacation; a week of discernment in a monastery. Not the monastery I want to go to, though. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

07-14-2006, 01:59 AM	#75
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	I'll be going to Laughlin for a few days, where it looks as though we'll be coming home and leaving like the next day for Laughlin. Wierd. Also going to Orlando in August. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

07-14-2006, 10:56 AM	#76
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	A monastery for one and Mouseland for another; we certainly have a diverse group here on the MOOT. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-14-2006, 04:10 PM	#77
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	Yeah...I'm going somewhere alright...back to the woods for more surveying. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

07-14-2006, 04:15 PM	#78
Butterbeer Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: here and there Posts: 3,514	good journeyings Rian! send us an occasional photo journal if you can! best BB x

07-14-2006, 04:27 PM	#79
littleadanel of the House of BÃ«or Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	Croatia for two weeks in August __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days

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