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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 12:09:00 GMT
Wish I had that option. All my family have been UK citizens for at least three generations so no chance of an Austrian/Hungarian/Czech/Polish passport for me. Various friends whose family escaped one way or another from the Nazis are getting German passports. The Spanish have realised that they want their Jews back; the Jews they expelled in 1492! If you can prove you were descended from them they will give you a passport. Lots of Israelis with that origin are doing just that.
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Post by Alanović on Nov 11, 2016 12:19:56 GMT
>>obviously not practical when long distances Course it is, I've driven to Marrakech. Down France, down Spain, car Ferry Algeciras to Tangier, main road, down through Casablanca to Marrakech and then its pretty simple to drive onto Agadir. Or there are trains from Tangier which are ok. I can't quite remember how far it was, about 1,500 miles I think. Though now I think about it I was living in Paris at the time, so it'll be a bit more than that. Its a great trip and there's loads of things to do / see on the way. I'd do it again tomorrow, but its not something to do there and back in 5 days when you want to be lying on the beach. Nottingham - Gibraltar (FIAT Regata 70) and Reading - Belgrade (VW Touran 1.9TDI) are my longest drives. I'd do longer, and have often fantasised about doing UK-Denmark-Sweden-Finland-St Petersburg-Moscow. My mate who lived in Moscow for a long time drove home to North Wales in his Lada Niva once using that route in reverse.
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Post by Humph on Nov 11, 2016 13:44:16 GMT
Oh we've done some really long and indeed really fun road trips before, and will again no doubt, I'm just not seeing that as practical for a 5 day break over Christmas where a bit of warmth would be nice.
Took the Westfield through France and on down to the south of Spain one year over about 3.5 weeks. That was good, but it was in July and we had no real time restrictions as I was self-employed at the time.
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 9, 2016 16:16:32 GMT
Mr Nog, and Mrs Bad have taken the plunge and gone for a non cultural, join the plebs for a weeks weak sun and drinks by the pool, First week in Feb, Jardin Tropical Hotel, Costa Adeje, Tenerife.
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Post by bromptonaut on Dec 9, 2016 20:49:07 GMT
Mr Nog, and Mrs Bad have taken the plunge and gone for a non cultural, join the plebs for a weeks weak sun and drinks by the pool, First week in Feb, Jardin Tropical Hotel, Costa Adeje, Tenerife. Noggin's abandoned Nooka and is going over the side with your Missus?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 22:19:14 GMT
Just got back this evening from a couple of weeks in Cuba. Nice and sunny with temps just below 30C during the day and mid 20s in the evening.
Excellent holiday seeing old friends again but marred by our airline cancelling our return flight at the last minute for 'operational reasons'. They were also less than forthcoming with status information and then used a service company at Gatwick to hand out flyers implying that customers should make a claim against their travel insurance for the cancelled flight instead of informing them that the airline is responsible in the first instance. Damn cowards wouldn't even supply their own staff to field questions/complaints.
Ended up leaving Cuba at 2am local time this morning and getting back to Gatwick 34hrs late on a replacement aircraft supplied by an outfit called Hifly who manage to squeeze more seats in each row and whose in-flight refreshment offering consisted of Tea, Coffee or weak orange squash.
Never had a major problem with this tour operator before but I won't be using them again if there is a reasonable alternative.
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 15, 2016 22:24:43 GMT
Virgin?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 22:53:03 GMT
Nope. Not since my early teens. Don't want to name and shame since I'll be giving them grief tomorrow. However, they are very few UK airlines to fly Gatwick/Holguin return on Tuesdays.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 2:14:29 GMT
What did you decide in the end, Humph? Or did you already say and I missed it?
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Post by Humph on Dec 19, 2016 7:58:50 GMT
Inertia kicked in. Not going anywhere. Family stuff going on that means we should probably stick around this year.
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