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I travelled to most of these places after the age of 25. You have plenty of time :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tasha313
My plan is to save enough money to travel a lot when I retire :P
ohhh Antartic! I would love to go there! They do cruise? Definitely checking this out!Quote:
Originally Posted by vesper
in the days before children, we went
Egypt twice, Luxor for 1 week* and a weeks cruise from Aswan to Abu Simbal on Lake Nasser.
The Gambia**
NAmibia for 3 weeks safari
Cairo, Kenya***( week safari) and Zanizibar ( 3 weeks total)
* Missed tourist shooting by 1 day,
** Missed coup by 1 week
*** area next to hotel tear-gassed while we were out on a day trip of only Mr P and I, rest of guests evacuated for several hours..
trips I did with my mother before Mr P
Rome and Sorrento
CHannel Islands
Greece 3 times...2 x coach trip plus 1 week sea-side..1 2 weeks beach-beach bumming
Yugoslavia ( now Slovenia)
Costa Brava, Spain
Tenerife,Canary Islands
Majorca, Spain
I'd love to go to South and Central America, Iceland, Galapous Islands, Antarticia, the Artic and many more African countries...I know the kids would love to go to JApan and Korea..
^^^^ I'd so go to Slovenia! A girlfriend of mine showed me all her pictures from that place, it seems like my kind of spot.
Great roster of visits you been! Yahoo!!
I've traveled to Vegas, Florida 3 times, Mexico 4 times, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, California, Barcelona, Florence and Naples, and Ville de Franche. I have visited all of our provinces west of Quebec but I really want to explore all of the Eastern provinces, one of my favorite places to go in Canada is Denman Island just off the coast of Courtenay BC , it is like taking a step back to a simpler time.
I went to Vegas in 1989 to see Mike Tyson fight Frank Bruno with my husband, I hated Vegas, to me it was like being held hostage on the Price is Right for four days!! Probably will never go back!!
While Puerto Rico is beautiful I didn't love it,I always felt on edge as the locals were not friendly and there is so much poverty I couldn't get past it.
I think Barcelona is my favorite so far, the people, the history and the architecture are amazing. We took a 5 day cruise from Barcelona to Italy and then France, I thought I would love cruising but it bored me to tears, all I could think about was what I could be doing if I were on land!!
I would love to see the Galapagos Islands and Australia and Thailand.
Our cruise took us to Rome, Greece, Turkey, Egypt (Cairo to the Pyramids), Sicily, (we'd move to Rome in a second, but would never leave our DD and her family), spent a summer in Torrence, California and spent every day at Redondo Beach...I was 16...:)...spent several March months in Florida, bringing our pooch with us, a couple times at Dusneyword, once with our kids, twice just with hubby recently...AND we just booked a week next April with our DD and her hubby and our grandson at Disneyworld, the Art Of Animation resort, the Cars one..so excited!...Puerto Vaillarta, Mexico with our DD and her hubby, pre grandson one Christmas...all provinces including and west of Quebec and still want to go on a road trip to the east coast...and we'd like to visit Britain (hubby's mother's birthplace), Ireland...Ukraine (my roots).....think we'll live long enough to do it all??! :tongue:
Wow, it's great to see how well-travelled some of you are - and it's wonderful to see the pics, thanks for sharing them!
I haven't travelled out of Canada (across the border to ND from Eastend when we lived there when I was three doesn't count because I don't remember it), and have just been in SK and AB.
Most beautiful place - Banff/Lake Louise. Went when I was maybe six (1967?), then again when I was 27.
I'm the cutie at the right front... (another brother was added a few years later)
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I would have loved to travel growing up, but we just couldn't afford to. Now that we have LO, we don't plan on traveling to other countries until he is much older.
We have driven to BC, Alberta, SK (jk, I have always lived here), Manitoba, and Onatrio. Each of these provinces I have gone to multiple times.
We drove across the US boarder into North Dakota for a day trip one year. Estevan is only 16km from the US boarder.
2006 - Merry Widow Mine in Basin, Montana. DH and I took my grandma with us on this road trip. The healing mines really helped my circulation, my feet still don't get cold at night. It also helped my grandma with her arthritis, pain, and mobility. Would certainly go back again.
2010 - Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for Christmas and New Years. We were there for two weeks. It was the first time that I had flown anywhere. It was great! I'd love to go back.
DH traveled a fair bit before we met. He did various road trip through the US. He visited Gibraltar, London and area, Kuwait, and Thailand.
He even lived in Hong Kong for a while.
Travel is my favourite pasttime and subject!
I've been to:
Austria
France
Belgium
Germany
Lichtenstein
Switzerland
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Morocco
England
Scotland
Japan
All of Canada (except the Northern Territories)
All of the Northern and Eastern U.S., as well as the California/Arizona/Nevada/Utah areas.
Loved it all!
Special Japanese memories are:
Bathing naked with my sister-in-law in a Japanese Onsen
Having private Akido lessons by a Japanese Master
Being taken out for dinner by the Agricultural Minister on the Japanese Island of Kiushu
Taking the Bullet train
Being given private lessons on the art of the Japanese Tea Ceremony
Going to a Dragon Festival
Getting a letter from the Mayor of Hiroshima for signing their Petition for Peace
Ringing the Peace Bell in Hiroshima
Seeing the last building standing in Nagasaki after the bomb
Seeing the hill that still exists of the ashes of thousands of people who died after the bomb in Hiroshima
Seeing the Hiroshima Museum dedicated to the bombing
Favourite Memories of Morocco:
The Medina in Fez was like going back to the time of Christ
Seeing a Camel head hanging in a butcher's stall
Trying not to get squashed between the Medina walls and donkeys laiden with carpets
Going to a Moroccan restaurant with belly dancers and entertainers
Seeing snake charmers and monkeys in the market in Marakesh
Watching my sister-in-law get attacked by a monkey and thrown off a camel!
Going to visit a Berber family in the High Atlas Mountains
Favourite memories of California/Utah/Nevada/Arizona
Best thing was getting a private jeep tour of Monument Valley with a Navajo, and staying in their Hogon overnight (It's like an igloo, but made with logs and mud) They also made us a true Navajo dinner.
Seeing Antelope Canyon
Staying in Bright Angel lodge with our room front window just across the walking path from Grand Canyon
Too many other favourite things to mention.
My goal is to travel to every Continent on Earth. I've beeing to every one except South America and Australia, so they're on my list!
Wow wow wow wow .. I would love to be able to see every continent as well AND take DD with me .. She's 4 now and she'll be going on her second trip this fall .. And people always tell me : just leave her at home and enjoy yourself . It's too complicated.. But no .. I love it and I don't even care how complicated it is .Quote:
Originally Posted by travel-mum
No wonder your name is travel-mum :P
It says it all! :)
My name should be mum-travel, as being a mum and grandma to my grand-treasures is more important than travel, but travel-mum sounds better!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jina
That is an amazing picture. So beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jina
Were have I been?
Montreal
All over Ontario
Florida
New York state
Pennsylvania
England many times
Scotland a couple times
Wales
I want to see the entire world.
Toronto, Thunder Bay, Calgary, Vancouver, Chicoutimi, Sudbury, Quebec City, Saint John, Halifax, Charlottetown, Cape Breton, Edmundston, Florida, Arizona, New York State, Vermont, Philadelphia, London England, Rhodes, Norway, Iceland.
Even though I 'knew" that the Giza plateau was close to Cairo..I was shocked to see that the metropolis surrounded the whole complex on 3 sides and the whole surrounded by rolling desert sands was actually only on one very picture-esque side..Quote:
Originally Posted by Lynn49
