Miscellaneous Forum

Well now its January and i've been given my new allocation of Annual Leave (32 days per year!!) i can get on with planning my trips for 2006.

Heres the plan thus far, April - Costa del Sol in Spain for a week with all the family, June - Football World Cup Trip to Germany with the mates, October - Hopefully a week in Egpyt, November - New York City, my very favourite place!!!

So what you got planned for the year of 2006??

well in may hopefully Spain with the whole family,still looking for bargains,in oct its off to the Maldives,so only two trips this year unless i win the lottery!

I spent a week in Barcelona. I hope to attend the second European VT meeting in Marbella next may.

So far a week in Fiji in Feb, a week or so in Melboune in May (the Big Meet there too), various short jaunts around NZ. Nothing else planned as yet....but it's early still ;-)

month in SE Asia in March.

slight possiblity of Ghana end of June.

hopes: Eastern Europe/Russia/Central Asia (one or a combo) in Sept./Oct.

I'm doing Easter in Greece!

London in two weeks and then Pack to Prague for a couple of nights in February. After that I am spending some time with a friend in Jersey (the channel island, not the state) and then hopefully going to Greece, Croatia, and Montengro this summer. Really looking forward to that trip. A group of us found a reasonably priced yacht that we want to rent and bum around in. Sounds like fun anyway. Other than that, I am pretty much stuck in Wales working on a book and hopefully my dissertation next fall.

Rome, Florence in April. A weekend in Amsterdam in April. Fall time is open still. December is Austrialia and New Zealand.

Kuala Lumpur in march, Maldives in June, somewhere middle eastern and somewhere Indonesia in Dec, provided I have the enough budget in Dec.

Hi Steven..
I am about to embark on a "road trip" with a group of VT'ers, namely:
Rusket, Bradbrown, Cachaseiro and Razmatac and alot of others along the way.
I will cover Finland (maybe), Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland and then finally back to London for the enormous VT meet there on 21st.
All this in 10 days for me... phew.

Ireland at some point in the year definitely, but the rest I have not planned. I hope spend this year just going wherever the fancy takes me!

Happy travels to you.

June

Montenegro takes the prize for the most exotic destination among vters so far.

But my itineraries are not so bad:

Tomorrow I leave for Ecuador. First we visit the Amazon and then the Galapagos.

In late June we will travel to Romania.

In December we will see Patagonia including Tiera Del Fuego and the tremendous Andean national parks in Argentina and Chile.

The Galapagos - I'm so envious of anyone going there. It's been a long time on top of my wish list. I need to get more proactive!!!

32 days of annual leave ! I could not even imagine such a wonderful thing. I am so jealous.

I"ll be in Las Vegas first week in Feb.-My first time there.
Another low budget Ski/camping trip in west virginia in march.
Portland Oregon for fourth of July
Hopefully a couple weeks in Italy in the fall
And 3 or 4 long weekends on the outer Banks of North Carolina spaced over the year.
Maybe a big weekend music festival like Bonaroo or the all-good festival so I can dance the wombat with the deadheads and hippies.
Now.... that's what I have planned.....Let's see if I can pull it off.I've got negative hours of Vacation time on my paystub right now.I've got some older relatives in poor health and If I don't get some home repairs done the wife says I'm grounded.....It's going to be a busy year-CR

New York City is very close to my heart...

32 days!!!! I am so jealous. :( I only get 18 days. :(

May - 2 weeks in China
July - maybe a few days in Italy

Hope to fit into my boyfriend's suitcase if he gets business trips approved to interesting places

32 days is not that hard to pull off. If you can convince your boss to let you work a longer day and then instead of paying you time and a half for overtime give you the hours as vacation time at regular rate. so...32 daysx 8 hour day=256 hours 5 day work week 32 days=6 weeks 2 days 256 hours needed over 45.6 work weeks=5.6 hours overtime a week-Thats only about an extra hour a day
Now I get 80 hours a year vacation time so that's only about 4 extra hours a week for me.Now of course this won't work if you are salaried but it works for me.-and I've never missed a paycheck. you can see I've thought this out-

Here in NZ the legal entitlement is only 15 days plus statutory holidays - thats being raised to 20 next year. But I have an understanding boss (and I refused to take the job before pointing out the cr@ppy annual leave just wasn't going to do me anygood with family in the UK). And as long as I get my job done, my time off isn't too much of an issue.

Crikey got a busy year this year.

Benidorm in April

The German valleys in May

Majorca in June.

Hopefully Norway again :-)

and The Nurburgring (in Germany) with my Subaru Club

just go to Dallas and maybe go to a small village in Mexico

Mallorca is a very beautiful place Carl.

all I have planned so far is 2 weeks in india but its a big thing for me as I have wanted to go for sooo long yippiiieee!

Planned a trip to Czech and Slovakia.
And really hope I finally can make the long wanted trip to the USA with my daughter

Our trips this year will be college visits. One trip to North Eastern US one West. Road trips to Upper Midwest, Midwest and Southeast.

Lori & Hansi are in Spain right now ,Torremolinos ,we are having dinner with Carmen & Stace tonight ,the weather is fantastic about 18 degrees ,mid sixties
the sun is shining ,life is good .
I like to Hi to all of our friends and Kay (Haldane ) if you read this you are a sweathart for writing what you did about Lori & Hansi and Scott ,Shohman you as well Scott thank you buddy .

Hey we love you all (our friends and whoever else ) and IŽll be back ,This internet place loves me I keep them in business.

Bye Bye

Lori & Hansi

OOps I forgot

Hi Ilse (Matim) ,you got good plans ,you know where to come visit when you come to North America

The Waalewiener& LoriPori B & B will be open and waiting for you and daughter

Love you Ilse

Lori & Hans

I got to go meet Stace & Carmen ,be back tomorrow Byeeeeeeeee

Hansi

Have fun you guys :)

We are more spur of the moment types, but are still planning DC in summer or fall and of course our many road trips (still hoping for route 66 this year). Also planning a little jaunt to Ceazars Palace with sis and some friends around April. No over seas plans for this year, but would like to do a second honeymoon to Canada. Alaska for two weeks this summer, too. Almost forgot that one :)

Spain and Morocco in Feb
Thialand in Oct.

And please one useless week on the beach down south doing nothing at some point in between.

You bet, Brad.

I will probably start at St. Louis and go from there. I'll send you the itenerary (or a reasonable facsimile there of) when I get one made up.