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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 17, 2018 8:54:01 GMT
Have you launched the crowdfunding site yet?
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Post by questa on Oct 18, 2018 0:19:17 GMT
Every time I've been there I have back-packed and it is not expensive to eat at the hawkers restaurants, and there are dozens of 3-4 star hotels. I guess we would not want a hostel or pod, but they are there as well. I see that my regular place, South East Asia Hotel in Waterloo St has upgraded from the simple Chinese 'business man' hotel to a tourist hotel. As it is smack-dab in the centre of temples, hawkers, Bugis market and metro station and gardens Lonely Planet called it the "Lazy tourist's Singapore."
What do you all think? Too far? Too exxy [expensive]?
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 18, 2018 5:29:10 GMT
As you know, I am always happy to go to Singapore. However, if such an event is to be considered with other Anyport members, I'm quite sure that a lead in time of at least 6 months is necessary because people would want make this a stopover for a more ambitious trip. Just as Australians do not pop over to Europe for just a weekend and need to get their money's worth out of the plane fare, the reverse is also true.
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Post by questa on Oct 18, 2018 5:46:58 GMT
Very true, Captain K, I am not planning a trip or anything, I don't know other peoples circumstances. Just put this as a possibility after the feedback your photos created recently. Singapore is a doorway to lots of other interesting places, one could see much of Asia from there.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 23, 2019 21:50:55 GMT
Just read this all through again. Could there be a repeat??
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 23, 2019 21:56:50 GMT
You tell me. I'm in!
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 24, 2019 7:47:23 GMT
Are you here any time soon?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2019 16:39:19 GMT
I have no plans to be, especially since it's not that long since my lengthy trip in May. But Brightwater Holidays (which is probably shaking in its boots over Brexit) sends me glossy expensive offers every single day. The prices are more than daunting, especially since the pound to dollar rate is expected to keep climbing. Still, looking at pictures of great gardens in autumn or reading about steam tours is awfully tempting.
As far as that goes, you know that winter is coming where you are, but it's sunny and warm here, so think about that, too.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 2, 2019 14:29:08 GMT
I was at Dollarama, a chain here of those Dollar, Euro, Pound etc cheap shops, and a tall young man from Argentina was buying necessities of life such as a broom and a toilet brush, and telling the clerk that he had just come here from their winter. Clerk also hispanophone - think Chilean, so slightly different accent but not extremely so - and laughed saying that winter here was completely different. And I don't think the young man studying up here was from Patagonia. He'll get clobbered; even the students from France do.
Unfortunately I doubt I'll ever get to Singapore or Oz; even flights across the pond trigger my ecoguilt about flying - ironically often to things addressing environmental issues. It is a difficult issue to address as humans have always travelled, even before we were fully homo sapiens. For hunting and gathering, trade, pilgrimages. Imagine the maize here arriving up here - through several intermediaries - from Mesoamerica?
Bixa, KLM also sends me a lot of travel porn.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 2, 2019 14:41:57 GMT
Air France has announced that as of next year, they will make carbon compensation for all European flights. As for the other flights....
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Post by lagatta on Oct 2, 2019 15:07:37 GMT
I haven't flown WITHIN Europe for many years now. The problem is crossing oceans. And of course, in North America, and I believe it is the same in South America, passenger rail has been largely dismantled. Most of my recent intercity travel has been to Ottawa, Québec or Toronto, where there is decent (if slow) rail service. Slow mostly because of the priority to goods/freight. There are plans to build parallel lines for passenger travel, but who knows?
One young man I met in Brussels had taken the COACH (inter-city bus) from Moscow to an event. If Greta travels from Montréal to Santiago Chile, she can do that overland, but it is quite the journey!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 31, 2019 21:37:55 GMT
As 2020 is about to begin (in Europe -- I know that we are already late for other parts of the world), maybe it is already a good time to start wondering if a new gathering can be planned at some time in the new year. There are months and months to plan for such a thing, and I can already say that I am interested.
London seems obviously easy, but I would be delighted if any other location were proposed.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 31, 2019 23:08:31 GMT
Fine idea. Put me on the list!
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Post by questa on Jan 6, 2020 4:26:15 GMT
I am giving it serious thought. I don't want to go sightseeing except I would like to see Oxford. I have a permanent event in June but after the 12th I'll be free. I'd only stay a few days, not a city person. Just want to see a few of you in your natural habitat. Hope it works out
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2020 4:34:23 GMT
Questa, really??! Wow ~ if you're willing to make the effort all the way from your distant continent, I'd better start thinking seriously about this, too. And I am also ready to consider other meeting places, depending on what people come up with. Would also like to say that we have ten (10) years of discussing meeting up in Oaxaca, yet .........................
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Post by fumobici on Jan 6, 2020 16:21:39 GMT
I'd consider coming but I hate travelling in the sweaty, congested peak travel season. Summer's for staying home for me, our weather is the best then. Going anywhere else is a guaranteed downgrade.
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Post by mich64 on Jan 6, 2020 16:43:15 GMT
I will keep up with this thread with interest! At this point, we have no idea what we will be able to do this year, still waiting on Mr. M.'s surgeon to provide us with a status report from recent tests. I am feeling hopeful and if so we might get two trips in this year. September will hopefully be Austria/Slovenia/Italy but I was thinking May or June for something else, maybe we could do this!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2020 17:18:49 GMT
I'm sort of with Fumobici about high season. True, England is less likely to be sweltering then & in fact early June might be fabulous for flowers. However, for all of us who have to cross oceans to get there, the high season prices are a consideration along with the weather. London seems obviously easy, but I would be delighted if any other location were proposed. Quoting Kerouac as a reminder that even though it's in the London get-together thread, he is not suggesting that we be locked in to London for the next gathering.
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Post by questa on Jan 8, 2020 12:53:59 GMT
As you know my nursing friends meet up each year and have done so for 60 years.We have lost a few along the way so decided that this will be the last big GTG as a group. We have chosen to go on a 4 night cruise out of Sydney on one of the floating swill buckets.I fly back to ADL on May 17. In June I am busy with the motor sport event which involves driving 600 km there on Thursday and same home on Tuesday June 9th. I always need a few days rest after that week end. This is just to give you a 'heads-up'in your planning. I am walking OK but my sense of direction has become dodgy. I would appreciate some company for the couple of days in whatever city we rock up in.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 8, 2020 13:13:34 GMT
Wow! That’s an awful lot of driving questa.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 8, 2020 14:20:14 GMT
Hello We will be in South Africa in June - July. It reminds me that it is a long time I haven't seen a post from Tod.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2020 16:15:18 GMT
Sounds as though that meetup with your nursing friends will be bittersweet, Questa. Lovely that you all have decided to do the gathering again, though. I would appreciate some company for the couple of days in whatever city we rock up in. Reading this remark by Questa reminds me that there are some related questions I've been wanting to ask. I don't know how you all feel about answering it honestly in case you're afraid of offending, but here we go ~ If you go to a city where another anyporter lives, do you feel comfortable contacting that person(s) beforehand to suggest meeting? If you are contacted by an anyporter visiting your town, are you excited by the prospect of meeting? Shy? Ambivalent? Resentful? Obviously there are lots of permutations to these questions.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2020 4:56:06 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jan 9, 2020 7:14:47 GMT
Those castles are certainly nice to stay in but they also require car rental because they are generally not in cities.
As for contacting local Anyporters, yes I have done so. Even visiting ones. Then again, the prospect would depend on the person. On a forum, like in everyday life, there are people we are more or less attracted to and comfortable with.
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Post by questa on Jan 9, 2020 12:01:16 GMT
Computer still recalcitrant. Have to keep posts short or lose them. Seems OK for 2-3 lines. ? start another thread for this year's GTG to prevent confusion with previous dates etc. No castles for me but experience in sleeping on floors or bed of family dog.
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Post by questa on Jan 9, 2020 12:14:34 GMT
Wow! That’s an awful lot of driving questa. Nah, piece of cake ! Most is on the flat Hay Plain 110 kph. Trip home after the "Party" a bit slower. Once I did Adelaide-Sydney in 21 hours in an MGB
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Post by questa on Jan 10, 2020 10:23:20 GMT
I am not familiar with your travelling seasons.Do you have a 'shoulder' time where prices are lower and fewer people travel and kids are still in school? If June is too hard (I am assuming this is a shoulder) what about september? or is that getting too cold? At least we are not planning a long holiday, just a catch-up. It need not be a busy city venue...bus or train to a nearby nice place.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 10, 2020 10:42:14 GMT
Both June and September are good.
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Post by questa on Jan 10, 2020 11:03:25 GMT
Will you be there, my Capitan?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 10, 2020 18:19:56 GMT
Or course. Pyongyang, you say?
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