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by fieldgate
by wolfie6552
Has anyone of the 30/40+/50 crowd encountered any problems with age limits being enforced at hostels (be they of the Empire or indy)?
Used to be the only place with a 'strict' age limit (of 27) was Bavaria, other places giving 'preference' to those under 30 if things got crowded.
Still the same?
by lamontcranston
Our 50th is March 17 ,2013 ,and we want to take our family to Hawaii for a week because of the relatively short flights from Northern California and the grandkids school schedules. There will be six active adults and four gradeschoolers from four years to thirteen years old in our party of ten. We are bikers, hikers,swimmers, and surfers . Which island should we consider that time of year ?
by wanderinwilco
A minibus collected me at 1200, then circuited the town to pick up a further 8 passengers before setting course for the docks. Dwarfing the port was the Sun Princess, a floating tower block that conveys her punters in 5* luxury to exotic places that they never experience. Around the far side of Cambodia's only port of repute, among motley fishing boats, bobbed the small craft that was to transport us to our “tropical paradise” island. As we arrived at the dock a torrential downpour rent the…
by sajvv
We live in Port Elizabeth, which is part of the Nelson Mandela Metropole, in South Africa. We've been travelling and camping all our lives; first through Southern Africa and then through Europe and so on. Now it's become just too expensive there, with our ZAR currency. Also, we felt extremely bad at the way we, as non EU passport holders, or US citizens, were "handled" at some airports. At the moment we have to comply with visa requirements ( ZAR1,000! for Britain) and have to travel to other…
by lor
#10 (final) Estonia, August 1, 2011
Dear Everybody,
Well, here I am at home, once again. I met up with Roberto, Marco and Lorenzo at the Rome airport and we flew home together.
Earlier in the week, I arrived in Tallinn, Estonia by bus, and got the #4 tram, which took me to my hostel called Vana Tom. It was right on the main square in Old Town, which was marvelously medieval. However, tourism was a zillion times more active here than in the other two capitals---the square was swarming with…
by wanderinwilco
I left the capital on the 0700 bus for Kampot. We passed through the beach resort of Kep, much favoured by the French colonialists. Despite the burnt out shells of their villas, destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, it remains a superb little tropical beach hideaway. Unfortunately I arrived in a heavy downpour which negated any fleeting ideas I had of leaving the bus there.
25 klicks further on Kampot appeared through a second rain storm and I gratefully accepted the services of a tuk tuk for the…
by bushcat1
Help
we are a pair of near 70's and planning to take a 13 year old grand daughter to see the wild life in Malaya from Australia. (She was offered Disneyland or wildlife and she wants to see the Orangutans before there extinction) We need to travel around school holidays but with this in mind what would be the best season.
Orangutans are number 1 on our list. but also any animals and other creatures will be great.
We would prefer to bypass the real touristy sites preferring the National parks. From…
by wanderinwilco
They say fact is stranger than fiction. On arrival in Phnom Penh I booked into the Spring guesthouse on personal recommendation. It is bright, modern, has all the facilities and cost $5 for an excellent double room. But I wasn't happy and on day 2 moved to the nearby Narin 2. When I stayed there in 2004 there was a chap from New York, crippled by polio since age 1, who came each year to sate his thirst for cheap booze and the very amenable girls. This time there was a white guy sat in a corner…
by wanderinwilco
The journey began on time but soon degenerated into something bordering on a farcical terror movie – like Brian Rix crossed with Freddie Kruger. We soon arrived at the ferry crossing and I got off, the slope down to where an already overloaded canoe waited, being too step for us two up. Sol wanted to show his skill at manoeuvering a bike and boarded the bows front first before hauling the bike around, pivoted on its stand, in what should have been a smart move. Unfortunately his skill failed…