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rascal said:
We are opposites, maybe you could come here in our winter ?

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When we're planning vacations, that's something MrsT and I argue about - I want to go somewhere like, say, Denmark in January or February, and she wants to go to Hawaii or the Caribbean. :laugh:

We went to Jamaica together...once. I will own up to doing nothing but gripe and complain the entire time we were there, but I was <bleeping> miserable the entire time. Now, when she wants to do that, she goes with other travel agents she knows. I've passed up two (or possibly three) free trips to Hawaii because I don't like the weather there.

Way back in 2009, we went to London in December. The weather was atrocious by most people's standards, cold and sleet and wind all day every day.

I'd gotten up early, as I usually do when we're on holiday, and went for a walk. I came back to the room soaked through and frozen half-stiff, bits of ice stuck in my beard, all that, and when I walked into the hotel, she was in the lobby doing whatever she was doing, and she saw me and said, "What in the world are you doing out there?!"

Without a hint of sarcasm, I replied, "Just enjoying the weather."
 
TastyReuben said:
When we're planning vacations, that's something MrsT and I argue about - I want to go somewhere like, say, Denmark in January or February, and she wants to go to Hawaii or the Caribbean. :laugh:

We went to Jamaica together...once. I will own up to doing nothing but gripe and complain the entire time we were there, but I was <bleeping> miserable the entire time. Now, when she wants to do that, she goes with other travel agents she knows. I've passed up two (or possibly three) free trips to Hawaii because I don't like the weather there.

Way back in 2009, we went to London in December. The weather was atrocious by most people's standards, cold and sleet and wind all day every day.

I'd gotten up early, as I usually do when we're on holiday, and went for a walk. I came back to the room soaked through and frozen half-stiff, bits of ice stuck in my beard, all that, and when I walked into the hotel, she was in the lobby doing whatever she was doing, and she saw me and said, "What in the world are you doing out there?!"

Without a hint of sarcasm, I replied, "Just enjoying the weather."
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You didn't do Hawaii right. I went the big Island and to Kawaii. Stayed in great hotels, and rented Jeeps on both Islands. I will never forget sitting on the side of a mountain on Kawaii, with clouds hitting me in the face as they passed over the mountains. The big Island was a combination of stark lava wasteland and tropical rain forest. I parked my jeep on a road at the edge of a lava flow, and listened the the crackling of the slowly moving lava making its way to the ocean. I walked on lava flows that were hard on top, with cracks I could look into and see molten hot lava a few feet down. I went snorkeling one day, and got greeted by dolphins looking to see if I had any fish for them. They let me pet them.

Sorry that the whole world can't be like England. But, there are some other places that don't suck.

CD
 
Hubby and I are the same as you TastyReuben
Our honeymoon was Stockholm over the New Year period. Fantastic.
We've also driven from the UK via Denmark (when you could before the ferry stopped) to stay an hour north of Stockholm on an island called Gräsö Island, (Uppland, Svealand, Sweden) for 2 weeks in a friend's summer cabin with no hearing except the 1 wood burner, no running water (turned off for the winter to stop pipes bursting) and only the outside compost toilet. It was well below freezing the whole time we were there but we loved it.

These two sunsets are unedited except to balance the brightness out a touch. They were taken a few days apart at the very end of 2006.

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The water is actually the Baltic Sea. And yes that is ice on salt water.
 
Well, the next two days here are 70F and 75F. Then, a polar cold front comes through, and 75F turns to 25F overnight. Sounds like vacation weather for TR and SatNav. :cold: :laugh:

Might be time to get that ham bone out of the freezer and make some ham and bean soup.

CD
 
epicuric said:
Thankfully. I would never occur to me to holiday anywhere that was not considerably warmer.
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If I am going to vacation anywhere cold, it better be really dayum beautiful. Otherwise, a warm place on a beach with little drinks with umbrellas on them. :dance:

CD
 
epicuric said:
Thankfully. I would never occur to me to holiday anywhere that was not considerably warmer.
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Oh, I don't know, we got considerably cheaper breaks in Prague and Berlin by going in the winter. Those two places are very expensive if you go in the summer months. We went to Estonia once, right at the beginning of April. It was very sunny, but absolutely freezing. The Baltic was frozen around Tallinn.

Mind you, the one time we visited Iceland (in November), the temperature was about 10C. In Edinburgh, it was 3C, so you could accuse us of being sun-seekers for that one...
 
Signs of the times: the one remaining bank in our High Street is closing on February 16th. Even Ladbrokes have closed their shop - there was a "to let" notice all over it this morning and the signage has been taken down. That doesn't bother me personally, as I don't gamble, but it was always quite busy in there. Ladbrokes are the biggest bookmaker in the UK, so if they're closing shops down, it tells you a lot.
 
Duck59 said:
Oh, I don't know, we got considerably cheaper breaks in Prague and Berlin by going in the winter. Those two places are very expensive if you go in the summer months. We went to Estonia once, right at the beginning of April. It was very sunny, but absolutely freezing. The Baltic was frozen around Tallinn.

Mind you, the one time we visited Iceland (in November), the temperature was about 10C. In Edinburgh, it was 3C, so you could accuse us of being sun-seekers for that one...
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It's the same going to ski resort in the summer.
 
caseydog said:
You didn't do Hawaii right.
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I didn't do Hawaii at all. MrsT has been a few times, for work, and I could have tagged along for free, but that was a big, fat "No, thanks."

I see pics of places like Hawaii, or Fiji, or the Caribbean...that warm weather stuff, the beach, the water, those weird palm trees or whatever they are, actually puts my stomach off, I have such a negative reaction to it. Tell me there's an ice hotel in Norway, though, and that's where I want to stay :laugh:

caseydog said:
Sorry that the whole world can't be like England. But, there are some other places that don't suck.
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True...that's what Scotland and Wales are for. :)

Seriously, of all the places we've been, there have been a few clunkers, but I've liked almost everywhere. All the negative ones were hot weather places.

We went to Alaska during September several years ago, and I was mad because when we landed in Fairbanks, it was something like 64F or whatever, and it just made me angry to have traveled all that way and it was the same temp as home. Thankfully, it turned bad a few days later. :)
 
mjd said:
It's 7 degrees F here today. I used a hair dryer to defrost the screen so I could take this photo. ;-)
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I do not miss that at all. I have pictures of trees and everything else (including power lines) from right before we left Kentucky to live here. We've the downside of a hurricane now and again, but I'd rather deal with that than months of ice and snow.
 
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