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.........At the age of 37
she realized she'd never ride
through Paris in a sports car
with the warm wind in her hair.........

I wish we'd got ourselves organised enough before we left for these parts and visited Northern Italy; Venice, Florence, Sienna. The problem was that once I started thinking of places to visit there were too many and in the end we just did a Eurostar trip to Paris. -Flederman had never been. After all there are many places to visit over here so you just replace one set of destinations with another. Or do you?

Where do you wish you had visited and think you never will, or what would you like to have done but can't see it happening?

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That's what TV is for.... just get HD and it probably looks nicer than being there, and you don't have to mix with those nasty foreigners.

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Actually this was brought home to me the other day when the hubby and his fam were planning a big ol trip to the UK with me as their tour guide.

I thought "shit - I haven't really been anywhere that I should have to have any idea" Stonehenge, Tower of London, Black Country Museum etc etc etc and all the other touristy places that you really just take for granted.

So my regrets are that I never visited what was on my doorstep all along - though I will be fortunate enought to do it in the next few years with all of my Canadian relations. That will make it kinda special :)

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Sometimes wish I done more hiking in the mountains.

They are still close at hand but I can only look or attempt the easiest of trails, very frustrating.

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on a similar kind of theme - i wish i had taken a year out before going to university - i was only 17 and looking back, too young.

i would have worked for 6 months, then travelled for 6 months.

the new dream however, is me, hubby and the dogs, and a road trip across canada!

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I wanted to see Stonehedge before leaving but my husband says just look at the pictures of it on a website it's just a load of stones in a circle :rolleyes:

What else, Legoland maybe. To be honest we have done quite alot in the UK.

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Cassie, I agree with your husband - unless you are actually going within a stones throw(:rolleyes:) of the place then it's not really worth it - mind you I can say that as I have seen the place numerous times.

I wish I'd actually been 'Up North' a few more times and visited Scotland and Ireland, pretty much done a lot of the South of England. Maybe we should have 'done' a bit more Europe rather than jetting off to Florida.

The BIG ones for me to do are still the Galapagos/Ecuador, Alaska and maybe Egypt? I am looking forward to visiting Utah and some other States, really want to visit the Yukon and Northwest Territories also want to visit the Eastern Provinces so I suppose some of my destinations have been replaced by newer not previously thought of ideas.

I too wish I had taken a year out to travel, it's something I will encourage my daughter to do, she's already talking about doing a Semester in Japan though.

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I must be very Lucky as I have done most of the world and most of the true wonders of the world are stateside, The biggest dissapointment was Egypt and the best was staying over night and watching the sun come up on The Bonnieville saltflats north west Utah or Zion Canyon souther Utah, or maybe paddling along side J pod of Orca on Vancouver Island, but then paris while the tour in coming threw, or Milan for shoe shopping or Cannes while the film festival is on.........................even better the Edinburgh festival ,,,, now thats a place to visit, or here in Dunoon Argyll 27/28th August for the Highland gathering 30,000 people and 200 Pipe band with the saturday evening march down the high street 1000+ pipes and drums, :thumbsup:

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Vegas was on my list since I was a youngster but i managed to cross that off my list last year :thumbup:

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As a child, I dreamed of seeing Epping and Ongar. One day yet, inshallah.

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I dreamed of visiting the 'North Shore' or 'Oakville' before they became overtaken by expats in search of brown sauce.

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I wanted to go see Giant's Causeway. With luck I"ll get a chance this autumn!

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Italy for me too, the Amalfi coast. The Pyramids, Barcelona to see the Gaudi buildings, oh and the Last night of the Proms.
Had all of Europe on my doorstep but kept flying across the Atlantic for holidays!!

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Then you will be jealous of Flederman as he will be at Epping tube station on Thursday. He knows how to live the high life.

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Not at Ongar though, that part of the tube was closed. It's since been reopened by hobbyists, presumably other people who's Mecca was the Hainault Loop (and I think I lead a spoddish geeky sort of life!), but only offers an excursion service on Sundays.

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For me, it's always been Nunuvit.

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Yes, you'll never ride through Iqaluit and feel the warm wind in your beard

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Why not? He's not bedridden yet is he?:rolleyes:

Record high in Iqaluit 25.8°C July 28/2001 followed by 25.5°C August 8/1991:p:D

See there's always hope. ;)

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mmmm I never imagined Novo to have a beard - no idea what I think he looks like but it was definately beardless.

Illusions shattered

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Think Brian Blessed. But thinner.;)

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Much thinner. And more betterer looking.

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Like this then?

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Surprisingly close I hate to admit.

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Nah, the hair looks a little too unruly.;)

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His photograph is on the net, if you know where to look and, yes, he is bearded.

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Having been a truck driver for nei on 30 years, ive been allmost every where. I am on my 4th continent now have driven all over europe, did some asia & North Africa and now north america, had holidays from back packing the Greek Islands & Bali, had bonking holiday's in Ibetha & Thailand too restful familly jaunts to Turkey & southern France. Done ski holidays in Austria, Italy and where i used to live in Switzerland, so no Lucy Jorden regrets here:)

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Island hopping in Greece, train journey through Italy, night clubbing in Magaluf, skiing in the alps, the Inca trail in Peru, rock climbing in southern Thailand, scuba diving in Hawaii. And of course Glastonbury festival. The icing on the cake for me. Oh the memories.

These days I spend my time searching Oakville for British bacon to go with my brown sauce. Come on England!

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Oh the Hainault loop. Great days. I remember taking the train to Ongar, when I was at school, just for the shear hell of it. Epping is overrated if you ask me.

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Whose photograph isn't on the net, if you know where to look?

Nonetheless, I'd prefer it if you desisted from encouraging stalkers. :frown:

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It's a valid point. Piece together a little information that comes over the course of 100's of posts here and it's relatively easy to find out way too much about folks in real life. The veil of anonymity on BE or any other web forum is not that thick!

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yep, having a past that might catch up with you is in the spirit of this thread but we don't want to give too many clues.

maybe wishing you had past that might catch up with you is more in keeping.

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That's the spirit that built the Empire. The youth of today make do with Beckton.

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Ah but they have Alps at Becton, who would need Ongar?

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Never having seen Ongar, I don't actually know if one "needs" Ongar. I have the idea though that it's one of those places that seeps into one's soul, having seen it one would return often and dream of one day moving there, eventually going to one's grave regretting never being quite able to escape from Tahiti.

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I used to get my LandRover fixed by a garage in Ongar. That's about all I recall of the place. It's a vaguely well-to-do Essex town. Posher than some, less so than others.

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A sentence replete with the bitterness of exile, tinged with regret over failure to properly appreciate experiences taken for granted at the time but now, in all likelihood, foregone forever. I sense something of the same when seeing lone figures at the bar reverently fingering ancient copies of the A to Z, tears welling in their eyes. When will you next be in Essex in a Land Rover?

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Ironically enough, in two weeks time. (Although the LR will be my sister's LR3 which is a step upwards from the 1972 SIII that brings back fond memories of having my wallet lightened by aforementioned LR mechanic in Ongar.) Essex will be a fleeting pleasure though on our way to Northern and Eastern parts.

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One's pleasure in Essex is so often fleeting.

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Yes indeed, it would perhaps be a spiritual need that one might have for Ongar. The anticipation of the unknown, perhaps even forbidden pleasures that Ongar and Land Rover might offer.

I went to Frinton once.

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I have not, knowingly, been to Frinton but the very name conjures images of places and moments that seem now to belong to another lifetime. Cold rain drumming on the roof of a caravan, the smell of damp wool, kites never quite dry enough to become airborne. Above all, inadequate sandwiches, tomato or pressed meat derived from animal by-products, bread with the consistency of that damp wool, eaten in a grey car while gazing through drizzle toward where a lighthouse or castle or some other symbol of England ought to be. A father, perhaps dreaming of once again being in a warm and dry office, promising to "make a dash for it" after just one more fag.

That England is lost to me now but there is the promise that, at some date unspecified, I might see Ireland, a country where it's the damp that kills you. I think that might go some way to toward quelling my yearning for the caravans and windswept piers of the past. I shall first visit the British store here, get myself a Pack-A-Mac.