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Souvy Jul 15th 2013 11:48 pm

Re: Summer Holidays
 
Two weeks coming up soon. Mostly staycation. We'll go up to see the boy in Chicoutimi for a couple of days and take the scenic route back down the fjord, probably with a stopover in Quebec City. The rest will be local tourism. We've been here for nine years and there is still a lot of stuff we haven't seen yet.

That will be followed by trips to the UK, Quebec City and New York (at least for me).

All plans are provisional and subject to when my SIL carks.

Zoe Bell Jul 15th 2013 11:52 pm

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I'm heading to Kingston for a few days on my own to recover from the inevitable nervous breakdown this latest conference will cause me.

Then Labour Day weekend Ben and I are hoping to go to Martha's Vineyard or somewhere in that vicinity

Oink Jul 16th 2013 3:42 am

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I don't don't go on holiday here as there's bugger worth seeing as it all looks the same. HID had pissed off somewhere for a few weeks to see another shrewdness of relatives I have no intention of ever meeting. Any time off will be spent filling my freezer while slowly fattening my liver. :thumbup:

Novocastrian Jul 16th 2013 4:30 am

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Originally Posted by Oink (Post 10803121)
I don't don't go on holiday here as there's bugger worth seeing as it all looks the same. HID had pissed off somewhere for a few weeks to see another shrewdness of relatives I have no intention of ever meeting. Any time off will be spent filling my freezer while slowly fattening my liver. :thumbup:

I like "a shrewdness of relatives". Can you translate into French for me?

Oink Jul 16th 2013 4:39 am

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 10803217)
I like "a shrewdness of relatives". Can you translate into French for me?

Ooo, ooo, ooo, eee eee eee. ;)

nldfc Jul 16th 2013 6:35 am

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In 2 weeks its off to Scotland for a couple of weeks then a week in Spain

Novocastrian Jul 16th 2013 7:15 am

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Originally Posted by Oink (Post 10803237)
Ooo, ooo, ooo, eee eee eee. ;)

Thank you, I think I'll be having my summer holidays there.

Novocastrian Jul 16th 2013 7:21 am

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Could someone, Millie?, DandH? who actually speaks french, comment on the Apple translators guess, "Une astuce de parents".

Obviously parents is not quite right. But "une astuce"?

caretaker Jul 16th 2013 7:27 am

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I don't get to go on holidays as I am on disability recovering from a repair to my rotator cuff for 12 weeks, (half done now). Luckily all parties agreed I could go recover flyfishing in the Okanagan so long as I don't hurt myself. My physiotherapist said if I can learn to cast with my left arm I'm good to go but I have to be careful climbing up and down the rocks. Because she is beautiful I will do anything to please her making my treatment more effective. This is my 5th operation in 4 years and I believe the most enjoyable recovery period so far. It still hurts, but because I've been quite sore the last few nights I treated myself to 300 mg of Tramadol Hydrachloride and that smooths out a few bumps. It's possibly as close to being on holidays while being on disability that one could be and I deserve every stitch of it. :)

Oink Jul 16th 2013 7:37 am

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 10803530)
Could someone, Millie?, DandH? who actually speaks french, comment on the Apple translators guess, "Une astuce de parents".

Obviously parents is not quite right. But "une astuce"?

Grands singes?

caretaker Jul 16th 2013 7:45 am

Re: Summer Holidays
 

Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 10802660)
Two weeks coming up soon. Mostly staycation. We'll go up to see the boy in Chicoutimi for a couple of All plans are provisional and subject to when my SIL carks.

My condolences in advance.

Atlantic Xpat Jul 16th 2013 8:43 am

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Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 10801729)
Who, what, where etc?

Couple more weeks at work for me, then off to the UK for 2 weeks. We're going to be terribly middle-clarse this year and have rented an old cottage in a fishing village in Cornwall. Fresh crab sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer, hurrah!

Oh top hole old boy.

We're just completing our summer hols...currently in a hotel @ LHR before flying back tomorrow. Three and a half weeks variously in Norfolk, Staffs, Kent & London. Bloody cold the first week but glorious weather since then. I had a week working in London whilst the wife and kids did the tourist thing. That worked surprisingly well.

The big hit of the holiday though was undoubtedly Bressingham & in particular the Galloper!:thumbup:

mandymoochops Jul 16th 2013 9:01 am

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Originally Posted by ann m (Post 10801872)
Alberta and Idaho and Montana, in various combinations and durations, due to having two separate families coming from the UK and staying with us back to back through the whole of August. Should be fun, fattening, alcoholic and expensive.

Returning to work in September will feel like a rest.

I could have written this cos snap!

Jingle Jul 17th 2013 4:44 am

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Originally Posted by Flossie and Jim (Post 10802132)
On the last night of our road trip with visiting parents through BC, down to Spokane, then back through Coeur D'Alene, Kalispell, Waterton and home. All I can say is thank goodness for hotel swimming pools to wear out the kids every night after a few long drives! The folks thought Spokane was a bit rough and my Dad cried when he saw the scenery on the Going to the Sun Road. Didn't get nearly enough time to hit the US shops towards the end though :(

LOL - we have just done the opposite trip .... Waterton, Kalispell, Post Falls, Spokane, Okanagan and then home on Sunday. We may have passed you somewhere en route!!

It was wonderful ... two weeks of heavenly weather and scenery.

J :)

Jingsamichty Jul 18th 2013 1:42 am

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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 10803655)
Oh top hole old boy.

We're just completing our summer hols...currently in a hotel @ LHR before flying back tomorrow. Three and a half weeks variously in Norfolk, Staffs, Kent & London. Bloody cold the first week but glorious weather since then. I had a week working in London whilst the wife and kids did the tourist thing. That worked surprisingly well.

The big hit of the holiday though was undoubtedly Bressingham & in particular the Galloper!:thumbup:

Bressingham is my local garden centre, I do like having a browse round there, and they've got a very nice cup-of-tea shop. I have never actually been into the steam museum though, for shame. :o


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