Where Do Europeans Go for WInter Holidays?
 

If you live in northern Europe and you decide, along about January, that
you'd really like to get to some warm sun and sand where do you go?
Here in the eastern US, we go to the Caribbean - when we've saved up
enough to be able to afford it. And some go to Disneyland I guess. But
that would not be tropical enough for me - besides the fact that I would
never dream of going to Disneyland (or is it Disney World?) So what are
the tropical destinations for Europeans?

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ellie clemens wrote in
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    > If you live in northern Europe and you decide, along about January, that
    > you'd really like to get to some warm sun and sand where do you go?

Baleares, Canary Islands, Tunisia, Israel, Egypt, Kenya for example.

    > the tropical destinations for Europeans?

Not all those destinations are tropical. The Mediterranean destinations do
have "winter", but a rather mild one.

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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:47:31 GMT, ellie clemens
wrote:

    >If you live in northern Europe and you decide, along about January, that
    >you'd really like to get to some warm sun and sand where do you go?

A rather disproportionate number of Finns go to Florida.


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    > So what are
    > the tropical destinations for Europeans?

Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey (though not in winter).... Guadeloupe and
Martinique for the french when we look for something really tropical...

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"ellie clemens" wrote in message
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    > If you live in northern Europe and you decide, along about January, that
    > you'd really like to get to some warm sun and sand where do you go?

Last year, I spent New Years Eve in Taormina in Sicily. It is, evidently,
very popular with Italians. It reminded me of somewhat of Miami Beach --
though the weather was quite warm, it seemed like all the women were wearing
big mink coats.


    > Here in the eastern US, we go to the Caribbean - when we've saved up
    > enough to be able to afford it. And some go to Disneyland I guess. But
    > that would not be tropical enough for me - besides the fact that I would
    > never dream of going to Disneyland (or is it Disney World?) So what are
    > the tropical destinations for Europeans?
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ellie clemens wrote:
    > If you live in northern Europe and you decide, along about January, that
    > you'd really like to get to some warm sun and sand where do you go?
    > Here in the eastern US, we go to the Caribbean - when we've saved up
    > enough to be able to afford it. And some go to Disneyland I guess. But
    > that would not be tropical enough for me - besides the fact that I would
    > never dream of going to Disneyland (or is it Disney World?) So what are
    > the tropical destinations for Europeans?

North Africa, the Canaries, and of course the Caribbean.

From the eastern US a weekend trip to the Caribbean only costs about 25-30
hours' work (after taxes) at a typical salary. So it should be fairly widely
accessible.

miguel
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"JX Bardant" schreef in bericht
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    > > So what are
    > > the tropical destinations for Europeans?
    > Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey (though not in winter).... Guadeloupe and
    > Martinique for the french when we look for something really tropical...

And a lot of Dutch and German people are going (low-budget :-) ) to Spain or
Italy.

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Re: Where Do Europeans Go for WInter Holidays?
 

I've been to Germany 5 times, but I've never met more Germans than
when I was on the Adriatic coast of Croatia. Give 'em credit, they
know a bargain.

K

ellie clemens wrote:

    >If you live in northern Europe and you decide, along about January, that
    >you'd really like to get to some warm sun and sand where do you go?
    > Here in the eastern US, we go to the Caribbean - when we've saved up
    >enough to be able to afford it. And some go to Disneyland I guess. But
    >that would not be tropical enough for me - besides the fact that I would
    >never dream of going to Disneyland (or is it Disney World?) So what are
    >the tropical destinations for Europeans?

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In article ,
"AvieNL" wrote:

    > "JX Bardant" schreef in bericht
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > > So what are
    > > > the tropical destinations for Europeans?
    > >
    > > Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey (though not in winter).... Guadeloupe and
    > > Martinique for the french when we look for something really tropical...
    >
    > And a lot of Dutch and German people are going (low-budget :-) ) to Spain or
    > Italy.

I've heard that a lot of British are going to Mozambique this year.

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"ellie clemens" skrev i meddelandet
news:[email protected]...
    > If you live in northern Europe and you decide, along about January, that
    > you'd really like to get to some warm sun and sand where do you go?
I tried and looked up the advertisements in today's Stockholm paper.
Most charter destinations for sunshine seem to be Tenerife,Gran Canaria,
Egypt (red sea), Thailand,Dominican Republic, Madeira and Brazil (Recife).
I would estimate Canary Islands to be the most popular and then Thailand.
That's for the winter months, later in season Mallorca,Costa del Sol,Turkey
and Greek Islands are the most likely destinations.
Florida used to be a destination for charter flights but ceased with the
high dollar rate, maybe back again if the weaker dollar rate continues.
With scheduled flights there are arrangements for virtually any area in the
world as we are, together with Germany,Netherlands and our fellow
Scandinavians the most travelling people in the world.
L.P

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I've been to Guadeloupe and Martinique and if I believed in heaven, I'd
have to think it couldn't be any better than this. Great beaches,
wonderful scenery, terrific food, and everything moving slowly, on
"island time". Interestingly, Travelocity shows that it's cheaper to
fly there from France than from the U S. Spain and Italy aren't all
that warm in the winter, are they? A hell of a lot warmer than here in
Massachusetts, that's for sure, but not exactly lying on the beach warm?

Not the Karl Orff wrote:
    > In article ,
    > "AvieNL" wrote:
    >
    >
    >>"JX Bardant" schreef in bericht
    >>news:[email protected]...
    >>>>So what are
    >>>>the tropical destinations for Europeans?
    >>>Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey (though not in winter).... Guadeloupe and
    >>>Martinique for the french when we look for something really tropical...
    >>And a lot of Dutch and German people are going (low-budget :-) ) to Spain or
    >>Italy.
    >
    >
    > I've heard that a lot of British are going to Mozambique this year.

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Driving around Oz in a motorhome in summer (northern winter) I meet
lots of Brits, Swedes and Germans in the caravan parks. In fact, one
of the more popular rental companies is called Britz - although
they're usually rented by Germans.
Cheers - Alan

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"Lennart Petersen" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > "ellie clemens" skrev i meddelandet
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > If you live in northern Europe and you decide, along about January, that
    > > you'd really like to get to some warm sun and sand where do you go?
    > >
    > I tried and looked up the advertisements in today's Stockholm paper.
    > Most charter destinations for sunshine seem to be Tenerife,Gran Canaria,
    > Egypt (red sea), Thailand,Dominican Republic, Madeira and Brazil (Recife).
    > I would estimate Canary Islands to be the most popular and then Thailand.
    > That's for the winter months, later in season Mallorca,Costa del
Sol,Turkey
    > and Greek Islands are the most likely destinations.
    > Florida used to be a destination for charter flights but ceased with the
    > high dollar rate, maybe back again if the weaker dollar rate continues.

While warmer than Sweden, Florida weather isn't reliable December through
about the start of March IMO. And that's the southern-most part of the
state. Maybe your Swedes have figured that out.

I've seen snowflakes in north Florida in December. I've seen ice on puddles
at Melbourne, FL, in December. I've seen it just above freezing at the beach
near Tampa in December. I've seen daytime highs below 20 C (68 F) in Key
West on both my trips there. In short, more than half my winter trips to
Florida have been COLD.

Bob C.

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ellie wrote:
    > Spain and Italy aren't all that warm in the winter, are they? A hell of a
    > lot warmer than here in Massachusetts, that's for sure, but not exactly
    > lying on the beach warm?

I haven't been in Italy in the winter, but the south of Spain is definitely
not beach warm. Only t-shirt warm for a couple hours a day, and only if
you're walking around, not sitting down.

miguel
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R J Carpenter wrote:


    > I've seen snowflakes in north Florida in December. I've seen ice on
puddles
    > at Melbourne, FL, in December. I've seen it just above freezing at the
beach
    > near Tampa in December. I've seen daytime highs below 20 C (68 F) in Key
    > West on both my trips there. In short, more than half my winter trips to
    > Florida have been COLD.

Well, there is always Cuba ;-)

And friends who just got back from Puerto Vallarta Mexico said it was
*sweltering* there......

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Best
Greg