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Old Jun 27th 2011, 2:08 pm
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Best: Singapore, Mauritius, St Anton (for the Alpine scenery), Fujairah, Bangkok (well some of it), Greek Islands - Mykonos, Santorini, Naxos and Ios, anywhere in the Middle East that isn't a shithole

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Ios.

What a great place! I spent a week there with a mate about 10 years ago. My liver has not been the same since. I remember we were with some aussie women who excitedly told us that there was an up and coming actor in the beach bar where we were spending way to much money on corona. We had no idea who he was at the time...Heath Ledger..
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Old Jun 27th 2011, 2:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Patsy Stoned
OMG Kitty!! I lived there for a couple of years, I had a pub called "The Malt Shovel"
..lovely pub but I heted Dartford..what a dreadful place
Remember you saying you made a living doing "relief" shifts or something?

We all have to make ends meet in dark times...
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Old Jun 27th 2011, 3:23 pm
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And you should know all about that sweetie
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And you should know all about that sweetie
Too true! Always left Dartford with a smile on my face back in the 90s though....
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Ios.

What a great place! I spent a week there with a mate about 10 years ago. My liver has not been the same since. I remember we were with some aussie women who excitedly told us that there was an up and coming actor in the beach bar where we were spending way to much money on corona. We had no idea who he was at the time...Heath Ledger..
Ooh yeah. i was there for a week as a 21 year old. Island comprised a little port, a little village full of bars and nightclubs and a beach back then. Imagine it's a bit different now.
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Ios.

What a great place! I spent a week there with a mate about 10 years ago. My liver has not been the same since. I remember we were with some aussie women who excitedly told us that there was an up and coming actor in the beach bar where we were spending way to much money on corona. We had no idea who he was at the time...Heath Ledger..
Yep, a gem of a place indeed. It was an 8 hour (?) boat ride from Athens and had very few proper hotels which seemed to put off all the Brits-on-the-piss types so it was full of chilled out travellers and party people that had heard about it via word of mouth. That was 1999 - often wonder what it's like now.
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Yep, a gem of a place indeed. It was an 8 hour (?) boat ride from Athens and had very few proper hotels which seemed to put off all the Brits-on-the-piss types so it was full of chilled out travellers and party people that had heard about it via word of mouth. That was 1999 - often wonder what it's like now.
I went in early Sep '92. Yeah word of mouth thing. 8 hour boat ride from Pireas via Paxos, Naxos, Anti Naxos. Little Souvlakis and spinach pastries helped the hangovers. Had to bail out to Santorini to give the old liver a rest.
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Best: St Anton (for the Alpine scenery)
Brother used to work there....always said it was a weird place...still quite nice in the summer too...but a lot of other nicer slopes that weren't so touristy in the area.
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Originally Posted by Ronnie Biggs
Too true! Always left Dartford with a smile on my face back in the 90s though....
I was in Ibiza in the 90's
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I was in Ibiza in the 90's
You've been around a bit, haven't you.
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You've been around a bit, haven't you.
I was there in the 90s too.

Well, 1997 and I was 18 at the time.
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Originally Posted by Bahtatboy
You've been around a bit, haven't you.
Indeed darling1 It would be a pretty boring life if you got to my age and hadn't worked/lived in different places don't you think?

@ Millhouse In 1997 I was living in Northern Cyprus (TRNC)
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Originally Posted by Ronnie Biggs
Too true! Always left Dartford with a smile on my face back in the 90s though....
well, leaving Dartford would have that effect on practically anyone!
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