Travel thread 3.0

[Billy Dean]

2 weeks on Brexit island coming up for me at the beginning of July. Looking forward to that good old English summer

 

[JimmyJeffers]

2 weeks on Brexit island coming up for me at the beginning of July. Looking forward to that good old English summer

Where you heading?

 

[coollino]

Where you heading?

irish border

 

[Billy Dean]

Where you heading?

South east. London/Brighton area

 

[YoboCopter]

flight booked to Bangkok for a couple of weeks late November to early December. Decided I want a couple of weeks in the sun enjoying the World Cup. 4 years since I last had a proper holiday. Hopefully things don’t regress with travel restrictions

Very jealous

 

[Charro]

Got a week booked in Varna (Bulgaria) at the end of September.

Anyone ever been? What's it like? Any recommendations?

We're staying in a spa hotel on the beach but will only be a 10 minute drive away from the city.

 

[Eggs]

….off to Majorca this weekend with my son, his wife & our two granddaughters. It‘ll certainly be different to the chillax holiday Mrs Eggs and I usually have!!

 

[Tree13]

South east. London/Brighton area

Just want to check in with you mate, given that it's been 35+ degrees between July 4th and July 20th in the geographic area you mentioned.

Still over 25 degrees at night too, sleeping has been very difficult for most of this month.

 

[Billy Dean]

Just want to check in with you mate, given that it's been 35+ degrees between July 4th and July 20th in the geographic area you mentioned.

Still over 25 degrees at night too, sleeping has been very difficult for most of this month.

I didn't make it over thanks to Covid unfortunately. Had to stay here in Germany where the temperatures have been even worse lol

Hoping to make it back the week after next if fit enough.

Are you based round that way too?

 

[Tree13]

I didn't make it over thanks to Covid unfortunately. Had to stay here in Germany where the temperatures have been even worse lol

Hoping to make it back the week after next if fit enough.

Are you based round that way too?

I'm a bit to the east. Closer to Brighton than London but far enough away from both, thank God.

 

[Billy Dean]

I'm a bit to the east. Closer to Brighton than London but far enough away from both, thank God.

Haha why don't you like them? I quite like Brighton especially. Feels pretty chilled out.

 

[LocalNative]

In Lagos down South of Portugal at the minute, absolutely sweltering. Class place though.

 

[Tree13]

Haha why don't you like them? I quite like Brighton especially. Feels pretty chilled out.

To everyone else that lives in the south, Brighton (and the people who live there) just reeks of unbearably pretentious. God only knows why, but the people I know from there act as if they live in a suburb of London. Plus it's an absolutely filthy city because the council binmen are ALWAYS on strike, and the council is hideously anti-car so it's expensive and incredibly frustrating to actually get there. All the boozers are ridiculously expensive (even by southern standards), but I will acknowledge there are some fabulous restaurants there, and the New Theatre is a great venue (or would be, if it had A/C). Crime rate in Brighton is worrying though.

Once you get ten miles out of Brighton you start finding craft ale breweries and boutique vineyards dotted amongst a load of picturesque little villages and hundreds of acres of unspoilt countryside... vastly preferable IMHO.

As for London... I probably go there three, four times a year max. West End theatre trips, a museum or two and the odd family gathering. That's it. Travel to London is brutally expensive and genuinely unpleasant, and once you're there you have to walk everywhere because the undergound is a disgusting, sweaty form of torture and the buses all smell of wee and weed. Black cabs are great, but you need a mortgage to pay the fare. Way too much hassle.

 

[Billy Dean]

To everyone else that lives in the south, Brighton (and the people who live there) just reeks of unbearably pretentious. God only knows why, but the people I know from there act as if they live in a suburb of London. Plus it's an absolutely filthy city because the council binmen are ALWAYS on strike, and the council is hideously anti-car so it's expensive and incredibly frustrating to actually get there. All the boozers are ridiculously expensive (even by southern standards), but I will acknowledge there are some fabulous restaurants there, and the New Theatre is a great venue (or would be, if it had A/C). Crime rate in Brighton is worrying though.

Once you get ten miles out of Brighton you start finding craft ale breweries and boutique vineyards dotted amongst a load of picturesque little villages and hundreds of acres of unspoilt countryside... vastly preferable IMHO.

As for London... I probably go there three, four times a year max. West End theatre trips, a museum or two and the odd family gathering. That's it. Travel to London is brutally expensive and genuinely unpleasant, and once you're there you have to walk everywhere because the undergound is a disgusting, sweaty form of torture and the buses all smell of wee and weed. Black cabs are great, but you need a mortgage to pay the fare. Way too much hassle.

Haha yeah re Brighton I definitely agree on the pretentiousness. Very expensive city too. Still, I do like it though.

 

[Billy Dean]

Attempt no.2 at getting back to blighty has been booked. Going with the eurostar to avoid the the airport madness. Although German railways can be equally mad so not sure how sensible that was