When will you travel abroad again?

[Bisto]

They sound like great adventures …

[Juhniallio]

Hiring a car? Salvador dali designed his own museum the mad fucker. Its in figueras just over the border. Its savage. Uou should defo go.

Villefranche de conflent is a lovely old fort town in the pyrenees. Savage drive up to it. Crqzy mountain driving fuckers!

There’s windsurfing, waterskiing, climbing places kayaking and everything of that ilk around there if you fancy it. Let me know if you do.

[Juhniallio]

@Horsebox

We being not me and @Juhniallio just to be clear.

Thanks for clearing that up. The sad thing is that if youd let me know you were going I’d have sorted you out. Ask @Spidey And if it had been us that were the ‘we’ then you’d have swam more.

[Spidey]

[The_Most_Infamous]

@Cheasty

@gilgamboa

Anyone any views on travelling around Europe on a train using an inter rail pass, with kids… You can get passes that allow you to travel for 5 days in a month in first class for 800 quid, kids under 12 are free

Seems like a decent way to see a few cities and a lot less hassle than flying around multiple times.

I can give a child’s point of view because I did it three times as a child. Germany 1990, France 1991 and Italy 1993, boat and train the whole way. My granny who was an iron woman led it all and paid for most of it, she turned 80 in 1993.

1990 we did Dunleary-Holyhead-London-Brussels-Cologne-Heidelberg-Stuttgart-Munich-Berlin-Hamburg-Amsterdam-London-Dunleary. I’d never been to the continent before this.

1991 we did Dunleary-London-Paris-Bordeaux-Lourdes-Marseille-Nice-Grenoble-Strasbourg-Paris-London-Dunleary.

1993 we did Dunleary-London-Paris-Milan-Venice-Florence-Rome-Naples-Rome-Paris-London-Blackburn (don’t ask)-Dunleary.

Over the course of those we did night trains from Munich to Berlin via Hannover, Grenoble to Strasbourg via Lyon, Paris to Milan and Rome to Paris.

It is hassle, a lot of hassle, especially in those days because we didn’t have accommodation pre-booked arriving in any of those places like you would now, and it is very tiring for the adults much more so than the children, and I think you have to be a particular type of adult with a daredevil spirit to take it on, but it is an incredible education for a child and will provide them with memories they will cherish for the rest of their lives.

At minimum it’s 20 times better than going to one place, especially a sun resort.

Private school education as well?

[Horsebox]

I might be way off here but are the two off us and @Spidey heading to the south of France for a nightswimming extravaganza

[Spidey]

You’re way off

[Julio_Geordio]

You are great man to associate things with other things. My missus is the same. I’d say how long ago is that wedding or something and she’d say the week after we went on holidays to such a place so it must be 7 years ago or something. I wouldn’t remember stuff that happened a month ago

[The_Most_Infamous]

@Julio_Geordio

You are great man to associate things with other things. My missus is the same. I’d say how long ago is that wedding or something and she’d say the week after we went on holidays to such a place so it must be 7 years ago or something. I wouldn’t remember stuff that happened a month ago

Is her first name Karen?

[Juhniallio]

Word of a warning, some of the pools only allow tight swimming shorts/budgie smugglers.

[PhattPike]

They are big on this down there. Chancing your arm with a pair of O’Neill’s shorts with the faintest hint of February mud still on them is heavily frowned upon.

[Cheasty]

@Julio_Geordio

You are great man to associate things with other things. My missus is the same. I’d say how long ago is that wedding or something and she’d say the week after we went on holidays to such a place so it must be 7 years ago or something. I wouldn’t remember stuff that happened a month ago

I associate @Horsebox with that time he and @Juhniallio went travelling around the south of France together.

The original odd couple. I’d say there’s a sitcom in that trip.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

@Juhniallio

Bella italia camping in May. Can’t fucking wait.

How did this go? was it the eurocamp place?

[Spidey]

Don’t mate…

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Was it bad? Did you go there?

[gilgamboa]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

Was it bad? Did you go there?

There is a video doing the rounds of Rorys Stories @Spidey and @Juhniallio racing each other at 7am one morning trying to get their sun towel down on some loungers near the pool

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Is that the place??!! I’ve seen the video.

[gilgamboa]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

Is that the place??!! I’ve seen the video.

Yeah. Apparently the hubbies have to get up at 7 am to join the queue whilst the wife and kids sleep in. Great spot I’d say

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Fuck. That.

[gilgamboa]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

Fuck. That.

You can’t put a price on the wife being able to plonk herself adjacent to the pool for the day whilst you go up and down the slides 478 times with the kids