Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Ellidee

Sorry about the client probs KC . Just a thought- you could make a patchwork quilt from squares of your favourite clothes. A friend of mine did it with her daughters outgrown dresses. xx

Ellidee

Xed post with Daffy !

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

I'm loving your lists and optimism at the minute KC! :j :j

Thank you!

I must confess to never having had much of a desire to travel. In fact, I'm so poorly travelled I'm almost embarrassed to tell you about it! I went to France on a school trip - twice. I went to Jersey when I was 13 for a week (does that even count??). I stayed in Copenhagen for 3 weeks for work a few years back. And I got the ferry to Sweden for work too

Thats not a lot! But it does recall to me, a suspicion that sometimes people who *have* to travel are like me, with a need to escape whats at home - thats definitely how I remember getting started, age 7 with a bike and from what you've said your mum gave you a pretty happy childhood. We didn't go abroad either as a family - we had one week in France when I was about 8, because my mum had just gone back to work, but in those days it was a nightmare - the food was strictly French cuisine, one item at a time the old fashioned way :rotfl:

Oh, and I did once get the Orient Express to Vienna Forgot about that - it was most fun! :j

Thats very glamourous!

I think I'm not very good at being a tourist Sounds really daft, but I'm so aware of 'invading' someone else's town/space, or being seen with a guidebook, or talking in English, or taking photos, that I end up beng really self conscious and not enjoying it! Vienna/Denmark/Sweden weren't too bad, because I was there for work, so had a reason, and usually people with me.

I know what you mean - when I'm in an area with lots of English people, I take care not to open my mouth. I've been mistaken for French quite a few times when I *have* opened it, cos my accent is pretty good. If I'm the *only* English person in a place, I'm very popular - people are pleased to see you've bothered to come to their part of the world, tried a few words of their language. And when I was in my 20s and 30s :o:o older local people knew what Britain had done for them in the second world war. Yes, I'm that old :rotfl::eek:

I do LOVE trotting off on my own on a bicycle though The first couple of times I went to Orkney I did that, just me, bike and tent, and I had a marvellous time A bit more bicycling for me next year I think! :j

We all have what we love - the one time I tried to do that, in the Hebrides, I was a complete wuss - you need more muscles than I have on short notice

You're making me think, I haven't had a holiday for ever such a long time! Our 'long' holiday has tended to be over Christmas/new year - with Mr Daffs I've been up to Orkney twice over Christmas 2008 we had Christmas at home, then 2009 we were meant to go to Orkney but it was toooo snowy, so we stayed at home again - which means my last holiday was Christmas 2008! No wonder I'm in need of one now!

:eek::eek::eek: I haven't had a proper summer holiday, going when and where I choose to go (East Coast USA), for about 7 years.... this is why I'm rabbiting on about it so much, I think Last proper long weekend was to Barcelona, about 6 years ago.

When Mr Daffs was working, and I had a bit more money than I do now, we used to take it in turns to organised a weekend away every couple of months Just a little one, we went to Whitby, Northumberland, Norfolk, Liverpool, Chester, Hull, all over the place, staying in little houses or kipping in the van. That was lovely, but we haven't done it for a couple of years.

I love the sound of that - I'd stay in cheapish hotels, I have to say, but it sounds great.

As for the clothes thing - I have plenty of clothes like that The threadbare ones have been marched up to the attic to be cut into pieces and made into cushions and bunting Some of the rest I gritted my teeth and got rid of. Some of them are just so darn fabulous that I'm going to make SURE I wear them

I'm glad to hear you have lots of them too. I'm going to put all the doubtful ones on the sofa in the living room after the last client goes tomorrow, and have a think.

Karmacat

Ellidee wrote: »

Sorry about the client probs KC . Just a thought- you could make a patchwork quilt from squares of your favourite clothes. A friend of mine did it with her daughters outgrown dresses. xx

Thanks Ellidee - I'm hoping it can still get sorted, but I can't make any move myself yet....

the patchwork thing, yes, thats a really good idea, and its popular in my family ... as I mentioned above, I'm going to really see what's what over the weekend - there's just too much stuff I'm keeping thats really useless.

Cheery_Daff

Great idea on the patchwork front! :j

I LOVED going on the Orient Express, but it wasn't very glamourous, not on the way there! Cost £25 from Paris to Vienna, and I slept on a kind of foldy chair thing :rotfl: The way back cost £125, but I had a (shared) sleeping carriage, and breakfast in bed - it was great! :j

troglodyte

And I've seen elephants in the wild, from a safari truck and from a helicopter upriver of Niagara - the pilot found one that was having a wallow in the marshes, and he circled it for a while, it was lovely.

Canadian elephants??

I've only just started to get rid of some of my favourite old clothes. Most of my old things are far too old to be any use to anyone else, so can't go to a charity shop, so instead I just end up keeping them! Now I have a daughter a lot of them got recycled into clothes for her (the good bits were big enough when she was small!) or even clothes for her doll.

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Lol to eyesight, gill! Cheery, I think I drove past the construction site at one stage, but I'd have loved a tour. Wonderful!

That list was good, wasn't it, but its a bit local, except for the Panama Canal. Lets see:


Places.
1. New Zealand's mountains, a la Lord of the Rings.
2. Ayers Rock.
3. Table Mountain.
4. The dropoff point of any continental shelf.
5. The Grand Canyon.
6. The Florida Keys.
7. Yellowstone National Park.
8. The Bolivian Salt Flats, the ones with drawings on them.
9. A glacier. A *big* glacier.
10. The Canadian wilderness.

Things.
1. The International Space Station.
2. That skyscraper in Malaysia....
3. Petra, Jordan.
4. The Taj Mahal.
5. Hong Kong.
6. The Ring of Brodgar on Orkney.
7. Chichen Itza, Mexico.
8. Lhasa.
9. Kyoto
10. St Petersburg.

Okay, thats my holiday plans for the next ten years... if I'm going to quadruple my income, this is a good part of what the money will be buying me (apart from my pension, that is).

This we can help with (on a budget) and if you plan for a time over the next 3-4 years over the winter months you might be able to do northern lights as well (but no guarantee )

Off to do some work but wanted to say hi and lovely ideas on here at the mo. xx

rtandon27

Hello KC & all!

Finally caught up on all your comings and goings & loving all the chat about being green & travel dreams!!!

KC - have pm'd you re: Canada!

XO
RT

...and Canadian elephants...they do exist...a whole heard of them... alas only at the Toronto Zoo...:D

Karmacat

troglodyte wrote: »

And I've seen elephants in the wild, from a safari truck and from a helicopter upriver of Niagara - the pilot found one that was having a wallow in the marshes, and he circled it for a while, it was lovely.

Canadian elephants??

I went on those trips - the Canadian and the African - one year apart, and I keep getting the names mixed up :rotfl::o:rotfl::o:rotfl:

I've only just started to get rid of some of my favourite old clothes. Most of my old things are far too old to be any use to anyone else, so can't go to a charity shop, so instead I just end up keeping them! Now I have a daughter a lot of them got recycled into clothes for her (the good bits were big enough when she was small!) or even clothes for her doll.

Thanks for this, troglodyte - my t shirts aren't as bad as I thought, tho there's a *lot* of them - its jeans and other tops that are terrible - old/unpleasant/wot'ever..... I think I have the bones of a nice wardrobe underneath all the boring routine - getting *everything* accessible will be a good start. And this is only what's in the drawers and the wardrobe - there are storage boxes that were in the loft at the other place, for instance, that I haven't looked at yet.

Karmacat

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

This we can help with (on a budget) and if you plan for a time over the next 3-4 years over the winter months you might be able to do northern lights as well (but no guarantee )

Off to do some work but wanted to say hi and lovely ideas on here at the mo. xx

Thanks Pippi! I was thinking of you as I wrote that - that time I had in the Hebrides, I saw a lot of standing stones and those footprints and cups carved into the stone ... can't remember the right terms just now ... that would be a great idea

rtandon27 wrote: »

Hello KC & all!

Finally caught up on all your comings and goings & loving all the chat about being green & travel dreams!!!

KC - have pm'd you re: Canada!

XO
RT

...and Canadian elephants...they do exist...a whole heard of them... alas only at the Toronto Zoo...:D

:rotfl:welcome back! Canadian elephants :rotfl::o

Did you have a good trip?

Yep, as my universe starts to expand, thats what comes up for me - travel!

You have a pm in return