Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

michaels

Edit: Comment removed from NP thread as not appropriate for this thread but I don't think it was racist.

I am also going to be a bit Voltaire and say that I don't agree with leaving things unsaid just because saying them might cause offence 'I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write'

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I actually dislike Dubai quite a lot.

It's a fake place, with no real history or existance. It's full of fake things such as ski-ing domes. And it won't let my OH and son in at all, because they hold Israeli nationality.

jackyann

I have been lucky enough to visit a few places abroad, either because people I love lived there, or people I love wanted to go there.
However, I can say that my best times, here or abroad, have been completely random. They have happened because I noticed something lovely, or met someone interesting, or a happy conjunction of things. I don't think it is where you go, but whether you can make the most of what is happening, wherever you are.
Best of all: a summer's evening, on a Cornish beach at sunset. My dh & b-i-l setting a barbecue, my kids & their cousins & friends playing on the sand, me & my sister in the sea, and a school of dolphins playing in the red path that the sunset makes across the sea. Couldn't plan it.

neverdespairgirl

sss555s wrote: »

We all have our reasons for liking or disliking a place.

It doesn't feel fake when your there, unlike Florida and indoor ski slopes are common world wide. even in the UK

Indoor ski-ing slopes with artifical snow, and freezing temperatures, when it's 40 degrees outseide?

The other problem I have with Dubai is its use of slave labour.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

Don't worry, I am sure Israelis can still travel there using forged passports of other countries should they need to dispense some 'justice'

Is that kind of racism really called for in the NP thread?

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've been on a bus trip too. NEVER again!! Cruises are fine, you can get on and off and do your own thing. Bus trips though:eek:. I went on one round the Western US. Three hours driving somewhere to look at it for two hours then drive for another five hours stopping only because your co-passengers need yet more KFC or the toilet. I really wish I'd self-driven.

Bucket and spade hols are still my ultimate idea of hell though.

I won't even watch films set on boats (except voyage of a dawn treader, ) because they come under my classification of a uniform film.(obviously includes things set in WWs or on submarines, planes, some period stuff..there are limits to where the plot can go however well acted or written!)....you can only get off when they let you....or you want to swim hard and for a long time! The dipping in and out of stuff sounds exciting...but not immersing enough. I'd also be worried I wouldn't get back to the boat in time....and so would be back too early.

Nikkster

I haven't been to nearly enough places At the moment top of my list of places to visit are Barcelona, Iceland/ Norway (including seeing Northern Lights). My mum has got the travel bug in the past few years and earlier this year went to visit relatives in Australia, calling in at Brazil and Argentina on the way, a mid-trip detour to New Zealand, and finishing off with stays in Bali and Hong Kong. She's going to Peru and the Galapagos Islands in November. Jealous? Moi?!

Not sure where my favourite places are - have had great trips to various places. Think who you are with and what you do can make a big difference to how you feel about places

sss555s

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

The other problem I have with Dubai is its use of slave labour.

I'd say you just have a "cultural" problem with Dubai rather than you hate the place because of what is there

lostinrates

Can we not bicker here please? Point of this place is to rise above fundamental differences.... (tried to think of a word other than fundamental.....).

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Bucket and spade hols are still my ultimate idea of hell though.

I grew up on those. We'd have a holiday every year, but it'd be limited to the petrol cost to get there/back and the cost of a really shabby/dated (and usually leaking) caravan with gas mantles and a chemical toilet in a tiny shed close by; these we'd find by driving around until some farmer had hand-written a sign on the gate saying "caravan to let". Each day we'd get up and go to the beach and sit there all day until early evening; then it was back to the caravan for a Fray Bentos pie, or egg and chips. Lunch was tomato sandwiches and orange squash.

If it rained, we'd walk round a random town then eat our sandwiches in the car; or we might sit in the car and watch the rain on the beach.

It's all I know really: going on holiday and not spending money on doing anything.

neverdespairgirl

sss555s wrote: »

I'd say you just have a "cultural" problem with Dubai rather than you hate the place because of what is there

You've lost me?