Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

Generali

Ballina:



Coffs Harbour:



Port Macquarie:

Masomnia

The ocean looks so beautiful!

Generali

Masomnia wrote: »

The ocean looks so beautiful!

Those aren't the pictures from today. The weather was great at Coffs Harbour but terrible apart from that. The ocean was really lovely and warm too. It was a great road trip.

zagubov

Nice photos gen! Thanks everyone for the kind thoughts about DD. She's not in any pain at the moment, this was a routine appointment for a scan today to follow on from a couple of weeks ago when we took her to A&E. Very relieved it's kidney stones and not something more intractable.:T

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Nice photos gen! Thanks everyone for the kind thoughts about DD. She's not in any pain at the moment, this was a routine appointment for a scan today to follow on from a couple of weeks ago when we took her to A&E. Very relieved it's kidney stones and not something more intractable.:T

I'm glad she is not in pain. It must however be very stressful with exam prep too.

zagubov

40th birthday -gliding lessons (my hobby whan at uni). 50th birthday - taken by DW to see the Moulin Rouge in a weekend away in Paris. Lovely jubbly.

Now need ideas for what to do for the lovely Mrs Z for our 20th anniversary, which is approaching like an express train.

My ideas have dried up and I feel like a rabbit trapped in the headlights of an oncoming car!:eek::(:eek:

lostinrates

We used a whole pot of tester on the bedroom wall today. Its ....ok. I do like the colour, i have just got used to white walls (will find it MUcH easier to paint over the magnolia ones).

Looked at curtain poles and made the decision to look at the ones we wanted not the mse ones as a starting point for a choice then scale back. Big mistake. Four figure curtain poles are not a spending priotrity.

We need three in the room that will be a dining room and one in thie room that is now a dining room befor enext winter. (current dining room curtains sit static on a track, so always meet at the top...so dark and dismal, and dining room to be has only very old weak tracks. The previous occupants took all the pllastic bits that ruin on the tracks, so where we have not been able to cobble togeteher, like in those two ropoms, we have had to improvise. In the dining room to be that has been fleeces with clothes pegs. Ok for dogs, not ok for me, and not terribly warm either.

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

When I was younger I always wanted to go heli-boarding in Geogia, some Austrians had built a hotel and were using Russian choppers. Never did it before family when I had the income and lack of responsibilities and the n Georgian border lands are not the world's most stable spot any more so it will never happen now.

I did read up quite a lot about the country tho - sounds like a great tourist destination should the time ever be right.

The easiest way to think of it is not to go north of the Poti-Zaqatala highway (M-6), the south of the country is peaceful.

We spent the summer hols in Gori, Tbilisi, Rustavi and Batumi (the latter three I have a lot of friends/family), and it does feel safe. We also spent a week in Yerevan, which I would recommend to anyone visiting the area.

Georgia is also the base of much European investment at the moment, with returns averaging around 20% p/a, so the country is not as unstable as you might feel. There is a lot of confidence in the stock markets, and a big-name Spanish bank (with a large presence in the UK) uses Georgia as a base for its Spanish call centres.

One thing that I wouldn’t recommend is driving from Ankara to Batumi in a British-plated car (driving conditions and passport control, although being on Georgian passports for the latter didn’t help), but that would be completely irrelevant to most people.

Ramble about my life over

CK

CKhalvashi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

18th - hammered
19th - hammered
20th - hammered
21st - hammered
....
32nd - hammered

etc

I’m generally the same. I only drink on special occasions and the occasion is normally that I’m sober!

CK

michaels

This was the place: http://www.gudauri.info/

CKhalvashi wrote: »

The easiest way to think of it is not to go north of the Poti-Zaqatala highway (M-6), the south of the country is peaceful.

We spent the summer hols in Gori, Tbilisi, Rustavi and Batumi (the latter three I have a lot of friends/family), and it does feel safe. We also spent a week in Yerevan, which I would recommend to anyone visiting the area.

Georgia is also the base of much European investment at the moment, with returns averaging around 20% p/a, so the country is not as unstable as you might feel. There is a lot of confidence in the stock markets, and a big-name Spanish bank (with a large presence in the UK) uses Georgia as a base for its Spanish call centres.

One thing that I wouldn’t recommend is driving from Ankara to Batumi in a British-plated car (driving conditions and passport control, although being on Georgian passports for the latter didn’t help), but that would be completely irrelevant to most people.

Ramble about my life over

CK