Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Doozergirl

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Just put on Grand Designs and the bloke is wanting to build a house like what he saw on a yoghurt pot! :rotfl: :eek: :rotfl:

I started watching that and had to go out. He was out of his box.

Doozer had watched it and reckons they must be divorced by now

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

Talking of, I assume, Oz hills, OH is at this moment somewhere in the vicinity of Ayers Rock.

If I was going to Oz for 6 days, the very last thing I would want to do after a 24 hour flight is get on another plane for 3 hours!

its a long way to go for just 6 days. You'd have to pay me a lot to do that.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

its a long way to go for just 6 days. You'd have to pay me a lot to do that.

I totally agree. Which is why I turned down the offer to accompany him.

That 6 days doesn't include the flight times, but still....beyond madness.

Due to our carefully calculated Avios planning, it would cost no more for us to plan a leisure trip at some point, than for me to go on one of his business jaunts, so I will wait until we can have more time there. At least now we can cross Ayers rock off the list of essential places to visit.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

I totally agree. Which is why I turned down the offer to accompany him.

That 6 days doesn't include the flight times, but still....beyond madness.

Due to our carefully calculated Avios planning, it would cost no more for us to plan a leisure trip at some point, than for me to go on one of his business jaunts, so I will wait until we can have more time there. At least now we can cross Ayers rock off the list of essential places to visit.

Interesting definition of essential.

SingleSue

We crossed something off our essential places to visit yesterday....Norwich Castle.

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Ayers rock though!

Really cheap to get into though as there was something going on with the RSPB doing displays etc yesterday, would have been £2 for the two of us but I also organised for youngest to go up on the battlements (£2.75) and bought a guide book. £8.75 for the pair of us is still blooming good going.

Youngest got some amazing photos from up there and learned so much from the guide who took him, so well worth it, just wish I could have gone up with him but alas, I was stuck down in the main bit in my wheelchair.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

I totally agree. Which is why I turned down the offer to accompany him.

That 6 days doesn't include the flight times, but still....beyond madness.

Due to our carefully calculated Avios planning, it would cost no more for us to plan a leisure trip at some point, than for me to go on one of his business jaunts, so I will wait until we can have more time there. At least now we can cross Ayers rock off the list of essential places to visit.

We call it Uluru these days in recognition of the fact that Ernest Giles didn't discover it at all and so didn't have naming rights!

The local Aboriginals don't like people climbing it at all, probably for much the same reason that you can't abseil down St Peter's in Rome. They also don't like some parts of the rock to be photographed because some parts of the rock are only open to one sex and they don't want to come across a picture of a forbidden site by mistake. The worst thing is when people do dumb stuff like a striptease on the rock.

I took mum and her OH up to the Blue Mountains along with MiL and FiL plus the Generalissimos and Mrs Generali. We went to the Three Sisters:



And then on to the Toy and Train Museum:

http://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/blue-mountains/katoomba-area/leura/attractions/nsw-toy-and-railway-museum-and-leuralla-gardens

Which is a lovely place. A really eclectic collection of toys plus some model railways and nice gardens. Plus we went to the lovely pie shop for lunch. Nom, Nom, Nom. I love a good pie me. And I got takeaways.:j

The weather was lovely, sunny with a breeze and 23C. It was 31C in Sydney today and humid which was a bit much so it was nice to get up there.

Now home to watch the tennis. Go Murray!!!

vivatifosi

I am not in any hurry to go to Uluru either, as I would not climb on it and it is a long way to go to see something from afar.

Fwiw I would not want to go inside the pyramids either.

Gen, that part of the Blue Mountains is beautiful. Did you ride the cable car?

Doozergirl

Nooooo! Not Terry Wogan as well.

I demand a recall to earth, we need to keep him. He was wonderful.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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I took mum and her OH up to the Blue Mountains along with MiL and FiL plus the Generalissimos and Mrs Generali. We went to the Three Sisters:


...

Nooo! They can't be the 3 sisters.

These are the 3 sisters mountains...in Canmore, Western Canada. My sis has a house facing them. I don't remember her describing them as the 3 impostor sisters

http://www.tourismcanmore.com/things-to-do/three-sisters-mountain

Honestly, I like the hills of places in the UK, *even rainy Peak district*, but they have nothing on the scenery in places like Canada and Oz.

kabayiri

Doozergirl wrote: »

Nooooo! Not Terry Wogan as well.

I demand a recall to earth, we need to keep him. He was wonderful.

He was like a human comfort blanket.

Whilst he was around you knew that there was a certain continuity to life here.