Holiday Withdrawal Symptoms......Tell me where you're going?

sandsy

I'm trying to work out where to go next Easter since this year is sorted. Anyone been to Jordan? Dead Sea, Petra, Wadi Rum and Aqaba quite appeal.....

DUKE

The wearing of shorts is said not to be respectful to the locals, & it's a bit like wandering around in your underwear :eek: I think the tourists wear them though, apart from the die hards. Plus I'm at that age now where I'm thinking that I need my shorts to be that bit longer as no one wants to see the top of my legs, but if they're brown they look so much better.

I have memories of being in Egypt & seeing this young girl walking around Valley of the Kings with shorts stuck up the crack of her a**, now that was OTT You can also get lots of unwanted attention too, no matter what your age, they'll stare at your ankle like it's a massive boob.

Ah well, I've had a final trying on session, & the price tags have all been cut off. I'll be packing soon!

MasterPoo

duchy wrote: »

And for my next trip ....... Next trip is next month but looking ahead and trying to decide if I want to visit Vilinus in Lithuania in the summer or wait til December and make it a Christmas market trip. Just be a long weekend two or three nights in an apartment in the old city. My grandparents fled the city in 1900 so I have always wanted to go and walk in their shoes

You SHOULD go Duchy. Do you know more about your history? Are you able to try locate where they used to live (if you have this info?)? I think it will be a magical trip. Don't keep putting it off, GO GO GO!

sandsy wrote: »

I'm trying to work out where to go next Easter since this year is sorted. Anyone been to Jordan? Dead Sea, Petra, Wadi Rum and Aqaba quite appeal.....

Atleast you are guaranteed HEAT! Hopefully by next year things will have settled and back to normal for the Egyptions and bordering countries! What are the flights like to Jordan?

DUKE wrote: »

The wearing of shorts is said not to be respectful to the locals, & it's a bit like wandering around in your underwear :eek: I think the tourists wear them though, apart from the die hards. Plus I'm at that age now where I'm thinking that I need my shorts to be that bit longer as no one wants to see the top of my legs, but if they're brown they look so much better.

I have memories of being in Egypt & seeing this young girl walking around Valley of the Kings with shorts stuck up the crack of her a**, now that was OTT You can also get lots of unwanted attention too, no matter what your age, they'll stare at your ankle like it's a massive boob.

Ah well, I've had a final trying on session, & the price tags have all been cut off. I'll be packing soon!

:T:T:T How many days until you leave? What does your countdown say?

DUKE

Keep searching for that flight MP

23 days :j

JKGB

Heading out to Australia for a year on a working holiday visa, 68 days to go!

MasterPoo

JKGB wrote: »

Heading out to Australia for a year on a working holiday visa, 68 days to go!

What an adventure! Do you plan on country hoping whilst there? Where to?

MasterPoo

DUKE wrote: »

Keep searching for that flight MP

23 days :j

I'm holding out on a deal/BA Sale coming out. Giving myself until end of April PRAY FOR ME! Last year BA had a sale early May, so lets see what happens this year.

littlereddevil

When are you looking for? We are here right now. There are fantastic business class deals available July/ August. Not BA but Star Alliance airlines

Ballard

sandsy wrote: »

I'm trying to work out where to go next Easter since this year is sorted. Anyone been to Jordan? Dead Sea, Petra, Wadi Rum and Aqaba quite appeal.....

I've been to the Israeli side of The Dead Sea and it's well worth a visit. After bathing you'll need a long shower and even then you won't get rid of all of the salt. Getting a drop of water in your eye isn't exactly a lot of fun, though, so you'd need to be careful.

I took a day trip from Eilat to Petra and Wadi Rum and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Eilat was hot and sunny but Petra was neither. I was lucky that I opted to wear jeans and not shorts because it was absolutely freezing and then it started to rain. Torrential freezing rain.

As I said, though, it was a fantastic day despite this.

I really don't see the appeal of Eilat and I can only think that Aqaba is similar. The beaches aren't up to much and the water is very cold. The locals think that it's the bees knees though.

PompeyPete

Ballard wrote: »

I really don't see the appeal of Eilat and I can only think that Aqaba is similar.

Yep you're right, not a lot to do in Aqaba.