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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #675 on: August 06, 2019, 08:08:24 PM »
Ha. Annoyingly long. You know nothing of annoyingly long flights. :P  :(  :'(

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #676 on: August 06, 2019, 09:10:42 PM »
I was talking about an annoyingly long train journey :P
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #677 on: August 06, 2019, 09:38:02 PM »
My point exactly.

Also no train journey could be annoyingly long for G methinks.

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« Reply #678 on: August 06, 2019, 11:44:45 PM »
Also no train journey could be annoyingly long for G methinks.
So far my limit seems to be about 30 hours on a single train: Cairns to Brisbane, in Australia, or Chicago to western Arizona. I'm about willing to tolerate one night on a train, but two in succession feels like too much. A week on a single train (e.g. the Trans-Siberian railway) is almost certainly too much - I'd want to have breaks along the way.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #679 on: September 02, 2019, 03:26:37 AM »
I was technically away in Cyprus and Fiji since April, but am now back in Blighty for a good while.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #680 on: September 02, 2019, 09:12:34 AM »
Well, I'm back.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #681 on: September 02, 2019, 11:52:20 AM »
Welcome home everyone :)
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #682 on: January 20, 2020, 10:21:15 AM »
And now some forthcoming awayness: Spain for six days, Friday 24th to Wednesday 29th January inclusive. Starting and ending in Madrid, with a four-day circular tour of southwestern Spain by train.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #683 on: January 20, 2020, 11:21:25 AM »
Hope you enjoy it! :)
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #684 on: January 20, 2020, 12:18:44 PM »
Sounds lovely! Please disregard my suggestion of Winnipeg on the other thread. This sounds far more fun.
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #685 on: January 24, 2020, 06:49:26 AM »
And so it begins: I’m now on a train to the airport. Next comes the ineffable joy of airport security, and then a Ryanair flight. In one small ray of hope, the inbound flight whose plane will probably form my flight is shown as expected on time at the moment.

EDIT: The plane left slightly late, but arrived slightly early, and I got to Madrid city centre earlier than expected for my afternoon trip to Toledo. To my disappointment, the turtle pond at Atocha station has been filled in since my last visit, due to people dumping their own unwanted pet turtles and fish in it. So now it’s just a big tropical garden.

Further Edit: Toledo is wonderful, and you should all visit it.
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #686 on: February 01, 2020, 02:28:08 AM »
Not that i usually announce my long absences, but i am travelling around alot from tomorrow and have no internet while i visit friends to drink/watch the superbowl. Be back sometime late next week.
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #687 on: February 21, 2020, 08:50:30 PM »
Further Edit: Toledo is wonderful, and you should all visit it.
Toledo, Ohio? It's kinda armadillo. :P

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #688 on: February 22, 2020, 10:10:28 AM »
Toledo, Ohio? It's kinda armadillo. :P
I’ve travelled through there a couple of times, but didn’t have a chance to stop and form an opinion. No, this was another Toledo, east of the Atlantic, older and probably smaller. I very much enjoyed what I had time to see in 2-3 hours; 2-3 days would be a more reasonable length of stay, or even longer if you’re into El Greco and various other artists of the same period.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #689 on: February 29, 2020, 05:18:15 AM »
I'm off to Tunis for four nights. Not expecting that this will hugely reduce my activity, but we'll see.
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