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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #510 on: August 13, 2015, 09:57:54 PM »
But I was having a field day there!
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #511 on: August 18, 2015, 12:27:58 AM »
Advance warning: I may not be around much for the next month or so. After not going anywhere for the first half of the year, I'm about to have three foreign trips in very quick succession:
- Sun 23 to Sat 29 August: a railway meander from Santiago de Compostela to Strasbourg, via Madrid, Barcelona, southern France and hopefully a bit of Italy
- Thu 3 - Mon 7 September: Sardinia, trying to see the bits that were omitted from the tour I went on last October
- Thu 17 - Wed 23 September: another meander, through the Balkans this time, from Kosovo via Macedonia and Thessaloniki to Athens (or that's the intention)
As you might guess, much of my free time when I'm not on holiday will be taken up organising bits of holiday - booking planes, trains and hotels.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #512 on: August 18, 2015, 03:40:20 AM »

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #513 on: August 18, 2015, 07:34:00 AM »
Yes, the film title was going through my head as I wrote the words. I'm hoping that automobiles will not need to feature in any part of these trips: I don't drive, taxis are expensive, and any other unexpected interaction with a car is likely to be painful.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #514 on: August 18, 2015, 10:33:59 AM »
Have fun, keep us updated when you can, and make sure you tell us about it all when you get back :) Particularly interested to know what you think of Thessaloniki!

I really want to travel the old Egnatian Way sometime - Durres to Istanbul via Thessaloniki...
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #515 on: August 27, 2015, 11:45:00 PM »
I'm away until late-ish Monday night, at Shrewsbury folk festival :)
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #516 on: December 11, 2015, 01:15:43 PM »
I'm in South Carolina until Monday so posting will probably be sporadic.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #517 on: December 11, 2015, 02:20:14 PM »
Have fun!

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #518 on: December 11, 2015, 07:20:03 PM »
^ Ditto that!
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #519 on: December 24, 2015, 08:35:35 AM »
Christmas tomorrow, so I'm going to my parents house for a few days to catch up with them and steal some of my dads supply of Leffe Brown.
They have internet, but I'll be posting a bit less.
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #520 on: December 24, 2015, 01:38:34 PM »
You habe leffe in the kangaroo colony?

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #521 on: December 24, 2015, 02:16:52 PM »
Is it bad that I had to look up what that was?
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #522 on: December 28, 2015, 06:41:32 PM »
Is it bad that I had to look up what that was?
No, it's not bad. Belgian beer is a somewhat obscure field of knowledge (albeit one I've rather enjoyed exploring over the last 20 years) - I wouldn't expect you to know it, any more than I'm familiar with most late Byzantine history.

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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #523 on: January 30, 2016, 02:01:34 AM »
Away until Monday, will be with family in Lincolnshire, probably not going to have internets.
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Re: Going to be Away?
« Reply #524 on: March 04, 2016, 02:44:30 PM »
I'm leaving for North Carolina and Washington, D.C. today. Be gone until next Friday but I'm sure I'll find time to post. :)