mr1303 Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 I finally finish my blasted chemistry degree on June 6th. Apart from the World Junior Pairs, which will put me in Slovakia for a week between 29th June-4th July or so, and Brighton, which is August 11th-21st or so, I have an entire summer during which I want to do something exciting. So suggestions as to what I could do would be very welcome. And work is NOT considered exciting. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Go to South Africa, the most exciting country in the world then nip over to nip over to Tanzania and climb Kilimanjaro. Spend the next 5 years paying off the trip. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceptic Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Take a couple of hundred quid a good pair of boots and some clothes a ruck sack and get off a ferry at Dieppe or one of those French Ports (on your own) and walk, any direction, stick out your thumb and see where it takes you, plan to return in 8 weeks. It is the most fun I had and I did it twice, once with a friend and once on my own, both have pros and cons, I reckomend on your own as it makes it easier when you decide you really want to do something specific. My mate did it in America but he come back with a wife, so beware of that one :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Turkey! Lovely country. Very reasonably priced. Very friendly to foreigners.Some folks are working to establish some lovely long distance hiking routes down where St John used to drop shrooms... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Not a whole summer activity, but, if you get the chance, try spelunking at least once. ("Spelunking" = climbing around in caves.) My preference was the unguided variety. Find a hole, climb in. Lights are optional (try it at least once without lights, but be VERY careful.) The best holes have great cracks you can climb up. You see bats and weird blind fish and the like. You get dirty and wet and cold. But, it is great fun. Alternatively, or in addition, spend as much time in a wet, but warm, hole as you can. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badmonster Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Pick a continent and travel to all the best roller coasters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 I'm looking to expand my list of answers to your question. Congrats on getting your degree! I'm partial to the western US, and I really like the national parks. Two wonderful experiences: 1) Sitting on a lookout on the Going to the Sun Highway in Glacier National Park (Montana - oh COURSE I'm partial :) ). 2) Trekking up the Virgin River at Zion National Park (Utah). I think everyone should have both of these parks on their life's list of things to see, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 New Zealand, definitely. 2nd choice, British Columbia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Day: Lords Cricket Ground (Brit Oval in case there is no play at Lords).Evening: St. John's Wood Bridge Club (London NW).Night: ....................................................................... Fill in the blank yourself. Cricket is out, bridge is not. You may even want to sleep although that would be a shame when you're in London. Great place! :D Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 I suggest a small trekking tour to the Annapurna Sanctuary in Himalaya,a wonderful place for thinking in silence about all this "boards of life" you will playin the future :D Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshs Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 My Favorite Places in The World:1 New Zealand- Its beautiful, reasonably cheap, and the people are great. Great outdoors activities2. Costa Rica - Lovely rainforests and beaches3. Australia - Awesome beaches, and good food.4. Prague + Budapest - beautiful old cities5. New York and Paris - The two truely great cities in the world but very expensive6. Southwesten US- Hike Zion National Park (Phil mentioned the US's greatest day /overnight hike - up the narrows of the virgin river) and the Grand Canyon Places I am dying to go to:1 Ecuador/Galapagos Islands2. South Africa3. Turkey4. Thailand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Off topic post: Beaner, where did you get your cute aviatar? And anyone know where some are at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 I think you should train hard in Bridge and help your country win. Fun too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Off topic post: Beaner, where did you get your cute aviatar? And anyone know where some are at? Limey theres lots to be found,, google animated avatar :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted March 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Day: Lords Cricket Ground (Brit Oval in case there is no play at Lords).Evening: St. John's Wood Bridge Club (London NW).Night: ....................................................................... Fill in the blank yourself. Cricket is out, bridge is not. You may even want to sleep although that would be a shame when you're in London. Great place! Roland That most definitely sounds like a plan. I've just bought myself tickets for the England-Pakistan Twenty20 international. Unfortunately both the Lords test and the Oval test have sold out (grrr) but I might well go and see Middlesex play a few games there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Day: Lords Cricket Ground (Brit Oval in case there is no play at Lords).Evening: St. John's Wood Bridge Club (London NW).Night: ....................................................................... Fill in the blank yourself. Cricket is out, bridge is not. You may even want to sleep although that would be a shame when you're in London. Great place! Roland That most definitely sounds like a plan. I've just bought myself tickets for the England-Pakistan Twenty20 international. Unfortunately both the Lords test and the Oval test have sold out (grrr) but I might well go and see Middlesex play a few games there. I have a ticket for the Friday at the Oval vs Pakistan. :D Helps to have a boss who is a member of Surrey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeGee Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 I think you should train hard in Bridge and help your country win. Fun too.What us win anything? Not a chance until we reverse the totally daft decision of a few years back that it was better to have independent organisations representing England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, rather than a single Great Britain group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeGee Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 But back to cricket. :D At the club a month or so ago, one of our best players turned up at our table with what looked like a very impressive greeting or birthday card with him. When I asked what it was, he showed me. The card front was a painting of the Long Room at Lords, and inside were tickets for the Lords test match. He told me he had got them that day and he wasn't letting them out of his sight until he had them safely locked up at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted March 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 I'm sooo jealous. Am I correct in believing that unless you're a member of the MCC (or some such organisation) you can't purchase tickets for test matches at Lords without entering some sort of ballot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jikl Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Here's another plan for you, (even though it won't be in Northern Hemisphere summer). Take in Day 1 of the MCG Ashes test on December 26th, there should be 90-95,000 people there. Always a great atmosphere. Sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Day: Lords Cricket Ground (Brit Oval in case there is no play at Lords)Evening: St. John's Wood Bridge Club (London NW)Night: ...........Wild West End............................... Fill in the blank yourself. Cricket is out, bridge is not. You may even want to sleep although that would be a shame when you're in London. Great place! FYP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Of course all replies represent what the responder likes, and mine will be the same. I think all of the really great times that I have had were with someone else. A bike trip with a friend when I was 13. We went up to a park on the St Croix (Minnesota/Wisconsin border) and camped for a while. Canoeing with some guys in my 20s, as I was finishing my math degree. We were way the hell and gone up in Manitoba. The roads end at The Pas, we took a train up toward Flin Flon, got off and hit the lakes for a couple of weeks. When we got back, the trains were on strike. We hiked the tracks the rest of the way to Flin Flon and flew out. Not everyone's idea of a good time but I loved it. Traveling in Spain with my daughter. She spent her Junior year in Madrid. Actually I flew to Paris and wandered over to Madrid, then went here and there. The other day someone was speaking of some mountains he saw in Spain while flying over. I said yeah, probably the Sierra Nevada. I skied there when traveling with my daughter. Traveling around some Aztec ruins with my wife. We went down whatever river it is that separates Mexico and Guatemala and off into some brush etc. Traveling in Peru with my wife. Traveling in the Western U.S. with my wife. Including Zion, Phil. A solo: Island hopping by bike and by ferry in the Puget Sound. There was this really wet ride from wherever the ferry from Orca Island docked on Vancouver Island down to Victoria. Except for this last, mostly I remember the people I was with. And even with the last, I met some folks. So enjoy. I recommend company. And congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted July 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Alas, all this was some 5 years ago. I remember going to Crete for a week or two, and having a great time hanging out in Slovakia. Over and above that my memory is somewhat hazy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 A 3 or 4 day shore leave with my shipmates in Manila. We stayed at the Philippine Plaza Hotel, ate dinner in the Prince Edward dining room (with cigars and brandy after), lounged by the pool, saw the sights in Manila, had a good time with some Australian women we met. I had the dubious pleasure of standing a four hour quarterdeck watch, 1200 to 1600, in 95+ degree heat, while 800 civilians came aboard to tour the ship. With a hangover. After the Command Duty Officer (CDO) changed the watchbill to put me on that watch, instead of the later midwatch (midnight to 4 AM — it would have been considerably cooler). I swore to him that I would get even for that, and someday I will! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Ha! I just saw the thread and never read the date. Crete and Slovakia sound good. The hazy memory maybe sounds not so good :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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