ciyenne Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 OK, so it's not even January but it's never too early to start thinking and it'll keep me entertained in through the dreary winter months. Where shall my friend and I go on holiday this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRASHER Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 why not the US ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 Cos I can do Europe for under Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRASHER Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 *hrmpf* funny my friend Lynsey usually gets here pretty cheap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 I'll come to the States when I'm out of debt to the government. Don't worry...I still love you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRASHER Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 funny how that came to be all about me there also the same thing Lynsey told me now that's she back in school I guess though since I am taking French I'd say France... but I know a few people who went to Greece and LOVED it, depends on how much you like hot weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 I've been to both already...just thinking about which I'd like to do again with my best friend. I suppose France would be sensible given that I allegedly speak the lingo but Greek food...mmmm...men...mmm...hot...mmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redruM Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I voted for Greece, French people SUCK!!! but personally I'll be spending my summer vac in Disney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRASHER Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I've been to neither so don't take my word for it either way.... man Greek sounds SO MUCH more hostile then French though (it's that or I'm obssessing over the Merovingian and his wife from Matrix Reloaded, Mero is the coolest character in the series !) I'd still pick France, but I actually have a friend in Paris I'd visit while I don't know no one in Greece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueNJ97 Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I voted for Greece. It's one of the (comparatively few) places in Europe I haven't been yet (I've been to France 3 times). I appoint you to go and give me your opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Sweden? Sun 24/7 blond people... common, I know you want to! (oh yeah... and maybe a bit expensive, hehe) I'd go to greece. Get together with some friends and rent a boat and go island hopping.... ahh, that's life!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekes Head Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I'd go to Greece. What a beautiful place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAmCanadian27 Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I voted France. I take French in school, so I've been learning about different places there at the same time and they all seem so interesting. My family is actually hosting an exchange student from Lyon, I think, in April. My brother and best friend are going back there (separately) during the summer, so I'll be the one left home jealous, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I'd go to France. Only because I'd stand a chance in hell of understanding someone. However a friend of mine just got back from Greece. She met someone there at a restaurant who was nice enough to translate for her so she could order from the menu. And then as she was getting up to pay for the bill this good semeritan also paid for the bill and said "Enjoy Greece". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 The Greeks are lovely. I was there 2 years ago and they were just so friendly and I promised my English teacher I'd go to Delphi at some point...but then there's France and I really haven't been to as many places as I'd like and I haven't been to Paris for something ridiculous like 5 years so it'd be nice to go again...ah decisions decisions. Maybe I'll not go to either and bugger off to Croatia instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohbear Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Maybe I'll not go to either and bugger off to Croatia instead. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If all the men there look like Goran Visnjic (sp?), I'd vote for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dallasdevil15 Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I'm going to Paris Spring Break, but I voted Greece. I think Greece would be far better experience than the typical France trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekes Head Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I'm going to Paris Spring Break, but I voted Greece. I think Greece would be far better experience than the typical France trip. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wow, you're going to France? That sounds really cool, is it part of a class trip? My high school used to have class trips overseas, but they were cancelled after 9/11; the parents were too scared to let their children fly. Suffice to say, a lot of kids were NOT happy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LetsGoDevils Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Greece. Paris/ France is a little over done tourist wise, IMHO. I'd go to Greece and try the food, drink, watch the sunsets, check out all the islands, and think back of the ancient times with all the sites to visit. Plus, it would help them pay for all that Olympic improvements they had done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueNJ97 Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Maybe I'll not go to either and bugger off to Croatia instead. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've been there (before the war, when it was still part of Yugoslavia, actually). It was gorgeous. Great food. Nice people. Lovely scenery (natural and male). The islands off the coast were great. However, I can't say what the bombing between Serbia and Croatia did to the place. Certainly, the damage wasn't as great as anything to Bosnia or Serbia itself. If they have repaired the place, I'd say go for it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 Yeah. A friend went over the summer (to Croatia) and she said it was lovely. Landmines are still the first thing I think of when Croatia comes up, rather unfairly, so this trip could change that. The thing that's putting me off France is that it's almost too easy. I can go whenever I want and there are so many tourists in the summer. On the plus side, a friend's uncle has a house that we can use and I speak the lingo. Greece- Dont' really want to do Athens in the height of summer so I'd have to be an island but lots of those are turning into Ionian Majorcas. I've got my little Europe map infront of me. there are so many places I haven't been! Luxembourg for example! Portugal- too many old people. Spain- eugh Italy- more of city break location. hmmm...maybe Crete, or Sardinia... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueNJ97 Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 I've been to Spain, I liked it. I'd just say not to bother with Madrid. It has nothing you can't find in any other 19th-century European capital. But I liked Toledo, Sevilla, Grenada and Barcelona (with side trips from some of them) very much. Do you have something in particular against Spain (besides the busloads of french schoolchildren that will be in your way as it is an easy vacation for them)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 Just that now it's sooooo tourist-driven. Hypocritical, I know since I am one of the tourists in question but so many parts of Spain are just so commercialised and souless, especially the coast and whilst I can go off the beaten track...dammit it's summer and I need the sea! And Paella makes me sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueNJ97 Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Just that now it's sooooo tourist-driven. Hypocritical, I know since I am one of the tourists in question but so many parts of Spain are just so commercialised and souless, especially the coast and whilst I can go off the beaten track...dammit it's summer and I need the sea!And Paella makes me sick. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OK, so you want a sea trip w/out lots of tourists. During the summer. In Europe. Interesting. One thing, I don't think I had paella once during my two weeks in Spain. I had quite a bit of fish, lots of lamb, lots of olives, but no actual paella. It's not obligatory. However, I think if you really object to a bunch of tourists who are there primarily on packaged tours in hotels run that way, including busloads of tourists running around on those kinds of tours, you might be better off with Croatia than Spain, although you are still going to run into lots of tourists there, if my experience 20 years ago was anything to go by. However, it's probably a different set of tourists. I don't think they have really built up to deal with the packaged tour industry yet so you will be more likely to have a more interesting experience. My main objection to the hotels my father picked out in Spain was that they were very much tourist-driven hotels, meant to serve the packaged tours, which we weren't on. He also realized that after we got there and decided he would have been better off letting me do the planning for the hotels. I would have been more likely to pick different hotels, maybe smaller but not so impersonal and assuming that you are part of a package and that your tour guide will handle most of your needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 Yes...which is why a nice island is sounding very good. Somewhere like Kefalonia before Corelli. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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