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 Posted 21st June 2009 16:55 IP   
1) Where was you first family holiday abroad?
When i was 23 (ish) My father couldn't make a trip to Malta, so me mum changed the details and rooms, so i tagged along with her, me sister, her OH and my neice.
I didn't really see them for the week, excpet for when the morning of the flight home.
2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
San Antonio en Ibiza when i was 17/18.
We used to get ready to go clubbing at 1200.pm and arrive back at the apartment at around 3 o' clock the next afternoon.
3) Have you ever travelled a country on you own?
Yes, europe, a bit of the Middle east (Israel, Jordon, Egypt) and Thailand.
4) Did you ever participate in a foreign exchange visit?
No wish i did tho.
I travelled to Germany, Holland and France with the school football team and the boxing club.
5) Anyone you know have time shares abroad?
My sister had one out in Albufeira in the Algarve, when they first started to become popular.
I thought it was just a middle class english ghetto tbh, and dont like the Algarve.
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Posted 21st June 2009 17:19 IP
1) Where was you first family holiday abroad?
Salou, on the Costa Dorada - 1980 - I was ten and it was a very big deal
2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
Funnily enough it was Salou - 1988. Seven of us went. We had a big row and split into 2 groups and were never the same again
3) Have you ever travelled a country on you own?
No. I spent a day and a night in Rome on my own, which I enjoyed, but I wouldn't want to travel extensively alone
4) Did you ever participate in a foreign exchange visit?
No
5) Anyone you know have time shares abroad?
No
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Posted 21st June 2009 22:33 IP
1) Where was you first family holiday abroad?
 Was a couple of months before my finals at university! BA had a cheap flights offer and we went to Canada to visit my uncle.
2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
Not had one
3) Have you ever travelled a country on you own?
No - the nearest was my second trip to Canada when I stayed a week after my parents had come back.
4) Did you ever participate in a foreign exchange visit?
No. Plenty of school choir trips abroad, but not really exchanges.
5) Anyone you know have time shares abroad?
No
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Posted 21st June 2009 22:43 IP
1) Where was you first family holiday abroad?
~ We never had a family holiday
2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
~ Bournemouth
3) Have you ever travelled a country on you own?
~ Ive been to a few places in europe alone
4) Did you ever participate in a foreign exchange visit?
~ No
5) Anyone you know have time shares abroad?
~ OHs brother and sister both have time shares, although I'm not sure how they work really
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Posted 21st June 2009 22:54 IP
I could write pages on the joys of solitary foreign travel, not that I've done anything like enough of it.
Still, travel with loved ones can be fun, too.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 12:06 IP
1) Where was you first family holiday abroad?
Never had one as a kid,
was always british hols, mind you i prefer them anyway, why go to another country when i not seen this one yet.
2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
erm...... no tie for them was working all the time, did have odd weekends though.
3) Have you ever travelled a country on you own?
nope, but not cos i was scared to but cos i never had the opportunity, and as i said too much i havent seen here yet
4) Did you ever participate in a foreign exchange visit?
no, bloody foreigners
5) Anyone you know have time shares abroad?
nope
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Posted 22nd June 2009 13:37 IP
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BA had a cheap flights offer and we went to Canada to visit my uncle.
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Was that when they done the token campaign in the Daily Mail that time?
I saved it and wanted to go to the big apple but i forgot to send them off and by the time i remembered, i'd damaged the coupons 
Everyone is talking about the closing ceremony at the Olympics and what was their favourite bit.
I just spoke to Nick Griffin, his favourite bit is today when they all fcuk off back home.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 13:39 IP
1) Where was you first family holiday abroad?
Santa Ponsa, Majorca in 1989, my parents couldn't afford to take us all so me and my older sister paid for ourselves
2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
Faliraki in 2006, 5 lads in room only accommodation for 2 weeks. About 2 weeks before I went travelling.
3) Have you ever travelled a country on you own?
Yes. Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the US
4) Did you ever participate in a foreign exchange visit?
Foreign exchange? yes. Foreign exchange visit? 
5) Anyone you know have time shares abroad?
No but I know a couple of people who own property abroad
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Posted 22nd June 2009 13:41 IP
[quote]Legsie wrote:
, why go to another country when i not seen this one yet.
To get away from the chavs?
erm...... no tie for them was working all the time, did have odd weekends though.
Blimey  So you never made it to Torremolinos, Magaluf, Ibiza, Ayia Napa?
and as i said too much i havent seen here yet
I'd love to visit the Hebredes 
no, bloody foreigners
That's what they'd prolly say aboot you Legs, when you visit abroad.
Everyone is talking about the closing ceremony at the Olympics and what was their favourite bit.
I just spoke to Nick Griffin, his favourite bit is today when they all fcuk off back home.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 13:45 IP
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Faliraki in 2006, 5 lads in room only accommodation for 2 weeks. About 2 weeks before I went travelling.
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And did you go out on the lash late at night night to return back to your room mid-afternoon as an every day occurence?
Lol, i watched some of the Faliraki shows that were on late at night on ITV a few years ago, could have been any seaside resort in the UK
Everyone is talking about the closing ceremony at the Olympics and what was their favourite bit.
I just spoke to Nick Griffin, his favourite bit is today when they all fcuk off back home.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 13:48 IP
[quote]Patsy wrote:
~ Bournemouth
Nice beach there, and it's very cosmopolitan as they have a lot of foriiegn students there
~ Ive been to a few places in europe alone
Barcelona? Paris? Madrid?
~ OHs brother and sister both have time shares, although I'm not sure how they work really
You stay there one/two week there per year, tho you can obv swap your apartment with other people in other countries.
Everyone is talking about the closing ceremony at the Olympics and what was their favourite bit.
I just spoke to Nick Griffin, his favourite bit is today when they all fcuk off back home.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 13:49 IP
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and the US
What states did you visit?
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Posted 22nd June 2009 13:52 IP
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and the US
What states did you visit?
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Not many mate, I was just stopping off in San Fran and NYC on the way home.
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Cleo wrote:
No. I spent a day and a night in Rome on my own, which I enjoyed,
Have you not been to Barcelona with your OH?
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I just spoke to Nick Griffin, his favourite bit is today when they all fcuk off back home.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:00 IP
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Was that when they did the token campaign in the Daily Mail that time?
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The things that paper does to shift copies, eh?
My local charity shops are full of discs that it's given away.
Almost always, it'll be the first disc in a series (Cranford, Brideshead Revisited, Barry Sheene's Guide to Poststructuralist Thinkers, etc.)
What happens is that you don't have to do anything to get the first disc: it comes with the newspaper. But you then have to send away for the remaining 11 discs or whatever. Chuff that for a game of soldiers!
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:04 IP
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And did you go out on the lash late at night night to return back to your room mid-afternoon as an every day occurence?
Lol, i watched some of the Faliraki shows that were on late at night on ITV a few years ago, could have been any seaside resort in the UK
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Tended to go out about 9ish, the other lads always aimed for the same (karaoke) bar. By 3-4am I was bored of it and would head back to the hotel bar, the other lads not that much further behind. Latest I got in was 9am but I'd been in another hotel for a few hours 
It wasn't as bad when we went there, they'd cracked down on the worst behaviour
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:08 IP
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The things that paper does to shift copies, eh?
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That was a surprisingly nice touch by the Daily Wail tbh
Any destination on a B.A flight.
Come on then Henk, are you going to give us a little insight into your escapades around the Globe?
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:09 IP
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Not many mate, I was just stopping off in San Fran and NYC on the way home.
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6hr stop over? or did you manage to spend a night there?
Everyone is talking about the closing ceremony at the Olympics and what was their favourite bit.
I just spoke to Nick Griffin, his favourite bit is today when they all fcuk off back home.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:14 IP
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Come on then Henk, are you going to give us a little insight into your escapades around the Globe?
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See, if I say jnothing, there's just the faintest chance that you'll imagine that I have a trumpet to blow but have chosen to leave it in its case.
Well, it's true that I do have a trumpet-case. But it's empty.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:16 IP
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6hr stop over? or did you manage to spend a night there?
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A week in each
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:18 IP
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Well, it's true that I do have a trumpet-case. But it's empty.
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and you've gone and blown my illusion Henk 
I had you down as a Micheal Palin
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:20 IP
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A week in each
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What was it like in the big apple, did you travel around much and do the touristy thing?
What's Frisco like, Did you venture into any Hippy comunes?
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:20 IP
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I had you down as a Michael Palin
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Replace the P with a St; replace the Michael with an Uncle Joe.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:22 IP
1) Where was you first family holiday abroad?
Marmaris in Turkey. I was 18.
2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
Never been on holiday with just the girls abroad.
3) Have you ever travelled a country on you own?
Nope.
4) Did you ever participate in a foreign exchange visit?
Nope.
5) Anyone you know have time shares abroad?
Nope.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:29 IP
1) Where was you first family holiday abroad?
Never had one with family.
2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
Probably Athens with university friends last year.
3) Have you ever travelled a country on you own?
No but spent a day on my own in Athens and got lost on the way back to the hotel!
4) Did you ever participate in a foreign exchange visit?
No.
5) Anyone you know have time shares abroad?
No.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 14:43 IP
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~ OHs brother and sister both have time shares, although I'm not sure how they work really
You stay there one/two week there per year, tho you can obv swap your apartment with other people in other countries.
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Well they seem to travel all over, always stopping at different places, and I think they have a kind of points system where they aquire points and can "spend" them where they like. We went to Lanzarote with them couple of years ago, and they booked us the appartment with their points.
They call it time share, that's all I know.
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Posted 22nd June 2009 15:16 IP
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I assume this is some sort of Holloway Rd code, Johnny...
For the millionth time, stop exaggerating !
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Posted 22nd June 2009 15:17 IP
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Girls Aloud ?
For the millionth time, stop exaggerating !
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2) Where was you first holiday abroad with just your mates?
Probably Athens with university friends last year.
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Aren't you sure if they're mates ? 
For the millionth time, stop exaggerating !
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Posted 22nd June 2009 15:19 IP
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No. I spent a day and a night in Rome on my own, which I enjoyed,
Have you not been to Barcelona with your OH?
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Not yet, but hopefully next year. Maybe for my fortieth. I also want to go to Amsterdam, Venice and Istanbul with him.
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