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TOT; Day out

SWMBO and I are off for a day out on Sunday. ?Captain Ridley's Shooting Party?. Can't say anymore, bit hush hush old chap.

Looking forward to it!

Reply to
The Medway Handyman
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Going north. Don't get lost crossing the river.

Reply to
Jonno

Coach trip old chap.

Reply to
The Medway Handyman

I avoid those. IME they either don't give you enough time at your destination, or leave you standing around, usually, it seems, in the wet or the cold, for far too long.

Reply to
Nightjar

Try a chinese tourist coach trip. Up at 6am, off by about 7.30 after breakfast. You do get to see a lot though - but it is not "relaxing".

I did 2 trips to the same place (Wu Tai Shan, a place full of mountains and buddhist monsteries) - first time we took ourselves with my brother in law as guide. The second time on a coach trip.

The 2nd packed in the sights, but the first was way more relaxing and we actually saw more:

1) We bumped into a nun who spoke English and got an impromptu mini tour of a nunnery and saw some very interesting things; 2) Cable car ride over the valley - by cable car, think "ski lift" - by f*ck that was scary. 3) Saw a snake by a ford where a bloke was washing his motorbike.

4) I learnt how to assess hotels and that only certain hotels have a "foreign guest" license.

and quite a lot of other random stuff...

Reply to
Tim Watts

And when the transport arrives ... it's a coach.

Reply to
Huge
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BTDT. We went to China in the early 80's, IIRC.

We bumped into a guy in Xian night market who spoke English & wanted to practise it. We gathered a crowd.

Actually, gathering crowds was pretty standard. You'd be standing looking at something and when you turned round, there'd be 20 Chinese looking at you.

The Hubin hotel in Xian - the worst hotel I've ever stayed in. We slept in arm-chairs in the lobby, since the carpet in our room was saturated with raw sewage.

Ditto. I really must get round to scanning the photos. After all, I've only had them ~35 years.

Reply to
Huge

Hahahaha! Thanks for the smile Huge!

J.

Reply to
Another John

Are you using the shooting brake to go there, what ho. Brian

Reply to
Brian-Gaff

Still happens. We've just come back from a month in China. On most days we had 'onlookers' and there were few days where we were not asked to pose for photographs with the locals.

Not a problem: I took enough of them!

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F

In 1981, we stayed at the only foreign hotel in Xi'an, I think it was called the Golden flower then. We were there for the Chinese New Year. It was a good hotel, thankfully, and had a contingent of American engineers staying there for a few months. The food was excellent, and one evening there was a professional opera singer in the restaurant, and he was great. The highlight of the weekend was when the hotel put on a firework display for the New Year. The staff pulled a load of tea chests filled with fireworks out in front of the hotel, which had an extensive glass frontage, but instead of taking individual fireworks out and lighting them, they just threw some flaming spills into them and left quickly. There followed a wonderful display of massive uncontrolled fireworks, with rockets going off in all directions, roman candles that couldn't escape, you name it. Great fun!

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Davey

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