Holidays into the unknown ;)

Paperbackwriter

fancythat

I have a relative who is guity as charged as well.
She says, "well the pilot knows where he is going, so that is good enough for me".

Reminds me of the air passenger who was going to Granada. A few hours into the flight she asked why it was such a long one as Spain wasn't that far. She'd managed to get on a flight to Grenada.

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ViceVersa

Grammaretto

Goodness me! I am surprised. I love maps and I love planning where I am going. I love to research the places, find out about the language, culture and history.
It really makes for a much richer experience. To just land somewhere which could be anywhere is a waste in my opinion.

I'm the same. I like to plan everything down to the last detail and I do a lot of research before I book anything.

I always feel "lost: if I don't have a map. I need to know that the pilot knows where he/she is going.
A highlight of a cruise was to go up to the bridge and search through the maps and steer the ship. (not very far) I would have been in heaven to have stayed there rather than go on a tour.

My niece, who is Danish, went to work in Beirut a few years ago. I was worried because our FO advice was to avoid the area.
However my brother her dad told me that the Danes weren't bothered.
She was fine.

Foreign travel advice - GOV.UK share.google/UCZLkAvGP0Aiv6Gcf

Not a bad idea to check Foreign Office advice before travelling. Ofcourse it helps if you know the name of the country 😉

fancythat

I have a relative who is guity as charged as well.
She says, "well the pilot knows where he is going, so that is good enough for me".

Reminds me of the air passenger who was going to Granada. A few hours into the flight she asked why it was such a long one as Spain wasn't that far. She'd managed to get on a flight to Grenada.

I went on a holiday paid for by my daughter, I had no idea where other than Spain. So I made a point of finding out exactly where I was going, it wasn't difficult. I'm fact it made everything much easier once there, I'd already worked out the routes to the beach from the apartment, knew where food places were and supermarkets and places I wanted to visit.
Maybe it's just me but unless it was supposed to be a surprise then I'd want to know where I was going, which hotel and which city.

I'd also be aware that Miami is in Florida haha

How can you honestly not know where you are going? Some people's geography is apalling. I taught in USA and I was living on edge of Lake Michigan and said to kids about it being one of The Great Lakes,no idea....that was 8th graders!

Grammaretto

Allira I am afraid I do.
Some years ago the girl who was washing my hair was about to set off to a resort in Turkey when the Foreign Office were warning against travel there after attacks on tourists. She had no idea and was going anyway.

😲 Was she ok?

Oh dear!

According to the lunchtime news people are booking holidays in Spain rather than Dubai 😀

Airlines were increasing their prices dramatically but, according to my family member who just flew long haul, the plane was half empty. They seem to have miscalculated how keen people are to travel.

Allira I am afraid I do.
Some years ago the girl who was washing my hair was about to set off to a resort in Turkey when the Foreign Office were warning against travel there after attacks on tourists. She had no idea and was going anyway.

Especially now when there's a war in the Middle East, ignorance could lead you into danger.

I don't think people are that ignorant, do you? Really?

Caleo
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Grammaretto

AIBU to expect that people going on holiday ought to know where they are going?

I have been shocked to find people I have spoken to recently knew the name of the resort and even the country they had booked to visit but not where it was.
I replied "Spain's a big country, is it North, South, East, West?" Not a clue and not interested in finding out.

It reminds me of the joke about American tourists in the 1960s who are supposed to have said "if it's Tuesday it's Belgium".

Another woman who goes on cruise ships but flies to join the ship. I asked her if her Carribbean cruise would have started in Florida . I don't know she replied. It was Miami.

Especially now when there's a war in the Middle East, ignorance could lead you into danger.

Personal intelligence and the number of people one wants to be with are in inverse proportion.

V3ra

Sarahr we lived in America in 1964.
Mum said everywhere we went people asked if we'd met the Beatles, and were surprised when we hadn't as "England is such a small country" 😁

😂😂😂

Sarahr we lived in America in 1964.
Mum said everywhere we went people asked if we'd met the Beatles, and were surprised when we hadn't as "England is such a small country" 😁

Mum and Dad met some American tourists on the train. They asked where my parents lived. Mum told them, they live in Newhaven. "Gee, how amazing, you must know our friends. They live in Portsmouth". OK, Newhaven and Portsmouth are both on the south coast and we knew a lot of people, but definitely not people living 60 miles away!

M0nica

Allira

Bambino

A colleague came back from her holiday in Tenerife absolutely furious because she had no idea it was a volcanic island, and the "sand was black!"

PS there are golden sand beaches - sand imported from the Sahara.
We were told by a local that the sand was blown across from the Sahara but realised that was a tall tale reserved for tourists. 🏖

Sand from the Sahara does blow a long way. We had Sahara sand in the rain that fell in the UK in the last week. It happens every year, some years worse than others. We have had a thin layer of red sand on our cars in the morning.

Sahara sand is red rather than golden, but it is uite possible, in fact, highly probable, that sand from the Sahara blows across and gets deposited in the Canary islands in the same way it does in the UK. This probably happens more in the Canaries because it is so much closer to this desert.

Probably. Yes, my car has some Saharan sand on it, must get it cleaned.

However, the golden beaches are made from imported white or golden sand from the Sahara, although they do get a regular dusting blown over naturally.

I remember visiting an island by ferry, La Gomera, which was invisible from nearby Tenerife. On the last morning of our holiday, we could see the island across the water we had visited quite clearly as the dust in the atmosphere had cleared.

On a gorgeous holiday in Tunisia a few years ago we were in quite an upmarket hotel. A family arrived who had clearly not done the research required and found themselves barred from all restaurants in the evening because they'd not packed long trousers for men. They were very cross but they discovered that rules were rules and they had to go shopping if they wanted to eat.
The dress code had been clearly laid out in the booking info if only they had bothered to read it.

😂😂😂.

Some years ago we went on an archaeologist-led group tour of historic sites in Egypt including the Valley of the Kings. It was interesting and educatonal but there were a few people who clearly didn't know anything about Egypt. We visited two wonderful tombs in the Valley but a third was ruled out by a vociferous minority: 'Oh, not another bl**dy tomb'.

We were told it happened in Madeira too.

Allira

Bambino

A colleague came back from her holiday in Tenerife absolutely furious because she had no idea it was a volcanic island, and the "sand was black!"

PS there are golden sand beaches - sand imported from the Sahara.
We were told by a local that the sand was blown across from the Sahara but realised that was a tall tale reserved for tourists. 🏖

Sand from the Sahara does blow a long way. We had Sahara sand in the rain that fell in the UK in the last week. It happens every year, some years worse than others. We have had a thin layer of red sand on our cars in the morning.

Sahara sand is red rather than golden, but it is uite possible, in fact, highly probable, that sand from the Sahara blows across and gets deposited in the Canary islands in the same way it does in the UK. This probably happens more in the Canaries because it is so much closer to this desert.

Janetashbolt

Don't know if it's true but apparently they have a desk at Vienna airpirt for those arriving in Austria but thought they were going to Australia!!

No, it's not true.

It's an Urban Myth.

Don't know if it's true but apparently they have a desk at Vienna airpirt for those arriving in Austria but thought they were going to Australia!!

Bambino

A colleague came back from her holiday in Tenerife absolutely furious because she had no idea it was a volcanic island, and the "sand was black!"

PS there are golden sand beaches - sand imported from the Sahara.
We were told by a local that the sand was blown across from the Sahara but realised that was a tall tale reserved for tourists. 🏖