Now retired, my husband wants us to travel - I will miss Grandchildren!

All depends on how emotionally attached you are. The longest I did it for was 3 weeks and even the last week I couldn't think of anything else. Couldn't have done 3 months.
Didn't matter what anyone else said to me. Thankfully my husband understands

Know what you mean, Jane10 Some lovely ideas on another thread, but my holiday money will go elsewhere, not to my country of birth until that nutjob is gone! Helloooo Canada!

Oh... and on a money thread, I had a mini-rant about Premium Bonds. We never seemed to hardly any cheques. The PB fairy does not seem to fly my way with her prizes. I also don't fancy lending the UK govt my money anymore for such rubbish interest.

These river cruises look lovely but I'm afraid that America is off our list of places to be right now. We'd get in OK but I don't want to give that country a single dollar!!

Brilliant River Boat trips in America on the Mississippi river.

Agree. Via Rail is excellent. I stopped off in Winnipeg ( the museum of human rights is a MUST see) and went up into Churchill for the polar bears. Then carried on back to Winnipeg and complete journey through to Seattle. The Starlight express is also good from Seattle to LA although I would most definately NOT recommend Union Station in LA for lone female travellers at night (long story but it involved myself, a hooker, assorted weird males and two police Lts plus reinforcements. Oh I could write a book about my travels.

The train from Boston through to the Berkshires is wonderful in the fall and beats driving. The trees look magnificent.

Good language skills Jalima!

What a talented lot we are!
And for a trip on The Ghan:
Good onya mate - sweet as

But as for that Russian trip, это может быть возможным

I'm pretty sure that's not right, but my mate google says it is

you do need a bit of dexterity
That's out then
French in Canada MawBroon
Ce n'est pas possible!

Todo es posible Jalima!

Best not to drink too much before turning in

I can recommend Via Rail across Canada, Jamila. We travelled from Toronto to Vancouver in a sleeper. I think we were on it three nights. Very comfortable, and really atmospheric lying in your little bunk and hearing the clunkety clunk and the train whistles from far across the lonely prairie (not sure that they are prairies actually, but it sounds right!). You do need a bit of dexterity to climb along the side of the beds and swing into your little toilet area at night though....

Maybe, Izabella, and it may be more affordable! We spent a month in Leningrad way back in 1973, so it would be interesting to see how it has changed. And I'd like to see Moscow.

I was wondering about a train journey but DH is not so keen
Nor is my back

Sorry St Petersberg

You may find Moscow to Lemingrad more interesting from a train window.

I have just wasted spent the whole evening googling blooming holidays and daydreaming - I blame this thread. I have upgraded my idea of the ideal holiday and would like to go on the Trans-Siberian Railway, first class all the way (definitely not in the third class compartment with the sour-faced babushka presiding over the toilets and samovar and the dire warnings about sniffing the food carefully before you taste it). All I need now are the winning 6 numbers for Wednesday's lotto draw

We did get our money back, Jalima, plus a £150 voucher towards a holiday this year, but I think I'm still some way short of my train fare.

Es una estafa?

OP outlined a rather extreme scenario, 3-4 months in Mexico of all places ( unless maybe her DH is a retired brickie and sees a careeer opportunity ) and it has certainly aroused some strong feelings and comments.
When an OP doesn't come back after setting the proverbial cat among the pigeons I do sometimes wonder........
Cynical, moi?

So - what just popped up at the top of the page?

Newcastle to Lanzarote - flight offers.
It would be a trek for us to get to Newcastle in the first instance!

That sounds very adventurous and exciting Maggiemb - try again, hope you got your money back

DH likes to chill for a week then go off and do something, although walking distances is off for both of us at the moment.

My ideal is a couple of weeks travelling round, then a week - at most - chilling out in a good hotel. Which is what we would have been doing in Mexico last Autumn, if our agent hadn't made a proper pig's ear of the flight arrangements and had to cancel us . We were doing the Inca trail in a small accompanied group, then going to Cancun.

I think this thread has made me want to try again Though maybe with a different company.

It was drizzling here and misty, now it is pelting down with rain.

I wouldn't mind a week or two stuck in a hotel compound (sounds quite nice for that long) but after that I would have itchy feet.

I think Mawbroon is right- all we need now is Minalta back to update.

I enjoy hotels too but I'm not sure whether, on the grounds of it being unsafe outside the compound, I'd like to spend more than three weeks (at the most) stuck in the hotel and its grounds.