I'm just thinking about taking a short vacation and need ideas.

I mean, where have you all gone that you've had the most fun?

Hamburg or Amsterdam... no wait... Negril in Jamaica :okthumb:

I'm partial to Duck, Corolla and Carova and Swan beach in the Outer Banks in NC during the offseason. Most of the beach houses in Carova and Swan are 4WD access only so there's not many people to bother you. :P Granted, if you're looking for "excitement" there's nothing to so, but I like my vacations to be relaxing with lots of good food. :awinky:

Second choice would be Waikoloa on the Big Island in Hawaii, but not really a good place for a "short" vacation.

If you're looking for city fun, nothing can beat NYC during Christmas, IMHO. :okthumb:

During the winter you could take a look at St. Petersburg if you've never been there. It will leave you with a nice stereotypical memory of mother Russia B)

Some of my favorite spots to relax:

San Francisco
La Jolla
Lake Arrowhead
Newport Beach
Cape Cod
Scottsdale
Acapulco
Nassau
Freeport
South Florida

It all depends on what you are looking for.

Manhatten is great, Vegas is a blast for a few days, if you want to just relax on a beach Virgin Islands.....

Yup, really depends what you are lookign for.

yeah. i agree with you mike. manhattan is the best city in the world imho. but if you're looking for relaxation and sand in your toes.. hmm.. nicest beaches i've ever been to are in Anguilla, i've heard St. Kitts/Nevis is a nice place too ;-)

I second that and nominate this list for the "These are a few of my favorite things..." category. :yowsa:

I would also add in Monterey, but otherwise this list looks damn good! :okthumb:

Ok, so I don't get around much, but, my favorite place thus far has been Seattle. I got to go sking for the first time ever. Was the best time I ever had busting my ass over and over again. :P

Monaco

I didn't like monaco.

I prefer Nice and cannes over monaco. I gotta say most of my favorite cities are in france. I've lived in Annecy, which was a very beautiful place during the summer, but dead during the winter...

I would *really* like to go to tokio. But it's so fucking far away and so fucking expensive... I love japanese culture and the little fuckers are weirder than I am. (..besides, I've heard their chicks like chunky boys)

1. Prauge

2. Rhodos (greece)

3. Amsterdam

4. Sturgis SD (harley week)

5. Negril, Jamaica

6. Seattle of course!!

Nices cities to visit and/or live in:

Vancouver
London
Paris
Cannes / Nice
New York

To visit,

Cannes / Nice
New York
London
Paris
Rome
Athens

other US cities...Vegas a day or two , Orlando (look I love the mouse ok?)
Beverly Hills for a day or two is fun

If you have money of course , anywhere is OK :-))

Malaga, Spain.

If London had legal soft drugs, I would say London.

To live? Seriously, Detroit. Every day is an adventure.

Paris
Waikiki Beach
Freeport, Bahamas
Key West
Hong Kong
New York City
Miami
Ft. Lauderdale
San Francisco
San Diego
Oaxaca, Mexico
Ixtapa, Mexico
Antigua, Gatamala
Cay Caulker, Belize
Mexico City, D. F.

I didn't like monaco.

I prefer Nice and cannes over monaco. I gotta say most of my favorite cities are in france. I've lived in Annecy, which was a very beautiful place during the summer, but dead during the winter...[/b][/quote]
I like France, especially Southern France. How did you enjoy living there? Do you speak French?

I enjoyed it fine, I was just 12, or 13 then.. So I didn't travel too much alone. But I was old enough to like it (except for cocksucking arabs).
18 year old arabs were in my class, I was 12 as I said earlier.. they picked and beated me daily...which built character, fractured my skull and tought me deep hatered towards the arab race.

About the frence language.. I speak it now. I didn't speak a goddamn word when I moved there, learning the language is kinda mandatory in a small town.. nobody speaks english, so I figured it would be easier for me to learn french than teach them to speak english or finnish:)

I'm gonna move to some small spanish town in a few year, marbella or some other nice town on costa del sol, gotta learn spanish too. :)

New York is unbeatable which is why I live here. If you must go someplace else in the States I would say South Beach, Miami Florida. This time of year it's great and the women are drop dead gorgous and looking for a good time.

I like Paradise island in the Bahamas for similar reasons but a more relaxed vibe. http://www.atlantis.com

I will say I must agree with Labret. I love London. The women are not the most attractive but they have a wonderful party spirit that can't be beat! It's a friggin 24hour party over there for me.

Hell, come to think about it, that's everywhere I go. :rokk:



Last edited by Pornwolf at Dec 10 2003, 02:49 PM

I enjoyed it fine, I was just 12, or 13 then.. So I didn't travel too much alone. But I was old enough to like it (except for cocksucking arabs).
18 year old arabs were in my class, I was 12 as I said earlier.. they picked and beated me daily...which built character, fractured my skull and tought me deep hatered towards the arab race.

About the frence language.. I speak it now. I didn't speak a goddamn word when I moved there, learning the language is kinda mandatory in a small town.. nobody speaks english, so I figured it would be easier for me to learn french than teach them to speak english or finnish:)

I'm gonna move to some small spanish town in a few year, marbella or some other nice town on costa del sol, gotta learn spanish too. :)[/b][/quote]
How long did it take you to learn French well wnough to speak it casually? I've been thinking of taking a two month trip over there just to learn it.

If you're only going for a couple of days, where are you leaving from? I'd hate to spend all my time traveling and not enjoy the destination.

With that said...

St Maarten
Curacao
Puerta Vallarta
Vancouver
Paris
London at Christmas is great

or perhaps you want to ski... Whistler, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah in the west...

My favourite cities:

Amsterdam
Paris
Barcelona
Rome
Prague
New York

These cities I didn't like:

Athens
Venice
Las Vegas
Cairo





Last edited by Joe Sixpack at Dec 10 2003, 03:15 PM

A Vancouver / Whislter makes a nice weekend combo :-))

Who these two?

Athens
Venice

I want to hit that area so fucking bad for obvious reasons. Big dirty touristy shitholes?

Who these two?

Athens
Venice

I want to hit that area so fucking bad for obvious reasons. Big dirty touristy shitholes?[/b][/quote]
Athens is a filthy fucking city. An absolute open sewer when I was there in 1998. Maybe things are better in the runup to the 2004 Olympic Games. I sure as hell hope so. Also, the greeks are rude motherfuckers - especially to tourists. They hate you but they love to take your money.

Venice is a nasty little tourist trap. The canals smell and everywhere you go there are fat middle-aged Americans with flashy cameras slung around their necks and Minnesota State University sweatshirts, in a variety of bright colours, on their obese bodies all the while talking at what must be 50 decibels louder than tourists from any other nation on Earth. Fuckers want their gondola ride. Prices are very high for Italy and on top of everything else the arseholes microwaved my pizza. I wanted out after one day.

Italy has much more to offer. Venice was a major disappointment.



Last edited by Joe Sixpack at Dec 10 2003, 03:49 PM

Isnt that some sick shit. Some fat fucking hick saved up some money and wants to take his bloated ass wife to some place she read about in romance novels. Americans are pollution. Their presence cheapens and dirties the sacred.



Last edited by [Labret] at Dec 10 2003, 03:55 PM

Venice is the worst place in all of Europe for this type of loud, obnoxious tourist. You know the kind that speak slowly but very loudly in English to an Italian when they realize they are not being understood. Patronising fucks.

But for the record I've met a lot of Americans in my travels I have really liked and enjoyed the company of... but virtually all of them I met in Amsterdam smoking weed.



Last edited by Joe Sixpack at Dec 10 2003, 04:04 PM

funny. i thought the same thing. we left after a couple hours.

Yeah, maybe it stinks and all but were there any hot women there? :mellow:

No.

You want hot women go to Eastern Europe. The place simply blew me away.



Last edited by Joe Sixpack at Dec 10 2003, 06:23 PM

funny. i thought the same thing. we left after a couple hours.[/b][/quote]
Damn, maybe Tom Blanchards wife would have been better off at the Venetian.

Mexico City???

That place makes New York City look clean and spacious. What's the population down there now, something like 20 Million?

I was there once and couldn't wait to leave.

Took me about 6 months, but I was attending 100% french language classes 8 hours a day. No, not french language classes.. but regular school, but the teaching was in french.. so I had very little chance of not learning.

It was actually quite funny, the scale of grades went from 0 to 20, 20 being the best. First tests in evey subject came out 0 or 1 or so, at xmas I got 10's and 11's, and in june when school stopped I got 18's and 20's.

The better grades I got the harder those filthy arab bastards beated me. God I wish I saw them today. Sorry about the ranting, but I have these flashbacks... :papow:

I'll take the Grand Okanagan in Kelowna any day :D

Don't you guys ever go south of the Equator :nyanya:

My dad loves Oz and spends Christmas and New Year there every year... he's even thinking of buying a beach front house in Mackay... but he's holding off until he finds out what Perth is like (he flies on Tuesday I think)

He is totally sold on Australia :D

Why bother?

Favorite City - None of them....too much fucking cement.....


"you take paradise...put up a parking lot"


:awinky:

Damn, maybe Tom Blanchards wife would have been better off at the Venetian.[/b][/quote]
:lol:

Why bother?[/b][/quote]
Cos it's fucking WARM down here, bitch!

Depends how you define "fun".

If you want to relax and bask in the sun and enjoy the water, go to the carribbean for sure. A bit more exciting than that?? Go to Hawaii, Its awesome there.

If you want to be physical like hiking or camping and enjoy nature, go the the mountains. Im in the US, so i go to the Blue Ridge Mountains to camp and bike/hike, etc. Its absolutely beautiful.

If you want to enjoy the high-life, well.. Vegas, Monte Carlo.. Either will suffice.

Into Culture? You have to go to Italy. This is a wonderful country, and so full of culture..

Just want to party mindlessly and ruin your body?? Go to Amsterdam.. Party Central

T minus 40 hours...

...and counting.

vancouver in beautiful british columbia canada

best place i've ever visited
best place i've ever lived

:)

hahahahah

a smoker as well as a drinker?

3 of the best smoke (bud) cities in the world

hahahahah

a smoker as well as a drinker?

3 of the best smoke (bud) cities in the world[/b][/quote]
vancouver has to be near the top the list of "best bud" cities. while i was there all the dutch growers were coming over trying to learn the bc secret.

i'll share the secret: cut back on the fucking fertilizer! if the ash is black you're wrong.

I guess you haven't lived in many places.....if you want rude, there is nothing on earth ruder than a bunch of Japanese tourists....pushy, line-cutting, arrogant, superior, mean and just flat out RUDE bastards.

Germans and Russians can also be unbelievable loud, sloppy and arrogant, not to mention totally disrespectful.

Come to think of it...get a bus load of British arriving somewhere and all you will have is a bunch of sheep with bad teeth complaining in abnoxious ignorant tones that "they don't have this and they don't have that", and why don't they do it like they do in the UK...Blah, blah, blah.

I've lived 7 countries pretty scattered around the globe,and I assure you that ugly cheap tourists that "dirty" sacred places come from ALL OVER.

Labret's funny like that - he's lived in the US all the 32 years of his life, claims to hate everything about it, yet so far has been afraid to move. :P