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[exploreamerica]

nice one stuart
first thing i'd say, is get the flights sorted sooner rather than later - we've had a bit of an ordeal, but the price is totally worth the grief.
if i remember correctly, one was with air india express (bkk-kolkata) and the other was jet airways (delhi-kathmandu)

I really want to go to China. I am waiting to see if I am accepted for a program in Japan to decide if I will then go to China after in late June or otherwise in early June. From there I will go to Lhasa and maybe explore Nepal/Tibet too. I then want to go to see the Taj Mahal and there would be a layover in Kathmandu. So I need to figure out my dates first.

[chasingbohemia]

cote d'azur (french riviera) -so nice, monaco, marseille, the island of corsica, cannes!!!
it's going to be so hot!
and since i'm flying emirates, will stay for a few days in dubai, hopefully it's not ramadan then.
and as per tradition for my europe trips, i will be stopping over a few days in amsterdam

[sianeth]

Roadtripping around Croatia and Slovenia and wherever else the road takes us before my graduation in the summer. Cannae wait

[starlagurl]

Train trip to Quebec city for Carnaval and Couch Surfing party, next week! Yay!

[rbisset]

Roadtripping around Croatia and Slovenia and wherever else the road takes us before my graduation in the summer. Cannae wait

Slovenia's awesome! You'll love it

I'm off to Prague next week for the footie Come on you Spurs!!!!

[sianeth]

Roadtripping around Croatia and Slovenia and wherever else the road takes us before my graduation in the summer. Cannae wait

Slovenia's awesome! You'll love it

I'm off to Prague next week for the footie Come on you Spurs!!!!

Cool, do you recommend anywhere?

And I wouldn't get too optimistic about Spurs

[rbisset]

Roadtripping around Croatia and Slovenia and wherever else the road takes us before my graduation in the summer. Cannae wait

Slovenia's awesome! You'll love it

I'm off to Prague next week for the footie Come on you Spurs!!!!

Cool, do you recommend anywhere?

And I wouldn't get too optimistic about Spurs

Not really. I went for 4 days and visited Bled and Ljubljana. Bled is gorgeous and Ljubljana is a great place to just amble around the streets drinking coffee all day

[starlagurl]

Ohhhhhhhhh you will love the Florida Keys.
Will you have to hang out with the great-nephew the whole time? You can send kids on these "guided tours" aka babysitting for pretty much the whole day and then maybe you could save a day of Disney-ness, and go somewhere else...

[flewthecoop]

Ohhhhhhhhh you will love the Florida Keys.
Will you have to hang out with the great-nephew the whole time? You can send kids on these "guided tours" aka babysitting for pretty much the whole day and then maybe you could save a day of Disney-ness, and go somewhere else...

You're so positive! Thank you for the encouragement and ideas. I'm not anti-Florida (unless it is summer, hee hee). I spent a short day in Key West last May (via a cruise) and loved it. The problem with cruises is that I never feel like I had enough time in a place to get in the groove, so the fact that I get to go back is thrilling. Have you been to the Keno sandal factory in Key West? I bought the cutest slides there for under $10.

Luckily, while at Disney World, the great nephew will be in a different hotel with my sister-not-in-law, so over-exposure won't be a problem. The real problem is that I'm not much for standing in lines. ;-) Don't you worry, though. The family will never know I'm unhappy not to have spent this money exploring the real world. The Food and Wine Festival at Epcot and the hotel pool will keep me occupied most of the time, I suspect. I'm already practicing, "Aunt Heather is getting old and needs a nap. I'll see you at dinner, okay?"

One trick for lines at Disney: Decide beforehand what are the most important places you want to see in the park. Then go when the park opens and go to the one on your list that is furthest away from the entrance. Most people start wandering around near the entrance and the lines there get long first. Once you've done your top choices, then you can take your time and fill in the rest of the time with whatever. It worked for us.

Something else that worked well with our young daughters was to go out when the park opens and then return to the hotel after lunch for a swim in the pool. Go out again for dinner and the evening. The girls didn't get burned out with that schedule (and we didn't either).

[ScottWoz]

Excellent stuff, enjoy!

As for me, Tasmania is next on the agenda. On two wheels of course..

Woz. Scott Woz

Ha ha, it took me about three reads to get this. Nice one..

btw, scary to say, but i had a dream tonight which you, scott, were in - we were shooting the breeze and drinking sangsom rum....

Ok... er when you say 'shooting in the breeze'.........

[thellie]

don't worry scott... both our integrities, and chastities, remain unimpinged... it was a purely plutonic shooting

[exploreamerica]

One trick for lines at Disney: Decide beforehand what are the most important places you want to see in the park. Then go when the park opens and go to the one on your list that is furthest away from the entrance. Most people start wandering around near the entrance and the lines there get long first. Once you've done your top choices, then you can take your time and fill in the rest of the time with whatever. It worked for us.

Something else that worked well with our young daughters was to go out when the park opens and then return to the hotel after lunch for a swim in the pool. Go out again for dinner and the evening. The girls didn't get burned out with that schedule (and we didn't either).

That is great advice! Thank you.

I hope I can add to the advice. Not only do I go all the time, but I take my students every year so I really need to know how to maximize our time with that many kids in such a short amount of time. I agree completely with going in early. That alone makes a huge difference with the crowds.

Next go straight to the one ride that you really want, but would also be the most popular. For example, those would include Thunder Mts, Space Mtn or Splash Mtn. They will have the longest lines. So I go straight there and put my tickets in the Fast Pass. Are you familiar with this. Fast Pass lets you cut the line, but you need to go during a designated time. So rather than wait 60-90 minutes for those top rides you only wait 5. It is important to note that you can not do another Fast Pass until the time expires on the first one. The earlier you do a Fast Pass the sooner it expires and then the quicker you can get another Fast Pass. So I get the Fast Pass for one of those 3 rides. Then while I wait for my designated time to be for that ride I go and wait on line for another ride. Then at your set time you do the Fast Pass. When you get off you go for another Fast Pass ticket, then ride another ride while you wait and then once again after only wait 5 minutes for the new ride you have a Fast Pass for.

Finally, if you are not in to the parades then I try to go on rides that are near a parade so while everonye is watching the parade the ride line is shorter. This works great for the Haunted Mansion.

Fianlly stay away from eating a turkey leg!!!

[starlagurl]

You're so positive! Thank you for the encouragement and ideas. I'm not anti-Florida (unless it is summer, hee hee). I spent a short day in Key West last May (via a cruise) and loved it. The problem with cruises is that I never feel like I had enough time in a place to get in the groove, so the fact that I get to go back is thrilling. Have you been to the Keno sandal factory in Key West? I bought the cutest slides there for under $10.



Haha! I didn't mean that you wouldn't like the Florida Keys, I meant you would probably love the Florida Keys, way more than you would like Disney World.

[wakingdream]

Excellent stuff, enjoy!

As for me, Tasmania is next on the agenda. On two wheels of course..

Woz. Scott Woz

Ha ha, it took me about three reads to get this. Nice one..

btw, scary to say, but i had a dream tonight which you, scott, were in - we were shooting the breeze and drinking sangsom rum....

Ok... er when you say 'shooting in the breeze'.........

don't worry scott... both our integrities, and chastities, remain unimpinged... it was a purely plutonic shooting

Now now you too, seems like love is in the air......

[ScottWoz]

'Every sight and every sound..'

Maybe you ate too much cheese before you went to bed?

[thellie]

cheese, in thailand? once in a blue moon...

[ScottWoz]

Good man, just the answer I was looking for..

[travelkat]

Hopefully my partner and I will be spending September exploring the jungle of Borneo!

[flewthecoop]

How do you arrange something like that? Where do fly in to? Do you have a guide? Do you already know the jungle?

[stevejames]

Where am I going next? I am going for a nice, cheap pizza.
Then tomorrow off to Helsinki on the ferry