My "Things To Do" List
I want to hear bagpipes played amongst the Scottish Highlands.http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~weissr/Niki/house.jpg
I want to drink Guiness in an Irish Pub after going to see a game of Rugby.
I want to visit Auschwitz in Poland.
http://www.regering.nl/Images/auschwitz-250x224_tcm42-54615.jpg
I want to see the Acropolis in Greece
http://sunsite.tus.ac.jp/multimed/pics/cities/
I want to travel the Trans Siberian Railway from Moscow to Beijing
posted by KateOnTheGo at
9:22 PM
17 Comments:
Oh yah! Drinking Guinness with a team of worked up and randy rugby players might lead to some pretty fun after-hours horseplay, if you know what I mean :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
All in good fun.
Count me in :)
Grrrrrr, tiger! ;-)
You're a good sport, Kate. That's a lot o' guys, though!!
But, c'mon, how come we get really cute pics of the baby (but she is really cute!), but none of you! Not fair!
Alex
"Anonymous Alex"
There's photos of me throughout the blog.
Happy Searching!
K
Awwwwww! Thanks for humouring me, Kate. You're a good one, girl!
Are you planning a long trip, by the way? Sounds so from your blog.
Cool ideas...Tran-Siberia, the Acropolis...don't forget sailing the myriad islands of the South Pacific, visiting Easter Island, photo safari in Africa...
Oops, Alex, I meant to sign it...(not leave it blank).
Anonymous/Alex/Blank,
Very long trip... a one way ticket infact. :)
Oh, I also want to do the Inca Trail in Peru, Mt. Kila Tanzania, Gorillas in Rwanda...
K
email: kateeighty@yahoo.com.au
I want to do Brad Pitt.
I love the way Aussies and Kiwis travel (yes, I'm generalizing here). When you leave on a backpacking, etc. trip, you really leave! I met lots Aussies/Kiwis traveling years ago...they'd been gone for many months. Guess that's what happens when you live down under, far from the madding crowd...!
And don't forget trekking in the Himalayas, sailing the Mediterranean, and crossing the Sahara desert (camel would be very cool, if you're well outfitted and prepared); otherwise you can find people doing in 4X4s, but that's not nearly as romantic. Check out this French publisher's (www.transboreal.fr) beautiful picture/travel books...I've gotten lots of great travel ideas from there.
Um, Maria...Brad Pitt?! Honestly, I've never really gotten Brad Pitt's sex appeal (other than the money/power/movie star thing). OK, I'm neither female nor gay, but I just don't get it. He seems like light beer to me --thin, flat, no calories, no kick. Like chamomile tea.
Oh yeah, I also plan to see the Great Wall of China, go to Mecca, snorkel in the Caribbean... I'll do the Camel thing in the Sahara, I think. Good idea. But romantic? I'm thinking being proposed on the canals of Venice, or sipping wine on Santorini is more romantic... not trying to wrestle with a camel in the middle of nowhere...?
I think its genetic with Australians. We are taught to travel. We are used to travelling long distances to get to places, so its just a natural thing.
Brad Pitt? Nah, not my type. He's just not that great, I dont think.
k
Now, then, Kate about that Guinness drinking with the NZ rugby team and after-hours horseplay fun...geez, I didn't think you were that kind of girl...sigh. :-) :-) Are you telling me something....grrrr! I'd have thought you a more old fashioned girl, no?
By "romantic" above, I actually meant in the more poetic sense of old-fashioned/sublime/etc. Crossing the Sahara with a Bedouin camel caravan and navigating across the desert by sun and stars would be way more romantic/intriguing than jumping in a Toyota Land Cruiser with some folks and a map and GPS...the difference between sailing and powerboating! And then there's the other kind of romance, of which you spoke. Sounds lovely as well...
Good point re: Australians and "genetic" instinct to travel. Yeah, think of folks who live in Darwin or Alice Springs and such....and think of the Aborigines for thousands of years before --grand distances were an intrinsic part of their life. I read in a book on natural navigation that the Aborigines could easily cross vast tracts of desert, making their way only by sun, stars, the appearnace of wind waves on hills/dunes, etc. Amazing. It's just part and parcel of who you are, coupled with a curiosity to see the world, which too few people have nowadays! Go for it.
BTW, if you're going to snorkel in the Carribbean, I'd skip the islands: generally way overdeveloped, and not all of them have good snorkeling (i.e., some of them are volcanic in origin and don't have reefs around them). The Meso-American Reef of Belize/Guatemala is spectacular; the largest reef in the Western Hemisphere. Akin to the Great Barrier Reef, but not quite as long, of course.
HONDURAS is the place to go for snorkelling--I know people who've snorkled the Great Barrier and think Utila (an island in Honduras) has way better reef!
I'll make your dream come true when we drink Guinness and watch a rugby match here in Ireland, Kate...I might even throw in a few of my rugby-playing friends into the mix and you can take your pick! haha! (Unfortunately none of them are at International level just yet though...but then again, as long as their fitness level is high and they look good, that's all you need them for!)
I'm old fashioned. Very old fashioned. But when it comes to Rugby teams, Alex....
I hear what you mean about the desert romance. I'm now thinking Arabian nights, standing in the middle a desert watching shooting stars across the sky, laying in midnight blue silk sheets... okay, I could possibly do Sahara Romance.
Oh I would love to go to Belize etc. But I need to somehow convince Oreo to take me coz I'm too chicken to go to Central America on my own.
:)~
I can do Europe on my own but the Americas frighten me.
LOL, Kate! Yeah, like I always say, two heads are better than one! A foursome is moresome! :-):-) Old fashioned with a twist, I guess.
So, basically, you're saying that you're not necessarily the kind of girl to take home to meet mother...grrr...grrr...am I mistaken?
Yeah, I'm telling you, you gotta think outside the box re: romance...you've really got the picture with regard to Saharan Romance. Roughing it is incredible, but you also gotta have the midnight blue silk sheets for comfort at night when staring up into the endless universe of the Milk Way in the cool pitch black Saharan night with a glass or two of good wine in your belly...after a long hot day, interspersed with mint tea breaks in the shade of oases while the camels rest, the mind has slipped into a timeless reverie, and all stress is gone. The rest of the world has ceased to exist; you are in complete bliss. Come night, you slip into your silk-sheeted nest, mind blown away by the panoply of stars in the sky, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming...
I agree with you --the Americas have some real machismo and other issues for a single women travelers to deal with in no small way. At the same time, in small villages, etc. you can meet some amazingly friendly kind people. Caribbean people (coastal people) in Central America tend to be more laid back, relaxed, etc. --part of Caribbean culture. There are plenty of backpackers in Belize.
You're making me envious! What's your travel "itnerary"? Or is it open-ended?
Alex
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Sorry, Kate, did I say something wrong? Out of line? Whatever?
Alex
No Alex!!! Not at all! I just couldnt write back to you because I was at work and my blog use is monitored :( If you wanna ever email me, I'm at kateeighty@yahoo.com.au. There you can spend as long as you like writing about blissful nights all you like ;)
As for my trip plans, there are no plans. It is a one way trip. The only thing planned is the five days I have on the beaches of Thailand, and then its straight into the UK, to somehow do something with my life :)
Where are you from Alex?
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