Favourite Holiday Destinations?

Dammit, why won't the damn thing show the full frame?

Really must get around to uploading images. Not even a tenth of them in there yet . . .

Aye, the south coast is very nice Dem. Must go to the Scillies one day... didn't Arlott retire there?

Tassie looks lovely Taily, is the climate different to the rest of Oz?

It tends to be a bit cooler and damper and windier, Jekyll. A little more English, though still a good bit warmer. It's beautiful. If you like walking in the wild you'd love the place.
Pretty good beaches, too.

JKLever wrote:Aye, the south coast is very nice Dem. Must go to the Scillies one day... didn't Arlott retire there?

No, I'm not keen on the south coast of Cornwall tbh. The Scillies are amazing, considering they're less than 28 miles from Land's End. A different world altogether. Unfortunately, the sky isn't always that blue . . .

Regarding Arlott, yes and I believe he wrote about the islands too.

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:Dammit, why won't the damn thing show the full frame?

Really must get around to uploading images. Not even a tenth of them in there yet . . .

I always go on PAINT to resize mine. I guess there's better ways but that always works for me.

No, I don't like to resize below a certain point for photobucket, but it used to fit the frame to the page, looks like their latest updates have done away with that.

I do all my editing with Photoshop CS. It has hundreds of tools I never touch, but does do the things I need very well. Besides, I'm used to it.

Demelza wrote:

JKLever wrote:Aye, the south coast is very nice Dem. Must go to the Scillies one day... didn't Arlott retire there?

No, I'm not keen on the south coast of Cornwall tbh. The Scillies are amazing, considering they're less than 28 miles from Land's End. A different world altogether. Unfortunately, the sky isn't always that blue . . .

Regarding Arlott, yes and I believe he wrote about the islands too.

Aye, I prefer the Devon coast mostly.





I like Clovelly especially, if it wasn't for the fact that most of the people seem related to each other i'd love to live there...

Demelza wrote:

JKLever wrote:Aye, the south coast is very nice Dem. Must go to the Scillies one day... didn't Arlott retire there?

No, I'm not keen on the south coast of Cornwall tbh. The Scillies are amazing, considering they're less than 28 miles from Land's End. A different world altogether. Unfortunately, the sky isn't always that blue . . .

Regarding Arlott, yes and I believe he wrote about the islands too.

Arlott retired to the Channel Islands - Alderney.

If you want to upload pics just use the editor here? Click on the 6th icon from the left and you can either upload from your pc or it'll grab it from a url and it lets you resize.

Basil wrote:

Demelza wrote:

JKLever wrote:Aye, the south coast is very nice Dem. Must go to the Scillies one day... didn't Arlott retire there?

No, I'm not keen on the south coast of Cornwall tbh. The Scillies are amazing, considering they're less than 28 miles from Land's End. A different world altogether. Unfortunately, the sky isn't always that blue . . .

Regarding Arlott, yes and I believe he wrote about the islands too.

Arlott retired to the Channel Islands - Alderney.

Cheers Bas, as accurate as ever then!

JKLever wrote:If you want to upload pics just use the editor here? Click on the 6th icon from the left and you can either upload from your pc or it'll grab it from a url and it lets you resize.

Ahhh, thanks, Jekyll. Saves me the trouble of having to get things into pb first, if I want to put them in here.

Of course, if I got my finger out and uploaded them asap after editing them, it wouldn't be an issue. Not that I'm a procrastinator, of course . . .

JKLever wrote:If you want to upload pics just use the editor here? Click on the 6th icon from the left and you can either upload from your pc or it'll grab it from a url and it lets you resize.

FFS, I had no idea it was so simple. I thought we had to use a host. That saves a lot of time!

Demelza wrote:

JKLever wrote:If you want to upload pics just use the editor here? Click on the 6th icon from the left and you can either upload from your pc or it'll grab it from a url and it lets you resize.

FFS, I had no idea it was so simple. I thought we had to use a host. That saves a lot of time!

To be fair it is a few tech levels up from washing up

Who washes up? That's how the kids get their pocket money . . .

I'm waiting for Sir Richard's invite to Necker Island Now, that's what I call a holiday.

The most beautiful place I have ever been to is Simbo Island in the Solomon Islands:

Demelza wrote:I just googled Simbo Island and I can't see any nice beaches though

You don't need beaches for a place to be beautiful. It has a rugged volcanic beauty, like an unspoiled tiny version of St Lucia. That is an extinct crater that has become a lake. It is halfway up the volcano and it has a huge number of Crocs that can't go near the edge as the water is too hot.

If I wanted to go to a beach I would head straight to Maracas Bay in sweet T & T, and I would head for Richard's Shark n bake stall and pile on the pepper.

Which Theme Parks have you visited and which were the best?

I've been looking at that new Saw Ride at Thorpe Park!

Five days and counting . . .

Butlins again?

Tassie doesn't do Butlins.
Nor do I.
Ben Lomond, Cape Pillar, Hartz, Anne, Field West, Frenchman's, Walls and the Overland will do nicely - maybe with a few day walks thrown in.