Crepey continuum

[Cremolafoam]

Over here!

[bigTillyMint]

Wow - sounds amaaazing!
Our last jaunt pre-DC was to Kenya/Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro, safari, Ngorogoro crater, Mombassa and Zanzibar. So I shouldnt complain!

[hattymattie]

Impressed that you climbed Kilimanjaro BTM. Two years ago I did a hike up to a remote pass in the Alps and my hands swelled up (not enough oxygen). I'm obviously a beach low altitude person.

[motherinferior]

We never had any pre-DC holidays, unless you count the week in Spain when I was six months up the duff. This is what comes of getting pregnant five months after your first shag date.

[Stropperella]

Dh and I have fundamentally different ideas about what constitutes a good holiday. He likes driving around looking at stuff and thinks that the great outdoors is somewhere best viewed from inside a vehicle. I don't much care for driving around and like a bit of hands-on adventure. He also has little or no interest in wildlife of any sort, whereas that is one of my passions. However, as we do have plenty of other stuff in common, I can live with this. Although I do think that at some point in the not too distant future I shall be doing a challenging walking holiday with friends and dog whilst he minds ds.

The wildlife and outdoors interests were shared by h1 and we lived in Borneo for 2 years (six months in a bungalow by a secluded beach, the rest of the time in a house on stilts in the jungle) and travelled a fair bit round that area of the world. We climbed Mt Kinabalu in Sabah, but wimped out three-quarters of the way up an active volcano in Bali because it started rumbling.

[bigTillyMint]

Stropps, can I come on your walking hol? DH has only 1 speed - snails pace The Borneo adventure sounds pretty idyllic!
DH doesnt do sunbathing on beach hols which can be a prob if there are no watersports - he hasnt yet mastered the art of reading novels in the sun

Had a bit of a poorly sorted day - got cab to river and then boat along (all good) but DH failed to get us off by the temple (said we moaned about it yesterday ) so we caught the sky train to the shopping centre where the DC finally found their Superdry, etc. Then we stuffed ourselves in Dunkin Donuts (so much fast food here) and went into the really posh Siam centre whic happened to have a young textile designers show on - DDs homework sorted!

[bigTillyMint]

Hatty, re the altitude sickness, there is no rhyme or reason - the two fittest blokes in our group got stretchered down (they were sooo gutted) and the big fat smoking/drinking South African strolled atound at the top like he'd just popped into his garden! I was OK but DH got sick on the last bit and could barely put one foot in front of the other. We felt like Olympic athletes on the way down though!

[Stropperella]

I lost count of the number of brothels we ended up staying in back in those days, as h1 was a) abnormally stingy, b) insisted on taking travel tips from his dodgy drinking buddies in the secret (dry country) expat drinking clubs he frequented and c) a control freak who would never let me book anything.

This is probably why these days I'm the holiday control freak and arrange everything. Then again, even with some of my iffier choices of holiday cottage we've never been met by a scantily-clad oriental lady who glares at me and then turns to dh and says crossly: "Eh, why you bring her?"

[bigTillyMint]

Stropps Have seen a fair few ugly old white men with petite younger Thai women fussing over them this hol - DH thinks I could learn a lot from them!!!

[Blackduck]

Oh altitude sickness - spent first three days in Quito with worlds worst headache, planned to club Cotopaxi but on altitude climb dp was doubled over(i was fine!we have arrived, but I about to kill him. Ryanair flight - okay, but all sit up. He gets off with bags, clears passport control - fine, but he's got mine and ds's passports. Queue much banging on windows etc - ahhhhhhit is warm and sunny - not blistering. Internet is shite...

[Stropperella]

..warm and sunny Enjoy, BD

[bigTillyMint]

BD, there have been a lot of annoyances not to mention bickering/arguing on our hol - Im sure yours wont be as bad

I hate Bangkok!

[hattymattie]

Stropps at brothel experience. BD - my DH did that in Turkey - I felt he should have been waiting attentively for his wife - but oh no strolls though passport on his own as usual and realises too late I'm not with him.

BD - have a great time.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

BTM - tell your DH that you have nothing to learn from the Thai ladies as you already "love him long time."

DH does not like holidays. He will do a city, with lots of museums, but that's about it. Having said that, he tolerated Normandy quite well last year, but I think that was because there was no-one on the beach and we had our own pool. (He doesn't do crowds/people.) I require beach, sea, sun, books, food, wine. And as I book it and usually pay for it, I choose.

[motherinferior]

DD1 is alleging she Likes Cities for holidays. This is totally untrue. She likes being in the middle of nowhere.

I have two new, urgent commissions which is quite quite lovely in many ways but also means I have to pull my finger out and WORK

[MrsSchadenfreude]

My cousin just called me to let me know my Aunt died this morning. It was unexpected - she was at home, and went peacefully in her sleep.

[herbaceous]

Oh that is sad, mrs s. And so sad that you didn't get to say goodbye. But maybe it was a merciful exit, if she was in pain.

[motherinferior]

I'm so sorry.

[Stropperella]

MrsS, I'm very sorry to hear that.

[wilbur]

Oh MrsS, I'm so sorry to hear that. Peaceful and at home though, that will bring comfort, eventually. Raising a to your aunt.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Yes, peaceful and at home - what better way to go. My Mum was with her, and her husband and son were there too. Spoke to my Mum - she said my Aunt seemed much better last night, they were watching telly and chatting a lot. Unfortunately she had a huge row with her husband before she went to bed, and he is devastated.

[CointreauVersial]

So sorry to hear about your aunt, MrsS, and what a shame about the last-minute row. .

Coincidentally my lovely, glamorous aunt has just revealed she has Non-Hodgins Lymphoma, but she is being so incredibly upbeat about things (looking forward to wearing a red wig after chemo, that kind of thing) that I can't at the moment envisage a sad conclusion. She has a long way to go, that's for sure.

[Stropperella]

CV, my cousin has just had his last session of chemo for Hodgkins (rather than non-). He has the PET and CT scans to see if it's all actually worked in 10 days time.

MrsS, damn shame about the row - poor man.

[Cremolafoam]

Ah mrs S very sorry to hear about your aunts death. I'm sure it was quite a shock that it came sooner than expected.how very sad.
I do hope you're feeling better after the high temp bug too.
Take care.