30-12-2012, 02:18 PM
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I had a think a couple of years before my 60th. I usually went skiing on my birthday but for 60
I fancied a cruise to see the Northern Lights,snow mobile trip, husky sledge, anything like that.
On going to the travel agents I found all their cruises had dress codes for meals. On formal nights if you weren't in a suit and tie you had to eat elsewhere.
Reading the Telegraph I came across a company called Hurtigruten and rang them.
On my 60th birthday I crossed the Arctic circle. On that holiday I also went for a ride on a husky sledge, saw the Northern Lights and stopped the night in a snow hotel.
Following year I saw what it was like not to see the sun on a clear day. Sunrise merged with sunset for an hour. Saw the lights again.
This year got off the ship at one port, went in a mini bus part way up a mountain. Got on a snowmobile, drove around a field, then over the mountain and down the other side to meet up with the ship at the next port.(that evening 12 of us has dinner wearing ski wear
To do
see the midnight sun
Next winter a snowmobile tour in northern Norway
30-12-2012, 03:09 PM
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I am like jem,cant be bothered.I do have day dreams but really I am happy being at home now,go shopping once a week, got it down to a fine art. Even am glad to be deaf so I cant hear anyone knocking on the door so don't have to answer it. I have done my share.
31-12-2012, 11:32 AM
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I'm quite Happy living the Quiet Life in the Middle of Nowhere on My Laird's Farm these Days. I've had a full and Active Life before my Knee Operations pulled me up Short. I'm very lucky in the fact that I recovered so well and can do most of the things I used to do again....Especially Clydesdale Riding. Grumblewagon........Don't know if you'll get to do some Munroes but this is the View from. The summit of Buachaille etive Mor 3353 ft (Stob Dearg) in Glencoe, looking to Rannoch moor and the Glencoe road.
31-12-2012, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Jem
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..can't be bothered arguing with anyone anymore.
Our wish-list got restricted some years ago due to circumstances. These days though, we don't worry about it. Pleasures are based around the home and generally speaking, we're pretty content with that. Since we need to stay near the home, we spend on iPads, computers, crafting machines, TVs etc and are happy with that.
I listen with interest to other people's travelling experiences and activities and will comment on them. However, I don't envy them. Good for them if they are healthy enough to go places easily.
31-12-2012, 01:18 PM
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Looks good Roxy.. I'm not often in Glencoe, but I go to the Cairngorms quite a lot. A couple of times a year I also go across to Torridon and have a go at Slioch. Out nearest hill is Bennachie (about 1600 ft) which has good footpaths to the summit.Banditta, I don't know where the nearest place to you for whale watching is, but Cromarty has a good reputation for dolphin and whale watching.
daughter and I are going to London for a few days later in the month, my birthday present from her.
01-01-2013, 01:39 AM
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These posts have certainly made me think. Is there anything I desperately want to do? No, can't think of anything. I count myself extremely lucky - I had a great career, ending up in a position which was challenging, influential and a huge learning curve and I am very grateful for having had that experience. We have always been fairly comfortably off and so have done a lot of travelling and now, in retirement, we have two months every year in England and Europe during our cold Tasmanian winter. This year we did a 30 day cruise from Dover through the Panama Canal via New York and Los Angeles which was magic.I don't want to climb any mountains or ski over the alps or ford any wild rivers. Our interests are classical music, film and theatre and we go to as many events as we can as that is what I enjoy most and I have good friends with whom I regularly go shopping or eating. I honestly can't think of anything I desperately still need to do. but it's interesting to read what others want to do - or don't want to do!
01-01-2013, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by jaywalker
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These posts have certainly made me think. Is there anything I desperately want to do? No, can't think of anything. I count myself extremely lucky - I had a great career, ending up in a position which was challenging, influential and a huge learning curve and I am very grateful for having had that experience. We have always been fairly comfortably off and so have done a lot of travelling and now, in retirement, we have two months every year in England and Europe during our cold Tasmanian winter. This year we did a 30 day cruise from Dover through the Panama Canal via New York and Los Angeles which was magic.I don't want to climb any mountains or ski over the alps or ford any wild rivers. Our interests are classical music, film and theatre and we go to as many events as we can as that is what I enjoy most and I have good friends with whom I regularly go shopping or eating. I honestly can't think of anything I desperately still need to do. but it's interesting to read what others want to do - or don't want to do!
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