Feeling nostalgic

NatAless



Joined: 31/03/2009
Posts: 789

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 07:23

I usually say to myself, the world is big why go back to the same place again but at the same time, wouldn't you like to go back to every place you have ever been and see the people you met and touched your lives again? I would start with Ravenna, Italy and love to see the little baby girl Camilla I used to au-pair for, I wonder sometimes how she has turned out, if she's happy, successful etc my English students there...smells, food, people, places, isn't it funny how you can never forget some people, as insignificantly as they may have touched your lives, or as deeply, it's always good to make new friends and I try to keep in touch with lots of people, some old friends from childhood have changed, you have nothing in common with them anymore, but some people, some conversations you had with them, there was a bond, kind words, an understanding, I would love to see them agan, I think the memory is very important & have always kept diaries...even now I keep a diary for appointments...

NatAless



Joined: 31/03/2009
Posts: 789

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 07:25

& write briefly what I did every day then look back...I would love to go back to peaceful Goa in India, Positano in Italy, so many places, small villages to big cities, where would you like to go back to and to see whom or what new place would you like to visit? My new places are Istanbul and New York, as living here I wouldnt really go on a beach holiday!

Natx

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 09:42

I'd like to go back to Looe, in Cornwall. Spent our honeymoon there almost 40 years ago.

sloan



Joined: 24/02/2009
Posts: 808

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 09:48

That amazing. My husband and I spent our honeymoon there in 1974 and have never been back to Cornwall. I have just retired and am going back to England for 7 weeks on September 2nd and Cornwall is on the list of places we want to visit .... although it is a very long way from Whitby!

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 09:54

Then go back No1, arrange it for your 40th anniversery i'm sure your good lady would be thrilled. I always say if you want to do something do it now while your still able.



Sorry Bill just my bit of wisdom for today.



Cooper

Dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 10:40

I'd go back to the North Cyprus of the early 1980's.

It was very basic, very ethnic, but unspoiled. What you could not get you did without as there were no trips to the dark side, apart from the British base at Dhekelia.

Made some wonderful friends back then.

wearytravellers



Joined: 27/04/2007
Posts: 249

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 11:25

I,d go back to my 1st Wedding day and when he says do you take this woman to be your lawfull wife....answer would be: Are you having a laugh mate !!!



My 1st wife tragically died of Poisoning, my 2nd wife was battered to death tragically.....she wouldn't take the Poison !!!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 12:52

You know what Cooper, I might just do that. I'll surprise her with a long week-end there.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 13:00

Bill and Chris - what a couple of old romantics you two are!! It's a lovely thought



We visited Thailand 10 years ago and have recently decided to go back next year (God willing) for my 60th birthday.



Jean

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 13:03

message 7

Now that really did make me laugh !!!!!

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 13:05

i miss the smell of the uk.

those smells from the spring and summer, mowed lawns, green fields and trees.

always reminds me of happy days walking the dogs in the countryside, watching them chase rabbits and drink from puddles that sort of thing.

NatAless



Joined: 31/03/2009
Posts: 789

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 13:15

ok lets get booking people! What about new places for the future?

Natx

PS I love talking travel ;0)

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 13:22

I think I'd like to do a cruise to Alaska and see the Arctic regions before they dissapear.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 13:32

iceland is somewhere i have always wanted to visit.

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 13:39

FS i much prefer Sainsbury's

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 14:28

Blimey who would have known...what a load of old romantics we have on here!!! I'm not the romantic sort but i would like to go back to Durban in South Africa...surfing at day break, no one around but me....and, as i later found out, a bunch of sharks...



DD

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 14:30

DD - sounds great. Mind you, there are a lot of sharks here too, only difference is that they don't live in the sea



J

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 14:34

Jeannie, you got that right!!!! My future journey is something i have wanted to do since forever, and probably will never be able to afford to do, but i would love to take an Orient Expressesque train all the way through Japan...train journeys are the absolutely the best way to travel the planet!!



DD

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 14:36

cooper,

i'm a waitrose girl myself.



dd,

the orient express thing sounds lovely.

mamachina


Joined: 22/11/2008
Posts: 730

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 14:56

Michu Pichu again and Cuzco, lovely Peru!! And a certain restaurant that does absolutely the best Lobster Thermidor in the world, in Mombasa, not to mention sla de Margarita - oh hell, cant go back to them all!!!!

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 16:09

We went to China when we both retired, a wonderful experience, we did three internal flights, three train journeys, everything was so well organised everywhere we went. Five star Hotels had breaakfast there then lunch & dinner out, never ate twice in any restaurant and always a show on at the evening meal.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/08/2009 16:19

I'd like to go up the Khyber.



The pass became widely known to thousands of Westerners and Japanese who traveled it in the days of the Hippie trail, taking a bus or car from Kabul or the Afghan border.Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
27/08/2009 01:36

no1doyen;



"Carry on up the Khyber" it's a classic!



Me; it has to be Niagara Falls, the Rockies by train, and Vancouver.

ClaireCat44



Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 739

Message Posted:
27/08/2009 11:36

I would love to go to Scandinavia somewhere and stay in a log cabin with a huge fireplace. Outside I want deep clean white snow and snow-covered fir trees. I would have a wooden bed that was like a deep box and it would be filled with down quilts and cats! I'm sure this senario must have a deeper meaning.