Top Three Holiday Photos

[TheRealTMA]

Pre-Raphaelite glass by Edwin Burne-Jones Brampton church.

Brampton - St Martin's Church - Visit Cumbria

St Martin’s Church Location : Brampton Grid Ref : NY 528610 St Martin’s Church in Brampton is famous as the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained...Read more

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[VPS]

Pre-Raphaelite glass by Edwin Burne-Jones Brampton church.

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Brampton - St Martin's Church - Visit Cumbria

St Martin’s Church Location : Brampton Grid Ref : NY 528610 St Martin’s Church in Brampton is famous as the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained...Read more

www.visitcumbria.com

Another dot on google maps of places I want to visit!!

 

[TheRealTMA]

Another dot on google maps of places I want to visit!!

Do do Hadrian’s wall and the Scottish Borders then end up in Brampton and the Lake District then stay in Cartmel and go to the fabulous Simon Roghan restaurant. Home | L'Enclume

 

[VPS]

Do do Hadrian’s wall and the Scottish Borders then end up in Brampton and the Lake District then stay in Cartmel and go to the fabulous Simon Roghan restaurant. Home | L'Enclume

Oh stop it . I have spent a bit of time around Hadrian's Wall and the Lake district but will add another dot

 

[TheRealTMA]

Oh stop it . I have spent a bit of time around Hadrian's Wall and the Lake district but will add another dot

I’ll do the l’Enclume dinner photos another time to tempt you!

 

[vetrade]

Sabi Sands:


Delaire Graff Estate - near Stellenbosch. Owned by Laurance Graff - a London diamond billionaire - vineyard with restaurants and numerous sculptures and paintings


View from the open air restaurant at Delaire Graff

 

[bPeteb]

Back to the UK later in 2012. Post summer Olympics but there for most of Paralympics. We tried (half tried) to get tickets with no success. We flew over the top via Tokyo, BA PE and J on points, our first ever J flight. No stop on the way there but short stop on the way back. 33 days away. We both must have used some long service in 2012 considering we'd already been to Thailand for two weeks before we left on this trip. Ridiculous amount of places and things squeezed in over five weeks including trips on the UKs two remaining 'regular' sleeper trains, the Night Riviera and the Caledonian Sleeper.

A 'Grand Design' above the beach at Tenby



the 'old' Caledonian Sleeper



We aren't on the hunt for celebrity, starred or hatted restaurants. We don't have the budget if truth be told. On our last trip to the UK we ate at 13, not much chop to be honest. This time we had dinner at Dinner and it was pretty special. We then stayed at the Indigo in Liverpool where Marco Pierre White has a restaurant. We didn't even notice him there doing a signing as we headed out the first night. We ate there the second and to be honest we enjoyed it more than Dinner. We were then treated to dinner at Paramount (amazing) and then treated again to the meal I enjoyed the most - lunch at The Ivy - where our friend is a member.

I can close my eyes and still remember this chicken, eight years later...



If only we'd been able to take pictures at the caviar and champagne tasting at the Playboy Club on our last night...

 

[bPeteb]

2013 and I hit 50. I wanted to go on a cruise and didn't want to fly so our only choice was Sun Princess to Fiji.

No better way to start a holiday than a surprise of Dom (2012 no less!) and chocolates



me at the controls of a crazy stretch motor bike thing, Port Denarau



My birthday breakfast. Along with the Dom and chocolates, and a whole lot more, this (with more bubbles) was included in the 'celebration package' bigal surprised me with. Enough food to feed an army

 

[kermatu]

Our first glimpses of the NZ south island, back in '13.

 

[RB]

Our first glimpses of the NZ south island, back in '13.

Is the 2nd photo anywhere near Kerr Bay?

 

[RB]

When we were in Mexico in 2002 we visited Xcaret Park for the day







3rd photo is of the Papantla Flyers. I found a YouTube of a 1937 performance
Mexican Pole Dance (1937) - YouTube

 

[kermatu]

Is the 2nd photo anywhere near Kerr Bay?

No, don't think so. These were just random stops driving Queenstown to Glenorchy, then on a scenic flight next day looking back to Glenorchy.

Not quite sure why I wrote this was from 2013, was more recent - either '17 or '18.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Spain again.

Parador Castillo de Monterrei at Verin.


Residencia Real del Castillo de Curiel

Toledo Cathedral.

 

[Ric]

Old Havana and surrounds. April 2018


El Capitolio


Castillo De Los Tres Reyes Del Morro


Sunset by the US Embassy from The Malecón

 

[bPeteb]

Late 2013 and we were off again. Siem Reap - Vietnam - Kuala Lumpur. A short Intrepid Sapa walking trip (great), a 'south bound' Intrepid food tour (FANTASTIC!!) and a stop over on the way home in Kuala Lumpur (first visit).

We had a great time in Siem Reap. Good choice of hotel with lovely staff, a great guide who the friend we were travelling with had met when she was volunteering there (yep, at one of those horrible orphanages she now knows all about), and just a lot of fun



this picture is me with my 'helpers' on our Sapa Hill Tribe walk. I just couldn't keep on my feet. Wore the worst shoes. They clogged with mud and became skates. All of our group, and my helpers, thought it was the funniest thing ever. Me not so much...



Lots of fantastic food experiences and cooking classes but this one in Hoi An, and this dish, was my favourite

 

[TheRealTMA]

Scottish Borders.

Roslyn Chapel


Scott’s View

Mary Queen of Scots Death Warrant.


Sir Walter Scott’s house


William Wallace.

 

[bPeteb]

Our first holiday on The World. An amazing experience that we've been lucky enough to repeat twice more. For our first voyage we sailed Papeete-Moorea-Huahine-Bora Bora-Aitutaki-Rarotonga-Nukualofa-Norfolk Island-Bay of Islands-Auckland over 24 days then we flew down to Christchurch for a few days.

Gosh, this three photo thing becomes more and more difficult. We started this trip with a QF points EK J redemption. We spent most of the short flight in the bar and had a blast. So many of you have done this, many, many times, but for us it was like another world. And we hadn't even boarded The World...

Going back through our photos and there's literally thousands.

Bora Bora. I booked a boat cruise. Bloody expensive when I look back but an amazing day on a very nice skiff, skippered by who I will gladly admit as the hottest young local guy (that I didn't know would be taking us out) and only two other people, a chef at the Four Seasons (I think) and her mum who was staying with her.

I was going to post us in with the humungous stingrays, but nah. A bit later we tied up to a mooring at one of the entrances into the main lagoon. We then clung to ropes off the back of the boat in the strong current, surrounded by swarming fish



We took bikes out and road around Raro, we'd actually done the same when we at Bora Bora. I've said it multiple times, I love Raro. Here's the sunset and a rainbow at the end of a wet but wonderful day on Raro



without a shadow of a doubt the most spectacular sky either of us have ever seen and maybe will ever see. This was the day before we arrived at Norfolk Island, so somewhere between Tonga and Norfolk. The sea was like glass

 

[TheRealTMA]

Grand Central Terminal New York 2012

 

[RB]

2004 Munich

Part of Nymphenburg Palace


Oktoberfest

 

[TheRealTMA]

More assorted Spain.