[OT] If you had a week or two...

Not Responding

....what would you do?

My wife is taking the children on holiday[1] at Easter and I find myself
with a week or two to play with. Any suggestions?

The broad categories are:

(a) stay at home and catch up with domestics.
(b) epic cycling trip (but what?)
(c) sailing (where, & single handed or with mates?)
(d) Marrakech by train?
(e) anything else?

[1] For reasons I can't begin to understand, they're going to Disney in
America. Personally, I'd rather boil my own gonads. But each to their
own, I suppose. Also, I can't go on principle; (1) environmental damage
caused by aircraft and (2) I refuse to be fingerprinted.

Keith Willoughby

Not Responding wrote:

> ...what would you do?
>
> My wife is taking the children on holiday[1] at Easter and I find myself
> with a week or two to play with. Any suggestions?
>
> The broad categories are:
>
> (a) stay at home and catch up with domestics.
> (b) epic cycling trip (but what?)

LEJoG!

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Bob Downie

In message <41e2deb4$0$22504$7b0f0fd3@reader.news.newnet.co.uk>, Not
Responding <nowhere@dev.null> writes
>...what would you do?
>
>My wife is taking the children on holiday[1] at Easter and I find
>myself with a week or two to play with. Any suggestions?
>
>The broad categories are:
>
>(a) stay at home and catch up with domestics.
>(b) epic cycling trip (but what?)
>(c) sailing (where, & single handed or with mates?)
>(d) Marrakech by train?
>(e) anything else?
>
>[1] For reasons I can't begin to understand, they're going to Disney in
>America. Personally, I'd rather boil my own gonads. But each to their
>own, I suppose. Also, I can't go on principle; (1) environmental damage
>caused by aircraft and (2) I refuse to be fingerprinted.

I'm 50% with you on (1) and 150% with you on (2).

What to do? How about a cycle tour of the north-west of Scotland? At
Easter you can be lucky and get fantastic weather with no midges. If so
you realise that its the best place in the world. Alternatively the
weather could be shitty and it wasn't me that suggested it (honest).

Whatever you do enjoy.

Cheers
--
Bob Downie
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Simonb

Not Responding wrote:

> ...what would you do?

Catch the bike bus down to somewhere reasonably warm in France and ride for
a week staying in hotels (travel light). And spend the other week doing the
domestic stuff with rides out into the South Downs mornings and/or evenings.

MSA

In article <41e2e822$0$23058$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>,
sbennett@YOUAREALLNETDENIZENSwiderworld.co.uk says...
> Not Responding wrote:
>
> > ...what would you do?
>
> Catch the bike bus down to somewhere reasonably warm in France and ride for
> a week staying in hotels (travel light). And spend the other week doing the
> domestic stuff with rides out into the South Downs mornings and/or evenings.
>
>
>

Done the bike bus to D'Huez in 2003, Mallorca in 2002, 2003, 2004.
Doing Mallorca this year again, but really need to LEJOG. I'm planning
now.

Any of the above recommended!


--
Mark (MSA)
______________________________________________
Remember, half the people you know are below average

Mark Thompson

> (a) stay at home and catch up with domestics.

All that should be done when she's there so she sees you doing it and
appreciates it all the more.

> (b) epic cycling trip (but what?)

LEJOG obviously! Staying in hotels/B&Bs will solve the crap weather
problem, and the silly windspeeds of late will be mostly tailwinds if you
start from Lands End. Do it in a week or so, then go to option (e).
She'll be thinking you've been (e)-ing all week until the LEJOG photos
get back from the developers ;-)

> (c) sailing (where, & single handed or with mates?)

With mates, obviously. You've got a while, so maybe somewhere foreign
and come back with cheap beer & wine?

> (d) Marrakech by train?

Hell yeah!

> (e) anything else?

Stay home, eat takeways, drink, lounge around in the living room in the
early evening without having a crappy soap blaring out, revel in your new
found home-space, turn the kids bedroom into your den, get rid of the
floral wallpaper in the bedroom, swap second car for a new bike or two,
change all the locks/move. (erm, maybe just go with the earlier
sugestions for this one).

Just zis Guy, you know?

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:20:44 +0000, Not Responding <nowhere@dev.null>
wrote in message <41e2deb4$0$22504$7b0f0fd3@reader.news.newnet.co.uk>:

>...what would you do?

End to end, for sure.

Guy
--
"then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels
blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales

Al C-F

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:20:44 +0000, Not Responding <nowhere@dev.null>
wrote:

>...what would you do?
>
>
>(a) stay at home and catch up with domestics.
No
>(b) epic cycling trip (but what?)
LeJoG perhaps?
>(c) sailing (where, & single handed or with mates?)
Not my thing.
>(d) Marrakech by train?
Now that really appeals.
>(e) anything else?
Inter railing?
>
>[1] For reasons I can't begin to understand, they're going to Disney in
>America. Personally, I'd rather boil my own gonads.
Quite.

Richard Bates

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:20:44 +0000, Not Responding <nowhere@dev.null>
wrote:

>...what would you do?

>(a) stay at home and catch up with domestics.

Nah. Equal opportunities and all that.

>(b) epic cycling trip (but what?)

If you have been off your bike for a while, is LEJOG do-able in 2
weeks?

How about Holyhead to Lowestoft?

C2C2C2C2C2C?

Plan a "Hub Crawl" - cycle from town to town and have a beer with 10
different URCers.

--
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you may also be interested in 'Garfield - The Movie'.
... erm, how do they figure that one out?

MSeries

Richard Bates wrote:

>
> Plan a "Hub Crawl" - cycle from town to town and have a beer with 10
> different URCers.
>

Thats sounds like a good idea, 10 urcers each day I hope !!

Andy Leighton

On 10 Jan 2005 21:10:32 GMT,
Mark Thompson <pleasegivegenerously@warmmail.com> wrote:
>> (d) Marrakech by train?
>
> Hell yeah!

If you go to Marrkech, I would recommend a side trip to Essaouira
(probably about 2-3 hours by bus). The old town is a wonderful walled
fortress on the coast. Orson Welles filmed Othello there, and the
town (and in particular the beach) was the inspiration for some of Jimmy
Hendrix's music.

--
Andy Leighton => andyl@azaal.plus.com
"The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials"
- Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_

David Martin

Richard Bates wrote:

>>(b) epic cycling trip (but what?)
> If you have been off your bike for a while, is LEJOG do-able in 2
> weeks?
>
> How about Holyhead to Lowestoft?

A plan forms that may involve b and c ollowing earlier suggestions

> Plan a "Hub Crawl" - cycle from town to town and have a beer with 10
> different URCers.

Sail and bike the islands off the west coast of Scotland at Easter with
a friend or two.. Tour d'Islay anyone?

Visit Edinburgh for the next EIHPV festival..

Do the Scottish brewery tour, visiting the various organic craft
breweries that inhabit GOCNOTB [1]. With the occasional URCer.

Hmm.. Maybe there could be an 'NR relay', visit a bunch of different
URCers for a day of riding each, and ending up at the next place each
time.. Then you get to see the best bits of the countryside as well.

...d

Jon Senior

Not Responding wrote:
> (b) epic cycling trip (but what?)

A tour of URC? See how many URCers you can visit by bike in a two week
period. ;-)

Jon

Dave Kahn

Mark Thompson wrote:

> LEJOG obviously! Staying in hotels/B&Bs will solve the crap weather
> problem, and the silly windspeeds of late will be mostly tailwinds if you
> start from Lands End. Do it in a week or so, then go to option (e).
> She'll be thinking you've been (e)-ing all week until the LEJOG photos
> get back from the developers ;-)

The huge calf muscles might be a bit of a give-away. :-)

--
Dave...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the
future of the human race. - H. G. Wells