Where have you travelled this year, and what is next?

Rabies

The year is nearly over. Where have you gone to this year?

I have travelled a bit this year. Little bit more than normal.

Was in England three times over the year through work, got the plane to London once and then had to drive to Sheffield the other times. About 4 weeks in total spent in England

Rest of trips were:
Dublin - Amsterdam - Singapore - Sydney (return)

Dublin - London - Hong Kong - Auckland (returning some time next year)

Next week I this to look forward to:
Auckland - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney - Auckland (xmas in Perth)


Next year I possibly could be going back to America for a few months to work.
Take my return flights to Dublin from Auckland, spend a few days at home with the family and leave from Shannon for Boston and then travel down to Cape Cod.

After all that, I will come back to Ireland next winter. Start looking for work again and try to save up (again) to buy a house.

rugbug86

I was in the south of spain for the summer, went to tarifa, sevilla, el puerto de santa maria, jerez, gibraltar, cadiz and a few other random places.

went to morocco - fez and casablanca, incredible!

america - chicago

and a few places in england.

and i'm heading to NY on 26th dec. yeay!

daiixi

This year: Oslo, Vilnius, Nice, Paris, Marseille, Italy, Greece and am heading to Riga for Christmas.

Next year: Sweden, London, Romania, Africa, Russia, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong and Australia.

mikedragon32

This year:

Jan: Nice/Monaco - France
Feb: Karlsuhe - Germany
Mar: Venice (in the snow - amazing!)
Apr: Nice/Monaco/Ventimiglia(spl?)
May: Nice
Sept: Nice/Monaco/Genoa/Milan/Cannes
Oct: Bavaria (village called Colmburg, near Rothenburg ob der Tauber)
Nov: Leeds
Dec: London

Trips confirmed so far for next year:
Jan: Rome
Feb: Karlsruhe
March: Krakow
June/July: Vancouver, Chichago, Boston, Toronto, Niagra Falls

There'll inevitably be a couple of trips to Nice too, but nothing booked yet!

Rabies

mikedragon32, do you work, or is all the travelling part of work?

fulofh20

I got a cheap trip to pluto last November. They trips were discounted because nobody wanted to visit it while it was being downgraded "not a planet"

Rabies

Have they got internet access there? Or did you get a return ticket?

fulofh20

Rabies wrote:

Have they got internet access there? Or did you get a return ticket?

Lol. Ignore my post;)
I have been to the USA, Germany, Holland, Sweden.
Next year is undecided as the above are all week notice trips. And I'm only a salesman, no BMW here:(

Rabies

At least work is paying for it, can't be too bad then.

mikedragon32

Rabies wrote:

mikedragon32, do you work, or is all the travelling part of work?

Some of it is work, most leisure.

I work flexi-time so can work up time and then take it when I like, plus a nice amount of annual leave makes for plenty of trips.

abelard

Don't really have the money to be getting away regularly, but I did manage the old student favourite Interrail over the summer, did;

Dublin - Paris - Caen - Bayeux - Chartres - Blois - Lyon - Marseille - Monaco - Ventimiglia - Genoa - Pisa - Florence - Venice - Siena - Naples - Rome - Dublin

Next year I hope to hit the States over the summer, as to where exactly, i have no idea as of yet!

fulofh20

Mid west and California I would suggest.
Also I liked the Carolinas best on the east coast.

Tuesday_Girl

This year:

Glasgow
London
Cardiff
Paris
Budapest
Prague
Stockholm
Gothenburg
Las Vegas
San Francisco
Vancouver
Montreal
Istanbul
Zurich
Oslo
Munich
Moscow
Cairo


Next year:

Not sure yet, except for Lake Tahoe, Lisbon and Madrid. There will be an additional 15 - 20 work trips, some to the above places and hopefully a few new ones as well

greine

March last Basel, Switz
Lots of trips to Dublin all year
Ring of Kerry in august and Ballybunion
oh, went to Galway too during the summer
Lots of trips to tipp too
...guess i'm a bit of a homebird in comparison to other posts!!

Going skiing in Bulgaria in Feb and goin to Paris for the rugby next sept...i might conquer Co. Mayo in between!

Owen

Boston
New York
New Jersey
Paris
Brittany
London
Rome
Misano
Berlin
Warsaw
Lodz
Oxford
Ballydehob

Next year is a 2 week driving vacation in Europe, followed by 2 weeks in the Sun. And with work :

Berlin
Amsterdam
MTV Music Awards

Naked Lepper

feb - london
feb - glasgow
august - amsterdam
september - london
october - mallorca
october - glasgow
december - london

breadmonkey

Do you degenerates not have any jobs?

Rabies

breadmonkey wrote:

Do you degenerates not have any jobs?

We do (well I did). Guess they pay well enough for us to travel a bit

jonny68

This years travel includes....

Glasgow x 10

London x 5

Brighton x 3

Manchester x 3

Edinburgh

Nottingham

Birmingham

Liverpool

Wales

Barcelona

Valencia

Ibiza

going to Dubai in 4 days time:D

jonny68

Razzle wrote:

This year:

Glasgow
London
Cardiff
Paris
Budapest
Prague
Stockholm
Gothenburg
Las Vegas
San Francisco
Vancouver
Montreal
Istanbul
Zurich
Oslo
Munich
Moscow
Cairo


Next year:

Not sure yet, except for Lake Tahoe, Lisbon and Madrid. There will be an additional 15 - 20 work trips, some to the above places and hopefully a few new ones as well

jaysus mate you must be loaded going all those places this year:eek:

Tuesday_Girl

jonny68 wrote:

jaysus mate you must be loaded going all those places this year:eek:

Well 12 of those were work trips and the other 6 were holidays. I managed to add on some time to a few of the work trips though to have a few more mini-holidays.

To be honest, all the travel got tiring towards the end of the year. I'm going to home for Christmas, and then hopefully won't be budging for the month of January

xebec

I've had a pretty good year considering I'm a poor student!

Prague
Vienna
Budapest
Santiago de Compostela - Camino de Santiago
London - 10 weeks
San Francisco

Some travelling around Ireland too but nothing major.

Next year have already booked trip to Riga for 6 days at Easter and then hoping to spend 2/3 months as far away as possible (maybe NZ) before starting a real job

Darren

My trips in 2006 -

Jan/Feb Hong Kong - Vietnam - Cambodia - Thailand
May Abu Dhabi
June Japan
August Oman

2007 -

Not much planned, Brazil/Argentina is on the cards but as for the rest of the year, I am going to play it by ear.

BTW - I don't do Europe - too expensive.

penexpers

This year

Jan - France (skiing in Les Menuires)
Feb - Amsterdam
May - Copenhagen
June - France (Paris + Lyon)
July - Belgium (Dour Festival)
August - Tuscany
December - London

Next year... who knows.

Dingatron

Farnboro UK x2
Amsterdam Holland
Majorca Spain
Liverpool UK
Denver US

Next year Portugal in May and maybe Liverpool in September.

PunyHuman

India again! And India is next, as well, hopefully.

But also went to France, Italy, Holland and California this year.

Dingatron

Us Irish are a well travelled lot. Have a US software engineer coming over to us in January and the guy had to apply for a passport at 36 years of age lol.

useeme

Last December: Vietnam, Thailand
February: China, Korea
April: Portugal, Latvia
May: Germany (World Cup), Turkmenistan
November: USA, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil

Rabies

Dingatron wrote:

Us Irish are a well travelled lot. Have a US software engineer coming over to us in January and the guy had to apply for a passport at 36 years of age lol.

I know a guy in his 50s that does not have a passport and has never even been to the UK. Can't drive either. I find it weird.
No way could I be like that.

jabberwock

Jan - France - Eurodisney
Aug - Glasgow
Edinburgh

Backpacking: - Sept
Argentina
Uruguay
Brazil
Paraguay
Brazil
Bolivia
Peru
Ecuador - christmas

next:
Peru
Bolivia
Argentina
Chile
New Zealand - march 07

DiscoHugh

what do all you guys (who do a lot of travelling e.g. rabies) do for a living??

me? all i can think of is:

France - snowboarding for a week in Jan
Marbella - celebrating finishing college finals for a week in June

jabberwock how much have you spent so far in your travels in South America if you don't mind me asking. I'm thinking of undertaking a similar trip...

Rabies

DiscoHugh wrote:

what do all you guys (who do a lot of travelling e.g. rabies) do for a living??

I used to work in the concert/event scene in Ireland and England.
Worked long hours with little time off.

Had enough of that life by the summer time. Couldn't leave due to work commitments until at least the Ryder Cup was over. Handed in my notice (to my dad) at the start of oct and left for New Zealand a couple of weeks later.

I'm here on a working holiday visa. Will look for work when I come back from Australia in the new year.

Then possibly America to look forward to sometime in the early/middle part of next year.

daveg

this year:

UK

5 weeks in:
Hong Kong
Australia
New Zealand
Hawaii
L.A.

2 weeks in:
Orlando

Next year:
UK
Italy (possibly)
San Diego (Possibly with work)

Year after:
Melbourne Jan 2008 for good.

Darren

daveg wrote:

this year:

UK

5 weeks in:
Hong Kong
Australia
New Zealand
Hawaii
L.A.

2 weeks in:
Orlando

Next year:
UK
Italy (possibly)
San Diego (Possibly with work)

Year after:
Melbourne Jan 2008 for good.

Melbourne, Great choice, My favourite city on the planet.

Owen

DiscoHugh wrote:

what do all you guys (who do a lot of travelling e.g. rabies) do for a living?

I work for MINI, and play with a band at weekends.

Zaph

February: Amsterdam (to see an Ajax match, which was excellent)

May: Barcelona

July: Paris (work )

September: Croatia (mainly the islands near Dubrovnik)


Planned for next year - Munich, to see a Bayern match, probably in May

bringitdown

Krakow
Barcelona
Madrid
Washington
Boston
Buenos Aires + Southern Argentina
Montevideo, Uruguay
Santiago + Southern, Chile
Amman + Petra, Jordan
Dubai + Abu Dhabi, UAE
Paris

... looking forward to next year - perhaps South East Asia on a secondment, perhaps not either way I am gonna be out and about!

Mythago

11 weeks in Thailand over 3 trips and 3 weeks in Mauritius..... Was a pretty slow year! Think I'll just barely make enough points to keep the gold card

jrey1981

This year:
Belfast
Cardiff-Jersey-Manchester
London
London
Vienna
Jersey

2007:
London and who knows where else

Rb

I didn't get away once this year, only a few little breaks around Ireland.

Next year/2007 I'll be either going to Italy in March for a snowboarding holiday, or New Zealand in June.

Will also probably go to Amsterdam at some point and theres talk of a holiday to Paris at some stage which would be sweet.

Really want to get a few breaks abroad in the coming year.