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Whats the most awesome thing or adventure you ever did?

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  • #62
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    bullpost wrote: »
    Delivered a baby.

    Are you a stork?
    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    I created life

    [EMAIL="W@nking"]W@nking[/EMAIL] isn't creating life.


  • #63
    Peetrik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    Went inter-railing with a few mates (2 lads, 1 girl) when I was 19, we were staying in a hostel inside the Medieval castle in Carcassonne.
    That night we stayed up late having a few drinks and were about to head to bed but decided instead to have a bit of a look around.
    I spent about 2-3hrs flitting around the Castle with the girl (who I of course had become completely smitten with), giggling at the thrill of dodging the security, climbing into places tourists aren't allowed and watching shooting stars from the top of the battlements. Absolutely magic.

    I've traveled quite a bit since and been to places a lot more exotic but that still sticks in my memory as one of most enjoyable adventures I ever had.


  • #64
    homemadecider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭homemadecider


    I recently spent 2 weeks up a mountain in one of the most conflict-prone areas of Eastern Congo for work. Stayed in a barbed-wire compound in a tiny village overrun by young soldiers with giant guns who had a tendency to get very very drunk.

    In the two weeks I was there, there were several nights I was woken up by gunshots nearby, two men were killed and an entire village was burned to the ground. Needless to say I was very jumpy around sudden noises for a while when I got home. Still am a bit, actually.


  • #65
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    homemadecider wrote: »
    I recently spent 2 weeks up a mountain in one of the most conflict-prone areas of Eastern Congo for work. Stayed in a barbed-wire compound in a tiny village overrun by young soldiers with giant guns who had a tendency to get very very drunk.

    In the two weeks I was there, there were several nights I was woken up by gunshots nearby, two men were killed and an entire village was burned to the ground. Needless to say I was very jumpy around sudden noises for a while when I got home. Still am a bit, actually.

    What do you do for a living?


  • #66
    MaxSteele
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭MaxSteele


    F*ck me I'm a boring bastard :(


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  • #67
    bbam
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    Tonyandthewhale wrote: »
    What do you do for a living?

    member of the troika??


  • #68
    homemadecider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭homemadecider


    Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

    What do you do for a living?

    I work for an international NGO.


  • #69
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    iamstop wrote: »
    Best thing I ever did was a trek through Taman Nagara in Malaysia.
    It's the oldest rainforest in the world. Never been affected by floods, glaciers, volcanoes etc. The wild live there is just awesome. In some places the termites are so dense you can hear them crunching in unison.
    Big ants, saw a flying fox flying, wild hog running wild, crazy ants all over the hut, massive centipedes, large variety of fungus, lizards and other reptiles.

    Nearly got lost and it was starting to get dark, just near the end the leaches woke up, luckily I only got attacked by 1 but I managed to get it off.

    After I got out of the jungle and into a clearing I hear a load of screams. Seems I just woke up the slumbering leeches and they went full scale on the poor group of people who were just behind me by about 20 minutes. They came out with blood all down their legs.

    That sounds horrible.


  • #70
    brimal
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    Ein Gedi in Israel.

    Spent a good few hours on the trail there. Fantastic views, beautiful setting, every 30 mins or so of walking you come across another waterfall or pool to cool down in (it was 40 C at the time)

    I highly recommend it to anyone travelling to Israel, especially the Dead Sea region.


  • #71
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    MadsL wrote: »
    Joined boards 9 years ago, been a rollercoaster ever since.

    Truthfully, heading off to stop a wedding in Germany. I've told the story here before.
    Music4life wrote: »
    Where can I find this story? Can't find it in the search engine

    Enjoy...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80490549

    It was in this thinly disguised Sabrina the Teenage Witch thread.... I know, After Hours huh?


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