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riffraff
Joined: 27 Jul 2007
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Location: Forbes
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 Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Your travels.. |
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| Hayley wrote: | If I had not accidently become pregnant (no idea how....) my life plan was to travel and travel and never come home and be a crazy, eccentric aunt sending postcards and gifts from far-flung places. Having been medically diagnosed as unable to conceive, this event was a shock, and a change in travel plans. To say the least. Subsequent new husband says it was because Australian men are simply not strong enough(  ). So... one of my adventures, not a pleasant one, involved my daughter at 9 months old (to make a very long and horrendous story short) ... went to Singapore on a visa run overnight, found myself without ANY money available until the next day, so at 9pm wandering streets in the rain, taxis refusing a too small fare to Little India (within my $10 budget), through a series of ridiculous events, I found myself having to trust a stranger to take me to a hotel, but instead ended up in the back of a car being driven by a half drunk maniac who then stopped to do a DRUG DELIVERY (yes, in SINGAPORE - death penalty) and throw $10,000 payment in a cash roll my way and revealing a pistol in the glovebox before dragging my daughter and myself to no less than 3 Indian backstreet 'clubs' despite protests and efforts to escape (clutching my very happy and sociable child who was having a ball) refusing food and drink despite being starving and a thirst like no other because I suspected the whole time that their intention was to drug me and steal my child. Finally escaped with a female friend of his who was scared of the driver by claiming to need to change a nappy - ran into the street and jumped on a bus and ended up at her house almost at the Malaysian border (she said it was close by) to sleep in her bed but requiring one eye open and door firmly barracaded and locked as 4 Sri Lankan men living at her house seemed to think I was there for their 'pleasure'. Ran out at 5am before anyone awoke (even my child) and caught fast train back to the city, visited Consulate and flew back to Bali. No exaggerations, in fact much, much more to the story...
2. Antarctica (snap Daniel) after seeing Bea Maddock's stunningly beautiful print series from her artist in residence - unfortunately daughter would not stand for a required possible 12 month seperation (me either).
3. Coming home after travelling has been the most emotional for me. But I've never been to any deeply loaded places that have hosted genocide. I doubt I would cope. |
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belle
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: Re - Your travels.. |
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O.M.G Hayley!! What an experience we can survive sometimes. Mine are tame by comparison.
I arrived at Cairo airport (not stop from Sydney) at 3am and my luggage was lost. Filled out forms, got money, refused proposal of marriage and went looking for taxi.
Some guy came up, took my hand luggage and told me to go with him. I was so jet lagged I thought "oh well, white slavery here I come" and i went with him to an office filled with guys smoking. They told me to wait and each asked me to marry them. One showed me a picture of his Australian "girlfriend" as a credential and no kidding, she lived in the same street as me in Newcastle!! After about 3 hrs they suddenly told me to go with them and piled me into a car that had no taxi sign.
Turns out they all wanted a lift home and they gradually left the taxi leaving me with the driver (refused proposal of marriage) who took me to Club Med Cairo where no one spoke English to help me retrieve luggage. But therein lies another story.
Oh and I got punched by a huge albino in Damascus markets!
And our truck got shot at in Syria.
Riff Raff I chose that overland trip because I was specialising in pre Christian art and it seemed to cover most bases. Not Mesopotamia unfortunately. |
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riffraff
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Location: Forbes
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Your travels.. |
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| belle wrote: | O.M.G Hayley!! What an experience we can survive sometimes. Mine are tame by comparison.
I arrived at Cairo airport (not stop from Sydney) at 3am and my luggage was lost. Filled out forms, got money, refused proposal of marriage and went looking for taxi.
Some guy came up, took my hand luggage and told me to go with him. I was so jet lagged I thought "oh well, white slavery here I come" and i went with him to an office filled with guys smoking. They told me to wait and each asked me to marry them. One showed me a picture of his Australian "girlfriend" as a credential and no kidding, she lived in the same street as me in Newcastle!! After about 3 hrs they suddenly told me to go with them and piled me into a car that had no taxi sign.
Turns out they all wanted a lift home and they gradually left the taxi leaving me with the driver (refused proposal of marriage) who took me to Club Med Cairo where no one spoke English to help me retrieve luggage. But therein lies another story.
Oh and I got punched by a huge albino in Damascus markets!
And our truck got shot at in Syria.
Riff Raff I chose that overland trip because I was specialising in pre Christian art and it seemed to cover most bases. Not Mesopotamia unfortunately. |
I love ancient history, was just trying to learn more about cylcons. Not much is known about them although they may be the oldest form of art in the world.
I'm also trying to decipher an old ring I came across. It has an ancient word matrix, ancient Germanic symbols, French words, astrological signs and a sun dial! I've worked some of it out but the more I find the more questions are raised... |
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eejot
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: Re - Your travels.. |
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1. Every day is an adventure for me. Constantly moving and trying to learn the local language as quickly as possible typifies my existence.
Close to my top was trekking Nepal though. Camping in tents in the middle of winter between 3000m and 4500m gets kind of cold. But waking up with 8000m+ mountains right outside your tent zip can't stop humbling you.
2. South America - all of it. Skipping borders month-to-month over the course of a year would be ideal. Or the other ideal; the Middle East and North Africa and finally getting a hold of Arabic.
3. What has moved me? I nearly cried when my plane took off from Nepal and I knew I wouldn't be back in the Annapurna surrounded by the friendliest people ever for quite some time. I was devastated leaving Korea the first time as well.
Visiting Sandakan in Malaysia Borneo had two feelings. A weird sense of death after being in one of the POW camps that the Japanese had held in WW2. And a sense of "why?" upon visiting the orangutan sanctuary. Why do people feel the need to massacre these animals in exchange for palm oil and timber. So basically.... avoid vegetable oil, bio-diesel, snack food and instant noodles!
But the most emotional feeling? I went to Fukuoka for a day trip and upon trying to find something to pass the time stumbled upon the Fukuoka Art Museum, which I knew nothing about. Once inside, I rounded a corner and was confronted with my very first Miro. The whole reason why I began painting. I can't even describe what I felt, but I'm sure many of you here know the feeling. |
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Mariajames
Joined: 13 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Your travels.. |
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I would like to visit Antarctica.
I would love to paint the landscape and the massive floating icebergs.
I would like to go to the highlands of Scotland and hang out with my ancestors. Would also like to see the Somme, Gettysburg, and the Sea of Galilee.
Hard to pick Rolling Eyes I spent a few years travelling all around the world on cruise ships & I think I packed more than enough adventure for a lifetime into about the first 6 months! |
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Markus
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject: Re - Your travels.. |
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I had recently been to Sydney and was totally overcome by the beauty there. The blue mountains are a treat for the eyes and the hunter valleys and the wine are something to cherish. I had also been on the whale tours and also watched the dolphins. This is one tour I wouldn't forget.
[Edited by GGGraph: please note that posts for the sole purpose of promoting websites are not in keeping with the spirit of the forum.] |
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missyq
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: Your travels.. |
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| riffraff wrote: |
1. What's one of the biggest adventure you've had travelling?
2. One place you'd love to visit?
3. One of the most moving, or emotional place you've visited?
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we had gone to Gibraltar as friends and the planning was that we will stay there for maximum time...and after 6 days He proposed me there only...
now he is my husband since last 6 years. i would love to vist the place again and again, and coz he proposed me there, i am emotionally very attached to the place! |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Your travels.. |
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| riffraff wrote: | | I'm also trying to decipher an old ring I came across. It has an ancient word matrix, ancient Germanic symbols, French words, astrological signs and a sun dial! I've worked some of it out but the more I find the more questions are raised... |
Not the one that says "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul," obviously...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/One_Ring_inscription.svg |
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Devilbiss
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject: Re - Your travels.. |
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| There’s an inscription on my ring that only the most privileged get to read...it says "if you can read this you are too close" |
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