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I would love to visit Finland, another place i am fascinated with from a photographer's point of view, and i would love to spend some time in Rome, to visit the Colosseum and all those ancient Roman ruins, there has been a lot about Rome on the TV over here, absolutely fascinating!
  
....and of course those beautiful intelligent classy women!!!!
 
 
 


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MF, you should definitely plan a trip to Rome! Amazing sights, great food and wine, and of course very beautiful, intelligent, classy women...Wink

I've never been outside Europe either, though the situation is going to change rather soon. I haven't visited all of our continent, but I've visited Britain some 40 times (it is by far my favourite country) and have lived almost six years in Finland. Of the European cities I've visited so far, Amsterdam is definitely one of my favourites (though not because of the red-light district or the notorious coffee shops), together with Budapest and Paris.
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I haven't been ever outside Europe - one place i would like to visit is Australia, i'm fascinated by the place, the aboriginal culture, the scenery.
big hobby of mine is Photography, the best places in the UK i have spent enough time in to do anything decent is Devon, Cornwall and the Highlands of Scotland - castles and scenery. Taken a lot around London Parks and along the Thames. Been to Austria to Ski, Germany (Munich) to taste the beer, Spain, Corfu, a weekend in Paris, Italy twice - Sorrento and Dolomiti mountains one February, and had a fantastic excursion to Venice where people were dressed in the most amazing masks and costumes you ever saw!
 
 
 Typical masks worn during the Carnival of Venice.
 
 
 


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Amsterdam is great. We did a trip round the Heineken brewery first thing in the morning, then went into a bar at lunchtime and found they were showing hard core porn on the telly!
I couldn't understand why everyone kept sneezing when they walked past me, then I realised they were saying "hashish".
Picked up a good Yes bootleg in a record store there.
And yes, we did a quick walk around the red light district.
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Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

This is vast becoming a very English thread  Confused Tongue.
 
I love England though, the first time my parents took me there I was 13 or 14. A pretty little town called Sherston.
 
 
i visited Holland some years ago, a long weekend in Amsterdam, it was fantastic there - we had a river trip, visited some bulbfields, some of the group tried their luck in the "red light" district, but wouldn't tell us what they did!
 
 
well we certainly seem to be covering some very interesting subjects here - white dog poo??Confused
 
...as long as we're all enjoying ourselves!
 
 
anybody - what are the most memorable foreign countries you have visited??
 
 
 
 
 


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This is vast becoming a very English thread  Confused Tongue.
 
I love England though, the first time my parents took me there I was 13 or 14. A pretty little town called Sherston.
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Ah, the dog-poo question.......... well, this was being discussed amongst some friends recently, and since the law stated that dog food had to have, some certain percentage of real meat and less rubbish, this has led to no more white poos! (Although I know some one who has a dog on a vegetarian diet- I know mad huh?- and they regularly have white dog poos in their garden!!!..)
 
Spangles were fantastic, I loved them............and "pacers" although they went down hill when they made them stripey.....
 
Ah! the rocking horse, they were good, and the one I played on as a child is still in existance, the face of the horse is a little indistinct with 30-40 odd years of paint tho! and they have bunged springy foamy stuff around it, but it's still in the park.......I think they might have restricted it tho!
 
 
 
 
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It sure is (he means dog poo that is white, not poo from a white dog).
This is a question which has oft troubled me (not). It must be something in the water, I reckon.
Whatever happened to Spangles?


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white dog-poo? Is that english?  Tongue
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Also - why do you never see white dog-poo anymore...?

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

playgrounds were death traps when i was a kid - concrete, metal, every torture trap you could think of! i was always falling or banging my head, my knees were permanently skinned.


We had one contraption in our local park; a kind of a rocking horse affair that could seat about 6 kids... we could get that baby going back and forward like a train. Back, forward, up, down, faster, faster... this thing was metal, mounted on solid concrete & had a cast iron horse's head on the front!

Remember the battering ram used by the Orc army in 'Return Of The King'? That was based on our rocking horse!
    
We had one of those too!
Now the swings and stuff in one of our local parks are all made of wood. Every time the council repairs it, the local yobbos set fire to it again.
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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

playgrounds were death traps when i was a kid - concrete, metal, every torture trap you could think of! i was always falling or banging my head, my knees were permanently skinned.


We had one contraption in our local park; a kind of a rocking horse affair that could seat about 6 kids... we could get that baby going back and forward like a train. Back, forward, up, down, faster, faster... this thing was metal, mounted on solid concrete & had a cast iron horse's head on the front!

Remember the battering ram used by the Orc army in 'Return Of The King'? That was based on our rocking horse!
    

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playgrounds were death traps when i was a kid - concrete, metal, every torture trap you could think of! i was always falling or banging my head, my knees were permanently skinned. nowadays they have their mums there with them, and if they fall and hit the ground they just bounce, and all the climbing thingies are plastic. we have a local "wacky fun house" full of cages and plastic balls, i would love to have played in one of those! i used to love to go swimming - you were allowed to dive in the pool in those days (open air pools),  it was a lot more fun, there were life guards but they didn't get on your case like they do now.

 
 
 
 
 


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Originally posted by Bastille Dude Bastille Dude wrote:


Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

  I just turned 40.

Remember when all of our toys were made of metal,playground equipment had sharp edges,bolts sticking out and a concrete pad under the jungle gyms and riding a bike with a helmet on was unheard of?
When I was 9 years old my parents brought me to a playground in a park. I ran to the giant metal slide, the kind of slide that has a metal tube covering it, and climbed the stairs. When I got to the top my mother decided to snap my picture going down, just as I got to the slide and started to sit, I whacked my forehead on that metal tube enclosure and just about gave myself a concussion. As I slid down the slide my mother snapped the picture. Later after getting the pictures developed, there is a great picture of me sliding down the slide, holding my head in pain and crying!


Those old playgrounds were great. Full of danger. Do you think our parents were trying to thin the herd?

Bill Cosby had a great routine about this.
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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

  I just turned 40.

Remember when all of our toys were made of metal,playground equipment had sharp edges,bolts sticking out and a concrete pad under the jungle gyms and riding a bike with a helmet on was unheard of?


When I was 9 years old my parents brought me to a playground in a park. I ran to the giant metal slide, the kind of slide that has a metal tube covering it, and climbed the stairs. When I got to the top my mother decided to snap my picture going down, just as I got to the slide and started to sit, I whacked my forehead on that metal tube enclosure and just about gave myself a concussion. As I slid down the slide my mother snapped the picture. Later after getting the pictures developed, there is a great picture of me sliding down the slide, holding my head in pain and crying!LOL
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Wheeze
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hack
creak! Pinch
 
 
 
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Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

A PINT of wine?? Ye Gods, I bet there wasn't much work done at your uni p-c.
You English drink a lot.Tongue
 
Well, to be fair it was quite a long time ago.................Confused I was young and foolish..........with five whole pounds in my pocket!!!LOL
 
 
 
 
 
 
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A PINT of wine?? Ye Gods, I bet there wasn't much work done at your uni p-c.
You English drink a lot.Tongue
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Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

Ah.............Cresta..................................every bubble has passed it's fizzical!

Student union bar in my day, you could buy a PINT of (admittedly ropey) white wine for 85pence!!!

But I guess I was a year or two behind you Jim!

A PINT of wine?? Ye Gods, I bet there wasn't much work done at your uni p-c.
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