Travel

[bertowud]

(30-12-2009 04:11 AM)lwhite53 Wrote:  Actually, northern Vermonters sound like they're from Quebec since both were settled by the same French-speakers. It's really kind of weird -- depending on where they staked their claim to which piece of land, members of the same family became American or Canadian by virtue of a border that was added at a later date.

Not unlike parts of the Middle East.

[lwhite53]

Absolutely the same. Or Poland and Russia -- those folks on the border spent most of the 20th century not knowing what country they would be citizens of in a month's time

[JHyde]

I love dialects, I find them endlessly fascinating. c

They're from Vermont, you're meant to make fun of them, right?

[almh]

Tut tut, you're not meant to make fun of anyone

My parents are currently deciding where we go on holiday at the moment, I really really really hope it's not another adventure place. Most likely place we're going to go is France, just because we go there nearly every year and have done so for years. I once went on a school trip to Ypres... I think it was a one-day trip, got up at 4 or something. I did German GCSE so I went to Aachen Christmas Market which was amazing, although slightly marred by my inability to speak German when in Germany/in a German lesson (I spoke French instead by accident That's what always happened! In year 10 whenever I needed to speak one language it would immediately escape my mind and all I could remember was how to say it in the other language...) and I went on an exchange in Germany, but I can't remember where. I didn't really enjoy it much anyway...

My family don't really travel anywhere other than France, outside of the UK. We went to America once because my cousins used to live out there, and we used to go to Portugal but it wasn't all that good as my parents wanted to go out in the evenings, so they left us with a Portuguese babysitter who couldn't speak any English, and we'd have to go an 'adventure camp' during the day. Every two years or so we go up to my Grandparents who live in Yorkshire, but we're not going there this year, I don't think. We went last year, just after I got my AS results (I took two AS Maths modules early,) and found out that in one of them I hadn't done well enough to get into my new school and do Further Maths. That was an enjoyable holiday...

[YourFutureMuse]

Trying to sort out my holidays for this summer - my dad has shown a rare moment of trust in me and let me book it At the moment my shortlist is Sorrento in Italy, Rovinj in Croatia or Cyprus (which I have been to loads but I love ) I've never beeen to the other two before so wondered if anyone had what they thought, would they recomend etc...

Also I want to go somewhere more adventurous with my friends and wondered whether anybody had any tips on how to do this cheaply lol

[almh]

If you go to Cyprus you could go and look

Spoiler: show

for Ruth's house

[YourFutureMuse]

I had actually forgot about that :O Of course it has got to be Cyprus now

[almh]

LOL, have fun finding it then Are you going to explain to your dad the reason for going or just say that you like it there?

[Moonlight]

You would have a problem with that as they filmed it in Majorca...

[almh]

Really? Well what was the point of that?!?! (Where abouts in Majorca? If you know where it was filmed, you could put it on the locations thread Shameless plugging continues...)