biffs travel thread.......

[danzor]

Ukraine has some cheap deals at the moment!

We're looking at Europe this year as the Mrs wants some where "safe" this year.

I have not done to much of Europe as that's for later in life, but Hvar is pretty nice!

 

[Rockingit]

Austin is great , spent a week in texas on a usa tour.

It was Houston where I met the girl I talked about earlier! Great place, though Austen is just full of oil workers.

 

[D Skelton]

Ukraine has some cheap deals at the moment!

We're looking at Europe this year as the Mrs wants some where "safe" this year.

I have not done to much of Europe as that's for later in life, but Hvar is pretty nice!

I'm seriously considering doing Chernobyl later this year!

 

[Guest55]

It was Houston where I met the girl I talked about earlier! Great place, though Austen is just full of oil workers.

the austin i visited had some of the best rock music , punk bars & rockabillie bands in the us ;-D

i didnt see any oil workers ? its a university town with a alot of fitness / cycling businesses when i visited in 2010

 

[Guest55]

I'm seriously considering doing Chernobyl later this year!

yeah , then onto a siberian route 66 tour in your tank ............

;-)

 

[danzor]

I'm seriously considering doing Chernobyl later this year!

Is that even safe yet?

She's just booked Mykonos for September, luckily I've got a few stag-do's!

 

[Rockingit]

the austin i visited had some of the best rock music , punk bars & rockabillie bands in the us ;-D

i didnt see any oil workers ? its a university town with a alot of fitness / cycling businesses when i visited in 2010

Precisely why I've been there several times on tours! When I said oil workers, it was more a reference to the executive, rather than grimy rag, type of worker. If you were on the tourist trail then you probably escaped them - feel lucky - they make a damn loud noise in hotel bars!!

 

[SJD]

the austin i visited had some of the best rock music , punk bars & rockabillie bands in the us ;-D

i didnt see any oil workers ? its a university town with a alot of fitness / cycling businesses when i visited in 2010

I hope you took a look at the bats as they leave the bridge at one end of the centre around dusk in their thousands, quite impressive. I also liked their slogan, "Keep Austin Weird".

 

[shanky887614]

Is that even safe yet?

She's just booked Mykonos for September, luckily I've got a few stag-do's!

You can go there but no telling what the radiation will do to you.

 

[D Skelton]

Is that even safe yet?

Yes, for short visits. There are strict restrictions in place and you can't get within the 25km exclusion zone without having all your papers in order and you have to either be fully tracable or be accompanied by an official travel guide. You can't stay for more that a day within the exclusion zone and you can't take anything from inside the exclusion zone out.

You can get within 100m of the reactor to view it!

Apparently spending a day there is about the same as having five chest x-rays, not very good for you but nothing to worry about if it's only a one off.

 

[Plonker 3]

Having looked at that myself, how the hell do the tour guides get by?

 

[D Skelton]

I guess they're just happy risking the whole 'two head' thing. They make lots of money!

There are people living within the exclusion zone and in the town center itself despite all restrictions and government recommendation and have been for years. They even grow their own crops in the irradiated soil! How much longer they'll survive without developing some horrific type of cancer is anyones guess.

 

[Plonker 3]

Hmmm lots of money, or a clean bill of health. Still I suppose they are happy.

I believe one of the maps on COD:Modern Warfare is also based on Chernobyl.

 

[Anthony King]

Hmmm lots of money, or a clean bill of health. Still I suppose they are happy.

I believe one of the maps on COD:Modern Warfare is also based on Chernobyl.

It is it has the theme park and the big wheel in one of the maps. Brilliant game.

 

[Rockingit]

I guess they're just happy risking the whole 'two head' thing. They make lots of money!

There are people living within the exclusion zone and in the town center itself despite all restrictions and government recommendation and have been for years. They even grow their own crops in the irradiated soil! How much longer they'll survive without developing some horrific type of cancer is anyones guess.

Well, Darwin would suggest that the genetic mutations caused by it will go both ways - many will perish and some will adapt and prosper. It's the adaptions that will be of benefit to science.