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Mauritius. Beautiful island nation, great weather at all time, and a look at some other cultures.
Plus, you'll cross the Equator twice. **
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Ha, good suggestion, I'd literally just hit search after selecting Mauritius on a website and was waiting for the results when your email notification turned up.
I know nothing about the place, right know couldn't even say where in the world it is (I'm sure I knew once upon a time).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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In the Indian Ocean, off South Africa, beyond Madagascar.
Seychelles is yet another option.
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My predictabuble offering is Balatonfüred. Actually, if you have a car available there are a lot of nice places around to visit as well as just lounging on the very nice beaches. They have a wine festival in the first three weeks of August.
Did I mention the wine fair? It lasts for the first three weeks of August and there are normally 20-30 local produces in competition. Each has a stall and you can taste their wines. I have once managed over the festival to taste wine from every producer, but never every wine on offer.
For the parents there is also a wine festival in the first three weeks of August. It is in walking distance from my house and I normally can make it home too.
veni bibi saltavi
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I didn't know there was such a thing a gin wine, you could have knocked me down with a feather (and you too I suspect ).
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If you can go in the "high-season" months, late October through early January when the weather is bearable, I recommend (naturally) Thailand.
Particularly, I would recommend Chiang Mai, the heart of the northern Thai area once the ancient kingdom of Lanna, during the time of the lunar festival, Loy Krathong, famed the world over for skies full of floating flame-powered lanterns and throngs down at the river placing their small floating offerings of geometric arrangements of leaves and flowers, with candles and incense, offered with a silent prayer to the Mae Naam (literally "Mother of the Waters").
Loy Krathong this year is November 24~26. A time of parades, beauty-contests, and great merriment [^].
Of course, while you're in the "Land of Smiles" you can enjoy the tropical beaches of the south, go crazy shopping in Bangkok, etc. Stay in a hotel here for US $60 per night that would cost you US$ 200 and up elsewhere in the world. Treat yourself to the ancient type of Thai massage called "nuwat boran" for a fraction of the cost of a professional massage in the "west."
Eat great Thai food, ride elephants, experience the very unique multi-culture of a country never colonized by the "western powers" ... yada ... yada ... yada.
cheers, Bill
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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BillWoodruff wrote: If you can go in the "high-season" months, late October through early January when the weather is bearable,
Fairly flexible, although kind of stuck to school holidays unless something happens on Thursday to revert the blanket ban on children having holidays during term time with hefty fines for taking your kids out of school that the last lot introduced.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I should say that my comments reflect my own aversion to hot weather, and, as a child having been dragged away from my books, chemistry set, electronics' kits, etc., to go the beach (Florida) too often, I am not a "beach person."
Lots of people from England, Europe, etc. come to Thailand to enjoy the fierce sunshine and hotter weather in the hotter months of the year, and enjoy the famous tropical beaches.
Many people, like me, really enjoy the real rainy season here (roughly from June through August).
cheers, Bill
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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chriselst wrote: Where would you go on holiday with my wife and a 10 year old girl?
Here[^]
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Avoiding the obvious joke.
Depends on the time of year / budget.
I'd come to sunny Queensland.
Depending if you want it quiet (Sunshine Coast) or Full on (Gold Coast)
There's theme parks on the Gold Coast, quiet beaches on the Sunshine Coast
Brisbane (right in the middle) is a reasonable sized city
Take a trip for a few days up to the barrier reef (go do the outer reef tour and, if budget allows, stay for a couple of nights on Heron Island.
Go whale watching if its the right time of year.
Fly down to Sydney for a couple of nights - just to see the Opera House & have a beer on Circular Quay
You could drive it and take a few days, stopping overnight - depends on your thing (and the wife and kid's things)
& you can pop in for a cup of tea while you're here!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Thanks for the invite, probably a bit beyond us at the moment.
My mum and dad are doing 23 nights in Oz next January as they desperately try to spend my inheritance. Can't remember exactly where they're going, 5 or 6 places I think, mostly flying and one coastal coach journey.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It's not cheap - although the Aus $ has been pretty low for a while so cheaper than it was!
When we came on hols (before emigrating) it was definately the best hol ever - so I'd recommend it if you can scrape together the lolly in the future - maybe when the offspring decides she's too old to holiday with mum & dad anymore 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I got a half-year summary of my cell-phone usage (monthly average):
50 minutes of talk
24 SMS
80 MB of browsing
My wife's:
5 hours and 30 minutes of talk
110 SMS
115 MB of browsing
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So you're wife's the quiet type.
Now, if it were her daily usage, that would be quite normal.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: 24 SMS
In half a year???????? 
Jeremy Falcon
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Let me lower the bar even more: 0.0 in the last five years.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: (monthly average)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Totally missed that part... but I've sent more texts than that already this morning and it's not even 8AM. Boggles the mind man.
Jeremy Falcon
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From both directions. The last two or three months is probably the first time I've gone from measuring my usage in texts/month instead of months/text. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not a big fan of the phone?
Jeremy Falcon
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Too small, not enough pixels. My home desktop still isn't entirely satisfying[^] in that regard; but in all ways except DPI (something notionally budgeted as next years xmas gift for myself) it's well ahead of any fondleslab. 
The only reason I've been texting as much as I have involves on ill adult, a second whose cell's voicemail is broken, and their kids who I'm not willing to risk putting on the spot with as bearers of bad news by calling the house phone when I don't know who'd pickup. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Gotcha. I think I'll send someone a text about this. 
Jeremy Falcon
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The only SMSs I send are to my parents (like really once in a while) only because they're the only people I know who own a phone, but don't use WhatsApp
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Sander Rossel wrote: but don't use WhatsApp
That must mean I'm as old as your parents then. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Or at least as technologically impaired 
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