Marty, I know it's not for everybody- my dad HATES tropical anything. I was to Belize in 2015 and found it to be cool as sh!t, as I am a diver as well. Not much to see in the local mud water so I try to hit somewhere cool every winter and see what's under the surface. My favorite thing about DR is it's CHEAP! Spent a month there in 2014 after my neck ordeal and only spent like $1700 total, including air. If ever you get the travel bug I suggest getting down there!
Thanks Yoder!
And Jon, yes it's me. Thank you
Meh, I get enough heat and humidity during the summer. Wife is a congenital heart patient, too much of either heat or humidity does her in very quickly. However European winters agree with the both of us. Last trip there to visit her family we jumped in her cousins car, drove to Dover, seen the white horsey on the cliff then got on the chunnel and ended up in Calais, drove from there to Normandy. Was 62 degrees in France the third week of December. Next time to England I’ve been talking to the cousins and thinking of spending a week in Normandy, for next to nothing you can camp, AKA army tent like M*A*S*H but with real beds. Dunkirk isn’t that far from Calais either, just the opposite direction of Normandy.
Doesn’t cost us hardly anything once we are there though, airfare kinda sucks, first time there we flew AA in cattle class, then got delayed after boarding the plane. Big beefy farm kids ain’t meant to sit in cattle class for three hours before it even gets in the air. We now fly British Airways exclusively, they have four classes on international flights, one class is between cattle and business, seats are 6 inches wider with 8 inches more leg room and they recline a LOT further than cattle. Get an extra bag per person, better meals and higher dollar free hooch. Best part is half the time we’ve flown with BA have been upgraded to business where the real good hooch is. Stay with her aunt and she won’t let us pay for anything, usually stay at least three weeks and get farmed off to various cousins for the day and usually includes dinner with em, they won’t let us pay for anything either. However after the first visit none of her family are willing to pay for my drinks anymore, weird huh? It’s not like I single handedly try to make sure all the local pubs and breweries are operating in the black while I’m there or anything although I have a fondness for Carlisle or Kings IPA. And as much as I hate stereotypes, don’t ever match drink for drink with an Irish truck driver, you’re head will hurt for many days afterwards. New Years at the Conservative Club (think like our VFW or Legion) and I’d buy a round of pints, he’d bring back a round of Jack and Coke, I’d buy a round of pints, he’d get a round of Beam and Coke, and so on from 7pm till 4am. I did the USA proud though and hung with em all night, so remember that guys if you see my gofundme page for a new liver.
Her aunt lives on the coast in Felixstowe, doesn’t take long to get from there back to Heathrow even using public transport and once at Heathrow or Luton the rest of europe is a short flight away, took less than an hour on a easyjet to get to Inverness, from there a short car ride to a lodge on Loch Ness, 3 days and 2 nights there. Theres a reason some of the more famous military men are scotsman or of scottish decent, that land is rugged like nothing I’ve ever seen, the sissies die young before getting a chance to reproduce.
Have a strange desire next time there to hop on a jet and head to Poland to see Auschwitz, back in the day when dirt was new it so happened my middle school guidance counselor was a descendant of a Auschwitz jew.
http://www.carlislerealale.comKings IPA is meant to be drank at room temperature and unlike a warm american beer, it doesn’t taste the least bit like skunk piss.
https://www.greeneking.co.uk/our-beers/greene-king-ipa/