SOCIAL DISTANCING AMPHIBIAN FAILURE

Jun. 28th, 2020 04:38 pm
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My previous entry was from the car, on our return from a socially-distanced weekend excursion, a small vacation to make up for the fact that WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE IN SCOTLAND NOW. Ahem. On to the story of how a FROG FELL ON MY HEAD.
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At least there's an answer

Apr. 1st, 2020 07:50 pm
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Finally got the word that our giant foncy vacation in June was cancelled--i.e. the big cruise was. They offered either the full amount plus $600 in cruise credit, or a 100% refund. And we don't have to make our decision until December. We're probably going to ask for the refund and put it towards a non-cruise vacation and spend 3 weeks in Scotland, like we'd originally been thinking when the cruise popped up.

Anyway, I'm glad it's done because the not knowing what June was going to be like was frustrating. I'm still not going to schedule any covers during June to (a) allow for the ones I have in May to push a little over if necessary and (b) to allow myself time to work on The Sequel to/Continuation Of The Thing Wot I Wrote. Which I've really wanted to do but keep agreeing to do covers.

Now to go through all our stupidly complicated flight plans and cancel them, and cancel the other stuff that's been booked so far.
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Oct. 1st, 2010 12:24 pm
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What is it about travel that makes other people tell you you're doing your vacation all wrong? A couple of weeks ago, a clerk in a store gently chided me for bringing books on a vacation after I mentioned stocking up on ebooks during a conversation about my Kindle. (I refrained from throttling her.) Also, when I posted on Ask.Metafilter a few months back seeking information on a private guide for South Wales and explained a few things about where I wanted to go, I got someone bitching at me for wanting to go to Carmarthen*, and someone else bitching at me for not renting a car and for wanting to hire a guide**.

Not to mention that every time you go onto a travel site and fail to avoid reading comments, you find a war between the hotel people, the hostel people, and the couch surfers, all of whom know what REAL travel is and they know that you're not doing it!


* He apparently missed where I said that I WENT TO COLLEGE THERE and wanted to go back for nostalgia's sake.

** I explained I'd hired private guides before and that I loved it - you're not on a herd tour, and you get someone who know way more about the area than you do to introduce you stuff they love about their area that's not in guidebooks. But, you know, GOD FORBID I BE A TOURIST OR SOMETHING.
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