Re: Cruising
 

G you could slum it with us in Llandudno. :)
(I'm saying that, though it isn't booked yet)

Re: Cruising
 

Lake Garda -plenty of boat trips available on the lake to replace the cruise:D

Re: Cruising
 

Once went on holiday to Llandudno as a girl -is there still a little fun-fair on the pier? Loved the ghost train:D
Is it the Great Orme which we had to walk up -seem to remember finding fossils too...will have been about 9 at the time.

Re: Cruising
 

Yes, there is a little bit of a fun fair on the pier........and it would have been the Great Orme you walked up.......quite a pull up there and bracing at the top.

Flickr: margaret.pilkington47's Photostream
Check out my Flickr Pics there are quite a few taken in Llandudno.
Might bring back some memories.

Re: Cruising
 

You've taken some wonderful photos Margaret, remembered many of the places and the cable car -had forgotten that. Took a steam train trip up into the mountains somewhere too.

A proper English beach holiday,complete with rainy days spent indoors playing board games and cards , is NOT slumming it. Only had a few that I can remember - In Cornwall a few times, Llandudno once. But they hold special memories and the rainy days were only a few.

Do you use a simple digital camera or is it a reflex digital? You seem to have a real eye for a subject.:)

Re: Cruising
 

I have a very good compact point and shoot camera and two 'bridge camera's'.
the bridge camera's are not quite DSLR's(the do have interchangeable lenses - which the compact camera's don't have) but they have more flexibility than the point and shoot camera's.
Thank you for your lovely comments about my pictures. If you get a chance to look at my blogs, they are illustrated with some of the pictures. Some of the stories will have you crying with laughing too.(I like to think I can write and take pictures....deluded, plain deluded)
I think the railway journey you took was probably on the Welsh Highland Railway.....from Porthmadog to Blaennau Ffestiniog and then on to Caernarfon.
It is a lovely scenic trip if the weather is kind, but foul if the mist draws in.

Re: Cruising
 

I prefer Cruising more relaxing n cos i can swim a bit, I sure as hell can't fly.:D

Re: Cruising
 

Looks like the Captain is in deep dodo, on the news this morning a phone call between the coast guard and the captain was played, he left the ship with passengers still on board, and although the coast guard actually ordered him to go back on board he seemed to refuse

Re: Cruising
 

Hes Actually saying now, he fell into the lifeboat n was unable to get back out,:rolleyes: Which is different from "I was one of the last to leave the ship" which he told prosecutors the other day.:mad: Seems yeh learn summat new every day. Crap must have the same bonding power of superglue.

Re: Cruising
 

The Coast Guard was really losing his rage during the call, he was yelling at the guy ordering him to go back on the boat:rolleyes:

Re: Cruising
 

I've fallen down and been unable to get up too ... drinking too much will do that to you:rolleyes: Just heard on the news that the good captain has a new nickname: "Chicken of the Sea".

Re: Cruising
 

iv entered the Mediterranean lotto this week.Apprently the top prize is a double cruise coz last weeks was a rollover ;)

Re: Cruising
 

I was amazed how someone so called professional could captain a ship this size and trip into a life boat.
I have just been watching the worst plain landings ever, doesn't give much hope. Think I'll be going camping this year.
That's if the the rain doesn't flood the campsite and drown everyone.
Must stop being so sinicle* ;-)

Re: Cruising
 

Are yeh gonna walk to the campsite?:rolleyes: Most means of transport are relatively safe,Sea,Air,Rail, are all safer than car travel. if yeh concerned about human error,yeh will never go anywhere?:confused:

Re: Cruising
 

Coppice always did it for me Cashy