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I wasn't anywhere which has been impacted so far, but it looks like it's getting worse and Bangkok will be hit soon.

Another long weekend, is another short trip! Back to the Ardennes, the foresty (what's the difference with forestry?) part of Belgium. We are close to the Abbey of Orval, where they brew one of the six Belgian Trappists. Combined with some real good prepared food, pancakes, drinks and walks, it'll be a good hideout after a busy week at work (which will just continue next week anyway).

Atta boy Alan, teach him the wild ways!

Run foresty run!

Bregt, do you ever sit still?

I still want to know how you did end up in Morocco and what you visited in Spain!

Sorry guys. In the couple of months after the trip I was working excessively and I spent the Christmas period with family in Australia. Any silence in between was down to pure laziness.

I'll do my best to get one up within the next week.

Hi all,

I need a bit of help from my UK-bound friends on this board.
I'm planning to take the car and visit a bit of the UK with my nephew in Feruary. We will both need a break by then (me from writing PhD stuff, he from exams).

So we have decided to get the car on the train in Calais and go to Folkestone, from where our trip begins.

I have set my sights on Dartmoor national Park, so that's where we are heading and then back again. But we have no real sights in between that we 'have to see'.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Also another question, on the way to Devon, we would follow the smaller roads along the coast (and google maps predicts the entire trip would take 6 hours or so). We won't do that on one day.

However, on our way back from Devon we would be trying to do the trip in one day. Google map suggest as quickest route the A303, followed by the M3 then the M25 around London and then down along the M26 and M20 towards Folkestone. According to Google Maps that would only take 5 hours.
But i'm a bit scared to go direction London, as I'm afraid I might get cought in traffic. I am planning on returning on a Saturday, though, so that might make some difference.

What are the UK-residents views on the best road to take to get from Exeter to Folkestone by car?

Thanks already in advance,

Elin

PS Any of you guys live close enough so I can wave from my car in passing?

Before the days of Lonely Planet...

Mt Kanchenjunga from Darjeeling in India

...you had the likes of Edward Lear ( yes, of The Owl and The Pussycat fame ) giving image to far off lands that only the rich or the British Army ever got to see.

Beautiful pic. I'd really love to visit India some day, although I'm worried about the health situation (everyone gets stomach problems there, and I'm not sure how that combines with my liver etc. issues).

As long as this thread is ressurected, does anyone have any travel plans for 2012?

Yeah. I've not known anybody, myself included, who's got away scott free ( <whatever does that mean and where does it come from? ) in India, a shame that it puts some people off, there really is nowhere on Earth like it and still remains my # 1 in places I've visited, as an experience it's unforgettable.

p.s. After 3+ months of being in India I went from approximately 210Ibs to 160Ibs.....believe me, that's thin on my frame.

Because your stomach was upset and you hardly ate anything?

As long as your diet plan doesn't include dysentry and the like

I like that drawing. Like Martijn said, it has this adventurous feel. India frightens me. It's so big! Bengalore Belly (wonderful name!) doesn't make it more attractive.

I noticed we don't have an icon for Bengalore Belly. Perhaps a combination?

Not much travel plans. A short citytrip to Madrid with colleagues in a few weeks. 80% of them are going to watch a football game. I think the rest of us will have a drink instead. Any of the museums worth visiting (I know there's the Prado, but I'm not very much a museum person)?