Holidays 2019

staffordjas

staffordjas

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tek-monkey said:
Don't get me wrong, we went budget as just need a bed. Double room with balcony and private bathroom, shared kitchen with other guests, £21/night.
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That's the sort of place that son and his mates stayed in Barcelona, although they had 3/4 to a room . Suited them to the ground as they only needed somewhere clean and comfy enough to shower, sleep and hang about in the communal lounge and kitchen areas together until they went out. They had to share bathrooms though, but no hardship for them .
 
tek-monkey

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wanna see my snake?
As I'm going with Ryanair.....

If you take a slightly larger soft bag but it isn't full do they still accept it as long as it fits in the sizer? Don't really want to buy yet another 'approved size' bit of luggage as they'll just change it again!
 
BobClay

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Beware the Ides of march. (Tomorrow.)

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staffordjas

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tek-monkey said:
As I'm going with Ryanair.....

If you take a slightly larger soft bag but it isn't full do they still accept it as long as it fits in the sizer? Don't really want to buy yet another 'approved size' bit of luggage as they'll just change it again!
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Son took his backpack in January which could be squashed under the seat

Beware ...they booked and paid for 3 cases into the hold both there and back at £80 each.....
Return journey they scanned boarding cards wrong and demanded another £150 saying only 2 hold cases paid for.

Almost missed their flight , with the check-in prick messing about until finally re- scanning tickets to find out actually paid for in first place
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Interesting one, if they are in the wrong and they purposefully delay your flight can you claim compensation? Because the flights are a week apart, and the compensation due would pay for the entire holiday!

EDIT: It seems being denied boarding will give you compensation of about £300, plus they have to put you up in a hotel and pay your expenses.
 
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BobClay

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Especially in a major Earthquake zone.

I once paid off a ship in Kagoshima. I had a night in a hotel before flying home and was having breakfast on the top floor of the hotel (about 7 floors up which was tall then for Kagoshima.) I was looking across the harbour as I ate and noticed a big cloud over the mountain opposite which suddenly shot up into the sky at high speed, very peculiar.
I asked the waitress about it and she answered in Japanese broken English, but I did pick up the word Volcano. The mountain was a f****** big volcano. :eek:

I was suddenly very aware I was seven floors up. :help:
 
Gramaisc

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BobClay said:
Especially in a major Earthquake zone.

I once paid off a ship in Kagoshima. I had a night in a hotel before flying home and was having breakfast on the top floor of the hotel (about 7 floors up which was tall then for Kagoshima.) I was looking across the harbour as I ate and noticed a big cloud over the mountain opposite which suddenly shot up into the sky at high speed, very peculiar.
I asked the waitress about it and she answered in Japanese broken English, but I did pick up the word Volcano. The mountain was a f****** big volcano. :eek:

I was suddenly very aware I was seven floors up. :help:
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Sakurajima (even though it isn't an island any more) - the most active volcano in Japan.

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Surely the council should do something about that?
 
BobClay

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I found out later that buildings at that time didn't tend to get too high (this was in the late 70's.) Also, nobody who lived there could put washing out on the lines because there were regular downfalls of ash. I'd never been to Kagoshima before, and I paid off the ship during the night, so I didn't know the layout at all.
The volcano dominates the harbour. Really quite a spectacular view once you've brought your bowels under control. :teef:
 
Gramaisc

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Sakurajima - Cherry Blossom Island.

Sounds quite cute.



I can't help feeling that, if something like that was on Doxey Marshes, we might call it something more suitable - like Certain Death Mountain.
 
Gramaisc

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Noah said:
Wasn't "Cherry Blossom" a code name for something?
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That was the Okha - I'm not sure of the finer points of the difference between Sakura and Okha...

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I found this:-

桜花　(ouka) - cherry blossoms
花 (hana) - flower/bloom/blossom
桜 (sakura) - cherry tree, cherry blossoms

in Japanese, characters have more than one reading. Sakura is the Japanese reading of the 桜 character, ou is the Chinese reading, hana is the Japanese reading of 花, ka is the Chinese reading. Chinese readings are usually used in compounds, like 桜花

- which doesn't really get us much further..

I wonder if Okha/Ouka refers more to the falling petals and Sakura to the blossom on the tree?
 
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