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pharvey wrote: - scares me a bit where some of the guys on this thread have been!!
Yes indeed. Back in the 1970's there was an old Doctor that was the appointed Port Medical Officer responsible for all shipping related medical matters where I worked for a time. He use to say: "you bloody seamen put your old fella where I wouldn't put my walking stick"! Fits well with a couple of posters on another thread! :shock:

I really should make the effort to go and see where Grandma came from. She evidently didn't stay home, but wandered down to Liverpool and got mixed up with a lad from across the warter, hence the Irish connection. :cheers:

Did you happen to visit Durty Nelly's Restaurant and Bar? It is actually County Clare I think, but close to Limerick and famous. It has been there for around 300 years. :cheers:
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I used to go to Dirty Nelly's pub quite often when I was working at Shannon airport some years ago, it's in Bunratty, next to the castle and only a few km from where I used to stay in Shannon. There was another place nearby called the Creamery that had live music and also a hotel with a nice bar in it.
We used to drink in Bunratty because the pubs in Shannon were a bit on the rough side!
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There are a few things on my unwritten bucket list that I never got round to, including skiing and skydiving. Take a look at this amazing video.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... e-66226551
A new record has been made by a group of skydivers in Nottinghamshire.

The team of 41 jumpers combined above Skydive Langar to create the largest ever sequential formation dive to take place in the UK.

Formation skydiving involves participants taking hold of one another to create shapes while falling at speeds of about 120mph (193km/h) for up to one minute, Skydive Langar said.

They set the record by making two consecutive shapes in the sky involving all 41 people - the largest number of British jumpers ever to complete a sequential formation dive.

Shortly afterwards, they broke their own record by forming three consecutive formations.
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Skydiving is on mine also, did the training for it years ago but the weather was too shite to take the plane up on the day. Don't think I'd trust going in Thailand, they can barely keep a bridge up! Been snowboarding (which was better than skiing), done the bungee jump, and plenty of scuba diving.

There are plenty of places still on the bucket list that I need to fit in before I get too old, set in my ways, and can't be arsed to do anything. Patagonia, Kashmir, Cuba, Iceland, New Zealand, South Africa ... its a big bucket!
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Most of mine revolve around travel, places to visit. Did the skydiving, scuba, skiing, bungee, rappelling but at this age easy travel is called for.
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Kashmir, 1981 on a houseboat on Lake Dal in Srinagar.

Heaven in those days but I missed out on so much - ie the trekking up north to Leh and Ladakh because I was a lazy git.

Shikaras - sort of canoes - that came by all the time. "Hey, English, you want Campa Cola, water, Mars bars, ciggies etc etc?", let alone what was stashed away under the floorboards.

Kashmir, get there Buks and hopefully there won't be any strife between India and Pakistan??

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I was one of the first groups from the UK to visit Cuba 3 times in the mid nineties. I stayed in the beach resort of Varadero which previously served as a holiday retreat for the USSR soldiers. No doubt things have changed there now but when I was there it was quite limiting food and drink wise. Highlights was Al Capones and the Du Pont mansions in Varadero.
Havana had just been granted World Heritage status and it was sad to see all the mansions in various stages of disrepair.
Highlights included the obligatory cigar factory, the old American cars, Bar La Bodega where Hemmingway used to go for his Mojito's, pictures and signature all over the walls of the Rat Pack and Mafiosi. La Floridita, another watering hole favoured by EH for the famous Daquiri .

Have recently considered going back to see how much things have changed but I did like the simplicity in those early days.
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I think my bucket list nowadays is more historical and geographical.
Earlier this year I did Rome,(Coloseum etc), Pompei ruins, in particular the amphitheatre were Pink Floyd staged an audienceless concert in 1972(Echoes playing in my earbuds :rasta: ), Mt Vesuvius and Herculaneum. Athens Acropolis and Temple of Zeus, then over to Lindos,Rhodes for their Acropolis( and even though we rarely saw eye to eye I did raise a glass of ouzo to Lindosfan RIP).
Already booked next years trip, Lake Como, Pompeii again and then over to Taormina, Sicily for The Godfather movie locations tour and of course Mt Etna. Also Season 2 of The White Lotus was filmed in Taormina but I won't be staying at the location hotel at 3,700 quid a night :laugh:.

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....before I get too old, set in my ways, and can't be arsed to do anything
I'm getting a bit like that, after over 40 years of working away from home, when I get back I just like to sit in the garden with the dogs, a walk on the beach and then wander down the pub for a couple in the evening!
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STEVE G wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2023 7:40 pm
....before I get too old, set in my ways, and can't be arsed to do anything
I'm getting a bit like that, after over 40 years of working away from home, when I get back I just like to sit in the garden with the dogs, a walk on the beach and then wander down the pub for a couple in the evening!
Its a common theme mate, from what I've observed, once people hit 60 they dont seem to want to do much anymore. I need to squeeze in a lot of road trips over the next few years!
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