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HELLO WORLD.
MY NAME IS BILLY, I STARTED PRETTY LATE IN LIFE TO TAKE MY FIRST TRIP OVERSEAS. TWENTY YEARS OF AGE TO BE EXACT, BUT THAT FIRST SUNSHINE HOLIDAY WITH FRIENDS TO TENERIFFE WAS THE START OF A LOVE AFFAIR THAT HAS NEVER DIED...A LOVE TO TRAVEL. A LOVE THAT HAS GROWN AND GROWN. A LOVE THAT HAS TAKEN MY WIFE AND I TO WELL OVER FORTY COUNTRIES AND COUNTLESS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.
SO THROUGH THE WONDERFUL VIRTUAL TOURIST SITE I PLAN TO SHARE AS MUCH OF MY KNOWLEDGE OF PLACES AS I CAN IN THE HOPE THAT YOU CAN HAVE AS GREAT A TIME AS I DO TOURING THIS WONDERFUL PLANET.
THE DESIRE TO SEE NEW PLACES AND LEARN NEW THINGS IS A WONDERFUL GIFT...DON'T WASTE IT....FEED IT.

TRIPS PLANNED FOR 2009 SO FAR..
JAN.. WEEKEND IN PRAGUE..FIRST TIME TO THIS WONDERFUL CITY
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FEB.. OFF ON A FIFTEEN NIGHT CRUISE WHICH WILL SEE US TAKE IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS MEXICO-NICARAGUA-PANAMA..WHERE WE TRANSIT THE FAMOUS PANAMA CANAL..THEN ITS ON TO LIMON IN COSTA RICA--ARUBA--ST LUCIA--ST VINCENT AND FINALLY BARBADOS.
THE CRUISE TOOK IN SOME STUNNING PLACES BUT THE REAL STAR WAS THE PANAMA CANAL, SOMETHING THAT I FEEL YOU SHOULD DO AT LEAST ONCE IN YOUR LIFE.. I LOVED IT !!
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APRIL..THREE DAY TRIP TO PARIS..FAV CITY IN THE WORLD.
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AUGUST.. THREE DAYS IN NEW YORK..THREE DAYS IN LOS ANGELES..FIVE DAYS IN LAS VEGAS...AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST THREE DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO..
PLAN TO TAKE IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ON THIS TRIP.
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OCTOBER.. THREE DAYS IN VENICE.

EUROPE
AMSTERDAM..PARIS..ROME..BERLIN..PRAGUE..VENICE...MONTE CARLO..MAJORICA
TENERIFE..GRAN CANARIA..LANZAROTIE...CORFU..KOS...RHODES
CRETE...ZANTE...CYPRUS.
TURKEY..MARMARAS...BODRUM...KUSADASI.
AFRICA...MOMBASA. TSAVO EAST AND WEST NATIONAL PARK.
U.A.E DUBAI.
INDIAN OCEAN...MALDIVES.
CHINA...HONG KONG.
THAILAND...BANGKOK...KO SAMUI...PHUKET...PHI PHI
VIETNAM..HO CHI MINH CITY
CAMBODIA...PHNOM PHEN...SIEM REAP
SINGAPORE.
INDONESIA...BALI.
AUSTRALIA...SYDNEY...CAIRNS. PERTH. MELBOURNE.
FIJI....VITI LEVU....CASTAWAY ISLAND.
NEW ZEALAND..AUCKLAND AND WAIHEKE ISLAND.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
NEW YORK..MIAMI..LAS VEGAS..SAN FRANCISCO..HAWAII
CARIBBEAN....JAMAICA..BARBADOS..ANTIGUA.
CARIBBEAN ISLANDS BY CRUISE...ST LUCIA..GRENADA..CURACAO..ARUBA.
HAITI..CAYMAN ISLANDS..COZUMEL..ACAPULCO..HUATULCO..SAN JUAN DEL SUR (NICARAGUA).. COSTA RICA..ST VINCENT.. AND FUERTE AMADOR GATEWAY TO THE PANAMA CANAL.

AND WITH ANY LUCK MANY MORE TO FOLLOW....

IN FEBUARY 2008 I GOT THE CHANCE TO VISIT ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.. CAMBODIA.
THIS LITTLE COUNTRY IS STEEPED IN HISTORY FROM THE THOUSAND YEAR HISTORY OF ANGKOR WAT TO THE MORE RECENT HORROR OF THE CAMBODIAN CIVAL WAR AND THE KHMER ROUGE.
A VISIT TO IS CAPITAL PHNOM PHEN WILL OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE HORROR THAT WENT ON HERE SOME THIRTY SHORT YEARS AGO..
FROM THE TORTURE OF S-21 TO THE KILLING FIELDS THESE POOR PEOPLE HAVE HAD MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE BAD TIMES, BUT THROUGH THE HORROR THAY HAVE CAME AND THEY ARE SOME OF THE MOST HAPPY HARD WORKING PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET.
A TRIP UP TO SIEM REAP IS A MUST..THIS IS THE GATEWAY TO THE TEMPLES OF ANGKOR SURLY ONE OF THE TRUE WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
A TRIP TO CAMBODIA SHOWS YOU THE BEST AND WORST OF WHAT MAN CAN DO..BUT ALSO MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IT SHOWS YOU THAT THE HUMAN SPIRIT CAN NEVER BE BROKEN.

IVE JUST STARTED TO PUT TOGETHER A BELFAST / TITANIC TIPS PAGE..
I LIVE JUST OUTSIDE BELFAST AND AM REALLY HAPPY AS TO HOW BELFAST IS COMING ON AS A TOURIST DESTINATION....SO OVER THE COMING WEEKS I WILL BE ADDING TO THE PAGE AND I REALLY HOPE IT HELPS ANYONE PLANNING A TRIP HERE.
TITANIC WAS BUILT IN BELFAST SO WHY NOT COME AND SEE THE BIRTHPLACE OF A LEGEND.
MAKE SURE YOU DONT MISS THE CHANCE TO SEE WHERE THIS GREAT SHIP WAS PLANNED..BUILT.. AND LAUNCHED.
BEFORE SAILING OUT OF BELFAST AND INTO HISTORY !!!