smirnofforiginal's VirtualTourist Home Page

What can I say on my homepage? I love to travel & I'll go anywhere... and if I go, the kids go and the husband dispairs! There is possibly nowhere I don't want to see but also only a special, select, few places that I wish to return to.

If I am not travelling I am planning the next trip and or coercing my husband into it! oh, as well as saving for it - I was born to be stinking rich... more's the pity that I'm not!

I like to travel independently - half the fun is in the researching.... the other half is in drinking the local brews!

...that's enough for now!

Best sight (so far) - Uxmal rising from the jungle and then slinking back in.

Most surreal moment - there's actually two!
One of them was : when driving through a (deserted) swamp, complete with mist, in Mexico when a zebra walked across the road. Very twin peaks - Progresso is a freaky streaky place!!- apparently it's not atall like this any more but is firmly on the tourist path with cruise ships to boot! :(
The second was : in Belgium when the Gilles came out to play. Dressed in their tradtitonal costumes they pelted us with oranges!

Most magical - When Jack (son 2) was two. At the end of a (long) day in Disneyworld, on the steamer back to the car park, in the dark, between falling asleep he looked up, saw a shooting star, pointed and said "look Mummy there's Tinkerbell". Aye aye aye - Disney had me for a moment there!

Most special moment - Sailing around Thailand (on honeymoon) on a traditional Thai junk, waking up on deck to watch the sun rise, the jellyfish migrate and nobody but us to witness it all.

Saddest sight - In the Alps, 2 St. Bernard dogs, dead, placed carefully & strategically side by side on a motorway with two Gendarmes standing over them, mournfully shaking their heads in disbelief.

Craziest - Getting beaten up, on a bus, by a gang, in Paris at 2am and going on a high speed chase in a French police squad car.

Most scary - Having a gun shoved up my husbands nose!

Nicest person met - Marcen, a Tunisian in (strangely enough) Tunisia!

Most horrible person met - big, fat, timeshare American (in America)

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