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If you were going to emigrate, where to and why?
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jema
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Why not I wonder? Can't wait to get out there and advertise one of our sausage making and homebrew courses

Gervase



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I had a friend who emigrated to Kashmir, if that counts!

vegplot



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Particularly in the Swat valley (which looks like heaven).

resistance is fertile



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

yummersetter wrote:
Just me wanting to go to Italy then? So many places I'd like to be, we'd have to take a camper van and wander from Sicily to the Alps and back again.

I may be confusing emigrating with extended holiday though, 'cos I'm not giving up Somerset for anywhere else. Florence may be wonderful, but so are Glastonbury and Wells


We are going for the part time emigration status of (hopefully increasingly)extended stays in Italy, Spain, Hungary.

Its a mainly rain based plan as I occasionally have a yearning to be dry, and we like the priority of life over work in the places we go.

Went



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

woodsprite wrote:
I love England and can never see us moving full time but if I had to go anywhere it would be to Northern Spain. It is beautiful and has mountains and lakes as well as beaches and surf. Its like Wales but with better weather.


Seconded.....

resistance is fertile



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Its great isn't it but dont talk too loud!

Cantabria and Asturias have some of the nicest places I've ever been.

Im also thinking of a 20th aniversary Bull Run next year to see how my general fitness has faired!

Went



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

resistance is fertile wrote:
Its great isn't it but dont talk too loud!

Cantabria and Asturias have some of the nicest places I've ever been.

Im also thinking of a 20th aniversary Bull Run next year to see how my general fitness has faired!


Let me know if you are ging to run with the bulls.....I'd love to do it ....well either that or the tomato (fight) festival

vegplot



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ian33568 wrote:
resistance is fertile wrote:
Its great isn't it but dont talk too loud!

Cantabria and Asturias have some of the nicest places I've ever been.

Im also thinking of a 20th aniversary Bull Run next year to see how my general fitness has faired!


Let me know if you are ging to run with the bulls.....I'd love to do it ....well either that or the tomato (fight) festival


Tomatoes, bulls, tomatoes, bulls.

No contest really, unless the tomatoes are in tins.

resistance is fertile



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

vegplot wrote:
Ian33568 wrote:
resistance is fertile wrote:
Its great isn't it but dont talk too loud!

Cantabria and Asturias have some of the nicest places I've ever been.

Im also thinking of a 20th aniversary Bull Run next year to see how my general fitness has faired!


Let me know if you are ging to run with the bulls.....I'd love to do it ....well either that or the tomato (fight) festival


Tomatoes, bulls, tomatoes, bulls.

No contest really, unless the tomatoes are in tins.


San Fermin is amazing, the most sustained adrenaline buzz on the planet! tomatoes are just not going to give you that kind of euphoric terror!

I'll let you know Ian, Carrie will insist I get some hefty life insurance first then she will be fine with the idea

vegplot



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Adrenaline buzz! I can get that by telling EV I'll be home in a little while and still be here at work two hours later on Downsizer.

Barefoot Andrew
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There seems to be a distinct lack of cold countries in this discussion. No-one fancying Finland?
A.

Effie



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Barefoot Andrew wrote:
No-one fancying Finland?


It isn't the cold that's the problem. It is the dark winters in the cold places. I have a lovely Finnish friend who cheerfully will tell you in great detail how there is nothing to do but sit and drink for so many months because it is so dark and snowing outside constantly. I find it scary when she teams up with her Finnish friends to socialise. It's like what AA would be like if all the members fell off the wagon simultaneously during a meeting and went on a pub crawl instead.

gardening-girl



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We go of in our campervan every year, see some lovely places, say if only, and then are glad to be home in Somerset

Behemoth



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 09 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Wharfedale's a bit different.

Slim



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 09 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Norway, NZ, Canada - somewhere with cold winters, warmish summers, and some room to stretch my eyes out a bit

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