Should Il P go travelling?

mattybain

gabriel959 wrote:

Spain them has them all covered and I am not banging on about it.

Don't think that's quite true, does Spain have Glaciers, Fjords, true unspoilt wilderness (Fiordland), active Volcanoes, Hot Sulphourus pools and a mountain as glorious as Mount Taranaki?


I admit Spain has a lot of things going for it (surfing, snow boarding, great wine, world class walking) but it's not really a patch on NZ (NZ has them all too).

And no snakes or poisonous spiders, what's not to like?

DonDaddyD

Who i ll P?

gabriel959

Oh yes! I am very sure

Where do you think all the spaguetti westerns were filmed?






Almeria's dessert

World Heritage Site in La Gomera - Laurisilva / Garajonay subtropical forest




Skiing - lots and lots, Granada, Navacerrada, Picos de Europa, Pyrenees.

2nd Highest country in Europe - 45 ski stations

Baqueira



Sierra Nevada

lost_in_thought

Well, I stand corrected!

Trouble is, it's full of spaniards.

:P

tailwindhome

Il P = Il Principe?


If so,no he shouldn't be travelling.

He should be at home making babies with his partner




































Sorry

Couldn't keep a straight face

Of course the answer is yes.

mattybain

gabriel959 wrote:

World Heritage Site in La Gomera - Laurisilva / Garajonay subtropical forest
]

Hmmm does the Canary Islands count? they are not really part of Spain? at least from a holiday sense.

Kieran_Burns

iPete wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

iPete wrote:

Should you go and see New Zealand? Has Katie Price ever had plastic surgery?

Both equally stupid questions with obvious answers

Make sure you do at least one of the bungees, Kawarau bridge is great fun :twisted:

that's queenstown right? pic of me doing that ^ great 'little' bungy that, lots of fun and I went for a wet jump

You must out of your tree. Why the feck would you jump off a bridge? (I did some sky diving in Motueka. Looking back at the DVD, I quite clearly cr@pped myself when the guy opened door and I was told I would be first out.)

Clever Pun, yup thats the Queentown one, I think Queenstown has 3 out of the 4 in the country!

cjcp, you just have to, I'm scared of heights and wasn't very graceful on the platform but when you get dunked in the river below and fly back up realising your alive, its one hell of a buzz, not sure I could do the Nevis jump though, 143metres or something and 8 second freefall. :shock:

Pop over to Normandy, the same guys (AJ Hackett) have a bungy over there. I did it for my 30th and somehow (Gods knows how) managed to keep my head together enough to complete a spectacular thumbs up as I came back over the top. (70 mtrs that one... and I did the dunk)

lost_in_thought

mattybain wrote:

gabriel959 wrote:

World Heritage Site in La Gomera - Laurisilva / Garajonay subtropical forest
]

Hmmm does the Canary Islands count? they are not really part of Spain? at least from a holiday sense.

Wait.......... was Gabriel including the canaries?

Oh I take it back. In that case, the UK has all of those things. What? We totally own Australia.

gabriel959

mattybain wrote:

gabriel959 wrote:

Spain them has them all covered and I am not banging on about it.

Don't think that's quite true, does Spain have Glaciers, Fjords, true unspoilt wilderness (Fiordland), active Volcanoes, Hot Sulphourus pools and a mountain as glorious as Mount Taranaki?


I admit Spain has a lot of things going for it (surfing, snow boarding, great wine, world class walking) but it's not really a patch on NZ (NZ has them all too).

And no snakes or poisonous spiders, what's not to like?

I think you are quite mistaken, but don't hold a grudge man! I am not trying to say Spain is better!

Spain's glaciers are very small and of course going to disappear soon but lets not forget the ones that are still left are still there!


[img]http://www.ciencias.ies-bezmiliana.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/glaciar español.jpg[/img]



21 still there!

There are no fiord per se but there are Rias, generated by the sea instead of the glaciers



Volcano's - you are joking aren't you?

The canaries still got a few active (last eruption 1980)



Unspoilt wilderness - well they've got wolfs, bears, eagles in here



You win on the sulphurous pools though!!!

gabriel959

mattybain wrote:

gabriel959 wrote:

World Heritage Site in La Gomera - Laurisilva / Garajonay subtropical forest
]

Hmmm does the Canary Islands count? they are not really part of Spain? at least from a holiday sense.

Well, I was born in Tenerife mate, are you trying to say I am not Spanish :evil: :twisted:

No worries man, anyway I would really like to go to Oz and New Zealand more than I would to Spain - I would probably love to live in New Zealand, away from it all, not many people living there and kick ass scenery!

Clever Pun

iPete wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

iPete wrote:

Should you go and see New Zealand? Has Katie Price ever had plastic surgery?

Both equally stupid questions with obvious answers

Make sure you do at least one of the bungees, Kawarau bridge is great fun :twisted:

that's queenstown right? pic of me doing that ^ great 'little' bungy that, lots of fun and I went for a wet jump

You must out of your tree. Why the feck would you jump off a bridge? (I did some sky diving in Motueka. Looking back at the DVD, I quite clearly cr@pped myself when the guy opened door and I was told I would be first out.)

Clever Pun, yup thats the Queentown one, I think Queenstown has 3 out of the 4 in the country!

cjcp, you just have to, I'm scared of heights and wasn't very graceful on the platform but when you get dunked in the river below and fly back up realising your alive, its one hell of a buzz, not sure I could do the Nevis jump though, 143metres or something and 8 second freefall. :shock:

I've done the Bloukrantz bridge in South africa (highest fixed in the world) it was my first jump

if you look closely you can see the line and me at the end of it

fucking terrifying but awesome, it's about the same height as canary wharf tower

Coriander

Clever Pun wrote:

iPete wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

iPete wrote:

Should you go and see New Zealand? Has Katie Price ever had plastic surgery?

Both equally stupid questions with obvious answers

Make sure you do at least one of the bungees, Kawarau bridge is great fun :twisted:

that's queenstown right? pic of me doing that ^ great 'little' bungy that, lots of fun and I went for a wet jump

You must out of your tree. Why the feck would you jump off a bridge? (I did some sky diving in Motueka. Looking back at the DVD, I quite clearly cr@pped myself when the guy opened door and I was told I would be first out.)

Clever Pun, yup thats the Queentown one, I think Queenstown has 3 out of the 4 in the country!

cjcp, you just have to, I'm scared of heights and wasn't very graceful on the platform but when you get dunked in the river below and fly back up realising your alive, its one hell of a buzz, not sure I could do the Nevis jump though, 143metres or something and 8 second freefall. :shock:

I've done the Bloukrantz bridge in South africa (highest fixed in the world) it was my first jump

if you look closely you can see the line and me at the end of it

******* terrifying but awesome, it's about the same height as canary wharf tower

CP, I did that jump too, last April. I got to the edge of the platform, looked down and burst into tears. Despite lots of very kind encouragement from the guys up there I bottled it.

They sent me to the bar to have a few tequilas and I did the last jump of the day.

I won't be doing that or any other jump ever again.

The worst bit wasn't the freefall, I enjoyed that, it was the bouncing around, convinced the strapping was sliding up over my ankles and feet that reduced me to my second bout of tears of the day.

jamesco

Love that pic of Mt. Taranaki - makes me homesick as I was standing on top of it a month ago.. NZ is great for the sheer variety of scenery in a compact area, thanks to it's north-south layout. Chile is similarly blessed, has a proper desert and even better red wine :P Having travelled a lot, my top three countries to visit would be:

* Colombia
* Brasil
* Peru

I met some mad guys who were cycling from the US to the bottom of South America. Crossing the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia to Chile they realised that they couldn't carry enough food & water to make it to the end in time, so instead they took the water and a big bag of coca leaves.. it worked for them

PS - the one country with pretty much every natural feature? Gotta be the US of A.

Clever Pun

Coriander wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

iPete wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

iPete wrote:

Should you go and see New Zealand? Has Katie Price ever had plastic surgery?

Both equally stupid questions with obvious answers

Make sure you do at least one of the bungees, Kawarau bridge is great fun :twisted:

that's queenstown right? pic of me doing that ^ great 'little' bungy that, lots of fun and I went for a wet jump

You must out of your tree. Why the feck would you jump off a bridge? (I did some sky diving in Motueka. Looking back at the DVD, I quite clearly cr@pped myself when the guy opened door and I was told I would be first out.)

Clever Pun, yup thats the Queentown one, I think Queenstown has 3 out of the 4 in the country!

cjcp, you just have to, I'm scared of heights and wasn't very graceful on the platform but when you get dunked in the river below and fly back up realising your alive, its one hell of a buzz, not sure I could do the Nevis jump though, 143metres or something and 8 second freefall. :shock:

I've done the Bloukrantz bridge in South africa (highest fixed in the world) it was my first jump

if you look closely you can see the line and me at the end of it

******* terrifying but awesome, it's about the same height as canary wharf tower

CP, I did that jump too, last April. I got to the edge of the platform, looked down and burst into tears. Despite lots of very kind encouragement from the guys up there I bottled it.

They sent me to the bar to have a few tequilas and I did the last jump of the day.

I won't be doing that or any other jump ever again.

The worst bit wasn't the freefall, I enjoyed that, it was the bouncing around, convinced the strapping was sliding up over my ankles and feet that reduced me to my second bout of tears of the day.

Well done!! you're right the first fall wasn't as bad it was being up and nearly the same height and doing it all again.. being brought back up scared me the most I think. did you jump out properly or flop out and get horrifically flicked about?

I went great white shark diving the next day after dreaming about falling all damned night

cjcp

Clever Pun wrote:

I went great white shark diving the next day after dreaming about falling all damned night

:shock: What, the, hell, Is wrong with you?

I did this instead (much more civilised):

cjcp

Did this, too! (Tongariro Nat. Park)

Agent57

WGWarburton wrote:

(who voted no?).

Me. Seemed a bit of a pointless poll, so I thought I'd be contrary.

gabriel959

lost_in_thought wrote:

Well, I stand corrected!

Trouble is, it's full of spaniards.

:P

That is true though!

But you live in London don't you ... that place IS full of spaniards!