The French, one assumes.

My brother was a world traveller when we cycled Brittany in '93, he'd literally only just returned from hiking all the way around the world for 18 months, you could say that the air turned blue when we got to the ferry terminal and he realised that he didn't have his passport with him.

Luckily it was 1993, the world wasn't as paranoid as it is now, we were on bikes at the ferry terminal and they let all the cyclists board first so he just got himself into the middle of a group of bikes and rode straight through the passport check at Portsmouth, when we got to St Malo the next morning there wasn't a soul to be seen on the dockside to check documents





I took the family on holiday to Benodet a few years ago and so of course Quimper was on the agenda, beautiful old town, and because the family all wanted to just lie on the beach I had a fantastic two weeks of driving myself all along the south coast visiting all sorts of villages, Concarneau, Pont Aven, had a great time.

Went to Dom Rep last July, hotel was nice but the place itself is a bit rough, much prefer Cuba with part stay in Havana.

Egypt should still be hot in October. I am going to Red Sea on Monday for 2 weeks, temps are high as 42 at the moment

Long time ago, spent 3 weeks in Vancouver and a week in a place called Esquimalt on Vancouver Island, absolutely fantastic if you like wild life (Orcas are numerous). A place I have always wanted to go back to, but never made it.

Are you mad?! I hope you'll be scuba diving or visiting sites most days because it'll be way too hot for a sunbathing holiday. Egypt and Turkey (and Arizona) are the hottest places I've been and even the locals tell you not to go in August!

Loved Egypt for the diving and the cheap beer. Hated Egypt for the Egyptians, won't be going back for that reason. You've not been hassled until you've done Egypt.

You get out of a taxi at your hotel and taxis nearby zoom up and start beeping and shouting at you, even when they've seen you just arrive. Go into some of the shops and they lock the door behind you. We walked past one shop in Sharm and the owner started following us down the street "why you no buy my things" - he got pretty abusive "you f*cking English", etc until we got stern and told him to fook off back to his shop. The females in the group were pretty scared and none of us did any more shopping after that.

I realise they are a culture of traders but the sooner someone educates them that if they backed off,Western Europeans would be MORE likely to shop.

he was actually asking for 'a leg of pork and a beer' which must have been interesting for the locals to witness

I am thinking of going to Yorkshire for a short holiday. When I checked the World Tourist Organisation web site to check which vaccinations were required (chlamydia & rabies btw) it mentioned that an Olympic gold medal was required to be shown at border control. Apparantly everybody has one in Yorkshire.

I have asked my friends here in Australia and nobody has seen one let alone have one, can you get them on ebay?

No, Keith Senior never won one.

No vaccinations required, you won't catch anything from a Yorkshireman.

We, however, require a certificate from your doctor declaring that you are clean of all diseases, for our own protection you understand.

Failure to provide this will mean a six week stay in kennels at the border.

Aye, so tight they won't even give you the flu...

Have you seen the cost of flu germs these days...

that's true enough

as they say "you can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can't tell him MUCH ! "