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 ! "

Went to Cala n Bosch last summer and had a great time. The restaurants around the harbour are lovely, and all reasonably priced. Not the biggest beaches, so you need to be early to book a spot, but the water park is good, and was free with a pass from our hotel.

Just to add to some of the suggestions already given, I'd recommend lunch in the revolving restaurant at the top of the Ferhsehturm - which is the huge unmissable tower near Alexanderplatz. It's not cheap but the view is spectacular.

At night, there are a good number of bars around Oranienburger Strasse. In Hackescher Markt station, there is a bar that never closes if lively is what you're looking for (the place was still busy at 6am).

And you must try a meter of ale. Not the same as a yard of ale, mind

anyone been to a beach area in Thailand?

Any recomendations?

Phuket !

Koh Samui/Koh Phangan/Koh Tao/Phi Phi.

hi guys n gals im going for a week away to seahouse in northumberland in a couple of weeks ive had a look on line and found a few places and things to do with the missus like the farne islands and hogworts (castle anwich i think its called) but i was just wondering if anyone has been and can give me more info ? any fishing trips ? etc ? thanks