Personal GalleryDiscuss Trackends Terrible Tripe in the OFF-Topic / Misc. forums; I spent all me dosh on the trips Skim thats why I couldnt afford a decent camera at the time. ...
I spent all me dosh on the trips Skim thats why I couldnt afford a decent camera at the time. The hotel at Lake Louis cost us £300 for one night room only with a Glacier view over the lake and im going back best part of ten years ago. mind you the view first thing in the morning at dawn was worth every penny the only thing I didnt like was the pratt who kept blowing a bleeding alpine horn every five minutes to show off the echo, and he was wearing Leder hosen what a knob head.
The one thing I really wish I had done and didnt was catch the sea plane early in the morning from Victoria habour and gone on the mail run
around the Kamloops area.
__________________ "Only thoses who lose freedom know it's true worth" Unknown French woman interviewed June 1944
You guys are lucky. I think the more south I went was Buffalo... and it was only a "fly-by". I never really visited the states.
However, I don't want to go too much southern... The more southern you get, the bigger the bugs get. I don't want to wake-up with a six inches large spyder on my chest.
At least I saw Canada from Toronto to Halifax... I wish to go to Vancouver somedays...
May be even plan a trip to the UK... Visit London, Dover, Portsmouth, Plymouth, go up a little then take the ferry to Ireland, visit a little then go back on "the big Island", go north to Scotland and then go back south by following the east coast. Ahhhhhh... *The* dream.
Lanc, he doesn't bat for your team. Don't get your hopes up.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004
Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda.
Ive been lucky Eric, the following year we went to Sorrento and visited Pompei, Vesuvius and Rome as we drove up to Rome we went past Monti Casino its easy to understand its strategic value every where else is flat for miles around and it looks straight down on the motor way about 4 miles away.
I can well believe why it was such a bloody battle its so steep, its almost impegnable by ground troops and all rock so you cant even make a scrape to get into. I read once that the surounding area was sowen with over 350,000 anti personel and tank mines mines.
__________________ "Only thoses who lose freedom know it's true worth" Unknown French woman interviewed June 1944
Alot of history there. My wife's great uncle received his silver star in Italy. After getting wounded, he returned in time to storm the beach at Anzio. I seem to remember him mentioning Monte Cassino as well.
It's great that you were able to see those things. I saw quite a bit in my first couple of years in Europe. I wish I had seen more.
Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda.
To those in that club. 
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