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1997 - on business for a couple of days. Was there bidding to upgrade the Riga water treatment works. After visiting the existing facility I decided to drink bottled water for the rest of the visit. There wasn't a sewage treatment works at the time - everything was directly discharged to the Baltic. Yuk!
It hadn't been long since the Ruskis left the country, so there were lots of military folk carrying sub-machine guns.
Food was fine, as by that time there was already an O'Neils bar open in the centre of Riga.
A pretty place though. Naffin cold - we went in November Brrrrr!
France. Spent a year in Normandy at Caen University in the mid '60's doing a foreign students' course plus visits to Paris both then and later.
South Africa (Orange Free State). 2007. Ten days riding horseback, plus a morning where my daughter and I bottle fed 4 week old Lion Cubs. One of the best holidays ever.
Majorca. 2001. Beach holiday with young daughter.
Austria. Several times - skiing as a student in the ‘60’s. Couple of visits to Vienna much more recently. Not cheap, but loads of history, and Apple Strudel.
Italy : multiple times in last 5 years. Visits to Florence and Rome, plus guitar courses in Tuscany. Love the food, and general way of Italian life. Why they ever wanted to come and live on Hadrian’s Wall (as I currently do) is mystifying.
Yugoslavia, when it existed : standard beach holiday.
Although already mentioned I'll also give Nepal a special status as being the only place I have ever been teargassed (2000).
Ascension Island - 2005. I wanted to stay there and not go to the above.
1982 - Germany - anarchic school trip
1986 - Majorca (Magaluf) - teenage piss-up
1988 - Italy - Rimini, Venice, San Marino - great food, gorgeous women
1990 - Tunisia - in a hotel full of Germans when we lost that penalty shoot out
1993 - USA - LA, Vegas, Grand Canyon, Palm Springs
1994 - Portugal (Praia Da Rocha) - loved the place
1995 - Gran Canaria (Puerto Rico) - too bloody hot, sunstroke, end of long relationship
1996 - Turkey (Bodrum) - honeymoon - first wife
1999 - Portugal (Albufeira) - pushchair city
2004 - France Disneyland Paris + Portugal (Praia Da Rocha)
2005 - Portugal (Praia Da Rocha) - like a 2nd home
2006 - Portugal (Praia Da Rocha) - like a 2nd home x2
2007 - Portugal (Praia Da Rocha) - under new management
2008 - Cyprus (Pathos) - boring
2013 - Greece (Santorini) - 2 star hotel, 5 star island, loved it
2014 - Cyprus (Protaras) - new partners 2nd home
2016 - France (Riviera) - San Tropez, Cannes, Nice, stayed in Juans-Les-Pins, Monte-Carlo my favourite city
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Eire. Went through Belgium on route to Germany