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Malta

2009-09-26T16:10:03Z

Thumb54: /* What's a boy (or girl) to do in Malta, like, is there an itinerary? */

The main themes of this holiday are: cheapness and efficiency. But also, goodness.

Check out Lee's organisational rival Google documents [http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQpi2faaIRgdZGNmenpuOGJfMTFkbmNrMjVkZw&hl=en here] (word doc) and [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Agpi2faaIRgddFdubU02YXlUOXNFWExnN2VPWGJqaFE&hl=en&invite=CP2d57MO here] (spreadsheet).

[[Image:Malta.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Malta]]

== Umm... where's Malta? ==

In the med, just south-east of Sicily. 3 hours flight from Heathrow.

== So, who's coming to this thing? ==

I defer to the [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Agpi2faaIRgddFdubU02YXlUOXNFWExnN2VPWGJqaFE&hl=en&invite=CP2d57MO spreadsheet].

== And... when will that be? ==

The week beginning 2nd Nov 09

== But where to stay? ==

Sheesh, what's with all the questions?

== What's a boy (or girl) to do in Malta, like, is there an itinerary? ==

There's no mad 'pack in as much a phyically possible' itinerary, I don't think it's that kind of holiday. Chill out, man! But here are some suggestions:

*Go to the beach
*Watch the girls (in bikinis) go by if you're a boy
*Watch the boys (in bikinis) go by if you're a girl
*Sample some of the fine Maltese cuisine
*Mountain biking
*Boozing
*SCUBA diving
*Going round forts
*Trying to find traditional malteasers

MexicoCuba

2007-01-02T19:43:00Z

Thumb54: /* Concusion (*new*) */

== Mexico Cuba 2006 ==

=== Introduction ===

This is a holiday idea that I have been whinging (=winging) on about for some time now after the thouroughly (=thoroughly) excellent times I had in Peru and Egypt . The thought behind Mexico & Cuba 2006 is to combine the latin flavours of central america through the tequilla & salsa music with the ancient wonder of the pyramids. At the time of writing (February 2006) this is still simply an idea so the purpose of this page is to do some perelimenary (=preliminary) investigation into whather (=whether) the whole idea is possible at all --Tom

(You may think it's 'winging' Caz, but have you looked up 'define: winging' on Google? Hmm? Cos I'm not sure that's what Tom meant either...)

== General Plan ==
Fly in to Mexico city, travel down to cancun (coach/rail) and over to Havana (Boat/Plane.)

[[Image:bigmap.JPG]]

===Flights===
We've booked our flights now, woohoo -

'''Outbound Flights'''
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
! From!! To !! Date and Time !!Flight No!! Class !! Carrier
|-
|London - LHR || Paris - CDG || Fri 27th Oct 2006 13:05 - 15:15 || AF1571 || Class: Economy || Air France
|-
|Paris - CDG || Mexico City - MEX || Fri 27th Oct 2006 16:15 - 21:10 || AF434 || Class: Economy || Air France
|}

'''Return flights'''
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
! From!! To !! Date and Time !!Flight No!! Class !! Carrier
|-
|Havana - HAV || Paris - CDG || Tue 14th Nov 2006 21:15 - 11:05 next day || AF479 || Class: Economy ||Air France
|-
|Paris - CDG || London - LHR || Wed 15th Nov 2006 12:00 - 12:15 || AF1570 || Class: Economy || Air France
|}

===Must see sights===
*Teotithuacan
*Mexico city
*General Aztec/Mayan stuff
*Tequilla plantations
*Gulf of mexico coast
*Havana
*Tom, desperate, trying to order a cup of tea. In Spanish.

===Moving around===

'''Mexico'''
*Coach
*Rail?
*Chicken?
*Flight between Mexico and Cuba

There is an online currency converter [http://www.xe.com/ here]

'''Cuba'''

''Unknown'' - Possibly not that much moving around as there are some nasty animals out there which bite and paralyse your legs. And if you have got no legs, say 'At least I have my arms'. And if you have got no arms and no legs, go 'At least I'm not dead!'. I'd rather be dead in that situation...bec...I've taken up yoga, for one.

== Detailed Plan ==
'''Click on one of the below links to see a detailed plan of each leg of the journey.'''

[[MexicoCity|MexicoCity to Palenque 27th Oct 9:15 pm - 2nd November 9:15pm]]

[[Yucutan|Palenque to Cancun (The Yucutan) 2nd November 9:15pm - 8th November 9:15pm]]

[[Cuba|Cancun to Havana (Cuba) 8th November 9:15pm - 14th November 9:15pm]]

== ToDo ==
=== Get jabs ===

* Hepatitis A
* Typhoid
* Polio
* Tetanus
* Yellow Fever (?)
* Malaria (?)
* Chicken 'flu (it's amazing what you can catch from an old joke-shop rubber chicken)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom - Had My jabs today, Oooo! I'm a laaaaadie! --Tom (21/09)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt'll be alright (that's if he remembers to apply sunblock)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc's ok too (or is he?)

=== Get insurance ===

[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom

Phew! I'm breathing a sigh of relief: a whole section just dedicated to simply, your names! In case we all forgot? Right, so can you clarify, so that's Matt, er...er...Daniel? Nathan? oh dear, I forgot!

=== Book Hotels ===

[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt (some)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom (some)

=== Cuba Visa ===
[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom

Haha, shame Tom's not called Luke or John, cause that'd be really funny! Get it? Mathew Marc Luke and John?? Hahahah!

=== Get some Mexican / Cuban / US Dollars ===

[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt (ordered but not picked up yet, couldn't get Cubans from Natwest!)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc (ordered but not picked up, not getting Cubans for now)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom -- US and Mex. (I have read that it is illegal to import or export Cuban currency and that US might be difficult in Cuba)

See [http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket%2FXcelerate%2FShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029390590&a=KCountryAdvice&aid=1013618385839 FCO Cuba]

What a cerfuffle!

=== Shopping for clothes / supplies ===

[[Image:blank.gif]] Matt

[[Image:blank.gif]] Marc

[[Image:blank.gif]] Tom

Oh dear, you're all blanked out in this section, what's the matter, cat got yer tongue?! Shopping's great - come ooon!

=== Other ToDo ===
* What to bring

* Who is bringing what

* Getting to the airport

* Print the Wiki

* Read what Elin wrote (!!)

* Watch Buena Vista Social Club or at least have a look on YouTube

* Try to learn a bit of Spanish

* Poo and wee our pants!

* And finally, bring back some nice, big presents for Caroline. And Elín. =). And Mum!!

== Stuff what people paid for and who owes whom what ==

{| border="1"
|+ Matt's Spend
! Item !! Paid by !! Amount in Sterling
|-
|Havana hotel: Park View ||Card||204.26
|-
|-
|Varadero hotel: Kawama || Card ||226.88
|-
|-
|Total: || N/A || £431.14
|}

And also, Matt loaned to Tom: CUC 100 (~£60)

{| border="1"
|+ Marc's Spend
! Item !! Paid by !! Amount in Sterling
|-
|Petrol for the hire car ||Cash||MXN 240.00 (~£12)
|-
|-
|Palenque hotel (I think - can you confirm?) || Cash|| £8.54 (MXN 180.00)
|-
|-
|Chichen Itza hotel - did we all pay or did I?|| Cash|| ?
|-
|-
|Cancun hotel || Cash|| £30.79 ($60)
|-
|-
|Tulum hotel || Card|| £69.37
|-
|-
|Car hire || Card|| £233.75
|-
|-
|Total so far: || N/A || £354.45
|}

{| border="1"
|+ Tom's Spend
! Item !! Paid by !! Amount in Sterling
|-
|Casa Inn, Mexico City|| Card || £152.96
|-
|Bus from Veracruz to Villahermosa || Card || £49.87
|-
|-
|Emporio Veracruz || Card || £84.46
|-
|-
|Flight from Cancun to Havana || Card || £271.20
|-
|-
|Total: || N/A || £558.49
|}

=== Concusion (*new*) ===

Okay, so the average was £448.03 so once again and in true nerd style if we look at how we are up or down against that excluding the £60CUCs until later:

Matt: £431.14 (down £16.18 on the average)

Marc: £354.45 (down £93.58 on the average)

Tom: £558.49 (up £110.46 on the average)

So to even things out...

'''Marc pays Matt : £93.58'''

Bringing Marc to the average and making Matt £337.56

Matt would pay tom £110.47 but Tom owes him £60 for the CUCs so

'''Matt pays Tom : £50.47'''

And we would be all even? Is this agreed?

''Chit-chat''

Matt ended up subbing us both our asses at the end so we owe him a shandy or two I recon --Thumb

Remember we only need 2 transactions between the 3 of us to make us even (as soon as we know what the totals will be) --Matt

Marc, can you put yours into Sterling please? --Thumb

I totally don't remember how we paid for the Chichen Itza hotel? Do you? This was the one with the stony swimming pool. --Marc

We definately paid in cash as I remember him counting it and I remember a lot of faffing trying to pay evenly but i don't remember exactly what happened in the end, Do you Matt?. -- Thumb

I reckon we paid for this using the kitty; Matt

Did we sort out Casa Inn in Mexico City while we were there?? I really don't remember now. :-/ --Thumb

I also cannot remember at all, but I guess we would have not paid Tom back at the time, saying: "ah it's OK, we can just look at our credit card statements when we get back, and we'll sort it out then" - Matt

== Comments ==

Matt: According to Cyril & Nick at work, Cancun is "a hole", Americanised, touristy, Burger Kings... But a few miles south is a nice town... and also, a few miles off the coast of Mexico nr. Cancun is an isle, called isla.... something. Which translates as: Island of women!

Cancun: Who you calling a hole? A-hole!!

Matt: A friend of a colleague at work said that in Cancun: [http://cancun-hotels.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g150807-d152884-r5944647-Senor_Frog_s-Cancun_Yucatan_Peninsula.html Senor Frog's] is a fun place to go

Matt: Cyril said that a couple of miles from Palenque, there's a road that goes over a mountainous bit. On the way down, there is a river that's really clear/ blue. And also, near Cancun there's a lake that's linked to the sea underground.

Seems like Matt's really done his research. But what about the rest of ya? Slackers!

==Recommended reading==

''The Labyrinth of Solitude'' by Octavio Paz - insight into the Mexican psyche and outlines a lot of information about Mexican history. Short essays.

''Innocent Erendira and other short stories'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Short stories by the acclaimed Colombian writer. ''Innocent Erendira'' in particular is great for demonstrating Magical realism.

''Labyrinths'' by Jorge Luis Borges - short stories from an excellent Argentinian writer. Matt will love ''The Library of Babel'' I would have thought, the ''Garden of Forking Paths'' and ''Death and the Compass'' are excellent as well.

You lil bookworms you!

MexicoCuba

2007-01-02T19:33:48Z

Thumb54: /* Stuff what people paid for and who owes whom what */

== Mexico Cuba 2006 ==

=== Introduction ===

This is a holiday idea that I have been whinging (=winging) on about for some time now after the thouroughly (=thoroughly) excellent times I had in Peru and Egypt . The thought behind Mexico & Cuba 2006 is to combine the latin flavours of central america through the tequilla & salsa music with the ancient wonder of the pyramids. At the time of writing (February 2006) this is still simply an idea so the purpose of this page is to do some perelimenary (=preliminary) investigation into whather (=whether) the whole idea is possible at all --Tom

(You may think it's 'winging' Caz, but have you looked up 'define: winging' on Google? Hmm? Cos I'm not sure that's what Tom meant either...)

== General Plan ==
Fly in to Mexico city, travel down to cancun (coach/rail) and over to Havana (Boat/Plane.)

[[Image:bigmap.JPG]]

===Flights===
We've booked our flights now, woohoo -

'''Outbound Flights'''
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
! From!! To !! Date and Time !!Flight No!! Class !! Carrier
|-
|London - LHR || Paris - CDG || Fri 27th Oct 2006 13:05 - 15:15 || AF1571 || Class: Economy || Air France
|-
|Paris - CDG || Mexico City - MEX || Fri 27th Oct 2006 16:15 - 21:10 || AF434 || Class: Economy || Air France
|}

'''Return flights'''
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
! From!! To !! Date and Time !!Flight No!! Class !! Carrier
|-
|Havana - HAV || Paris - CDG || Tue 14th Nov 2006 21:15 - 11:05 next day || AF479 || Class: Economy ||Air France
|-
|Paris - CDG || London - LHR || Wed 15th Nov 2006 12:00 - 12:15 || AF1570 || Class: Economy || Air France
|}

===Must see sights===
*Teotithuacan
*Mexico city
*General Aztec/Mayan stuff
*Tequilla plantations
*Gulf of mexico coast
*Havana
*Tom, desperate, trying to order a cup of tea. In Spanish.

===Moving around===

'''Mexico'''
*Coach
*Rail?
*Chicken?
*Flight between Mexico and Cuba

There is an online currency converter [http://www.xe.com/ here]

'''Cuba'''

''Unknown'' - Possibly not that much moving around as there are some nasty animals out there which bite and paralyse your legs. And if you have got no legs, say 'At least I have my arms'. And if you have got no arms and no legs, go 'At least I'm not dead!'. I'd rather be dead in that situation...bec...I've taken up yoga, for one.

== Detailed Plan ==
'''Click on one of the below links to see a detailed plan of each leg of the journey.'''

[[MexicoCity|MexicoCity to Palenque 27th Oct 9:15 pm - 2nd November 9:15pm]]

[[Yucutan|Palenque to Cancun (The Yucutan) 2nd November 9:15pm - 8th November 9:15pm]]

[[Cuba|Cancun to Havana (Cuba) 8th November 9:15pm - 14th November 9:15pm]]

== ToDo ==
=== Get jabs ===

* Hepatitis A
* Typhoid
* Polio
* Tetanus
* Yellow Fever (?)
* Malaria (?)
* Chicken 'flu (it's amazing what you can catch from an old joke-shop rubber chicken)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom - Had My jabs today, Oooo! I'm a laaaaadie! --Tom (21/09)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt'll be alright (that's if he remembers to apply sunblock)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc's ok too (or is he?)

=== Get insurance ===

[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom

Phew! I'm breathing a sigh of relief: a whole section just dedicated to simply, your names! In case we all forgot? Right, so can you clarify, so that's Matt, er...er...Daniel? Nathan? oh dear, I forgot!

=== Book Hotels ===

[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt (some)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom (some)

=== Cuba Visa ===
[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom

Haha, shame Tom's not called Luke or John, cause that'd be really funny! Get it? Mathew Marc Luke and John?? Hahahah!

=== Get some Mexican / Cuban / US Dollars ===

[[Image:tick.gif]] Matt (ordered but not picked up yet, couldn't get Cubans from Natwest!)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Marc (ordered but not picked up, not getting Cubans for now)

[[Image:tick.gif]] Tom -- US and Mex. (I have read that it is illegal to import or export Cuban currency and that US might be difficult in Cuba)

See [http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket%2FXcelerate%2FShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029390590&a=KCountryAdvice&aid=1013618385839 FCO Cuba]

What a cerfuffle!

=== Shopping for clothes / supplies ===

[[Image:blank.gif]] Matt

[[Image:blank.gif]] Marc

[[Image:blank.gif]] Tom

Oh dear, you're all blanked out in this section, what's the matter, cat got yer tongue?! Shopping's great - come ooon!

=== Other ToDo ===
* What to bring

* Who is bringing what

* Getting to the airport

* Print the Wiki

* Read what Elin wrote (!!)

* Watch Buena Vista Social Club or at least have a look on YouTube

* Try to learn a bit of Spanish

* Poo and wee our pants!

* And finally, bring back some nice, big presents for Caroline. And Elín. =). And Mum!!

== Stuff what people paid for and who owes whom what ==

{| border="1"
|+ Matt's Spend
! Item !! Paid by !! Amount in Sterling
|-
|Havana hotel: Park View ||Card||204.26
|-
|-
|Varadero hotel: Kawama || Card ||226.88
|-
|-
|Total: || N/A || £431.14
|}

And also, Matt loaned to Tom: CUC 100 (~£60)

{| border="1"
|+ Marc's Spend
! Item !! Paid by !! Amount in Sterling
|-
|Petrol for the hire car ||Cash||MXN 240.00 (~£12)
|-
|-
|Palenque hotel (I think - can you confirm?) || Cash|| £8.54 (MXN 180.00)
|-
|-
|Chichen Itza hotel - did we all pay or did I?|| Cash|| ?
|-
|-
|Cancun hotel || Cash|| £30.79 ($60)
|-
|-
|Tulum hotel || Card|| £69.37
|-
|-
|Car hire || Card|| £233.75
|-
|-
|Total so far: || N/A || £354.45
|}

{| border="1"
|+ Tom's Spend
! Item !! Paid by !! Amount in Sterling
|-
|Casa Inn, Mexico City|| Card || £152.96
|-
|Bus from Veracruz to Villahermosa || Card || £49.87
|-
|-
|Emporio Veracruz || Card || £84.46
|-
|-
|Flight from Cancun to Havana || Card || £271.20
|-
|-
|Total: || N/A || £558.49
|}

=== Concusion (*new*) ===

Okay, so the average was £448.03 so I recon if we look at how we are up or down against that excluding the £60CUCs until later:

Matt: £431.14 (down £16.18 on the average)

Marc: £354.45 (down £93.58 on the average)

Tom: £558.49 (up £110.46 on the average)

So to even things out...

'''Marc pays Matt : £93.58'''

Bringing Marc to the average and making Matt £337.56

Matt would pay tom £110.47 but Tom owes him £60 for the CUCs so

'''Matt pays Tom : £50.47'''

And we would be all even? Is this agreed?

''Chit-chat''

Matt ended up subbing us both our asses at the end so we owe him a shandy or two I recon --Thumb

Remember we only need 2 transactions between the 3 of us to make us even (as soon as we know what the totals will be) --Matt

Marc, can you put yours into Sterling please? --Thumb

I totally don't remember how we paid for the Chichen Itza hotel? Do you? This was the one with the stony swimming pool. --Marc

We definately paid in cash as I remember him counting it and I remember a lot of faffing trying to pay evenly but i don't remember exactly what happened in the end, Do you Matt?. -- Thumb

I reckon we paid for this using the kitty; Matt

Did we sort out Casa Inn in Mexico City while we were there?? I really don't remember now. :-/ --Thumb

I also cannot remember at all, but I guess we would have not paid Tom back at the time, saying: "ah it's OK, we can just look at our credit card statements when we get back, and we'll sort it out then" - Matt

== Comments ==

Matt: According to Cyril & Nick at work, Cancun is "a hole", Americanised, touristy, Burger Kings... But a few miles south is a nice town... and also, a few miles off the coast of Mexico nr. Cancun is an isle, called isla.... something. Which translates as: Island of women!

Cancun: Who you calling a hole? A-hole!!

Matt: A friend of a colleague at work said that in Cancun: [http://cancun-hotels.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g150807-d152884-r5944647-Senor_Frog_s-Cancun_Yucatan_Peninsula.html Senor Frog's] is a fun place to go

Matt: Cyril said that a couple of miles from Palenque, there's a road that goes over a mountainous bit. On the way down, there is a river that's really clear/ blue. And also, near Cancun there's a lake that's linked to the sea underground.

Seems like Matt's really done his research. But what about the rest of ya? Slackers!

==Recommended reading==

''The Labyrinth of Solitude'' by Octavio Paz - insight into the Mexican psyche and outlines a lot of information about Mexican history. Short essays.

''Innocent Erendira and other short stories'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Short stories by the acclaimed Colombian writer. ''Innocent Erendira'' in particular is great for demonstrating Magical realism.

''Labyrinths'' by Jorge Luis Borges - short stories from an excellent Argentinian writer. Matt will love ''The Library of Babel'' I would have thought, the ''Garden of Forking Paths'' and ''Death and the Compass'' are excellent as well.

You lil bookworms you!

2006-05-24T11:29:52Z

Thumb54: /* Who's coming */

Isle Of Wight

2006-05-24T08:22:14Z

Thumb54:

File:Isleofwightweather.JPG

2006-05-24T08:19:18Z

Thumb54: Weather for the Isle of Wight as predicted on wednesday

Weather for the Isle of Wight as predicted on wednesday

Nerd Olympics

2006-05-24T08:05:15Z

Talk:Isle Of Wight

2006-05-16T09:54:33Z

Thumb54:

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|- bgcolor="whitesmoke"
|width="100%"|
Fantastic, we are going Zorbing, wooohoo!!
|[[Image:Tomfunnyhat.jpg|thumb54|Tom's avatar]]
[[User:Thumb54|Thumb54]]

16 May 2006 10:54
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
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Isle Of Wight

2006-05-16T09:49:35Z

Thumb54: /* What we'll do */

File:Zorb.JPG

2006-05-16T09:48:23Z

Thumb54: Zorb

Zorb

T4OnTheBeach2006

2006-05-14T20:53:50Z

Thumb54: /* Where's that then? */

== Brief (By Thumb)==
[[Image:t4beach_home.jpg|right|T4 Beach Logo]]
Nat suggested to me going to the T4 concert on the beach at Western Super Mare (Somerset) on Sunday June the 18th... We could camp/B&B somewhere nearby on the friday and saturday and make a weekend of it.

== About T4 On The Beach ==
=== Bands ===
*All American Rejects
*The Automatic
*Basement Jaxx
*Embrace
*The Feeling
*Frank
*Feeder
*The Kooks
*Pet Shop Boys
*Pussycat Dolls
*Simon Webbe
*Will Young
*The Zutons
*Boy Kill Boy

For up to date info see the [http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/t4/microsites/O/onthebeach2006/lineup2.html line up] on the official site.

=== Presenters ===

== Where's that then? ==
It's in Western-Super-Mare mate

== Who's coming ==
Tom is asking a few friends...

Nat is asking a few friends...

== Whats the plan?==

== Transport there and back ==

== Where we'll stay ==

== Links ==

[http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/t4/microsites/O/onthebeach2006/index.html Official T4 On The Beach Microsite]

T4OnTheBeach2006

2006-05-14T20:52:35Z

T4OnTheBeach2006

2006-05-14T20:25:05Z

Thumb54: /* About T4 Sunday */

== Brief (By Thumb)==

Nat suggested to me going to the T4 concert on the beach at Western Super Mare (Somerset) on Sunday June the 18th... We could camp/B&B somewhere nearby on the friday and saturday and make a weekend of it.

== About T4 On The Beach ==
=== Bands ===
=== Presenters ===

== Where's that then? ==

== Who's coming ==

== Whats the plan?==

== Transport there and back ==

== Where we'll stay ==

== Links ==