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Well done Darcy. Love the dress! Strangely enough, every time I tried to buy an oriental dress when travelling, they were always vey long and yet oriental people are not tall!

I love the Vietnamese traditional dress...here's a pic taken last New Year, year if the snake. This is in Saigon, outside the Rex Hotel.

Have a great day mrs :) x

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Here's some pics of my daughter, wearing iriental dresses, when we went to the Philippines for Xmas, many moons ago! X

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lynneonextante said:
Wow Bee. What an interesting post and also what an interesting life! How often do you see your family? I don't see a great deal of my sister who lives in america but we do tend to speak on the phone every week.
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Thanks...reading my post I think it sounds more interesting that it actually is :D My life seems rather routine to me now being in a steady office job. Having said that, my bosses are super flexible people and have given me months off at a time so I can go off and do what I like :) One of my little obsessions is lighthouses. So wherever I am (if it's by the coast of course!) I find the nearest one and tick it off my list as it were. I just love them. Solitary and proud.

I see my family about once a year. It doesn't seem much I know. But time just flies. And I do talk to my mum a lot on the phone and email/skype the rest of my family regularly. I don't have a big family so that makes it easier in a way. How long has your sister been in the States?

Darcy15 said:
What an interesting life you have led :D

I would never have guessed that English was not your first language - puts my very basic German to shame!

You're much more of a free spirit than I ever will be - much as I have travelled the world on my own, it has always been in a very planned way. There is absolutely no way I could just go away spontaneously like you - I'm a great planner and maker of lists :rolleyes:

I think you might like cruising - I had some very preconceived ideas about it, but was proved very wrong. As a solo traveller I find it just so stress free. Oh, and Alaska is just beautiful - and was my first cruise!
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Thanks Darcy. Spontaneity goes well with my impatient nature because I struggle to wait for anything :p Having said that, big trips like my Africa trip were planned well in advance of course. It's the little trips within Britain/Europe that don't need much planning. I always have a little vanity bag in my handbag with some toiletries and underwear and always carry my passport so I can just go off if the opportunity were to present itself. Weird huh, I have never actually gone abroad without knowing at least two or three days in advance but it makes me feel like I can. And you can buy a toothbrush anywhere hehe.

Oooh Alaska. I really fancy that. How long was the cruise? I think it was something silly like watching a film that made me want to go there. A rom com with Sandra Bullock, can't remember now what it was called, but it was set mostly in Alaska and I thought, yep, I'll go there.
 
BeeBeeSee said:
Thanks...reading my post I think it sounds more interesting that it actually is :D My life seems rather routine to me now being in a steady office job. Having said that, my bosses are super flexible people and have given me months off at a time so I can go off and do what I like :) One of my little obsessions is lighthouses. So wherever I am (if it's by the coast of course!) I find the nearest one and tick it off my list as it were. I just love them. Solitary and proud.

I see my family about once a year. It doesn't seem much I know. But time just flies. And I do talk to my mum a lot on the phone and email/skype the rest of my family regularly. I don't have a big family so that makes it easier in a way. How long has your sister been in the States?



Thanks Darcy. Spontaneity goes well with my impatient nature because I struggle to wait for anything :p Having said that, big trips like my Africa trip were planned well in advance of course. It's the little trips within Britain/Europe that don't need much planning. I always have a little vanity bag in my handbag with some toiletries and underwear and always carry my passport so I can just go off if the opportunity were to present itself. Weird huh, I have never actually gone abroad without knowing at least two or three days in advance but it makes me feel like I can. And you can buy a toothbrush anywhere hehe.

Oooh Alaska. I really fancy that. How long was the cruise? I think it was something silly like watching a film that made me want to go there. A rom com with Sandra Bullock, can't remember now what it was called, but it was set mostly in Alaska and I thought, yep, I'll go there.
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Bee, you must go to Alaska - it is stunning :). It was my first cruise, just 7 days and it absolutely flew past.

Also, and you won't believe this, one of the guest lecturers on a previous cruise gave a fascinating talk on lighthouses!!!!! :eek:

.....it was really interesting, the history and the architecture, how they are run, manning them - things I never knew! Did you know for example that Robert Louis Stephenson designed and built a lighthouse in Tahiti? Brought it to life when I got to see it later on.

I have learned a lot on my cruises as there are lecturers onboard on the cruise line I sail with - all sorts of things from ship operations and navigation, to the history of the next port of call. I barely know right from left, so I find the navigational lectures fascinating - how they get that massive liner from port to port is amazing. Lucky they don't rely on me to pilot it though :rolleyes:
 
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Good afternoon Darcy. Reading your diary is giving me itchy feet! Hope you're having a great day xx
 
Darcy15 said:
Bee, you must go to Alaska - it is stunning :). It was my first cruise, just 7 days and it absolutely flew past.

Also, and you won't believe this, one of the guest lecturers on a previous cruise gave a fascinating talk on lighthouses!!!!! :eek:

.....it was really interesting, the history and the architecture, how they are run, manning them - things I never knew! Did you know for example that Robert Louis Stephenson designed and built a lighthouse in Tahiti? Brought it to life when I got to see it later on.

I have learned a lot on my cruises as there are lecturers onboard on the cruise line I sail with - all sorts of things from ship operations and navigation, to the history of the next port of call. I barely know right from left, so I find the navigational lectures fascinating - how they get that massive liner from porrt to port is amazing. Lucky they don't rely on me to pilot it though :rolleyes:
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I did know about Stephenson's Tahitian lighthouse, but how cool is that, to have lecturers on board. I would totally soak that up, I'm such an anorak :D
 
How you doing Darcy? Hope you're having a good day :) xx

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All this talk of travelling. I can come & look at your diary Darcy instead of spending evenings looking on trip advisor or lonely planet sites lol.

How has your day been x
 
Trying hard 2014 said:
Well done Darcy. Love the dress! Strangely enough, every time I tried to buy an oriental dress when travelling, they were always vey long and yet oriental people are not tall!

I love the Vietnamese traditional dress...here's a pic taken last New Year, year if the snake. This is in Saigon, outside the Rex Hotel.

Have a great day mrs :) x

Ht 5ft 1 Start wt 14st BMI 37. Wk1 -18lbs, BMI 33.6 Wk2 -2 BMI 33.2, Wk3 -3.5 BMI 32.5, Wk4...
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Love the photo! :) I plan to visit Vietnam next year. I sort of went there last year - long story short the ship docked in Saigon and Nha Trang, but I was as sick as a dog in my cabin for 2 days so all I saw was the shoreline :(

I wanted to get a made to measure dress in Hong Kong but was too embarrassed about my size :eek:

I took a chance on the one I bought and the length seems just fine - not that it will so much as go round one leg at the moment! :eek:
 
Susie58 said:
All this talk of travelling. I can come & look at your diary Darcy instead of spending evenings looking on trip advisor or lonely planet sites lol.

How has your day been x
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Hee hee, I usually worry about boring people with my travel tales! :D

I'm doing great thanks - really in the zone! :)
 
The dress is beautiful, that's the kind of delivery I like - well done on the bike ride, you'll soon be in the dress :) xx
 
Darcy15 said:
Love the photo! :) I plan to visit Vietnam next year. I sort of went there last year - long story short the ship docked in Saigon and Nha Trang, but I was as sick as a dog in my cabin for 2 days so all I saw was the shoreline :(

I wanted to get a made to measure dress in Hong Kong but was too embarrassed about my size :eek:

I took a chance on the one I bought and the length seems just fine - not that it will so much as go round one leg at the moment! :eek:
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I love Nha Trang! X

Ht 5ft 1 Start wt 14st BMI 37. Wk1 -18lbs, BMI 33.6 Wk2 -2 BMI 33.2, Wk3 -3.5 BMI 32.5, Wk4...
 
You are still doing great.
I dont know how you managed to resist weigh day as i get so excited for mine, but hope you get a nice surprise at the end if it x
 
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