Well as for me. I dunno. But I intend to have travelled half the globe before I'll finally make up my mind. Though there are a few places I'm thinking about living in I want to visit them first before I make up my mind. ~D
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Well as for me. I dunno. But I intend to have travelled half the globe before I'll finally make up my mind. Though there are a few places I'm thinking about living in I want to visit them first before I make up my mind. ~D
All good ideas. There's also Southern Europe, quite cheap (er) i.e Italy, Spain (flooded with Sterling), Greece (!!!). At the moment I'm still stuck on Thailand. I'll be surprised if I change my mind. A nice little restaurant to keep me cooking, I will finally be head chef! a (row)boat with a massive sail moored a few meters in the tsunami... err... sea, BIG EU flag and THAI flag on the boat, and restaurant! What else, hopefully I get some time off, it's already starting to sound like work. Joking aside Í'm dead serious, already added a few hundred to the savings this month. Just a couple of decades to go, hope I make it ! Ofc things can change by then, let's hope the world is a better place.
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Originally Posted by Sinan
......Orda
Indeed.
That's in the plan, I only need to find a woman, who meets my standards and that I can settle with.
Sounds really great. I'm intend to visit Asia at some point. Thailand as well because I'd be able to stay with the family of a Thai exchange student we had living with us for a year. I also have people I can stay with in Japan, Taiwan, China, Singapore, New Caledonia and Tahiti which is really cool. But outside of the Pacific/East Asia area it gets quite a bit more expensive to travel. :wall:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinan
Only on the NZ dollar my friend. Stay in school, get a degree (that you can travel on) or a trade and travel as you work.
Far better earning US$ or Euro's or pounds and travelling on that than NZ monopoly money.
Yeah, probably. But I can't go to university until I'm 20. And so far I've saved up $4200 and going to be working full time as of next week to pay for a trip to Europe which I'm planning for mid next year. :tongue2:Quote:
Originally Posted by El Diablo
Thats some impressive saving - hope that you have an awesome trip.
The thing about Europe is it is so huge - so much history - so much culture so many options of travel.
I am jealous of your impending trip. I loved it over there.
I wouldn't mind retiring in the Bay of Islands. Nice spot and quite literal in its naming.
Visiting Hayastan, yes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hepcat
Yes, eventually. My cousins raved about that little republic in the caucuses so much that I can't help but want to go there. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishArmenian
Though first I'm going to the Netherlands to meet up with my grandfather's family who I've never met before. That's because my grandfather and his brother, after serving in the Dutch army in Indonesia, went to Australia where my great uncle chose to stay but my grandfather chose to make a further step to NZ and lost all contact with his family. He's lived and retired here and doesn't want to go back to Holland, on my trip to the Netherlands I'll be meeting a side of the family we've known nothing about until in the 1990s when his sister tracked both him and his brother down in Oz and NZ by reading phone books.
Next I'd like to go to Armenia, in fact I'll be staying with an Armenian family in Belgium. I do also intend to visit Turkey as well, however, which probably sounds quite stupid and unrealistic since they hate each other. ~:mecry:
Though hopefully as a New Zealander I won't be affected by the politics between the two places when I'm going there and can enjoy both places.
Thanks, I've been hoarding every cent of the money from my job since February for this. One thing I can do well is save money. I think it must be something I got from the Dutch side of the family. ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by El Diablo
Anyway, back on topic. By the time I retire I intend to have more flags in my sig than you El Diablo. :tongue2:
But although I may retire in a different country I'm never going to let myself or anyone forget the little island nation I was born in. ~D
Good luck with the flag gathering Hepcat!!!
My only prerequisite for putting a flag in my sig was having "had a beer there" so some I would hardly call well travelled.
I have a close friend of mine who has travelled to over 1/3 of the worlds countries. I call her a walking catastrophy though as disaters seem to follow her.
She had to litterally run for the Boxing day Tsunami and it took me ages to contact her after the London underground bombings - obviously nothing to do with her, but I was still nervous when she came to stay at mine earlier this year (having come from South America and on her way to China/Nepal/Tibet via SE asia).
Now SHE would have some flags!!!
As a New Zealander, you'll be fine and many visit Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan all in the same trip. The key to travelling either from Turkey to Armenia or vice versa is to pass through another country on the trip so that no one knows you came from one or the other, other than your passport.
Thats good to know. Thanks. :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishArmenian
Sorry for hijacking the thread. :oops:
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Originally Posted by Mother Yoda
I like to retire in Swisszland (bad spelling :laugh4: ) :yes: