The oficial summer 2005 holiday poll/thread

[PyrrhusofEpirus]

The sun is shining ,temperature is rising , schools and universities are out , the working are dreaming their vacations, and plans are being discussed...
Well?
My choice: It is obvious from my location!!

PS
Warning!: everything you post, will be taken account from our minister of tourist development. Tourism is our "heavy industry"!! Except for shipping of course..


AFAP: (As Far As Possible)

[Marcellus]

Not going anyway this summer

Guess I'm just going to lounge around at home for two months.

Actually, no, I',m probably going to go to Wales. Hooray!

[Drisos]

Goin to germany. Hot, sun, food but no sex or beaches.

[Ronin]

i´m starting a paid intership next week....so no vacations for me this year....

well..... the $$$$ will keep me happy

[Sjakihata]

Going to Cairo, Egypt, lots of sun and sand

[ah_dut]

Hong Kong and Shanghai...family reasons

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I hate you all . But I do get to go to Cuba in the winter. Maybe a day trip to see the WC 2006 if I can get tickets and don't go to Ireland. Ah, choices, choices.

[doc_bean]

I'm biking with my girlfriend from Vienna to Budapest, so Ausrtia, Slovakia (or whatever it is in English) and (mostly) Hungary.

[Don Corleone]

We Americans only get 2 weeks a year of holiday, once we get out and join the workforce. The missus & I are heading up to take a cruise around Alaska for those 2 weeks. We gotta make every minute count.

[King of Atlantis]

Floridia is a great place for vacation.

[Sjakihata]

We Americans only get 2 weeks a year of holiday, once we get out and join the workforce.

What? 2 weeks of vacation? Omg havent you guys heard of unions?

[Radier]

Start a private company and you can take as much holiday you want.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Nowhere. I am working 43 hour weeks at two summer jobs (40 in one 3 in the other), no vacation time, just two days a week.

[JAG]

Nowhere. Lazing about with mates and gettign ready for uni!

[Monk]

Nowhere. Lazing about with mates and gettign ready for uni!

that's the best plan i've heard all day

[GoreBag]

I'm working all summer, and I leave to visit the famn damily down east tomorrow night. There'll be lots of sex, though; I'm good like that.

[Somebody Else]

New Zealand. I hate the sun. Also, haven't been and am going on an Outward Bound course. Might go to Greece too, though. Depends on certain of my friends being available.

Plus, I live in China, so does going back to England (my homeland) count as a holiday? Or am I permanently on holiday out here. Wait, judging by my usual pastimes out here, yes, yes I am.

[thrashaholic]

I'm going to the Netherlands to visit as many art galleries as I can, I'm just tingling with excitement thinking about all those paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Frans Hals, etc.

The Netherlands is by far and away the best painting country ever, followed by Italy, Britain, Spain then Germany, so looking forward to my trip immensely.

[Ja'chyra]

Nowhere. Lazing about with mates and gettign ready for uni!

There's a joke in there somewhere

[Drisos]

I'm going to the Netherlands to visit as many art galleries as I can, I'm just tingling with excitement thinking about all those paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Frans Hals, etc.

The Netherlands is by far and away the best painting country ever, followed by Italy, Britain, Spain then Germany, so looking forward to my trip immensely.

Have fun here! I will welcome you!

[Viking]

The sun is shining ,temperature is rising

I wish it was like that, but it`s freakin` cold, overcasted and rainy here where I live, currently.

Travelling in-country this year

[Duke Malcolm]

I fly out to LA on the 19th for a week, and spend a night in San Diego, then get the train to San Francisco for a week, then fly to New York for 4 days, and I'll be back in time for my exam results arriving at my door.

[tibilicus]

This summer taking a small break in Portugal. Hopefully should be good.

[Craterus]

I'm going to Portugal this summer. Should be relaxing, and it's away from school and away from England which is always good.

[King Henry V]

I'm in Vienna (Austria if some people didn't know) for July, where my grandparents live. Howver, tommorrow I'm leaving for Hungary, where I'm staying for a week. I picked up a German-Hungarian dictionnary: by God it's a weird language!

[PyrrhusofEpirus]

Let's see... As the statistics clearly show to us, in only 3 days, Greece is a popular destination for tourists. We have 4.17% of sample, who would like to spent their holidays in Greece. Worldwide there are approximately 500 million tourists.
In that case we have: 500,000,000/100*4.17 = 20,850,000 tourist for Greece this year. Hmmm... Last year we had 14,000,000 million tourist total... And of course 20,850,000-14,000,000 = 6,850,000 more tourists... As percent is approximately 48.93% increase of tourist arrivals...
Supposing that every tourist spents in average about 55 euros per day and stays for holidays 10 days we have... 55*10 = 550 euros per capita.
So we have; 20,850,000*550 = 11,467,500,000 euros. 11,467 million euros...NOT BAD AT ALL!!!
Greece have a total population of 12 million people and falls to each sharing; 11,467,500,000/12,000,000 = 955.63 euros!! Thank you for contributing in our income!!! (You are welcome and looking forward to see you and the next summer of course...! )
Let's see if this can help our minister of national economy; For 6,850,000 more tourists this year and 550 euros per capita, we have; 6,850,000*550 = 3,767,500,000 euros more income for state's coffer. Greece's deficit is 6.7% of NGP. National GP is 210 billion euros so we have; 6.7/100*210,000,000,000 = 14,070,000,000. 14 billion euros!!! (Damn Olympics!!! The Games costed us 7-10 billion euros!! ) (Mods, you may move this at the Ludus Magna; to many calculations ! BTW Beirut, congrats for your promotion! )
The total reduction of deficit will be; 3,767,500,000/210,000,000,000*100 = 1.79%, thus we have 6.7-1.79 = 4.91% total decifit.
I'm going to announce this conclusion to the ministers of national economy and tourist development...
OH WAIT!!!! DAMN!!!! Only myself has voted for Greece until now!!! Statistics sucks!!
(mister minister!!!)

Have fun!!

[Dutch_guy]

I'm going to Portugal this summer. Should be relaxing, and it's away from school and away from England which is always good.

I'm going to Portugal too tomorrow to be exact , were exactly are you to Craterus ?

[The Stranger]

Limburg!!!!!!!!!! dat zegt genoeg niet

[The Stranger]

i would go to PT too but noooooo my sister had a holiday in Limburg arranged already. with my annoying brother and sister (i have 2 one is really awesome the other is an anoying 12 year old *****)

or to PT with my cousin and uncle (lisboa to be precise)

[tibilicus]

I'm going to Portugal too tomorrow to be exact , were exactly are you to Craterus ?

Yes were are you going there? Im heading to the Algarve region. Wait it's............... totalwar.org: Portugal invasion.