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Today is Pungenday, day 72 in the season of Confusion, 3269.

Looks like yet another alternate vacation plan is in the works. Seven days/six nights in London for $654 per person, including the $109 in taxes/fees, air on Virgin Atlantic and hotel, which is half the price of the New Zealand trip. If I plan this right and get C. to go along with the timing, perhaps I'll get to make the Oysterband 25th anniversary show after all; I should preorder a couple of tickets just in case. Maybe see you and K. there, Steve? ;) (

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Seven days/six nights in London

*whimper* Think I'd fit in your suitcase? ;-)

And you know since I won't be there, you'll have to bring me back a t-shirt. :)

Probably, although I doubt you'd fit in the overhead bin very well. =)

But of course. =)

What time frame? October, by any chance? (grin) Hey, I'd offer to take you to Spain with me if I thought there was a chance... And what kind of music does Oysterband do?

What time frame?

Early December. The concert is on the 12th, so if we plan around that we'll be leaving here on the 9th.

Hey, I'd offer to take you to Spain with me if I thought there was a chance...

You already did. ;)

what kind of music does Oysterband do?

Didn't I put any on that CD I sent you? I'll bring a couple of discs out with me at the end of the month. In the meantime, http://www.oysterband.co.uk/

(envy) Someday I want to visit the UK...

Have you checked out www.airnewzealand.com? They have some inexpensive travel packages. The important thing to remember is that, in England, you will pay about double for food, taxi, etc what you would in the US (it's not just the exchange rate - things are also baseline pricey there), whereas in NZ you'll pay half what you would in the US (and a third what you pay in SF). So keep that in mind while you're budgeting.

BTW, we're going to NZ for our honeymoon. :-)

have you checked out the prices on www.go-today.com ?

di

The NZ package I found was from Air New Zealand via Frommer's, and it was a pretty sweet deal: air from LA, hotel and a rental car for a week for in the neighborhood of $1600 each (airfare alone was rougly $950 when I looked). I think it would be a faboo vacation, but my sweetie is more interested in London than tramping around in the beautiful outdoors, even though London is a lot more expensive. I must admit that the NZ$1.70-ish to US$1 thing when I last looked was pretty darn appealing. =)

BTW, we're going to NZ for our honeymoon. :-)

From what I've seen in the guidebooks I've been looking through, it's absolutely gorgeous there.

I haven't looked there yet, I just happened to find the package I mentioned at http://www.offpeaktraveler.com/ via a link from Sunday's Washington Post travel section. I scout out Go Today periodically to see if there's anything good, but haven't looked in a few weeks.

And I'll say it again, I *love* that house! =)

I still find it hard to believe that you haven't been yet, given everywhere else you've travelled.

For me, the UK is the Arkansas of international travel... I go north of it, I go south of it, I go east of it, but there's never any business that takes me there. And none of my international travel has been on vacations/holidays, self-paid -- left to my own schedule and budget, some years I don't take anything more than a couple of long weekends off. I currently have 8+ weeks of stored vacation and no idea what to do with it...

I currently have 8+ weeks of stored vacation and no idea what to do with it...

Obviously, the answer is take a week and go to the UK. =)

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