Taking Someone to a Place They've Never Been

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So what's that all about then?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

(this is a travel thread, btw)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

though actually it could be about any experience that you've had and want to share with someone else - what are the motivations for this?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I really thought this was going to be a Tuomas thread.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Where are you going, Gabbneb?

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Nowhere, as long as there are New Answers.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Mister Monkey and I are taking his mother to Paris for her 60th birthday in May. She has never been to Paris before and has always wanted to go. Thing is, though, she's not a great walker and she's kind of claustrophobic so the whole experience will be very different from the couple of trips to Paris we've taken before.

Also, don't you always want to bring a new love to visit the places where you were as a child, but secretly you're really bored when they do it?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Also, don't you always want to bring a new love to visit the places where you were as a child, but secretly you're really bored when they do it?

So OTM it's painful!

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Is there a special interest in places you went/things you did as a child (with family)? Why?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Accentmonkey, you're soon going to take me somewhere I have never been, aren't you?

― the finefox, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Laytown!!!!

It's Tallaght-on-Sea. You'll love it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

haha i totally thought this was a rumpie thread

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I resign.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh, don't be like that.

I have no special attachment to things I did as a child or places I went, so I don't really get it when people get all misty-eyed about their roots. This might be because my parents still live in the house where I grew up, which is a completely ordinary seventies house in a housing estate in a town which has grown out of all recognition in the last thirty years.

Although I did get very excited when we drove over the Sagamore Bridge a couple of years ago and I saw the motel my family stayed in when I was 13. It was kind of an emotional moment.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

... and then killing them.

― Finisher of thread titles, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

On Friday I am going to take Stet down Marine Drive in Mumbai and make him adore the art deco architecture. It's like Miami! (With more peeling paint.) Hello from India, btw :)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Wowza!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Take Me With You, book by Brad Newsham. He's a San Fransisco travel writer/taxi driver who went on a trip round the world to find someone to take home with him for a few weeks.

I think everyone should read this, it's sooo heartwarming. I was sobbing like a fule at the end.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Cor, long distance Madchen!

I have a possiby unhealthy attachment to childhood haunts and an equally unhealthy compulsion to show them/talk about them to Matt. We had to walk through the area of Brighton where I grew up the other day and he'd never been there, and I became SOOOO boring:

"And this is Semley Road - we used to call it Smelly Road haha... that's the front garden we used to cut through on the way to school... that's where my primary school boyfriend lived with his gran... this was my best friend's house, I broke my arm in her garden... that's the bakery where I used to get jam doughnuts on the way home... oh there's the Co-op."

I'm surprised he didn't throw me in front of a car.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

I once took a guy I was briefly seeing to the Barras. He was a sailor from Devon and it was his first time in Scotland.

He hated it desperately and was nearly in tears at one point.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Madchen - try to find those cute posters for children where Good Behaviour Models are rendered in the most silly way possible. There are ones for what makes an ideal boy, and what makes an ideal girl, and I think the Communists do them, and in the centre of the 9 squares is a piccy of a little Indian kid in a Junior Communist uniform, being a good Communist. They must be about one rupee each or something.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Here's a very odd one exhorting students not to take drucks.

http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/UNESCO-UIE/literacyexchange/india/gallery/nodrugs.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Suzy, I already have a couple of those in postcard form ... bought in Brussels! There is an excellent one about the perils of Rowdyism.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 2 March 2006 06:59 (twenty years ago)

These are usually the most anti-climatic moments of life.

I can't wait to show my kids my old dormitory building sometime.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

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