1st trip furth' of these shores for me, was a 4~day mini~cruise to Oslo ... on honeymoon with my first wife in December 1967. Sadly,we were deprived of the chance to see the fjords - due to extremely t~u~r~b~u~l~e~n~t weather conditions in the North Sea on the outward leg - and spent only a day and a half in the Norwegian Capital.
And that was it basically!... I didn't manage to go abroad again until 1992 - just after being widowed.
Over the intervening years, however, I've become a fairly seasoned traveller. Or so I thought... before reading some of you guys' escapades.
Anyway ... here are some of the places I've visited since ... in as near chronological order as possible:
NORTH AMERICA
USA & *Western Canada (*Vancouver) [1992]
EUROPE
Irish Republic (Dublin & Galway) [1993] & Dublin itself [2007]
Majorca [Spring, 1994]
Greece ... Athens and the Greek Islands of Angistri & Aegina [Autumn, 1994]
Eastern United States [1995]
France (Paris) [1997 & 2010]
Mainland Spain ... including Gibraltar [1997]
Czech Republic - with brief stopovers in Belgium & Germany [2000]
Channel Islands (Jersey) [2000]
Cyprus (although there is some claim it's in Asia Minor or Eurasia) [2001]
Italy (Venice) [2002]
Netherlands/Holland (The Hague, Amsterdam & Leiden) [2006]
ASIA
Eastern China - including Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, &c - concluding with 4~day cruise on the Yangtse River [2005]
Philippines [September 2008 & November 2008 to February 2009]
EUROPE
Italy (Rome) [2011]
And - as they used to show at the end of some of the old black & white cinema productions ...
... THAT'S IT, FOLKS !!!
... not TOO bad going for an old geezer!
