Thread: Euro Trip - I'm simply not interested

Originally Posted by Saitch

I think you still have to retain some individuality & personal preference in your life so I'm quite comfortable in saying to my wife " No! I don't want to go there!" i.e. the Rhine cruise, but I'll probably go anyway

No argument here but the point I was trying to make and perhaps I didn't make it properly is that "you go anyway"

Originally Posted by Saitch

I must be a miserable old git too as I have trouble getting out of my place quite often. I'm more than happy to wander around the property doing this & that. Going into a major centre for shopping purposes is alien to me & I can't wait to get out.

There is a difference between not wanting to go and not being prepared to go even when it is important to someone else.

I don't enjoy visiting major population centres either but if its necessary then I do it

The main thrust of my post and if it sounded a bit rude or harsh then I apologise but my point is this : we have such a brief time for life on this earth, along the way we may be lucky enough (as I have been) to share that time with someone special. Someone who makes us whole and brings joy to our lives, someone who makes us a better person just by being there, someone who if we lost them then we would feel utterly bereft and lost ourselves.

Now others may disagree but I feel so strongly that this is a good thing and if I can give back just a little bit of the peace and joy I feel when I think about my wife. If I can return that to her by simply accompanying her somewhere and supporting what she wants to do then that is such a small thing to ask for and I am glad to do it.

Without turning this into a rant or preaching any type of sermon I can say this from personal experience; every day you are alive is a bonus its one day you will never have again and you need to grab that day with both hands and wring every bit of joy and pleasure from it and its memory.

Originally Posted by p38arover

You are wrong, Erich. Ask Elisabeth.

What was post 30 about?? You were contradicting yourself there in that case..


Elisabeth went to the York rail museum last trip and brought home a lot of pix. She was planning to take me there.

She asked tonight if I'd like to go to Stonehenge and Caen Hill Locks in Wiltshire with about 29 locks in a row. I said no. She knows I'm mainly interested in engineering stuff, e.g., trains, dams, bridges, buildings (especially old), towers, etc. Not interested in art or music. I'm only going to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower.

I'd like to see the Forth Bridge but it's too far from where we'll be going.

She has suggested Beaulieu National Motor Museum. I doubt we'd go to Solihull - too far out of the way.

The things on my list are: Clifton Suspension Bridge and SS Great Britain - whilst in Bristol (and other stuff by Isambard Kingdom Brunel), Cutty Sark, HMS Belfast, Golden Hind
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Ron B.

I love travel, new places and people, it's great. I'd be off tomorrow if things allowed it.

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Do a anti-holiday. A gent of your maturity and social standing should have no trouble with the following...


Drink your way around whatever itinerary your mrs comes up with! (Just do everything for her this time - given the request to see her birthplace).

While partially inebriated in each location continue the "largesse" and consume the best of the local wine, food and customs.

Waltz with your wife at least once in each country. Music optional.

Hire iconic local vehicles (like a 2CV in France) and go for a drive. Get an international licence before leaving.

Buy the cheapest, tackiest, smallest, souvenir in each stop to create a "Made in China CRAP" display when you get home again.

Miss your boat departure at least once.

"Fall off" your boat at least once.

Where loud shirts and dark sun glasses wherever you can.

Smoke pot in Amsterdam, pop a Viagra down your neck and then checkout the red light shows stoned. Even you will have a laugh.

Say the word BOMB loudly 5 times whenever you go through customs.

Learn the local word for dunny (NOT toilet) in each country.

Do everything you don't want to do and everything your Mrs does want to do.

Gate crash a contiki tour and show them young'uns how to consume red.

Streak (perhaps sneak at your age) naked past the cop shop in at least 10% of locations.

Get locked up, or very seriously warned, at least once.

Offend a local by pretending to be a noisy American or whinging Englishman in every location.

Eat baked beans, onions and cabbage everyday you are going on a bus tour or in a confined space (e.g. up the lift on the Eiffel Tower) and blame others for the gas.

Treat each accommodation experience as a new Fawlty Towers episode.

Give your Mrs a kiss and a flower everyday - without fail.

Take photo's of poor spelling, grammar and punctuation across Europe and post them on AULRO for us poor buggers who would love to be there.

When you are happy, smile. When you are not happy, smile harder. It will make you happier even if you don't want to be.

Have as little fun as possible, but make your "other half" smile as much as you can.

Compartmentalise whatever it is that makes you want to stay home for a little while and enjoy the wonderful feeling of actually coming home again when your finished.

If money for any of the above is an issue, torch the P38a before you go (the insurance will net more than if you ever do end up selling it). But take my rear bar off first!

Do the anti-holiday Ron. At least it will keep you busy.

I kinda know how you feel... I spent the best part of 18 months traveling a few years back. My partner now wants to see a of places.

I've seen plenty of the world.. and I now hate planes... She seems to love them...

I've decided when we do start to travel, further than NZ, I'll be having nothing to do with tourist attractions. I'll be looking up all the places and things that make a city... Well, a city... I'll be pushing for food joints, pubs and towns to see.

The whole tourist thing is not for me any more...

Sounds like you need to reset your expectations...Readjust the trip to find a balance of what you both like.

My wife pre booked us on the first commercial space shuttle flight...but I said no no no. I just want to stay home and bake cookies.

Ron the Forth bridge is magnificent and should be seen, do it just for than and both of you win.

That area is my home so I might be bias but to quote the great philosopher Nike "just do it"

My mum had a holiday in England last year & left behind her partner of 22 years to look after the dogs.


She had a great time over there, so much so that she brought home a new boyfriend.





So Ron, let Elisabeth go alone & enjoy herself. She might bring home a surprise too .