No probs

I did that recently too in spite of the best efforts of a white van driver. No big trip for me (unless you count the West Highland Way) but I did treat myself to a 150-500mm Sigma lens.







Did you see Julia Bradbury walking through Germany in a short series a few years back?

Watching the programme about Kavos on Channel 4 last night is kind of making me think I want to go back there.

make sure you only do the birds twice maximum or drink THAT drink!!

Watched some of it last night and those people that go there were worse than animals.

enjoy your holiday if you will remember any of it!!

I did, yes. And it was repeated not long ago. Some of the countryside looks wonderful.



I intend to travel from London after work on a Friday: St Pancras is just down the road from where I do most of my work. I can go to Paris (which I know pretty well, so that avoids early panic) and get a sleeper to Hamburg. The aim is to spend a day and night there and then go on to Lübeck, where I'll spend a couple of days at least, because there are a number of things I specifically want to explore there.



From there, I'm not sure. Maybe Dresden, maybe straight down to Munich/Bavaria. And then maybe back via the Black Forest.



I've been to Berlin before, so although I love that city, there's no point in using this valuable time to go there again.



I want to combine the urban and the rural, if I can. I'd really like to get into a bit of forest, if possible: the whole idea of the forest lives large in the German psyche – and it's really something that we lost in the UK centuries ago. But that'll depend on the public transport – although everything I know thus far suggests that is good enough to make it possible.

Kavos serves only one purpose - to keep all of those who wish to partake in that sort of "holiday" in one small place at the furthest extremity of what is otherwise a very beautiful island.



I went to Corfu in 1980 and 2011 and I'm pleased to report that in the main the North of the island is pretty much as it was 30 years ago, we visited Kavos for a couple of hours in 1980 and it was one hotel at the end of the island, but yes, it was an club 18-30 hotel and even though I was 23 at the time it just seemed like a good way to waste a two week holiday and several thousand drachma.

I stayed in Corfu, Kassiopi, lovely little fishing village, loved it.

Kavos is great for nights out but the place itself is filthy. I stayed in one night (too much the night before) and by morning my bed was covered in blood from all the mosuito bites on my body.



Anyone been to Magaluf and can you reccomend it?

I'm only going by what my two daughters tell me, between them they seem to have gone to all of the Mediterranean so-called "In" resorts over the past five years, the youngest went to Magaluf last summer and wasn't all that impressed with the resort although she did pay what seemed to me to be extraordinary amounts of money to go and see some club turns who ar-ise about with records all night long and said that she enjoyed that.



Not my scene as you can gather





If only their grandad was still alive they could go and stay with him in Benidorm and watch him sing every night

magalluf = kavos.

similar prog on monday on bbc 2.3 or 4, cant remember, (its on IPlayer) as the kavos one, watch it and see for yourself.again they are animals(sorry to insult the animals and compare them to humans)who frequent magalluf and kavos, same standard of people go to those resorts.

The guy who was found unconcious on the beach in Magaluf - at first they thought he'd been attacked but he still had his wallet and phone on him, then they managed to wake him up to find he hadn't a clue who he was, where he was or the fact that it was a police officer that he was trying to fight with even when the police officer was in uniform and was shouting "Police!" at him constantly.



That person had paid a lot of money to get into that state, he'd had to fly to Magaluf inthe first place, then pay for a hotel and then go out and drink so much alcohol that he wiped his brain completely void, basically he'd formated his brain and forgot to re-install the operating system - and it had cost him a fortune to do it.



If it wasn't for the fact that he'd do it all again the next night and hand over another fortune to Spanish businesses then I'm sure that int he days of Franco they'd have asked him to leave, in fact they'd have taken him to the nearest border crossing and shoved him across it.

Couldn't help but laugh when he started to talk in some sort of schoolboy gibberish French and the Policeman as calm as anything said in an almost perfect English accent, "Please stop talking to me in French"





I'd like to know where his friends were, because if it were me theres no way I would ever a) let him get into such a state and b) wander off on his own.



Maybe its because I'm older, but I just don't see what the "fun" is about being so pi$$ed you think you are in another country to what you are!!