Biggest Travel Regret?

[UP4014]

I guess like others, being handed a complimentary cigar while cruising at mach2. (early days of Concorde)

Matt

 

[simongr]

Slightly odd one here. I regret not getting tailor made suits and shirts made in HKG the first time I went there. After the first couple of longer trips I only now go for 2 - 3 days so it isn't enough time to get to a good tailor an start from scratch but would be enough time to update etc.

 

[awilcockson]

Definitely the Concorde for me. Not that I would have had the chance - but it's something I would have loved to do.

Now my biggest "non-regret". Seeing Atlantis take off on the final space shuttle mission. Something I will remember forever.

Agreed on both counts!

 

[awilcockson]

For those who have missed the Concorde, there is one in a hanger that you can walk through in the Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace in Paris.

There's also one in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Smithsonian Air and Space Museum) near Washington Dulles Airport. Not to mention a space shuttle and an SR-71

 

[simongr]

I guess I don't regret not taking the Concorde as I never had the chance to fly it - it was never a choice I could have made so I can't regret not choosing to have done it. If I was going to think of things I regret not doing ever the list would be pretty long starting with Dinosaurs...

 

[StevePER]

There's also one in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Smithsonian Air and Space Museum) near Washington Dulles Airport. Not to mention a space shuttle and an SR-71

I highly recommend a visit to this place.

 

[awilcockson]

I highly recommend a visit to this place.

Me too, I wish I'd had more than the three or four hours I had when I went there.

 

[Hvr]

There's also one in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Smithsonian Air and Space Museum) near Washington Dulles Airport. Not to mention a space shuttle and an SR-71

I visited the Concorde at the USS Intrepid when in NYC recently. Well worth the visit and got to sit in the seats and visit the coughpit.

Biggest travel regret, a woman, many years ago I went overseas for, ended sadly and was an expensive lesson. Still, I guess we've all done it at least once.

 

[11sjw]

Me too, I wish I'd had more than the three or four hours I had when I went there.

I thought the Enola Gay was a pretty cool site to behold.

 

[Awesom Andy]

Biggest travel regret, a woman, many years ago I went overseas for, ended sadly and was an expensive lesson. Still, I guess we've all done it at least once.

I'm mostly travelling for the same reason next week. Well, in a way, it ended before it started, but it has now been converted into status run with the DSC promotion.

 

[Must...Fly!]

I can't think of one for now. I am only recently 21, so the chance for regret is slim...although I can say that while I am hardly Richie Rich and I didn't leave Australia 'til I was 18, I have done a lot of travel in Australia with family. I'm very lucky to have my Mum and Dad, they love me no matter what !

For now, I will stick with "if only I said the right thing to that girl at the bar"

There is one glaringly obvious non-regret that I can gladly post. We did a big trip to Europe for 3 weeks in 2009 as a family - great memories. My brother and I both wanted to go to the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring. I had wanted to go, because as a big Mark Webber fan I knew he had a history of getting great results there and I had a feeling something good might happen. On top of that, visiting Germany and Nurburgring was a big temptation, as we had spent the whole 3 weeks in Greece. While in Rhodes, 5 days out from the race, my Dad said "stuff it, go". So we spent an afternoon booking flights, hotels in Frankfurt and GP tickets for me and my 15 year old brother. Dad came along to Germany, and my brother and I went to the race!

I think that was the most amazing weekend and day in my life so far. I have so many amazing memories of that weekend and on the race day...it is something I will truly never forget.

For the uninitiated - Webber won his first ever race that day, after 8 years in the sport.

Not being there would have been the ultimate regret.

 

[Leumas]

Biggest travel regret, a woman, many years ago I went overseas for, ended sadly and was an expensive lesson. Still, I guess we've all done it at least once.

It may be a regret that it didn't work out, but IMHO, it may be an even bigger regret if you didn't go and forever wonder what it could have been.

 

[Major]

Along with many others...not flying the Concorde

 

[Major]

Not accepting the USSR Ambassadors invitation to visit Moscow-long story and not telling.

I was able to visit Moscow in 1970 whilst driving mini buses through Europe....USSR was a fascinating place then

 

[QF WP]

Regrets about travel - not having visited Berlin when visiting Germany numerous times, or not having visited Africa yet. Definitely not going to bossreggies AKL weekend and the unlikely ability to do CPH.

Hmmm, I am fortunate through circumstances to have done a bit on my wish list - Concorde being the most notable. A couple of others have also been mentioned.

 

[Robert Qld]

Another regret, though at least unlike the World Cup one, I can in theory change...

Couple of years back I did a big RTW - last stop was Johannesburg. I was just however so utterly exhausted at that point I stayed 3 of the six days I was there doing very little at the resort (and getting addicted to the South African Soap Operas!). I ended up catching up with a old school friend, did the Apardhied museum, Philensburg National Park (but not Sun City) and discovering biltong and Windhoek Beer! However there was so much I could've done in such an amazing country, but I just couldn't because the pistons where not firing.

 

[awilcockson]

Would have been nice to visit the coughpit during a flight.

Not quite during the flight, but if you are flying in the right class, and ask nicely, it is still possible to make it into the coughpit. You might even get to look silly when they make you wear the captain's hat (his head was about 3 sizes smaller than mine!)

 

[flyingfan]

Not quite during the flight, but if you are flying in the right class, and ask nicely, it is still possible to make it into the coughpit. You might even get to look silly when they make you wear the captain's hat (his head was about 3 sizes smaller than mine!)

Nice one. Viewing the coughpit seems like looking into the screens of eight iPads all put together...

The 'Q' logo on the hats doesn't quite do it for me though, just looks a bit tacky

 

[rechoboam]

Nice one. Viewing the coughpit seems like looking into the screens of eight iPads all put together...

The 'Q' logo on the hats doesn't quite do it for me though, just looks a bit tacky

People have built home coughpits for Flight Simulator using multiple tablet computers. You are correct, the effect is very similar.

I don't regret having the chance to go into the coughpit during flight when we were in the industry and up the front.

 

[Warks]

A lot of my travel regrets relate to travelling railway lines especially in NSW before they were closed. Still I did manage to travel a few that are long gone too.


A couple in Italy - never went into the Sistine Chapel as it was "too expensive" (for a backpacker 20 years ago) and was being renovated. Also never went in the Tower of Pisa as it had been closed about a week before, didn't reopen for many years.

I kind of wish I'd gone to the old USSR pre 1991.