Biggest Travel Regret?

[Simo]

The TWA flight attendant on a ATH-JFK flight in 1990.

Could have been the beginning of something special or got me nowhere. I shall never know....

Big LIKE.... So you wanted to do a Ralph finnes and Lisa Robinson moment

 

[JohnK]

Big LIKE.... So you wanted to do a Ralph finnes and Lisa Robinson moment

Perhaps. She was all over me and loved my "Aussie" accent and I was too tired as I spent the night at ATH airport after coming down from up north in a bus in the middle of the night.

 

[jetlagger]

Thanks for sharing... You Aussies are a remarkable bunch...

 

[benhadi]

Not taking up a offer for upgrade from Y to J on a KL flight from LAX-AMS....for US$100.

 

[jetlagger]

Not taking up a offer for upgrade from Y to J on a KL flight from LAX-AMS....for US$100.

You cheapskate!.. Though what year was that?

 

[jetlagger]

Perhaps. She was all over me and loved my "Aussie" accent and I was too tired as I spent the night at ATH airport after coming down from up north in a bus in the middle of the night.

.. How ironic.. I met the same type of 'one" from Santorini.. As I recall.. Athena.. If I can focus correctly..

 

[TonyHancock]

Not flying into the old Hong Kong airport......I had plenty of opportunities.

 

[medhead]

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

Did it involve a Russian cruise ship and travelling with a current politician whose name I can't remember?


Sent from the Throne

 

[drron]

Did it involve a Russian cruise ship and travelling with a current politician whose name I can't remember?


Sent from the Throne

No a decent distance from the ocean and not a politician in sight apart from the Russians.Though for some titillation there was a female KGB agent involved.

 

[Leumas]

I don't have any regrets as such (or none that I can think of at the moment), but there are certainly a lot of places I want to go and things I want to do - a long bucket list if you will...

 

[bossreggie]

My biggest travel regret was waiting too long to fly Mum to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower.

She always wanted to see it and I was always "too busy" working.

By the time I had "made time" it was too late and she passed away a few weeks later.

My brother died suddenly a year later and that's why I decided to sell my business's and retire at the age of 41!

 

[jdlover23]

My most recent regret was only overnighting in Moscow over new years, I had been to Moscow before but not for almost a decade, I'm super keen to head back soon!

 

[medhead]

No a decent distance from the ocean and not a politician in sight apart from the Russians.Though for some titillation there was a female KGB agent involved.

Noice!


Sent from the Throne

 

[JetLagged]

Biggest regret is waiting so long to travel to all of the places that I have wanted to - would have been great to have done so with youth and energy rather than with age and wisdom!

Biggest NON regret - taking my Mum on the two trips that she has ever wanted to do in life but never could: in 2007 to Darwin, and later that year to Alaska (both the cruise and inland trip) - 4 months later she had the first of her strokes and ever since has been unable to travel such distances (we did manage a week in Tasmania with a carer to look after her). It wasn't on her list but in October 2006 we flew her up to Hong Kong and then into mainland China - she loved it: that was her first trip ever outside of Australia, and if anyone else has ever had to arrange a passport for an 80yo who had never had a drivers license or other photo ID, you'll know what sort of fun it was!

 

[TonyHancock]

No a decent distance from the ocean and not a politician in sight apart from the Russians.Though for some titillation there was a female KGB agent involved.

One of my current travel regrets is not catching up with drron. I can only imagine the stories he could tell over dinner! I suspect it would be hugely entertaining.

 

[Jmrocky]

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

I remember this as a kid a couple of times. Yeah it's an amazing experience. I remember trying not to touch anything, at the same time as wanting to touch something!

Biggest regret for me was not seeing the mountain gorillas in Uganda/Rwanda after visiting East and Southern Africa late last year. It would have only added a week to the trip, and I probably could have wrangled some extra unpaid leave from work. Alas, it just gives me an excuse to go there again.

 

[drron]

One of my current travel regrets is not catching up with drron. I can only imagine the stories he could tell over dinner! I suspect it would be hugely entertaining.

I'll let you know when I am next in Walsall!

 

[Paddy55]

Not flying into the old Hong Kong airport......I had plenty of opportunities.

That was fun!

 

[TonyHancock]

I'll let you know when I am next in Walsall!

I'll be at the Formule 1 in Belo Horizonte later in the year!

 

[ozmille]

Definitely concorde for me, had a lot of opportunity but no funds back then