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Rarefied Brains

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847 posts

221 months

Monday 22nd March 2010
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Hi all

The missus and I get married back home in the lakes in 2-3 weeks but we've not yet sorted a holiday out for afterwards eek

Ideas we've had so far:

2-3 nights in Paris (we're not far from ashford intnl)
2-3 nights somewhere in bonny scotland i.e. a bit further up the M6

It'll probably be mon/tues/wed so hopefully not too wallet-raping!

Anyone got any good advice?

Cheers

RacingPete

9,072 posts

220 months

Monday 22nd March 2010
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If you fancy the trip up to Scotland then anywhere along the Caledonian Canal is lovely, which takes in Loch Oich, Loch Lochy and Loch Ness. Nothing better than some haggis and nips, plus there is a lovely hotel with awesome food on Loch Oich called Glengarry Castle which you could stay as a base.

http://www.glengarry.net/index.php

(Oh and a little word of warning if anyone fancies playing a bit of language games. I was talking about having a minimoon after my marriage through Italy on the way back from getting married in Greece. As the other half is Greek and so are her parents I speak a mixture of the two languages and thus tried to say minimoon in Greek by using the standard option of making anything small by ending with "aki", but didn't know moon so just used as is.

Unfortunately "moonaki" doesn't translate too well in Greek and it turns out it is incredibly insulting and translates as small c*** - pretty embarrassing and the look on the wife's face was priceless as well as completely scalding)

bern

1,313 posts

236 months

Monday 22nd March 2010
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Isle of Harris, on the Outer Hebrides?

Superb drive up there, £100 for the ferry and £200 for a cottage for the week.

Not much to do other than walk on the amazing beaches and, er, consummate your marriage sperm

boxedin

Good luck on your wedding day BTW.

fizz876

2,957 posts

226 months

Monday 22nd March 2010
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Rarefied Brains said:
Hi all

The missus and I get married back home in the lakes in 2-3 weeks but we've not yet sorted a holiday out for afterwards eek

Ideas we've had so far:

2-3 nights in Paris (we're not far from ashford intnl)
2-3 nights somewhere in bonny scotland i.e. a bit further up the M6

It'll probably be mon/tues/wed so hopefully not too wallet-raping!

Anyone got any good advice?

Cheers
My fiancee and I are doing something quite similar and are having a 3 day minimoon.

We have decided to do 3 nights in Lisbon Portugal. Managaged to get a really good deal with flights (a proper airline )and a genuine 5 star hotel right in the centre from last minute.


There are a couple of threads on here about Lisbon but so far from the reaserch I have done it seems like a good spot for our mini-moon.

71notout

3,674 posts

253 months

Monday 22nd March 2010
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RacingPete said:
Nothing better than some haggis and nips
???

Rarefied Brains

Original Poster:

847 posts

221 months

Monday 22nd March 2010
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Some good ideas (and pics wink) thanks


RacingPete

9,072 posts

220 months

Monday 22nd March 2010
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71notout said:
RacingPete said:
Nothing better than some haggis and nips
???
Well it is a honeymoon smile