paintedlady said:

PurpleJedi said:

I need to go back and do the whale-watching thing.

I live in Boston.... cold crappy beaches, but we got great food!!

I hope you guys ate the Chinese food.... we got the BEST... we have to work on our South Western/Mexican cuisine though.

Do you ever hit up Simco's on Blue Hill Ave. in Mattapan?

paintedlady said:

PurpleJedi said:

I need to go back and do the whale-watching thing.

I live in Boston.... cold crappy beaches, but we got great food!!

I hope you guys ate the Chinese food.... we got the BEST... we have to work on our South Western/Mexican cuisine though.

Hell yeah!

Our favorite chinese restaurant in the world is Shangri-Lah (it's near a Holiday Inn within walking distance of the Commons).

There's also a Tex-Mex place that we ate at (was it Faneuil Hall?) that was really good!

Boston is great! Can't wait to go back.

PurpleJedi said:

paintedlady said:

I live in Boston.... cold crappy beaches, but we got great food!!

I hope you guys ate the Chinese food.... we got the BEST... we have to work on our South Western/Mexican cuisine though.

Hell yeah!

Our favorite chinese restaurant in the world is Shangri-Lah (it's near a Holiday Inn within walking distance of the Commons).

There's also a Tex-Mex place that we ate at (was it Faneuil Hall?) that was really good!

Boston is great! Can't wait to go back.

Boston Tex-Mex??? Blasphemy!!!!

Lammastide said:

paintedlady said:

I live in Boston.... cold crappy beaches, but we got great food!!

I hope you guys ate the Chinese food.... we got the BEST... we have to work on our South Western/Mexican cuisine though.

Do you ever hit up Simco's on Blue Hill Ave. in Mattapan?

I pass it by to get to Flamers on the corner of Blue Hill ave and Morton St.

The food is the best in Boston! Jamaican food.... OMG!!!

But Simco's dogs and fried clams are soooooo good!

Best steak n cheese subs go to Alfredo'- Southie

Best Chinese -fast food... East Coast Cuisine in Field's Corner

Best icecream... Brigham's.... because Ben and Jerry said so!

Best sushi... Haru

Best steaks.... Scampo's in the Liberty hotel.... if you don't mind paying 60.00 for it.

Best Tapas... Tauro in the South End...

I am too damnned fat....

SCNDLS said:

PurpleJedi said:

Hell yeah!

Our favorite chinese restaurant in the world is Shangri-Lah (it's near a Holiday Inn within walking distance of the Commons).

There's also a Tex-Mex place that we ate at (was it Faneuil Hall?) that was really good!

Boston is great! Can't wait to go back.

Boston Tex-Mex??? Blasphemy!!!!

That's ONLY because that one restaurant has ACTUAL Mexicans throwing down in the kitchen.

Tex Mex joints here usually have Asian folks cooking it. I kid you not...

SCNDLS said:

PurpleJedi said:

Hell yeah!

Our favorite chinese restaurant in the world is Shangri-Lah (it's near a Holiday Inn within walking distance of the Commons).

There's also a Tex-Mex place that we ate at (was it Faneuil Hall?) that was really good!

Boston is great! Can't wait to go back.

Boston Tex-Mex??? Blasphemy!!!!

They are good.

SCNDLS said:

PurpleJedi said:

Hell yeah!

Our favorite chinese restaurant in the world is Shangri-Lah (it's near a Holiday Inn within walking distance of the Commons).

There's also a Tex-Mex place that we ate at (was it Faneuil Hall?) that was really good!

Boston is great! Can't wait to go back.

Boston Tex-Mex??? Blasphemy!!!!

It was a kid-friendly place!

...on our way back from Panama you can show me the real deal.

PurpleJedi said:

SCNDLS said:

Boston Tex-Mex??? Blasphemy!!!!

It was a kid-friendly place!

...on our way back from Panama you can show me the real deal.

Why SCNDLS got me wanting a damned fried snickers bar?

frekking Texans!

sextonseven said:

I already spent all my vacation money this year going to Australia last month so this summer I'll be spending a weekend in San Francisco and my remaining holiday time will be a staycation around Labor Day.

"staycation" I love that word, I'd never heard it before!!

I'm going to FIJI next month, like everyone didn't know already

8 days

ZombieKitten said:

sextonseven said:

I already spent all my vacation money this year going to Australia last month so this summer I'll be spending a weekend in San Francisco and my remaining holiday time will be a staycation around Labor Day.

"staycation" I love that word, I'd never heard it before!!

I'm going to FIJI next month, like everyone didn't know already

8 days

AND sextonseven, don't come back without photos of you and NDRU together for me for my special folder

ZombieKitten said:

sextonseven said:

I already spent all my vacation money this year going to Australia last month so this summer I'll be spending a weekend in San Francisco and my remaining holiday time will be a staycation around Labor Day.

"staycation" I love that word, I'd never heard it before!!

I'm going to FIJI next month, like everyone didn't know already

8 days

Excellent opportunity for u to post pics...in a bikini top...for someone's "special folder".

PurpleJedi said:

ZombieKitten said:

"staycation" I love that word, I'd never heard it before!!

I'm going to FIJI next month, like everyone didn't know already

8 days

Excellent opportunity for u to post pics...in a bikini top...for someone's "special folder".

I don't even own a bikini, and no way am I posting pics of me in a bathing suit, sorry, I'm 40 now

just google middle aged pasty pale ladies with flabby tummies

ZombieKitten said:

PurpleJedi said:

Excellent opportunity for u to post pics...in a bikini top...for someone's "special folder".

I don't even own a bikini, and no way am I posting pics of me in a bathing suit, sorry, I'm 40 now

just google middle aged pasty pale ladies with flabby tummies

Oh don't be like that! 40 is the new 20 you know!

Be happy with urself and wear that bikini!!! How can you go to Fiji and NOT wear one? They'll actually throw you in jail you know.

...and if your belly's a little giggly, don't worry, our line of sight doesn't stray below chest-level.

PurpleJedi said:

ZombieKitten said:

I don't even own a bikini, and no way am I posting pics of me in a bathing suit, sorry, I'm 40 now

just google middle aged pasty pale ladies with flabby tummies

Oh don't be like that! 40 is the new 20 you know!

Be happy with urself and wear that bikini!!! How can you go to Fiji and NOT wear one? They'll actually throw you in jail you know.

...and if your belly's a little giggly, don't worry, our line of sight doesn't stray below chest-level.

I realise that, and in real life I don't have a problem, but posting a photo for everyone's scrutiny on the internet, when people like Kim Kardashian is picked apart? No way!!!

We are renting a house with a pool, nobody will see me except my family

ZombieKitten said:

PurpleJedi said:

Oh don't be like that! 40 is the new 20 you know!

Be happy with urself and wear that bikini!!! How can you go to Fiji and NOT wear one? They'll actually throw you in jail you know.

...and if your belly's a little giggly, don't worry, our line of sight doesn't stray below chest-level.

I realise that, and in real life I don't have a problem, but posting a photo for everyone's scrutiny on the internet, when people like Kim Kardashian is picked apart? No way!!!

We are renting a house with a pool, nobody will see me except my family

OK, I respect that. I hate posting pics of myself, so I can relate.

No problem...just email the pic to me.

paintedlady said:

PurpleJedi said:

It was a kid-friendly place!

...on our way back from Panama you can show me the real deal.

Why SCNDLS got me wanting a damned fried snickers bar?

frekking Texans!

So what restaurant there has friend Snickers bars?

There's an English pub in Brooklyn that fries just about anything (Twinkies, pizza, whatever).

PurpleJedi said:

ZombieKitten said:

I realise that, and in real life I don't have a problem, but posting a photo for everyone's scrutiny on the internet, when people like Kim Kardashian is picked apart? No way!!!

We are renting a house with a pool, nobody will see me except my family

OK, I respect that. I hate posting pics of myself, so I can relate.

No problem...just email the pic to me.

IF and that's a big IF (since I'm the photographer in my family) someone takes a photo of me in my ONE PIECE bathing suit, I'll consider it, that's all I can promise

go to the lake. spend time with family.

paintedlady said:

Lammastide said:

Do you ever hit up Simco's on Blue Hill Ave. in Mattapan?

I pass it by to get to Flamers on the corner of Blue Hill ave and Morton St.

The food is the best in Boston! Jamaican food.... OMG!!!

But Simco's dogs and fried clams are soooooo good!

Best steak n cheese subs go to Alfredo'- Southie

Best Chinese -fast food... East Coast Cuisine in Field's Corner

Best icecream... Brigham's.... because Ben and Jerry said so!

Best sushi... Haru

Best steaks.... Scampo's in the Liberty hotel.... if you don't mind paying 60.00 for it.

Best Tapas... Tauro in the South End...

I am too damnned fat....

Gotta save this post for next time I'm in town.

Simco's is a guilty pleasure. All that stuff is fried, and the last time I visited I stuffed myself like a pig and was sick for three days.... And, yep, it was the clams.

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Lammastide said:

paintedlady said:

I pass it by to get to Flamers on the corner of Blue Hill ave and Morton St.

The food is the best in Boston! Jamaican food.... OMG!!!

But Simco's dogs and fried clams are soooooo good!

Best steak n cheese subs go to Alfredo'- Southie

Best Chinese -fast food... East Coast Cuisine in Field's Corner

Best icecream... Brigham's.... because Ben and Jerry said so!

Best sushi... Haru

Best steaks.... Scampo's in the Liberty hotel.... if you don't mind paying 60.00 for it.

Best Tapas... Tauro in the South End...

I am too damnned fat....

Gotta save this post for next time I'm in town.

Simco's is a guilty pleasure. All that stuff is fried, and the last time I visited I stuffed myself like pig and was sick for three days.... And, yep, it was the clams.

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Its always the clams...

I swear you have to go to Flamers.... you MUST! Pick up the food, run out with the food in your ride and go to your crib and eat it. Its literally a hole in the wall..

A fancier spot in the South End is Addis Addas... best Ethiopian grub. Its a wonderful experience eating with your hands. I recommend their cottage cheese and the lentils(its all great food actually) ... with the house Ethiopian wine. DELISH! The Indian jiont next door has AMAZING tamarind martinis.

^^^ pairing that with a theater experience is an awesome time in Boston... that or a long stroll on a summer's night.

Nothing concrete, but will hopefully get to the beach for a few days and nights over the next few months.

Fauxie said:

Nothing concrete, but will hopefully get to the beach for a few days and nights over the next few months.

The beaches there must be amazing.

paintedlady said:

Fauxie said:

Nothing concrete, but will hopefully get to the beach for a few days and nights over the next few months.

The beaches there must be amazing.

There are many, many nice ones. They tend to be better the further you're able to travel from Bangkok though. Still, within not more than 3 hours there are still nice beaches in Hua Hin, Cha Am and Chonburi. They're not secluded, tropical paradise type beaches you get on some of the islands and in remote places, but they still make for relaxing daytrips and short getaways.

Thinking about it, I'd like to go to Ao Manao (lemon bay) again. That's only a few hours from here.

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Fauxie said:

paintedlady said:

The beaches there must be amazing.

There are many, many nice ones. They tend to be better the further you're able to travel from Bangkok though. Still, within not more than 3 hours there are still nice beaches in Hua Hin, Cha Am and Chonburi. They're not secluded, tropical paradise type beaches you get on some of the islands and in remote places, but they still make for relaxing daytrips and short getaways.

aside from the bugs... it must be great to live in a tropical paradise. Even if it is developed and sports a huge population.

paintedlady said:

Fauxie said:

There are many, many nice ones. They tend to be better the further you're able to travel from Bangkok though. Still, within not more than 3 hours there are still nice beaches in Hua Hin, Cha Am and Chonburi. They're not secluded, tropical paradise type beaches you get on some of the islands and in remote places, but they still make for relaxing daytrips and short getaways.

aside from the bugs... it must be great to live in a tropical paradise. Even if it is developed and sports a huge population.

Yeah, Bangkok's certainly not a 'tropical paradise' But it is a fun place to live. Live near, anyway, since we live right on the outskirts on the border with Nonthaburi. Much more relaxed

The thing to remember is that some 8-12 million ppl live in Bangkok, but no other city has more than about 250,000 ppl, so there is a lot of 'tropical paradise' in Thailand.

Out here in the burbs it feels like a village, not like being in a megatropolis like Bangkok.

i went to Japan this month. probably nobody's idea of a good holiday destination right about now, but i had a ball.

Fauxie said:

paintedlady said:

The beaches there must be amazing.

There are many, many nice ones. They tend to be better the further you're able to travel from Bangkok though. Still, within not more than 3 hours there are still nice beaches in Hua Hin, Cha Am and Chonburi. They're not secluded, tropical paradise type beaches you get on some of the islands and in remote places, but they still make for relaxing daytrips and short getaways.

Thinking about it, I'd like to go to Ao Manao (lemon bay) again. That's only a few hours from here.

[Edited 4/27/11 19:02pm]

paintedlady said:

Fauxie said:

There are many, many nice ones. They tend to be better the further you're able to travel from Bangkok though. Still, within not more than 3 hours there are still nice beaches in Hua Hin, Cha Am and Chonburi. They're not secluded, tropical paradise type beaches you get on some of the islands and in remote places, but they still make for relaxing daytrips and short getaways.

Thinking about it, I'd like to go to Ao Manao (lemon bay) again. That's only a few hours from here.

[Edited 4/27/11 19:02pm]

If I recall correctly it's on land owned by the army or navy. You can go there without any issues, but that seems to keep ppl away to some extent as it never seems as busy as other beaches in the area.

Fauxie said:

paintedlady said:

The beaches there must be amazing.

There are many, many nice ones. They tend to be better the further you're able to travel from Bangkok though. Still, within not more than 3 hours there are still nice beaches in Hua Hin, Cha Am and Chonburi. They're not secluded, tropical paradise type beaches you get on some of the islands and in remote places, but they still make for relaxing daytrips and short getaways.

Thinking about it, I'd like to go to Ao Manao (lemon bay) again. That's only a few hours from here.

Damn! Look at that water!

OK...I'm adding Thailand to my "bucket list"!

whistle said:

i went to Japan this month. probably nobody's idea of a good holiday destination right about now, but i had a ball.

I would love to go to Japan for vacation!