J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

I went camping in Australia a few years ago. It was great, and quite exciting. I hired a Toyota Landcruiser with one of my cousins and we did the Gibb River road in the Kimberleys - dirt road with rocky fords over the rivers and loads of beautiful gorges with palm trees etc. It was the dry season and we didn't bother with tents - just slept on ground sheets in our sleeping bags. The most frightening bit was when I realised all the logs lying on the river bank that I was walking past were crocodiles! I was about 10 feet away when I realized they weren't logs :shock:

Ally

Tony_H wrote:When you were 8?
I don't remember a single thing about being 8.

Really Tony? I can remember some things that happened when I was only three.

Are you sure you ever were eight? Maybe a confused stork delivered you behind a gooseberry bush when you were nine :lol:

Ally

Bonfire wrote:I am aware prices can or up or down, but they only went up when I checked them, do another search and they would be down again.

Oh, sorry Bonfire, that's completely different! As you said, there must be something very wrong there. Have you tried contacting them to ask them about it?

Ally

My first ski holiday was there, when I was eight. I loved it :D

Ally

I was booking a Thomson's package ski holiday on the internet once, and it went up by about £200 per person while I was in the middle of booking it! I went into our local office to complain about it, and they said that happens to them sometimes as well. It seems Head Office changes the prices and they can do that even when someone is in the middle of booking it. Mind you, prices can also come down like that, as well.

Quite a few times I have seen the advertised price, on Last Minute etc. and then tried to book it and found it had gone up. I always imagined it was because they had sold out of the ultra cheap offers. It's happened to me a couple of times with aeroplane tickets as well. I got seats one day and the next day they'd gone up by £250 each! It seems the ones I got were on special offer and once those ones were sold the price went back up to the standard price (for exactly the same quality of seat).

Ally

I took my new boots on as hand luggage in their special wheely boot bag in October, with no problem at all. I flew with EasyJet, out from Bristol to Geneva and back to Gatwick, and they knew they were skiboots because you could see them as clear as anything when they went through the scanning machine.

Tony,
I thought your Scott Neos were damaged in transit by the airline? How did you get on, ski-ing on them, after you'd had them fixed? Are they okay now?

Ally

Tony,
If you were to drive around here, you would see what I mean about speed limits changing. We have 20, say, followed by 30, then 40, then 30, then 60 etc. etc. There was one that had me baffled for about a year, once, until a driving examiner in my French class told me what it meant. It was a 30 sign on a very dangerous double bend section of a B road which was otherwise a 60 limit, and it didn't have a sign the other side of it to say the limit was returning to the national speed limit. It turned out it was only an advisory sign - I've never seen one of those before!

Another thing I have seen here is where they forget to take down the old sign when they put up new signs with a different speed limit.

I have also driven in Australia, on the motorway and rural roads, and again, they kept changing the speed limit for very little reason as far as I could tell.

And like you, I really can't afford to lose my driving license as I live in a rural area with a very poor public transport system. So I am extremely careful not to speed (or indeed break any other traffic regulation!).

I hope the OP is lucky and he gets away without a fine :D

Ally

Hang on, a minute you two, you seem to know what you're talking about, but I am totally confused.

Do you mean you're not allowed to use a Tom Tom in Switzerland? How are you supposed to find your way around then?

And, on the speeding issue, I always try, very conscientiously, not to speed, but sometimes I get confused when they keep changing the speed limit from 30 to 40 etc. in a very short stretch of road, or when they don't put reminders up for ages and I forget what the last one said, here in the U.K. and I end up accidentally speeding. But I've never been caught yet. So I reckon everyone speeds at some time, accidentally or not.

Ally