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[SaveTheTurtles]

@spiderw  sounds like you're describing " Dirty Dancing" 😊😉

[Susan Louise]

Before I met my DH, I went by myself to Bermuda for a much needed 2 week vaca in September 1995. I stayed at the Elbow Beach Resort...

Too much to tell/share...I could just ramble on and on, but it was the best place I ever stayed in my entire life!

I can't believe I'm doing this, but here is a pic of me from that trip...

I was fortunate to find folks from time to time to take pics of me at various places/areas around the island. I was 35.

@ECBG   Thought of your thread about empty belt loops...

Here's an example of me wearing a belt if my belt loops are exposed

[spiderw]

SaveTheTurtles

I never watched Dirty Dancing so I don't know how my response relates. However, thanks for your comment!!

[beach-mom]

@Susan Louise - What a pretty picture! And how great you have those special memories! I have never been there, but one of my close friends enjoyed her honeymoon there.

There are so many places I'll never forget - a lot in Japan, especially Kyoto and Sapporo during the ice festival. I enjoyed visiting Hong Kong. 

 But the first place I will never forget is Geneva, Switzerland. I was spending a semester at the University of Grenoble in France. Three of us decided to take a long weekend and hitchhike to Grenoble! We left early morning and arrived with no plans at all.

We explored the downtown, and went into a few shops. We had lunch and bought chocolate! It was a beautiful day!

Someone recommended an inn, and it was like something out of old Europe. The windows opened out and we overlooked cobblestone streets. The innkeeper recommended a good place for fondue. We walked down steps into this wonderful place and had wine and fondue.

We slept in Saturday, then went shopping for souvenirs. I bought a cat collar with a European bell for our family cat! (She was buried with it.) It was another beautiful day to explore. We had lunch by the lake. 

My paternal grandfather came over from Geneva. He came from a banking family and continued that when he moved to the states. He died when my dad was a teenager. I went into the post office, got a phone directory, and copied names for my grandmother. There were pages and pages!

Sunday we checked out, had breakfast, and took a bus back to France. When we got to the border police came on the bus to ask if we had anything to declare. I was so nervous! 

But we made it back, and we have our memories. 

[haddon9]

Ballynahinch Castle in Ireland.  It's an old castle which is now a hotel and it's stunning, luxurious and cozy all at the same time. 

There were many crackling fires going on throughout since it was a bit chilly, amazing food, surrounded by great views of gorgoeus gardens with a large creek and many outdoor activities. 

It was in 2018 and best of all we were with our adult kids and extended family.  There were twelve of us on the trip.

[Natureluvr]

@on the bay - My DH and I often stay at B&B’s when we travel. The most memorable one was in Chatham, Cape Cod. It was the nicest one we’ve ever stayed in. Beautiful room, coziest bed. This one also offered port and sherry! Fresh baked cookies with coffee and tea every afternoon. The best part was the breakfasts! Oh my goodness were they delicious. They even had culinary students from the UK as the servers. It was such a wonderful experience. It’s probably the only B&B that I can’t think of a single complaint about.

[Natureluvr]

@Susan Louise - what a beautiful place to vacation, and on your own, no less! Kudos to you for treating yourself! You look so pretty in your picture. Carefree and having fun. 😊

[on the bay]

I've gotten to stay at a lot of memorable places but the most wonderful with the most memorable somethings was in the Bahamas swimming with the dolphins.

My father had a beach house in Cape May Pt and every summer my sister and I spent pretty much all summer  in the ocean.

When I was 30 my mother asked me if I could do anything in the world what would it be? And I said to swim with the dolphins!

I did a lot of research and found a place where the dolphins could come and go as they pleased.

There were different levels-a shallow water where parents and their kids could greet the dolphins and the dolphins could greet them.

Another place where you had to swim or doggy paddle for 45 minutes with 4 dolphins. There was no place to stand and the sides had stinging barnacles so you were swimming for 45 minutes. There were 2 dolphins that continually swam with us-Robala a 400 pound gentle dolphin who had a scratched "snout" who I fell in love with and got to kiss  and hug her.

and Cayla a beautiful young sleek dolphin who would not leave my side. We swam together and she followed my ins and outs ups and downs in the water. The 2 other dolphins did tricks with us. As we raised our arms they would leap high into the air.

Then we got to feed fish to 2 boy dolphins and then go into the ocean with them. They followed us in a speed boat leaping joyously and then the boat stopped and we went into the water with them. We did the "toe push" with them where they came up behind you and pushed you thru the water like a torpedo and shot you into the air! My foot was hurting and one dolphin put his nose behind one foot but the other hesitated before putting his nose on the other. I knew he probably could sense that it hurt. And strangely when he gently touched my foot it didn't hurt. I will never forget soaring through the air! They taught us where to hold onto them without hurting them and they would swim fast with us with them.

Every day it stormed and rained in the afternoon. I was in a kind of shabby hotel and would take a little cart ride to the dolphins. But across the street was a luxurious huge hotel with bars all around their pool that led to the private beach and the ocean and a piano playing in the hotel. I would go over there some days.

For some reason I didn't feel safe going into the ocean there. I'd never felt that way ever before. When I got home I learned that a man had been attacked by a shark there at tha very beach I was at just a few days later.

The man who drove the cart to the dolphins told me that there was very wealthy and extreme poverty right next to each other. Just like many places here and in the world. You could walk from my hotel and there were vendors all along with drinks in cabanas starting at 10 am. Well what better time lol! And you  had to hurry along because they would try to entice you to buy what they were selling all along the way.

Not only for me but for my mother who gave me this experience, it was truly a magical time. We both had pictures of me hugging Robala and swimming with Cayla in our homes.

[qualitygal]

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@jlkz wrote:

Ski trips to Zermatt, Switzerland and Austria:  down blankets !!!  Now all my bedrooms have them !

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Oh!!!! would I love to see that!!

[Mz iMac]

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@Susan Louise wrote:

I went by myself to Bermuda for a much needed 2 week vaca in September 1995. I stayed at the Elbow Beach Resort...

Too much to tell/share..

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@Susan Louise 

How Susan got her groove back.