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walkenvol said:
I drive through there a few times a year on my way to Greenville. Looks like a small lake community so water activities but beyond that I’ve not seen much there?
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They have a fairgrounds where they have a lot of concerts, and carnival type stuff. Other tgan that, it's just the lake.
 
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feathersax said:
Planning for 50th wedding anniversary trip to North Georgia. Dahlonega, Helen, Hiawassee on the docket thus far in September. Suggestions?
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You could loop through Blue Ridge, Blairsville, Hiawassee, Clayton, down to Helen/Cleveland then over to Clarksville and Dahlonega. Mark of the Potter in Clarksville is a really neat setting off the beaten path. It’s a pottery shop that hangs out over rapids/waterfalls in the Soquee River. The Dillard House outside Clayton and the Smith House in Dahlonega are excellent places to wreck your diet.
 
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GAVol said:
You could loop through Blue Ridge, Blairsville, Hiawassee, Clayton, down to Helen/Cleveland then over to Clarksville and Dahlonega. Mark of the Potter in Clarksville is just cool setting off the beaten path. It’s a pottery shop that hangs out over rapids/waterfalls in the Soquee River. The Dillard House outside Clayton and the Smith House in Dahlonega are excellent places to wreck your diet.
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Thanks! This is great information.
 
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In Vancouver, BC. Nice city about the same size as Nashville. Canadiens are a nice bunch of people.
Will board the Zaandam today for a weeklong cruise of Alaska.
Wife and I started to travel when we were 40. Kids left home 😁 . One more trip to Europe next month will probably be our last. It's the damn flying. Pure misery.
 
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Carp said:
Any recommendations on Italian? Preferably not some upscale, trendy place. I mean like good old fashioned Italian that feels like Mob conducted some shady business deals in the back.

And Chinese too. There are zero good Chinese places around here.
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Sorry. Was in Kenya for a few weeks.

I do not have any recommendations on Italian.
 
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Go aeiou said:
In Vancouver, BC. Nice city about the same size as Nashville. Canadiens are a nice bunch of people.
Will board the Zaandam today for a weeklong cruise of Alaska.
Wife and I started to travel when we were 40. Kids left home 😁 . One more trip to Europe next month will probably be our last. It's the damn flying. Pure misery.
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Some friends decided to drop the extra coin and fly first class to a European cruise - said it made all the difference for them.
 
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Go aeiou said:
In Vancouver, BC. Nice city about the same size as Nashville. Canadiens are a nice bunch of people.
Will board the Zaandam today for a weeklong cruise of Alaska.
Wife and I started to travel when we were 40. Kids left home 😁 . One more trip to Europe next month will probably be our last. It's the damn flying. Pure misery.
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I flew in to Vancouver with my wife for our snowboarding trip to Whistler in 2011-ish. It was right after the Olympics. The Sea to Sky Highway was incredible. It was a great trip and I want to go back again.
 
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walkenvol said:
Some friends decided to drop the extra coin and fly first class to a European cruise - said it made all the difference for them.
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Yeah, we fly business to Europe. Since most of the flights are overnight you can take advantage of the seats that will fly flat like a bed. Sleeping still isn't easy, but you're not totally exhausted when you get there.
OTOH, it seems like all the boomers have decided to travel and those seats are 2 to 3 times $ what they were a year or 2 ago.
I like the flight from O'Hare to London that leaves around 5:30 a.m. and gets there around 9:30. at night. 10:30 from LHR to the city. You think perfect time to go to bed, but your body thinks it's still 3-4 in the afternoon. With all the shakeup in flights that might no longer be available.
Nashville now has direct flights to LHR on Brit Air. When I've looked $$$.
 
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I was getting a little anxious about the flight to Honolulu (longest flight I've ever been on was JFK to Istanbul - 21 years ago). The thoughts of having to crawl over someone to stretch or go to the bathroom is the only thing I'm dreading about our trip. But I just looked at our tickets, and we are in a 2 seat row! I cannot even explain the relief I feel!
 
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vollygirl said:
I was getting a little anxious about the flight to Honolulu (longest flight I've ever been on was JFK to Istanbul - 21 years ago). The thoughts of having to crawl over someone to stretch or go to the bathroom is the only thing I'm dreading about our trip. But I just looked at our tickets, and we are in a 2 seat row! I cannot even explain the relief I feel!
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Do you book your flights and choose the seats? Spouse?
 
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vollygirl said:
Yes. We booked the flight back in the spring, and for some reason I was thinking it was 3 seats per row and a stranger would be sitting in the aisle seat.
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Yeah, our last flight was on Delta. Either Vancouver to SEA or SEA to Nashville. I was surprised to see seats 2 and 3 rows wide.
W were lucky to have booked early enough to get two row seats. OTOH, several of the 3 rows only had 2 passengers.
 
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Go aeiou said:
Yeah, our last flight was on Delta. Either Vancouver to SEA or SEA to Nashville. I was surprised to see seats 2 and 3 rows wide.
W were lucky to have booked early enough to get two row seats. OTOH, several of the 3 rows only had 2 passengers.
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The flight to Istanbul was 5 seats in the middle row, I think 2 on the outside rows (too long ago to remember). Wasn't even half full when we flew. Crazy.
 
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Go aeiou said:
Yeah, we fly business to Europe. Since most of the flights are overnight you can take advantage of the seats that will fly flat like a bed. Sleeping still isn't easy, but you're not totally exhausted when you get there.
OTOH, it seems like all the boomers have decided to travel and those seats are 2 to 3 times $ what they were a year or 2 ago.
I like the flight from O'Hare to London that leaves around 5:30 a.m. and gets there around 9:30. at night. 10:30 from LHR to the city. You think perfect time to go to bed, but your body thinks it's still 3-4 in the afternoon. With all the shakeup in flights that might no longer be available.
Nashville now has direct flights to LHR on Brit Air. When I've looked $$$.
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Nashville also now is served by Iceland Air. Been seeing some great rates to Europe. Recently say round trip from Nashville to Munich for under $500
 
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vollygirl said:
The flight to Istanbul was 5 seats in the middle row, I think 2 on the outside rows (too long ago to remember). Wasn't even half full when we flew. Crazy.
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Near the taile end of Covid in the spring of 22, I took a flight from Philadelphia to Zurich that was only about 10% full. Had my choice of empty rows for sleeping. Made all the difference in reducing jet lag upon arrival.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Near the taile end of Covid in the spring of 22, I took a flight from Philadelphia to Zurich that was only about 10% full. Had my choice of empty rows for sleeping. Made all the difference in reducing jet lag upon arrival.
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I bet!

I sat in my seat and didn't get up, not even to go to the bathroom. And I don't remember feeling bad, lol.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Nashville also now is served by Iceland Air. Been seeing some great rates to Europe. Recently say round trip from Nashville to Munich for under $500
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I've looked at Iceland Air. The seem to partner with Jet Blue for a lot of flights to Europe. Sometimes the layovers are very long though. Iceland is my favorite place to visit for natural beauty. I think they still let passengers visit Iceland some before flying to Europe.
 
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Go aeiou said:
I've looked at Iceland Air. The seem to partner with Jet Blue for a lot of flights to Europe. Sometimes the layovers are very long though. Iceland is my favorite place to visit for natural beauty. I think they still let passengers visit Iceland some before flying to Europe.
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The flight I saw by Icelandair was actually nonstop from Nashville to Munich. No layovers.
But yeah, I want to visit Iceland. Would love to go to the Blue Lagoon and hike to see the volcanic eruptions of late
 
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