GALVESTON
I’m a Londoner, south London 50 years, now living in rural South Wales UK.
Always thought Galveston looked a great place to visit. Somewhere not the usual Spain or Portugal most brits go to.
Any Texans on here care to comment?
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I’ve been to both Texas and London and prefer London to be honest.
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Im dreamed of visiting the USA all my life. In a few weeks time and woth over 300 days of sobriety im travelling, bringing my wife & children. It will be a dream come true & hopefully the first of many visits.
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The Cliffs of Moher
Has been a bucket list destination of mine for such a long time. One of my favourite movies (and book, too) is The Princess Bride (I’m obsessed), and when I found out that the Cliffs of Insanity are actually the Cliffs of Moher I knew it was a place I have to go and see. Also, I love everything I see and hear about beautiful Ireland 
I love movies that are set in Ireland - the country looks so green and gorgeous. I love to hear an Irish accent. I’m excited that I’m going to tick this off my bucket list this year, actually - I’m going in July! 
Only thing that worries me a little is the cold 
I don’t handle cold weather too well, but I’m sure it’ll be worth it 
Cliffs of Moher here I come 
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Well you’ve something else right apart from getting sober, by moving to
‘God’s Own Country’ 
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Galveston? I’ve never heard anyone say that. I guess it’s on the coast so that’s great but even then I’ve more heard about wanting to go to Corpus Christi.
But Texas has never been top on my list. I’ve been to San Antonio and it was lovely. I think Austin sounds like fun. But everything else seems just so “Texan”. 
BUT…I’m cruising out of Galveston next year so if you’ve got specifics as to why you want to go there let me know and maybe I’ll do an extra day there.
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Got a close friend who’s living in the Texas Hill Country. It also was my live long dream to travel the USA and now I’ve been there 5 times since we met online on a smoking cessation support forum more than 9 years ago. Not been to Galveston or any place on the Gulf of Mexico yet but it’s a beautiful state. And about the size of France so room enough. And nature too.
I don’t like big cities too much so I prefer Texas over London - but London over the Texan cities I’ve been like San Antonio and Austin. Big Bend NP and the surrounding desert on the Mexican border very very beautiful. As well as the Hill Country in spring.
Galveston must be nice and pretty but it’s also the place of the deadliest natural disaster ever to hit the USA, the 1900 Galveston Flood, which destroyed much of what was there then.
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Native Houstonian here. I love Galveston. Exploring the old downtown, hanging out around the seawall, visiting all the restaurants (Gaido’s is the oldest and the best). Luxury hotels, like the San Luis resort, are relatively inexpensive if you avoid spring break and Xmas. Downtown puts on a Victorian Christmas every year; the city had a devastating flood in 1900, so there’s lots of interesting history there.
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Try Marfa in west Texas.
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Been a few places in usa but Texas i havnt Got a few guys there i jam with on line . were of to south america in nov another mc Laren journey . The worlds a lovely place should see it while you can wish you well
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Eight years ago we drove to Terlingua (just as it was beginning to get more popular as a tourist destination) from the Hill Country, stayed overnight in Fort Davis and drove south towards Big Bend through Alpine so missed Marfa. Maybe next time. What a trip though. Learned to love the desert over there.
Sorry for derailing @FarFromNormal Paul
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@FarFromNormal I’m with @VSue in Galveston TX being a curious choice 
I live in NY near Niagara Falls, which is pretty sick if you ever come this way 
I’ve visited nearly half the states, and of the ones I haven’t, there’s only a few I’d really like to. Texas’s not one of them. What is it that draws you there?
@Dustysprungfield Where are you planning to go when you visit?
Also, my place is Australia 
Preferably somewhere near the reef 
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Welcome! Where are you planning on visiting?
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@Just_Laura with the massive salt water 
not to mention box jellyfish, blue ringed 
and deadly poisonous sea snails.
The when you’re back on dry land after getting board with courting death 
in the sea, you get to play with red back and funnel web 
, brown 
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etc etc ect…
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It seems that when the gods decided to populate the lands of earth, Loki was give Oz as his project.
He was in a particularly bad and mischievous mood (even by his standards) and decided to make things fun for mankind.
Almost everything that humans could come into contact would either be poisonous or venomous and would either try to kill the in novel and painfully ways or would injure them in even more novel and inscruciatingly, eye wateringly painful and random ways.
I have been to Oz 3 times when I was in the RAF, but, I have no desire to pay to go there on holiday.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticising you wanting to go there; fill your boots and enjoy it if you get to go.
There’s not a lot of unticked countries on my list anymore, but Peru and Chile would be at the top of the list.
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Hey, I never said I was going into the ocean Swimming in anything other than a pool is just about my only fear. I’ve gotten better with age depending, but still not too keen on what lies beneath most places. I’ve been to the ocean once, for a week in Atlantic City. I did swim bc, you know, it’s the ocean, but if those 4 foot manta rays swam past me on the first day instead of the last, that would’ve been the end of it! 
No shot I’d fuck around with the box jellyfish or blue-ringed octopus! I like a good beach 
Maybe a glass bottom boat.
As for coming into contact with the various macabre land creatures, I feel that’s a ‘what if’ situation. I mean, you’re still alive Plus, it’s part of what draws me there. My favorite animal is the kangaroo bc, you’re right…who in their right mind fused a rabbit, deer, gorilla together?! Shit’s wild 
No way I’ll be able to go before my roth IRA unlocks, so I got a couple decades. At that point, if I die I die 
Also, Japan. Tokyo and the Alps.
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I would like to go & visit New Zealand. Scotland is runner up.
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I live in Western Australia and there is snakes, spiders, sharks, jellyfish etc everywhere near where i live. Ive seen lots in my 44 years but never been bitten or stung ( except the jellyfish) and i lived in the ocean and played in the bush all the time as a kid. The beaches are beautiful and the odds of getting bitten by a shark are so rare. Ive got more chance of dying in a car crash on the way to work. I also have kangaroo’s that live at the golf course 2 mins from house. I actually posted sum pics of them a few weeks back.
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If u ever come to Western Australia give me a shout. Id be happy to show u how beautiful it is.
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Galveston!
Galveston is 1/166th the size of London. 53,000 to 8,880,000 in recent population.
So could perhaps think of Galveston as a very nice, diverse, neighborhood of London.
Galveston. Who could not love this.
Visual History in one monument.
Further video about the individual people in the above video/monument.
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