Comments on: ‘No’ to age restrictions http://www.exploreblogs.co.uk/2007/05/10/no-to-age-restrictions/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Russell Downe http://www.exploreblogs.co.uk/2007/05/10/no-to-age-restrictions/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Russell Downe Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:09:19 +0000 http://www.exploreblogs.co.uk/2007/05/10/no-to-age-restrictions/#comment-58 Forget all about this 70 stuff!! Current age 81 next month and my partner 73: at the age of 74 drove from UK to Akaba and back in open two seater MX5, more recently we have driven around the coast of Australia and the high Atlas in Morocco also up to North Cape and the arctic circle the last two in the MX5. Currently we are trying to arrange trip to the silk route (not in an MX5) Remember what Robert Louis Stevenson said ' it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive' In my earlier years drove from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to UK and from Belize to New York. Russell ~Downe Forget all about this 70 stuff!! Current age 81 next month and my partner 73: at the age of 74 drove from UK to Akaba and back in open two seater MX5, more recently we have driven around the coast of Australia and the high Atlas in Morocco also up to North Cape and the arctic circle the last two in the MX5.

Currently we are trying to arrange trip to the silk route (not in an MX5)
Remember what Robert Louis Stevenson said ‘ it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive’

In my earlier years drove from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to UK and from Belize to New York.

Russell ~Downe

]]> By: Stephanie Phillips http://www.exploreblogs.co.uk/2007/05/10/no-to-age-restrictions/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Stephanie Phillips Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:33:58 +0000 http://www.exploreblogs.co.uk/2007/05/10/no-to-age-restrictions/#comment-57 I agree wholeheartedly - the mix of ages that I have found on Explore trips is part of what makes them such interesting and fun groups of people to spend time with. I have just come back from the Walking in Tuscany trip - we had a group ranging in age from 19 to late 60s - and, as usual, the older ones left us 'younger' ones way behind. Conversations have more depth and breadth. And the mix of nationalities - Kiwis, Aussies, Canadians, Americans, Brits - so much interesting experience. You would miss out on so much if the group was restricted based on age or nationality - an important part of the experience of travel would be lost. I agree wholeheartedly – the mix of ages that I have found on Explore trips is part of what makes them such interesting and fun groups of people to spend time with. I have just come back from the Walking in Tuscany trip – we had a group ranging in age from 19 to late 60s – and, as usual, the older ones left us ‘younger’ ones way behind. Conversations have more depth and breadth. And the mix of nationalities – Kiwis, Aussies, Canadians, Americans, Brits – so much interesting experience. You would miss out on so much if the group was restricted based on age or nationality – an important part of the experience of travel would be lost.

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