Travelling with a view to emigrating.

Kidds

Kidds

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Poorbuthappy said:
Unless, like my daughter's boyfriend, your flight is delayed so you miss your next flight.
He ended up stuck in some Chinese airport for 18 hours.

But everywhere else on this forum, everyone is pointing to the nonsense of blaming farming for climate change, and highlighting the massive number of flights per day. Yet on this thread it seems its the best thing since sliced bread🤔
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Mum once spent 5 days in Singapore Airport waiting on a standby ticket.
Blaming farming for climate change does seem a bit mad when comparing emissions to air travel but I think you have to acknowledge that we have been exceptionally privelidged to be able to do it. I once went to Australia for a weekend, incredible that you can be in a position to be able to do that just because you feel like it and I am not rich. At the time I was earning £5/hour and that was my only income.
I went fishing for the weekend with my son who was living/working over there and tbh wouldn't hesitate to do it again under the same circumstances.
 
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Anyone else find it amusing, how you can sit in near silence on a long haul flight, and then as you prepare for landing, strike up conversation with a near neighbour and do your respective life stories in the 10 remaining mins?
 
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CPF

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CPF said:
I thought only plane used was Boeing 787-9 dreamliner on the direct flight with only 200 passengers
16 /17 hrs always

Youngest daughter left Melbourne yesterday Thursday with her family to go back to the UK left at 10.30pm last night, and we land in Birmingham at 11:45am Friday with a 2 hour stop over in Dubai.
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Done it in 23.5 hours 😀
 
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onesiedale

onesiedale

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Derbyshire
Nearly said:
Looking at a big trip to NZ. Going to be having one eye on moving there. Is there any way to have inland revenue accept some of expense as a business research trip?
Do we just have to call it holiday?
Can book farm viewings with estate agents etc. I'll probably see a lot of old Ford tractors while I'm there anyway.
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When we went, accountant said just keep a diary of the itinerary, and receipts.
Came up with a percentage figure which was acceptable all round - around 70% iirc.
 
Poorbuthappy

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Devon
Farmer Roy said:
I have no issue with flight

freight / passengers carried, along with km travelled, it’s a lot better than most forms of transport
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I always think that's a disingenuous argument, since probably the majority of journeys wouldn't happen if flight wasn't an option.

Agree ag has to take responsibility for its own negative environmental impacts, but that wouldn't be the grazing ruminants that most point at.

But apologies to the op for going ot
 
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Flatlander

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Lorette Manitoba
onesiedale said:
When we went, accountant said just keep a diary of the itinerary, and receipts.
Came up with a percentage figure which was acceptable all round - around 70% iirc.
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I buy equipment out of the states a couple of times a year. Drive to look at it and take the family. Pay for all the accommodations fuel and food with a credit card but any kids fun things with cash. All written off by accountant.
 
nxy

nxy

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Haute Vienne, France
Flatlander said:
I buy equipment out of the states a couple of times a year. Drive to look at it and take the family. Pay for all the accommodations fuel and food with a credit card but any kids fun things with cash. All written off by accountant.
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We do something similar a couple of times a year heading off to look at a piece of machinery (usually in the south of france). I always make a note of and print off the ad. Then a couple of nights in a hotel becomes a business expense, sometimes I might even buy the machine!
 
daveydiesel1

daveydiesel1

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Co antrim
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nxy said:
We do something similar a couple of times a year heading off to look at a piece of machinery (usually in the south of france). I always make a note of and print off the ad. Then a couple of nights in a hotel becomes a business expense, sometimes I might even buy the machine!
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Could you drag it out for a week
 
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