well arent you a positive soul
I like the sunshine, and the heat. I like swimming in the sea and snorkling without fear i might catch pneumonia. I like drinking foriegn lagers, and inspecting towns and finding nice places to eat. I like water parks. I like the idea of interacting with strangers and having a laugh.

None of the above (maybe apart from the lagers) can you do in the UK. Dont get me wrong, a holiday in the UK is splendid. But flying somewhere that isnt the UK is special. If i could - I would travel further than the Med like im doing this year. But that costs more money. I like to spend my money on experiences with my wife/family. Staying at home and writing things like the above like youve done seems utterly miserable.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 9:53, 1 reply)

Thanks to its extensive immigration and imperial imports, Britain has got some of the most diverse cuisine in Europe
It's got 9000km of beaches, with the most number of blue flag awards of any European nation. It's got a million types of beer, millennia of cultural places to see (which haven't been ransacked, plundered, looted or bombed to shit by constant wars), and the chats you have with the strangers are genuine; not a bunch of fake smiles as the local tries to con you out of your hard-earned for some cheap tat marketed as a souvenir.

Really, this idea of summer travel, especially around the Med, is a shallow excuse of an experience to make plebs feel like there's something in their life beyond Sky subscriptions and Asda deals.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 10:10, closed)

Yeah, but the skin cancer you get on the beaches here ain't right.
Not like that proper, healthy skin cancer you get on the continent.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 10:14, closed)

youtu.be/Ps2WwRjvQkY?t=26s
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 10:21, closed)

You live in Poland, you miserable sack of guffs.

(Go Man River everybody loves anal, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 11:33, closed)

And you own property in France, so I clearly win

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 12:40, closed)

I just had a lovely swim in the lake.
Just me and the obligatory 80 year old frenchman doing incredibly slow backstroke up and down all day.
(Go Man River everybody loves anal, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 12:43, closed)

My girlfriend's doing that at her lake
which doesn't have a Frenchman in it, so is therefore better.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 12:54, closed)

I assume her massive slavic beak will break the year-round ice.

(Go Man River everybody loves anal, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 13:29, closed)

Haha, yes, because it's the Poles who are famous for big noses
Not the French, oh no, not at all. I'm surprised your wife doesn't rent out her nostrils as wind tunnels.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 13:32, closed)

Nose? I'm talking about the whole slavic skull: receding brow, mongoloid cheeks, chimp-like muzzle.

(Go Man River everybody loves anal, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 20:16, closed)

I live in the north west
so apart from a few beaches in Wales, the coast line isnt a sea i would like to swim in, not because its dirty, but because its essentially one big estuary. The water runs brown (and healthy mind) but nothing to get me excited enough to take a dip.

Also - its very cold where i live. Infact apart from early July when we had the heat wave ive had to wear a jacket/jumper most days. Thats not fun when you like to spend alot of time outside like i do.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 16:07, closed)