Holidays
With the upcoming Easter holidays/baldy-wedding-extravaganza, what are you lot doing? Off anywhere nice?

What is the best holiday you've been on and why?

Alt:
Worst holiday and why?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:03, 106 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Alt lunch reply: BLT

(PsychoChomp, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:04, Reply)

Or lunch
I'm on cheapy curry noodles today *sigh*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:08, Reply)

A couple of recent camping holidays with daughter stand out as being particularly awesome.
We didn't holiday much as a kid, mostly caravans and camping. No, I'm not secretly a carny. I'd love to holiday more but I can never afford the time off work.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:08, Reply)

I'm looking forward to this
although I suspect daughter will be like mother and not like being in a tent.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:10, Reply)

Nah, it's what you make it innit.
Get glowsticks and set bug traps and give her her own torch and make sure you can barbecue on site and she'll love it.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:11, Reply)

We may practice in the back garden first
I used to love doing that!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:12, Reply)

Likewise, my mate's two-year old is too young but when he's a bit older we'll do bug traps, great fun.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:13, Reply)

Liam, my son
will love all that shit when he is older. I am expecting him to eat most of the bugs he catches though
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:14, Reply)

Woodlice taste good gently toasted on a fire if you can get enough of them.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:15, Reply)

I will bear that in mind

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:16, Reply)

=D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISwNnZGR35A
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

nomnomnom

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:26, Reply)

I'd love to go caravaning
But Mark thinks it's silly if we can get to hotels for cheaper than renting the van, and we can stay in the cities, rather than in a camping. And he's right.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:19, Reply)

Depends if you want busy city or quiet countryside though eh?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

I usually prefer
the busy city, or the quiet city, but city. Rarely I'd choose countryside, but I think I should try at least once.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

I fucking love camping
and it amuses me the reasons people give for not wanting to do it.

The place I typically go has better showers than most people have in their house (not stylish, but clean and very effective); we've got a big tent, which with the inflatable bed we've got and a couple of duvets is as comfortable as a proper bed; we can have fires; there is a tidal lagoon a short walk away; it's fucking heavenly, and I recommend you go there.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

That sounds great
I do want to go caravaning around Europe, but Mark thinks it's not a good idea, as I'll want to see the cities at night too, so we'll end up paying for hotel anyway.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:35, Reply)

that's the difficulty
caravans aren't cheap, to buy or hire, and they aren't particularly cheap to get a proper pitch with electricity, and if you want to go into a city then you really don't want to have a caravan.

This is why I am getting an ordinary van and putting a bed in it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:38, Reply)

That's not a bad idea
I just want to be able to tour around Europe but having a kitchen if I want to cook and a bed when I want to sleep.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:40, Reply)

I'm not bothering with a kitchen
I've got a portable barbecue and gas stove, which are fine.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:56, Reply)

no
alt: florida, disneyland or whatever it is, when I was 18
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:09, Reply)

Because...

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:19, Reply)

because of the wonderful things it does
*trumpets*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:21, Reply)

because florida is shit, and who the hell wants to go to disney when they're 18

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

I'm off to Eurodisney in August!
It will be good!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:26, Reply)

But you're under 18
aren't you?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:35, Reply)

Mentally, yes
Physically, 18*2
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:36, Reply)

I think it's the mental age that counts
for going to Disneyland
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Woop!
*Runs around with T-shirt over head*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:41, Reply)

you've got kids right?
really, think about when you were 18, did you really want to go to disney?
probably not
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Good point
Disney has pubs right?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:42, Reply)

You can't drink when you're 18 here!
The only good part about the trip was the Epcot center was cool, but the magic kingdown was utter shit
really looked worn down, and it really is the sort of place for families, not 200 high school students
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:45, Reply)

Best holiday for me was Cancun
Fucking beuatiful hotel, amazing food, free beer and lots of sun. Only bad point was that it was only for a week

Worst one was probably Menorca as a kid. Prickly heat is not fun
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:11, Reply)

Oh god I got sunstroke one time in Cornwall
after spending virtually all day in the pool during a hot sunny say in the summer holidays. Fuck I felt shit.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:12, Reply)

I've had sunstroke before but prickly heat is fucking awful
It literally felt like every time the sun was on my back I was being stabbed by icy needles. Aged about 9 this does not a good holiday make. I spent most of the time in a freezing cold bath
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:13, Reply)

In the sun I felt freezing cold and in the shade I felt itchy-hot.
It was compounded by chronic sunburn and then chicken pox which came on about three days after I went to the hospital. Fun times.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:14, Reply)

Yay for kid illnesses

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:15, Reply)

it doesn't get too hot your way though, does it?

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:14, Reply)

It can get fairly hot over here some times

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:14, Reply)

You'd be surprised, we had a good few days between 30 and 35 deg C last year.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:15, Reply)

I'm prone to sunstroke
it's not very nice
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:15, Reply)

I was quite young but I distinctly remember it was utter, utter shit.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:16, Reply)

it becomes a bit of a bastard when surfing a lot
because you don't notice.

If the sun is out and I'm not in the sea then I wear a hat these days.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

it was about 38 here almost everyday last summer

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:16, Reply)

38 degrees = too hot
I couldn't stand that
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

just wait till it's 40 out

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:19, Reply)

We share the same longitude as Washington I believe
although we're generally somewhat warmer as the jetstream brings lovely warm air when it's in control.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

Mark got sunstroke at Machu Picchu
And he spend 5 days with diahorrea.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

Is Diarrhoea the name of a pretty Amazonian girl?
If so, I applaud your trusting and open relationship.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:42, Reply)

Mrs V's sister gets married on the 21st
going camping over easter weekend down to cornwall, then not the 3 day week but the week after I'm down in Cornwall for a week. lovely

Best holiday was to the Outer Hebrides last year. Two weeks in a beautiful place with my mrs, where we did basically fuck all, in luxury accomodation.

I've never really had any bad holidays. Spent a rainy week in the south of France in a caravan (neighbours ran a park near Marseilles). It was raining so much we didn't do anything. I had only taken 2 books. Read them about 7 times each.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:14, Reply)

I am missing the entire wedding rigmarole
by buggering off to Croatia for 10 days. Best holiday would probably be one of the jaunts round europe my grandparents used to take my sister and I on when we were kids.
(berk, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:15, Reply)

I quite fancy Croatia
Sounds like it would be good
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

Indeed it does
that's why I'm going. I'll let you know whether it's worth it when I get back :)
(berk, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:21, Reply)

Please do

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:23, Reply)

Croatia men
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:42, Reply)

*shakes head*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:44, Reply)

I spent six weeks in Louisiana and Florida
when I was 21. Awesome holiday spent in youth hostels and the like. Plenty of willing girls, sun, booze, near-death experiences, sharks and snorkelling.

Best holiday I've had so far, in fact.
( Kroney, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

willing girls, sun, booze, near-death experiences, sharks and snorkelling
An autobiography, by Kroney
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:19, Reply)

The Easter weekend
we'll spend moving into our new flat, which is at the same time good and bad. The next weekend we haven't decided yet, maybe Italy, maybe Canterbury... we need to go cheap, but I'm not staying anywhere near London for that awful weekend.

The best holiday ever, my honeymoon for quite obvious reasons.

The worst... I try to remember only the good things, but there are 2 holidays I wouldn't repeat: one, a week with my brother, sister and partners around the Netherlands and Belgium. Our hotel was far up north, in the middle of nowhere; my brother wouldn't want to wake up before 10am, so we'd never be anywhere interesting before 3pm, which in winter meant we only got to see dark cities one after another.

The second, one of the last holidays with my ex-boyfriend to Roma. We were at +40degC and I kept fainting. I had already decided I was leaving him, but didn't want to do it until he'd finished his VIVA and got a job. All in all, the weekend felt far too long and I wish we hadn't gone.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:18, Reply)

Canterbury's lovely
and a couple of lovely b3tans live there too.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:19, Reply)

I know
I'm going to try to get free accommodation, as times are not good for excessess right now.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:22, Reply)

Although it was with my mental ex (everyone has one!)
I thoroughly enjoyed Rome. That is one interesting city to wander round
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

I hated the heath
and everything was dirty and badly looked after. The binmen were on strike, and it was smelly. And overpriced...

Now, I have a Roman friend who keeps insisting I have to go with him and see the bits he likes, rather than spend 3 days looking at ruins. I should do that.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

The ruins are the good bits!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

Not when they're crowded
and you have to queue for 2h at each, at 40deg or more, under the sun. And they were full of graffities and really badly looked after. I liked seeing a few of them, but 3 days ruins non stop, no, it was too much for me.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:26, Reply)

I got photobombed at the base of the Spanish Steps.
It was also bastard hot the day mr b3th and I were there, and he doesn't do heat, so I didn't get to see any of the stuff I wanted, because it was all too far apart, and he wanted to get back to the boat where it was air conditioned and there was free booze.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:27, Reply)

I think I was a nightmare too
I fainted on the first day quite badly, so I decided I wasn't going out of the hotel from 12 to 4; that didn't leave us a lot of time to visit all the ruins the ex wanted to see, and we had to run around everywhere.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:29, Reply)

I fucking LOVE Rome. It's truly wonderful.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

Oh, well
We can't agree on everything. I prefer places with less tourists, less heath, and cleaner. I loved Florence and the Toscana.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:27, Reply)

does heath mean heat?
or have I missed something

and isn't it Florence and the Machine?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

don't taunt the foreigner
it's mean, and too easy.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

I was genuinely asking the first one

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

*stern face*

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:31, Reply)

Maybe...
Maybe I'm speaking in code...

Heat like it's very hot. And Florence is Florence, isn't it? Let me check... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence

I didn't know of Florence and the Machine until Saturday, as one of their songs is in the Sing it Encore.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

I thought you meant heat
but had written heath a couple of times and wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something

the other bit was a joke. albeit a very poor one.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:31, Reply)

I'm not sure if I know what heath means
I'm going to look it up now.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:33, Reply)

It is like park land

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:35, Reply)

I had resident guides and thus missed a lot of the vulgarity.,
I ate some of the best food I've ever had and, being an ancient world obsessive it truly is one of the best places on earth, plus you can do Pompeii on a day trip (literally awesome for me, not 'awesome' as it is bandied about in these parts). I also went in Spring as I cannot abide super-hot weather either.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:36, Reply)

I think I went in April
It was really warm but not too hot to stop you from wandering (and consuming large quantities of beer)
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:37, Reply)

I loved the food, that's true
We didn't have time for Pompeii, and, although I love ancient world stuff, having to see it at those temperatures (August and in the middle of a heat wave) didn't do much for me. And I suppose, the fact that I kept wanting to break up with my ex and he was unaware of it didn't do much to make me feel good.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:39, Reply)

That is fair enough
*shakes hands*

No hard feelings, eh?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:44, Reply)

I had a sort of native guide for Venice
truly one of the nicest places in Europe. We leaned out of her flat window on day to take pictures of the gondolas, and silly americans were on the gondolas taking pictures of us as 'locals'.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:39, Reply)

I have mega exciting huge wonderful plans
Well, plans, anyway.

My old folks are having a big barbecue party type thing over that weekend, and there will be lots of old family friends and drinkies and things. DJ and Roota will be popping by and I get to see them. So, in summary - a fun (very) long weekend of partying and merriment, and I get to see my favourite b3tan. And my brother.

Alt: The weekend my housemistress took half a dozen of us boarders to cruise about the Norfolk broads on her sister's boat. The roof leaked on one side, where muggins was sleeping, and it was raining, and I woke up halfway through the night under a literally sodden duvet. The buggers on the other side wouldn't let me crawl in with them, either, cause I was not one of the popular girls waah kids can be mean waah.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

That holiday sounds awful

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:32, Reply)

I'll be at a wedding the day before and setting off for Scotland that evening (see above).
I will probably not hear a thing about the royal wedding while I'm there.

Worst holiday, trapped in a Spanish villa with my extended family and my ex, July 2000. I paid for a flight and came home a week early. There was muuuuurder.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:29, Reply)

would this be a wedding at Gretna?
I can see DJ going for that...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

Haha neither can I!
Mates from work. Nice quiet quicky wedding.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:32, Reply)

A wedding AND a quicky?
ah, man, that sounds like a good day.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:38, Reply)

If I'm lucky.
I'll be sans fiancé so you never know.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:39, Reply)

I'm going to have six whole days up there
There will be shopping and mummy/b3th bonding. You have to make him let you join us. I know how he likes to keep people as far away from his embarrassing relatives as possible....
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:41, Reply)

He's met mine.
He's got nothing to lose.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:45, Reply)

I can't wait to meet youir dad
he sounds ace!
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:54, Reply)

I'm off to Lancaster with Lusty on one weekend
but generally hoping to see some extra time with my daughter. My mother, however, is off to India for 3 weeks shortly, the mental old lez. I've told her she'll like as not crap out the weight she wants to lose so she'll have a good time one way or another.

Best holiday is hard to choose: Morocco, The US (when I was really losing it with ex/kid stuff my father paid for me to visit him for a week and pretty much saved my sanity without even knowing it, bless his heart), or Rome, I think. Or Skiathos when my daughter was about one. That's a gorgeous little island, not too vulgar and we had a nice apartment - and the ex behaved impeccably.

Worst holiday: I've been made by two exes to go on pikey 'sun' holidays and loathed pretty much every second of them, being an inveterate snob and all that. Ghastly. Ugh.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:29, Reply)

Does your mother hope to pull whilst on her 3 week break?
It is my understanding that all Indian lesbians are called Mingita.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:34, Reply)

Oh Jeff
How I have missed your puns. First click of the day from me sir
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:35, Reply)

Going back home tomorrow.
I cannot fucking wait. It's like the last days of Rome round here at the moment.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:39, Reply)

Will you be paying your respects to Jacko when you get back?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:40, Reply)

...by popping into 'Marks and Sparks' and vomiting on the size 9s?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:44, Reply)

hahahaha
Cho man.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:46, Reply)

That statue is fucking brilliant!
SHAMON!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:45, Reply)

It won't do much for the team though.
Next season, the Fulham keeper will only be allowed to wear one glove.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:46, Reply)

Then they would be ......... bad?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:49, Reply)

LTI

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:51, Reply)

Oh man, today is a good day

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:53, Reply)

You've become me.
AICMFP
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:53, Reply)

*chats up Yorkshire Terrier*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:56, Reply)