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, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

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)