“We’re all going on a holiday”
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Yep, enjoying the long weekend at home. The roads are usually gridlocked around us. So we avoid driving anywhere.
And not driving saves a lot of petrol money!
And not driving saves a lot of petrol money!
Indeed, unless you drive so few that your battery makes trouble (I know first hand) 😉
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That’s an important point 😉 I think an English term for that is “staycation”? In German we often call it “Ferien in Balkonien” (“Balkon” => “Balcony”, so “Holidays in Balconia”.). Does Norwegian have a term for that, too?
We’ve got family coming to us for Easter, which is nice… They’ll have gone back south on Sunday afternoon, so at least we’ll have Monday to ourselves.
In May we have a trip lined up for a few days to Barmouth, North Wales, with our now grown up kids, having holidayed there ten or twelve years in a row when they were younger.
But you didn’t answer my earlier question about Grand Canaria, TG. How was that?
And hey, if you’re going to North Wales soon, you should hook up with Alan!
Soz, Thor – Gran Canaria was fine, thanks, once we’d changed rooms after an incursion of Giant African Cockroaches. I threw the first one out, assuming that it was a one-off, but the next morning either it or another one (they’re hard to tell apart) returned, so I caught it and took it to reception and threatened to release it unless they found us another room, which they did.
After that, it all went swimmingly, thank you.
And I expect this thread to blow up, now Kev’s here 😉
Yikes! I hope you had those sleep nets or whatever they’re called.
Yes, I believe Kev just returned from a holiday in the Caribbean, no less. Would love some intel on that.
Did somebody say HOLIDAY (who’s not named Madonna) 😎😎
My missus loves a good holiday and like Lady Penelope, likes to drag Parker (that’s me m’lady) along for the ride.
Yes, I do go away quite a bit, but I’m just a willing accomplice, honest.
The Caribbean was very nice, although we’ve largely done that tour before (a 4 day cruise around the Windies, 6 days at sea crossing the Atlantic and a stop off in the Canaries and Spain before docking at Southampton (14 nights in all).
One does hit a wall eating and drinking so excessively and I’m enjoying the detox at the moment. The ship has 4 cinemas, showing quite recent stuff and 100s of free films in your cabin and all the football you don’t wanna watch, so it’s hard to get bored during the trip.
I’ve got to wait another 4 weeks now before we fly off to Almeria for a week (during the May bank holiday).
We went there a year ago for my 60th and I fell in love with it, so I want to explore it some more.
It also helps that Lady Penelope is one helluva travel agent ♥️
You’re a long time dead, as me Dad used to say 🤔😎Sounds great! One of my closest friends is having his honeymoon now, on Barbados. Maybe you were both there at the same time, funny to think about.
Sounds like you have the resources and health to travel a lot. Envious. Almeria too; never been to Andalusia, but a lot of my friends have, and they speak warmly of it.
Envious. Almeria too; never been to Andalusia,
If you haven’t already visited it, don’t miss the Italo western film set in the area! Been there in the 80s with my parents but still have fond memories 😉
Yeah, I think a lot of spaghetti westerns were shot there. Also, Cordoba was a “hub” for film music for a while, with its festival there. I don’t think it’s alive anymore. And many of my friends have a close connection to Seville. So lots of forces pulling me there (I’ve only ever been to Barcelona when it comes to Spain, really, and some brief pit stops in the Basque region in the north during a family holiday in France). But again, health and money.
Is that one of the reasons for why you’re going there, Kev? To scout those old spaghetti western locations?
Oddly, like the James Bond films, I was never a big fan of the spaghetti westerns, preferring the old American ones (High Noon, Shane, Mag 7 etc) and others that followed (The Cowboys, Jeremiah Johnson, Outlaw Josey Wales), which I watched with my Dad, as a kid.
As Bill will tell you, they’re not real proper westerns anyway 😜
I might visit that location on a future visit, but I just wanna explore the local area this time (when we went last year, two days into the holiday, I had surprise visitors in our two boys + their folks who appeared, as Carole had booked the whole thing and planned for my 60th birthday surprise with their arrival, so it was pool, pool, pool for the whole time).I probably should add that we were staying in Raquetas de mar?? (pardon my spelling??) which is a ways outside actual Almeria.
Ugh. Can’t stand beach/pool holidays. I get too restless. Use the free time to go nuts with the exploration, dining and drinking, Kev!
I’m off to the Norwegian short film festival tomorrow (incidentally in the same town I grew up…worlds collide!), followed by a few days at a family place on an island with no internet access. So might be a bit off-grid for a few days (probably a good thing, I’m tired of my own voice here, LOL). Not quite summer holiday, but an early taste, weather permitting.
Good that the site does not require any imprint as in Germany. I would never announce that I am away in public.
Anyway, get some digital detox and I’ll keep an eye to the site 😉Good that the site does not require any imprint as in Germany. I would never announce that I am away in public.
Oh, you mean in case of burglars? I’m not really worried about that. Besides, a de-humidifier will be running here while I’m away (because of the water leak I mentioned earlier), and the guys organizing it will pop by regularly to check it. I live in a trustworthy country. 🙂
Anyway, get some digital detox and I’ll keep an eye to the site.
Thanks!
Oh, you mean in case of burglars? I’m not really worried about that. Besides, a de-humidifier will be running here while I’m away (because of the water leak I mentioned earlier), and the guys organizing it will pop by regularly to check it. I live in a trustworthy country. 🙂
Yeah, I do generally as well but still a police recommendation 😉
Hey! That’s the same planet where I am. 🙂
It might even be the same country!
Yeah, I do generally as well but still a police recommendation.
Probably true, but I can’t live my life like that, being paranoid. Actually, I’ve experienced burglaries in the past, but thankfully only the storage room in the building’s basement (among the things they stole, was a teddy bear I had as a kid, of all things…).
I’ve been absent here for a week and a half. That’s because of several reasons. I went on holiday to my home town in the south, I had to fix and re-install my old laptop, I’m on an antibiotics cure that leaves me nauseaus and tired (because of a tick bite I got in June, which led to borrealis).
But now I’ve installed myself at my family’s summer house in Denmark. Will stay here for a week with my parents, and then three weeks alone. Bliss.
(and thieves, if you’re reading, don’t even think of robbing my apartment while I’m away — my mom is staying there and will kick your ass!).
It’s a combined work/holiday thing for me, and about the only holiday I’ll get this year.
Anyone else doing anything exciting this summer? Or perhaps have done, since it’s back to work for many at this point?
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