Hot and bored on holiday

If you own the house then can’t you just house swap it next year for somewhere you want to go?
Or rent it out and stay home instead and use proceeds for day trips.

If there's a pool then get in it! Looks are your friend of you're hot. Or better still, a beach!

So you fly out to a (obviously completely unnecessary) second home multiple times a year? And have a pool and aircon? You're certainly doing way more than your share of the heavy lifting in causing global warming, aren't you? You'll certainly get no sympathy from me if/when your second home burns down.

Get in the pool.

If your left over roast dinner is from the MN chicken farm then you'll be good for the rest of the week!

Presumably Op would have to take kids with her if husband is out sporting though?
If kids are happily enjoying pool etc I can see why it’s easier for Op to just suck it up and stay put.
Meanwhile her DH is having a great time doing exactly what he wants and people think Op is spoiled if she complains.
Like I say I know someone who used to holiday like this and it wouldn’t have been my cup of tea despite it looking lovely on paper - no easy way to sightsee, no cafes to walk to, stuck in villa supervising kids in pool. The DH out for hours. The narrative she’s having a lovely time reading by pool.

Go home

Lol at this. I don't like the heat and am still wilting from a business trip to the Caribbean last week. I'm about to leave for our holiday home on the Atlantic coat of West Ireland. It is currently about 16 degrees there and tipping it down. I cannot wait to get there and not be hot anymore.

I've got load of craft supplies there. I've downloaded a couple of tv series to binge watch (can't rely on our terrible rural internet). It's in the middle of nowhere so no restaurants so, will eat in most nights (toasties here I come).

we've got a couple of nights out planned with local family and I will walk down to the local bar when the weather permits but apart from that I will stay in wrapped up in cosy clothes. I will be as happy as Larry. I might even light a fire. #HolidayGoals

Totally understand, OP.
I too would have a blazing hot holiday where there's nothing to do.
I solved this issue by not buying a holiday home in a notoriously hot mediterranean country.

Are you not allowed to leave the resort to, you know, visit the country?

Or ‘the power of now’ by E Tolle.

Op’s pity party is an example of how you can have lots of ‘stuff’ but still be miserable as you are the lowest ranking person in the pack and no one takes any notice of what you want (including yourself)

I read the op differently to most I think.

To me it seems that op has gone on holiday and yet again her husband has buggered off to do what he likes every day and leaves his wife at home to look after the kids.

It being hot is the side issue I think.

Op, your husband sounds quite selfish. Does he spend a lot of time on his hobbies at home too? Possibly easier when you have friends and family round to fill the gap.

Is there an expat group for your area if your Spanish isnt great? It's worth trying to make some friends to do activities with. I would get booked into a course back in the UK to learn Spanish properly though too.

I read slow - what??? I was referring to the poster who made a comment about the number of books the OP had read. I have a degree in English Literature and I've always read fast lol!

Are you reading Ladybird books or the Famous Five? 🙄🙄😂

I agree you’d have got very different responses if you’d posted I’m having rubbish holiday as dh is lying in bed or out cycling/golf for hours daily and I’m stuck with the kids.
It’s your DH enjoying his holiday and rest of you having to fit in.

Why not to learn golf? Or going to the swimming pool with your children?
Learn Spanish with the locals? Join a cooking Spanish class? Visit tge shopping centre and have your hair cut or any other beauty treatment cheaper than in UK?

Omg poor you sounds awful 😳😒 I feel this post was made to annoy people so you can get some entertainment.

+1

Boo hoo, poor you. How about getting out in an air-conditioned car and seeing some of Spain? Or putting the news on and realising how lucky you are? Only boring people are bored, do something about it.

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Well if your dh abandons you every holiday and you don’t like just sitting around in the heat then you absolutely get to say that you’re doing something of your choosing next time.

Excuse me whilst I get my tiny violin out… ridiculous post

The middle paragraph summarises your real problem OP and I think that other posters would have been more sympathetic had you included that in your original post. It sounds a bit dismal tbh no matter how much disposable income you have. You need to have a good talk when you get back to the UK, especially if he’s like that at home too. Meanwhile, get thee into the pool!