What is this current situation making you miss most ? Holidays for me

[Lardlizard]

Desperate for a holiday in the sun ! 😎🌞

Really interesting to see people miss both being able to plan AND be able to be spontaneous! But definitely the case.

Travel for me too.

I normally travel several times a year for work, although I usually have free time to go sightseeing too. I'm really missing it, especially as it seems there is no end in sight. I mostly live a quiet life which is structured around my work trips, so without them my life just seems like Groundhog Day.

Ah when I talk about work travel I mean UK only and staying in the luxurious surroundings of a travel lodge. Still really enjoy it though, and seeing people in different offices.

@StealthPolarBear

Ah when I talk about work travel I mean UK only and staying in the luxurious surroundings of a travel lodge. Still really enjoy it though, and seeing people in different offices.

I like it too! Nothing beats a good English hotel breakfast, but who knows when buffet breakfasts will be 'allowed' again?

And even a night or two in a different city, even if it's not abroad, breaks up the routine and makes my home seem almost like a novelty, even if only for a short time. The monotony of life WFH and devoid of so many distractions is really getting to me.

Being able to see my parents, grandmother, sisters, nephews, cousins...pretty much my whole family outside of my husband and children because they all live in a different county and I'm not allowed to travel there unless it's an exceptional circumstance.

Fortunately for my children and husband MIL lives in the same city as us so they're still seeing plenty of her.

Day to day contact in person with colleagues (video is a poor substitute).

Family- as in actually spending time in their company.

Sitting in a cafe for a cup of tea. It's always been a treat. Now I feel I have to weigh up if it's worth the risk of getting told to self-isolate because someone else in there might test positive.

Oh, & can I add, missing my own space because of DH working from home.
And feeling like our house is less of a home and more of an office.

Choir.

Seeing my friends, spontaneity, holidays but logging onto zoom every week rather than heading to rehearsal gets me every time

Expat here, haven't seen the family since last summer, was supposed to go in June. Looking at 2021 now.

Also, the office and the real, live human beings in it!

I miss having a job, made redundant in August 😟

Meeting actual real people (we are in an area with additional restrictions)

I hate not having any of the things where I am in someone else's house, they are in mine, or we are at meetings in Church halls and the like. I know you can do some stuff by Zoom / Teams etc, but its not the same.

Am also sad I won't get to see ELO net week, as planned

Let's do lunch, so sorry

Yes to spontaneity, holidays and seeing family as we’re in a local lockdown restrictions.

Football! DS and I travel all over the country for away matches, not been to a match since early March. Watching on the TV is no substitute. The ban on attending outdoor sporting events is crazy

Spontaneous evening out sitting by the fire at a nice country pub: everywhere near us is no good for indoor social distancing and it’s too cold, wet and dark to sit outside

Being natural with people, not hugging friends and family : it’s all so forced

Holidays for me too. Pre Covid, I was always off somewhere and going for weekends away. Absolutely sick of being stuck in the same town.

My parents. I haven’t seen them since January.

I live in the sun and am bloody sick of it! I want to go somewhere cold and rainy

Holidays
Going on day trips with DD i.e. Legoland
Going to the theatre
Going to London for the day and wandering around streets seeing the sights

Not having to think before doing something. Not having to prebook things. Normal life without masks (glasses wearer and still haven’t found a way to stop misting up). Going out with friends. Staying at friends. Cinema (went weekly with meerkat). Holidays - think mine will be cancelled if new restrictions come in as we’re from different households.

I usually fairly content to stay home, go out for a weekly catch up with friends etc but even that has been curtailed. Am getting bored with it all now and just want old normal back.

Theatre. Singing hymns in church. Holidays, DH and I got back on our feet after a few years living hand to mouth so we had planned a number of trips before TTC. Obviously there have been some real lows but on the whole though I've tried to look at the best bits of lockdown. We've had a chance to decorate, my niece was born, my BIL got married, DH and I feel closer as we're both working from home (DH also got a payrise), in recent months our alcohol consumption has gone down and health gone up (we're trying to lose the early lockdown weight), we're still hiking, and we went camping on a lovely summers day which meant we didn't need to put the flysheet on and we slept under the stars - it was magical.

purrswhileheeats Where do you live ?

I echo PP on spontaneity.

Yes definitely holiday.
I don't want to risk suddenly being quarantined or falling ill abroad.
I've got lots booked next year, Italy for Easter and I am hoping it's all OK or settled by then

Seeing family
Dining out without weirdness (in fact we're avoiding restaurants and pubs due to T&T/school).

Most of all, gigs. My kids had just reached an age where we could go out of an eve for a few hrs.

Dancing somewhere that isn't my own house.