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

[Lardlizard]

Desperate for a holiday in the sun ! 😎🌞

I miss my children going to cubs and Beavers. They liked being away from me in a group of friends doing stuff we don't do at home.

My DD being happy and carefree . She's in year 11 and is so stressed about exams/being behind on work missed during lockdown. The school have been pretty useless throughout.

Also for me personally - miss seeing my friends and going on little trips

I don’t have a garden, but live near several NT trust places so it’s never been a problem. But now I can’t just get up, see it’s a nice day and decide to visit - you have to book in advance, can’t get tickets on the day, and all the ones near me seem to get sold out pretty early in the week.

So I guess I miss going outside.

Seeing family and friends, and spontaneity.

Going to Northern Soul nights. Our friends are scattered around the country and we meet up all over the UK. Holidays too.

Softplay
Having people over for a drink, but I'm pregnant so that's down the pan anyway.

Holidays..100%

When things are back to normal I'm planning lots of them

I'm not sure this is "missing the most" but my friend who i have not seen for 2 years and I were meant to go away for the weekend coming up. We had it all paid for a lovely Air bnb and plan was lots of food some alcohol and just time for the 2 of us together. (We were very close before we both moved and are now quite a distance from each other) and even though we got the money back I really want to be there with her instead...

Holidays. I know I can book one, but it all feels like too much hassle right now, with all the added measures and restrictions. We went snowboarding a week before lockdown, it was fine, if a little unnerving on the return at the airport, etc but a friend of mine was booked to go away the week after and it got cancelled. That's when I decided against booking anything overseas. We have been on a climbing holiday to the Lakes and camping in Dorset so have been lucky enough to get away.

Also miss throwing parties! We throw a summer party every year and also love having our friends over for get togethers, I miss that.

Face to face therapy, phone/video just isn’t the same as being in the room.

My nieces and nephews, holiday and cinema

Holidays
Theatre
Parties
Hugs with friends and family

Living independently, major one not practical due to disability
Holidays, just deciding to go a pub or restaurant
A look around the shops, won’t bother now with masks and not trying on things

My mum (different country). I try to think about it as little as possible or I'd go mad.

Being able to see and hug my family. My mum and brother live together and my dad is in their support bubble (weird situation, I know) so they've all been able to live normally but when I visited I had to sit away from them and couldn't go unless I was outside.

Now, we're in local lockdown which means no mixing of households, no change for them because of the bubble, but I can't go anymore. So they're carrying on as normal and I can't go near the house that I think I will always view as 'home'.

Mostly, just the ability to go on a day out somewhere of a Saturday and forget about everything. Just pop out to a nearby town for lunch and a potter about. Little change of scenery. It used to really refresh me for the coming week.

Yes I can actually do this at the moment technically, as long as the place I'm going to/ coming from is not in local lockdown... but it feels wrong to travel around, and it's not very relaxing anyway with the constant vigilance.

swimming and the hope and excitement of booked holidays/ weekends away etc

As pp said, spontaneity. We have been out for a few days out, usually somewhere in the countryside so we can walk the dog and have lots of space away from people. We go where we know it’s safe and well-managed in terms of SD etc.

A few of our favourite places aren’t that great for us to visit - due to a lack of public toilet facilities. Ended up having to queue, pay for two drinks and do all the written track/trace stuff a few weeks ago just so I could use the loo in a pub as all of the public ones were closed. We did check beforehand and the councils website said that most were open 🙁

Travel. We spend a fair bit of the year travelling (mostly work remotely for last few years) and I miss the planning, the excitement, waking up in a hotel room, sunshine, warm sea to swim in, seeing new things, eating new things. Travel is my big thing and I feel a bit lost and empty with nothing to look forward to.

Seeing family, not worrying about every cough and sneeze from the kids, being afraid to breathe on my mum in case I give her something (she's my bubble but my kids are at daycare/school so we don't get too close), taking my toddlers to soft play, toddler groups, gym classes etc, seeing my friends, going somewhere without planning it in advance, not having to eyeball everyone who gets too close in a shop.