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What lovely holidays do you have planned over the coming year?

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AbsentmindedWoman · 11/01/2022 16:39

I am really looking forward to going home (I live abroad) for a few weeks in the summertime. We did this last year and it was brilliant. My mum has cancer, and it's really important that we get home if at all possible.

I'd like to get a beach weekend local to us here as well, if possible, to escape the baking heat but we will have to see!

Keeping fingers crossed the pandemic won't come back with another variant and gather speed over summer/ autumn this year, and that people can travel and holiday and spend time with loved ones - where are you planning to go?

Have you booked anything?

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MajorCarolDanvers · 13/01/2022 15:42

@PattyPan

You make it part of the holiday though *@MajorCarolDanvers*. So you stop in France, Austria or whatever to see an additional place and then the journey becomes part of the fun. Plus it’s much easier to bring wine back by train Grin
Thanks for the suggestion but truly I am happier flying to to Lanzarote for my holidays.
notacooldad · 13/01/2022 15:46

I8toys
Are you in Gibraltar for the week?
Are you planning in staying there for the duration of the holiday or moving off the island?

Moomarre · 13/01/2022 15:53

A weekend in the south of France (cheap flights, free accommodation)
A house in Wales with extended family (parents paying for accommodation)
2x uk camping with friends booked
2x uk camping still to book hopefully

Moomarre · 13/01/2022 15:54

Very excited about all of these after a few years of doing nothing!

purplewatermelons · 13/01/2022 16:08

We got married in 2019 and had booked 10 nights AI in a luxury adults only hotel in the Caribbean for our honeymoon in 2020. Which obviously didn't happen! So we moved to 2021 and the same happened again Sad

In the end we have changed it to a week in a nice AI in Greece this year with dd coming along too. We've not had a family holiday abroad for 6 years so thought it would be nice to do it all together after the past couple of years we've had. Can't wait!

RTHJ14 · 13/01/2022 16:22

Lots of time in Devon planned but am desperate for some sunshine!

We have Antigua in the Easter hols, and Canary Islands later in the year.

Possibly a trip to see family in the US but very dependent on situation at the time!

Piggyk2 · 13/01/2022 16:23

I've booked Greece for June and Portugal in September. Really looking forward to Portugal always wanted to go and managed to find a super cheap package.

wineandchocolateforthewin · 13/01/2022 16:28

Gran Canaria at Easter
Maldives or Mauritius in Aug (appreciate it might rain sometimes) if not maybe Barbados, heard it's one of the safer islands in terms of avoiding hurricanes.
Maybe Greece for Oct half term, that's if can get time off work

OldTinHat · 13/01/2022 16:34

None 😥 I can't even afford to put the heating on let alone go on holiday, I've not had a holiday in years. I like reading about all of yours though!

DdraigGoch · 13/01/2022 17:31

@BarbaraofSeville

Indeed. Why would I want to get up slightly early and fly from the airport 20 minutes away and be having lunch and tapas in a beach bar followed by a swim in the Med in the afternoon when I could pay three times as much to take two days to go there by multiple trains instead?

Again, the carbon footprint of someone taking half a dozen short haul flights for Mediterranean holidays is such a tiny tiny drop in the ocean that even if it all stopped today, there would be such a tiny affect on the carbon footprint of the UK population as a whole that it's not worth worrying about.

The carbon footprint of UK aviation is more than that of every single cow, sheep, chicken and pig on British farms added together (including the supply chain that feeds them). And yet we keep being told that we all must go vegan to save the planet. It's even starker when you account for the fact that few people fly regularly (only 52% fly at all) so their footprints are huge whereas most of the UK (89%) eats meat and the total footprint is still lower.

But yeah, you keep telling yourself that you are just a drop in the ocean and that it is everyone else who is the problem.

I can't think of anything more civilised than joining an afternoon Eurostar at St Pancras, having dinner in Paris and then arriving in Nice the next morning after a refreshing sleep. Couchettes start at €29. Certainly beats the ritual abuse from Ryanair.

DdraigGoch · 13/01/2022 17:43

@MajorCarolDanvers

We don't all live in the south east of England to jump on a Eurostar

Where I live in Scotland the journey times compare as follows

Paris: Train 13 hours, Flight 1hour 50 mins
Madrid: Train 23hours 20 mins, Flight 5hours 45 mins
Athens: 42 hours, Train Flight 5hours 40 mins

Sorry but I am not spending 42 hours on a train to go on my holidays.

I don't live in the South East of England. Far from it. Not quite as far as Scotland but the difference is only 150 miles.

But then I'd take a journey to Athens which included a stop in (say) Venice on the way out and Belgrade on the way back to be much more fun. It's like the difference between wolfing a sandwich down at your desk compared with taking an hour for a proper lunch break.

DdraigGoch · 13/01/2022 17:45

@coogee

Plus it’s much easier to bring wine back by train Grin

It’s even easier if you take the car.

You'd drive to Athens? I used to consider 30 miles to work quite tedious enough.
coogee · 13/01/2022 18:39

You'd drive to Athens? I used to consider 30 miles to work quite tedious enough.

We did have a trip to Athens planned yes. Overland on the way there and back through Italy using ferries.

Mind you, if I had to do it every day, I’d probably find it tedious too. But then I don’t. The drive there is part of the holiday. Rather than looking down on towns and villages from 30,000 feet, you are actually there.

bluechameleon · 13/01/2022 20:57

We've got Center Parcs and camping in France booked and we are planning a cottage in mid Wales. We've just cancelled New York because over 5s need to be vaccinated to get in any indoor venues and 7yo DS1 wouldn't appreciate being left on the doorstep of museums and restaurants.

Mother87 · 13/01/2022 21:14

@1FootInTheRave

Northumberland and Turkey are booked.

A weekend in Nov and probably Dec too.

Are you me?GrinGrin

Hopefully LOTS of Northumberland...Costa Adeje Tenerife next month - A few weeks in Kalkan Turkey - Barcelona with girlfriends...

DdraigGoch · 15/01/2022 01:34

@coogee

You'd drive to Athens? I used to consider 30 miles to work quite tedious enough.

We did have a trip to Athens planned yes. Overland on the way there and back through Italy using ferries.

Mind you, if I had to do it every day, I’d probably find it tedious too. But then I don’t. The drive there is part of the holiday. Rather than looking down on towns and villages from 30,000 feet, you are actually there.

I understand the last bit, I just hate being strapped into a seat for hours on end. I prefer to be able to go to the toilet or the buffet whenever I like.
coogee · 15/01/2022 21:36

I just hate being strapped into a seat for hours on end

We were going to take a week for the journey. Going and coming back. So, fairly relaxed.

longtompot · 15/01/2022 21:44

We are going to the west on Scotland near Isle of Skye for a week later this year. It was for our 25th wedding anniversary the year before last and for our 50th last year. We cannot wait. Hopefully we will see the northern lights but might be too early for it. But as long as we can go on walks, eat lots of yummy food, drink lots of delicious wine and, for my dh, whisky, we will be happy..

Santahasjoinedww · 15/01/2022 21:57

We are going to Mull in November for 10th anniversary

Can't wait!!

Nonivknamesforcatapillars · 15/01/2022 22:09

Corfu in august with DH and teen dds, fingers crossed.

Hoping for a long weekend away in a caravan with the family and dog, not sure where yet. Hoping that abroad is a go go so that we can get a cheap deal, the prices at present are insane.

Also hoping for a few days in Spain with my friend in October.

So hoping it all goes ahead. I really need some sun.

Guacamole001 · 18/01/2022 08:25

It is looking like me and ds will just be going to Barcelona now. It is already booked.

Prices are too exorbitant everywhere. Crazy.

Ruibies · 18/01/2022 10:24

Cyprus in Feb and Italy in August, nothing else as our first baby is due this year so waiting to see how we get on as parents, and also how much faff it is to travel with a child! But I'm so bloody excited, haven't had a holiday since May 2019 due to stuff going on before covid. Can't wait to leave the country for a bit of warmth in a few weeks.

SSMH · 20/01/2022 15:49

We are going to Thailand in March, long weekend in West Sussex in June, Bali in September, hoping to go to Hoar Cross Hall in November and probably the Cotswolds In December Smile

SeedsForDeeds · 20/01/2022 15:54

A week camping in Northumberland, near Berwick-upon-Tweed over looking Holy Island.

There will be other camping trips throughout the Summer for 2-3 nights with friends/family but closer to home such as North Wales, The Lakes and Yorkshire.

In November there will be a three week holiday abroad and I think it will be Goa and Shimla/Darjeeling.

It's just me and Husband (and two dogs for the camping!)

JuergenSchwarzwald · 20/01/2022 15:56

Going to the Channel Islands in May.

I wanted to go to Berlin in March but the restrictions there still look like they will be pretty onerous. Haven't booked anything yet.