to think hearing about other people's holidays can be very boring

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I don't mean a quick description - the weather was great, our hotel was lovely, you wouldn't believe how nice genuine Mexican food is, kind of thing.

But I just feel my eyes glazing over when people start telling me about every castle and museum they visited; go into great detail about the culture of wherever they were; and basically give me a blow by blow account of the entire holiday.

Thank God with digital cameras you are no longer handed three wallets bulging with photographs of 'That's me on the beach' ,'That's Paul on the beach', 'That's me and Paul on the beach', 'That's the restaurant we went to every night', 'That's the couple from Glasgow we met on the plane going over'

AIBU to think that people talking about their holidays can be really, really boring.

YANBU

As boring as hearing about other people's dreams! YANBU!

YANBU - we had friends who went to Florida and DH and I had to sit through 3....yes 3....video tapes of their various outings. Oh well, we feel we have been now so at least we don't have to go ourselves, it has saved us a fortune :)

YANBU. A brief summary of what they got up to is lovely. Once it goes past the three minute mark, it's getting into boring territory.

YANBU... I'm always slightly embarrassed to tell anyone anything, even if they ask. I know they are only doing so out of politeness. I may tell people about things I did if they were REALLY COOL, and I can get that across.

Betty :D

Bother. That should have been .

Someone at work who got married brought in three enormous wallets of photos from the day I ploughed through one, then made my excuses.

Someone else at work who got married brought in her own laptop filled will what felt like 50 million photos of her wedding day. Plus the actual physical photo album. Plus the wedding video. Which was soundtracked by 'From This Moment On' by Shania Twain

Sorry, I know this is meant to be about holiday photos! I just think wedding photos are every bit as boring if you have to look at more than 5

YANBU other people's holidays are like other people's children. Utterly fascinating to them, but after the first minute, utterly tedious to everyone else.

Bit like farts then...you can tolerate your own :)

It can be, it depends if you routinely chat to people who don't tell very interesting stories.

betty early love it.

Yanbu! Luckily it doesn't seem to happen so much these days, what with facebook and all.

YANBU. Asking someone 'how was your holiday' should be taken in the same way as 'how are you'. It's not a genuine question, they are asking to be polite and the polite answer is 'Great. Really enjoyed myself. Any news with you' end of.

I am not interested in the temples you visited, and how blue the sea is over there, and how gorgeous the restaurant beside the hotel was. No, really, I'm not...

And I never ask about people's hols, unless it was a honeymoon...don't wanna know where you're going and unless it was truly out of the ordinary (and I'll be the judge of that) don't wanna hear about 'em either.

(However I do make an exception for campsites!)

I love it when you say you are going away and people say "oooh, anywhere nice".....always tempted to say "no, am going to a right shit pit" haha!!

YANBU there's only one thing worst; to hear "travellers" talking about their backpacking and the "special secluded beach" that a local took them to and another 3,000 students that month

It depends? Some people can actually be very interesting and funny when talking about their holidays.

At least the days are over of colleagues saying 'oooh, my photos will be ready at lunchtime. I can't wait.' And your heart sank as you knew you were now going to have to spend half an hour looking really interested in photos of mountains and beaches and strangers sitting around a swimming pool.

NBremotelyU.

Worse, other people's children on holiday, 'show them the one where Josh gets knocked down by a wave!'

Oh joy, you know the ending and now you have to sit poised with an expectant smirk for 37 minutes of sand and nappy until the wave comes.

I have ended friendships (ok. One) after one too many evenings being forced to watch their arse-numbingly smug footage of dull fecks doing shag-all in tedious spots in the sun.

Life is way too short.

Now I beg 'pleeeeeease don't make me' with B-movie wailing and grimacing. They look a bit askance but it works.

YANBU - my mum used to be dreadful for this. Wallets of photos and a blow by blow account of every site visited & meal eaten. She seems to have stopped over the years, thank goodness.

I love hearing about other people's holidays. When my friend went to Peru I was almost as excited as she was because I couldn't wait to hear her tales and see the photos. I have loads of lonely planet guides to places I have never been to and I could give you lots of tips on travelling around Japan even though I have never been there. Dh thinks I'm weird...

YANBU other peoples holidays are boring.

I have travelled all over the place with DH before kids born and tbh most people I know have no idea as we never talk about it except to each other.

Showing off and very boring! Only tell someone if they ask for more details.........

I think specific stories about travelling and holidays can be interesting and funny (like the time you shat yourself in India on a bus), but when it's just anecdotes about nice restaurants and the thread count of your linen sheets it's very dull.

I have a friend who's been everywhere from Azerbaijan to Antarctica (no exaggeration) and her stories are the worst. She'll say things like "Africa just has this undefinable essence, you can't possibly understand until you've stood in the African dust." And it automatically makes me start edging for the door. Of course, she has a blog.