I have just returned from a holiday in Europe with my DM. We went away for her birthday, just the two of us, and it was meant to be like a girls' weekend away. I get on with her in day to day life but I am so glad we are home after spending days on end with her.
I'm just disappointed in how negative she was about everything. She moaned about literally everything - the fact that people spoke a different language, the currency, the transport, the lack of Tetley tea, the hotel, the people etc. and it took away all the fun of being abroad. We fell out several times because she would snap at me over nothing. I got really tired of her moaning about trivial things - for example, she got it into her head that the hotel staff didn't like her because they 'only smiled' at me and not her. She took offence at everything and she kind of ruined our day trips by complaining about her back aching etc. On our last night, we didn't even go out for dinner because she decided she was tired - so we sat in the hotel room from 5.30pm until we went to bed. 
One occasion really annoyed me. We were at a monument and some aggressive sellers were trying to force us to buy stuff and she waved at an imaginary person and walked on, while I got into some trouble with them because they were really harassing me. I hadn't even wanted to walk up that street because I'd seen them hanging around but she insisted. She then told the story when we got back home as if she had saved the day by being so quick witted and pretending we were with other people to make them leave us alone. In reality, we wouldn't have even been in that situation if she'd listened to me!
As soon as we got back home we went back to my parents' house and she started going on and ON about how glad she was to be in England, how 'it's so nice to hear and English voice and see English signs'. When speaking to my dad, she made the whole trip sound horrible. She then started loads of arguments over tiny things - such as my dad showing me a text he'd received and not her. She then walked into the side of my suitcase and made a huge fuss about how injured she was. I wonder if she'd done it on purpose to get attention because I had placed it right out of the way.
I just feel a bit upset because I spent a lot of money on this holiday and was looking forward to it as I don't often spend time with my DM anymore because I'm so busy with work. By the end of it, I felt like she'd hated it and wasn't keen on me. She even said to my dad, "I'm so glad to see you! I've missed my family so much." which made me feel a bit like I didn't count and she'd had to endure this awful trip.
She's not elderly or anything like that, no health problems so I thought she'd enjoy it more than she did. It was a birthday present for her and I feel like it's all gone wrong.