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to ask where you went on honeymoon? and why?

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butterfly2015 · 03/04/2015 22:16

As much as I'd love to head to say, st lucia, we are contemplating the Falklands as our honeymoon destination.

Where did you go?

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MrsMarigold · 04/04/2015 09:54

India - two weeks - we stayed in a variety of places from dirt cheap with bed bugs to amazing - Hotel Shiv Niwas Palace in Udaipur which is the hotel in "Octopussy" we had the pool all to ourselves, my only Bond Girl moment.

oneofthosedays · 04/04/2015 09:57

We did 2 nights in Grasmere as it was all we could afford and DD was with relatives so didn't want to be away too long. It was a wonderful weekend with gorgeous weather (considering we went in March) and we still remember it fondly, lovely walk, boat ride on Windermere, ate out and generally had a laugh. Smile

XiCi · 04/04/2015 09:58

We went to Bali for a month, we had been there whilst backpacking a few years earlier and just fell in love with the place

Jojoanna · 04/04/2015 10:00

Harrow for two weeks. Never lived together before we got married and was so excited to have own place just stayed together there.

Nonie241419 · 04/04/2015 10:04

Nowhere. I'm a teacher and we got married in term time. Obviously, I couldn't have time off, so we intended to book something later on. However, stuff kept coming up and now we've been married 11 years and have 3 children. There's no money for a honeymoon now, nor do we have anyone who would have the DC.

AliceLidlsWhiteChocolateRabbit · 04/04/2015 10:07

We went to Corfu, because I'd read Gerrald Durrell's book.

justmyview · 04/04/2015 10:11

Also married in term time. Back to school on Monday

Squitten · 04/04/2015 10:15

Tokyo and Kyoto.

We wanted somewhere totally unusual (for us) where we might not get back to again. It was brilliant and we're pondering taking the DC there for the Olympics

Postchildrenpregranny · 04/04/2015 10:19

I agree with Littlecaf .A honeymoon is immediately or shortly after you wedding (in the olden days to get to know each other better .Now for some R and R) .Otherwise it's a holiday surely ? I wouldn't describe our amazing holiday to China two years after our wedding as our honeymoon -though Dh had promised to take me there the night we met and it was the fulfillment of a dream .It wasn't especially Romantic either .Lots of travelling and there were 27 of us, in those days it want a country you could travel round on your own

LuluJakey1 · 04/04/2015 10:26

Forgot about why.
We had been there on our first holiday together and we loved it. It's an area of mediaeval hill-towns, wide, lazy rivers, lush green riverwalks, fields of sunflowers and lavander and quietbut huge Atlantic coast beaches. We would get up and have a swim, go into a local town to a market, have breakfast, wander round, have coffee or lunch or go home for lunch, spend a couple of hours in bed or go for a long walk through the fields or by the river, eat out, laze in the sun, swim, go to the coast, ride bikes for miles. It was just a lovely time.
We had such a laugh and it was so romantic and felt a bit like stepping back into the past in some ways. Rural France can seem slow and timeless. We had no TV other than a couple of French channels, no phone, our mobiles didn't work except in the top corner of the garden on higher ground.
We only had each other and we were never bored. We wanted to stay even longer. We came back with loads of stuff that we still use, that reminds us- a salad bowl, a big blue painted tin flower jug, linen pillow cases and sheets, old champagne glasses, bottles of a local drink, a painting, cotton rugs.
We made friends with the local vineyard owner and his family- we see them every time we go and we keep in touch. It feels like a place we sort of belong a bit not just somewhere we went.

LadyCassandra · 04/04/2015 10:46

We did 3 weeks in Florida: 2 nights in Orlando where we went to SeaWorld and did a lot of shopping, then 5 nights in Englewood on the Gulf Coast where DH's relative had a house. We drove across to Miami and down the Keys, then spent 4 nights in Key West, then back to Englewood and then home. We hired a soft top sports car and it felt like we were in a Bond movie! Smile
Funny story - my mum and stepdad got married about 10 years ago, having been together for ever. Me and (now) DH decided to book them a honeymoon as a surprise, so we had dinner with them and were talking about Stratford, how lovely it is, how it would make a lovely honeymoon destination. My mum was very unenthusiastic, and I was chatting to my dad a couple of days later and he said "of course she wouldn't want to go there, that's where we went on our honeymoon!" Blush
They went to Majorca!

Muskey · 04/04/2015 10:50

The highlands of Scotland as we needed some peace and quiet

Charlotte3333 · 04/04/2015 10:52

Mexico. We had DS1 with us, and the MIL, and her partner. Not at all a Honeymoon, more a family holiday where MIL and her DP got ridiculously sick after drinking the tap water (after being told not to. Repeatedly.)

DrCoconut · 04/04/2015 10:54

Prague because we both wanted to go there, neither of us had been before. We had a three night city break and it was fab!

twinjocks · 04/04/2015 12:41

Snap cathammock and ConcreteElephant! We went to Iceland too - not liking sun/beach, etc. It was February and it was freezing, and monstrously expensive, but we loved it. Saw what turned out to be The Sugarcubes last ever concert in a Reykjavik hotel ballroom - met Bjork who couldn't understand why on earth we'd come there for our honeymoon!! Took the 2 DC back for a holiday for our 20th anniversary - amazing to see the changes and the evidence of their boom/bust economy.

pollypocket123 · 04/04/2015 12:49

Mauritius for 2 weeks. Fancied it and decent weather in that type of place at that time of year. Was very relaxing Easter Wink

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ConcreteElephant · 04/04/2015 13:20

Twinjocks, that sounds amazing! I'd love to meet Bjork, though we have seen her a couple of times here, in London and at Reading.

I admit we had romantic notions of driving round Iceland with atmospheric and quirky musical accompaniment in the car (thinking Bjork, Sugarcubes, Sigur Ros etc.) but mainly we could only get terrible Euro pop on the radio. So we stuck to silence.

We went in 2006 so things were good economically (for them- extortionate for us as a result). We would love to return, maybe like you when the DC are a little older. It's just beautiful.

WeePoppy · 04/04/2015 13:25

Nepal and Bhutan.
We'd always wanted to go there so we saved up lots (didn't honeymoon til two years after the wedding) and asked for travel money rather than having a list for wedding presents. Probably the best holiday ever for us.

IAmAPaleontologist · 04/04/2015 13:27

Munich because a) we'd spent a few days there together when we were living in separate countries and had some fond memories and b) there was a huge Kandinsky exhibition and I really wanted to see it. So off we went to Munich, saw the exhibition and ate in the same amazing cake shop we had eaten in on our previous visit. I think we stayed in a slightly nicer room though!

MrsSpencerReid · 04/04/2015 13:36

Centre parcs, in fact we picked our wedding day as we had already booked the holiday and we could turn it into our honeymoon without spending any extra money Shock

Kittykatmacbill · 04/04/2015 13:41

Two weeks in Mongolia hiking! First week was in the gobi desert and second week was on the edge of the steppe. Absolutely stunning.

Then 5 days in Beijing much people watching, eating and shopping!

trainingguide · 04/04/2015 14:28

Oooh some fab places here! Mongolia sounds incredible and I've always wanted to visit Bhutan.

We went to Peru. Cuzco, the Colca Canyon, Ariquipa, the Amazon rainforest (extraordinary) and then walked the Inca trail to Macchu Pichu through cloud forest and just had the most incredible time.

T'was truly amazing. Went with my sister and two close friends who's honeymoon we had crashed two years previously in Africa! We then agreed we'd all go on each other's honeymoons!

We went a year after we married as my mum had terminal cancer and so we didn't go straight after our wedding, we went 3 months after she died.

HeyheyheyGoodbye · 04/04/2015 17:08

Morocco, as neither of us had either been to Africa and it seemed somewhere exotic-ish to go without an unbearably long flight.

We loved it. It was the first holiday we ever took alone; we'd never been able to afford it before! We saved for a year after the wedding to pay for it and it was so worth it.

lalalonglegs · 04/04/2015 17:13

Naples because we love Italy and had never been that far south before. We had a brilliant time - we're not the type to sit around on beaches.

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