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AIBU?

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Original poster

To wrong every last minute out of our holiday? Do you just go home?

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LEMtheoriginal · 07/08/2017 20:40

We always do this - in last hour of a seven hour journey from Wales. Instead of just packing up our tent and leaving we pack up and go for breakfast. Then 'Just drive to a waterfall that I spotted on a tourist leaflet. Lovely walk with the dogs - don't end up leaving until 4.30 for epic journey home.

What about everyone else? Straight home or wrong out the last day?

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Sparklingbrook · 07/08/2017 21:20

when I go abroad I hate the morning check out followed by the evening flight and try to keep the room a bit longer.

NapQueen · 07/08/2017 21:21

I like to be up and off. Dcs are both under 6 so up early, pack up while they play then off. We may stop off at a nice pub for lunch on the way, but I like to be home 3/4pm so that we can do their little bedtimw routine, get the Chinese on order and get the first batch of holiday laundry onto the line. Saddo I know but meh.

user53592952153 · 07/08/2017 21:25

We don't rush back but we always arrange things so we have at least a week at home after the holiday before we go back to work, it's lovely that way.

NonnoMum · 07/08/2017 21:27

If I'm abroad and we have a late flight, we wear our oldest swim gear and the holiest towels, and then just dump them at the end of the day, so no need to worry about wet luggage...

londonrach · 07/08/2017 21:27

Im ready to go dh will climb another mountain in the morning if he could and was in austria

DancesWithOtters · 07/08/2017 21:28

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ElisabethMoths · 07/08/2017 21:29

op, I'd love to know where your dialect is from. I've been trying to guess. "Wrong out" I thought you might mean "ring out" but that didn't make sense.

All the replies seem to know what you mean, so please tell me. I'm from an area that also has a very distinct dialect.

I'm guessing it means make longer but, who knows?

Seren85 · 07/08/2017 21:32

In this country we normally visit somewhere on the way home. Abroad depends on the flights but last year we weren't flying until evening so had swim stuff and dry clothes kept out of the cases and had a full last day of holiday.

Loubilou09 · 07/08/2017 21:32

Elisabeth - it would be "Wring" out not Ring out but yes even if that's what she wanted to say it would still be wrong. I have read this thread so many times trying to work out what the OP means!

Doyouthinktheysaurus · 07/08/2017 21:34

A catalogue of mini disasters Lonicera

We booked Eurocamp and were probably naively expecting a nice spacious holiday park with a nice 'lodge' with air con.

Why we got was a small caravan with air con in the living space which failed miserably. Our decking area was 3 feet from the next caravan, right near their bathroom window!

Our mid twenties expected temps turned out to be 38+ degrees and without air con, it was horrific.

Poor ds1 really couldn't manage the heat at all, became hysterical and morphed in to a monster.

The 'beach' ws a tiny scrap of land busier than Brighton beach on a sunny bank holiday as were both the onsite pools.

Our only solace was our air conditioned car but the route in and out of the site was the worst I have driven since the hardknott pass. I got panicked every time I had to drive anywhere that I'd crash the hire car.

We had to come home because ds1 literally could not cope, I actually worried for his mental health, he got so distressed. He's a teen and to see him so distressed was awful. He's normally a lovely boy, but he physically could not manage and became quite difficult. Being bright ginger and porcelain pale, he had it a lot harder than the rest of us.

No regrets though, we had nice flights and saw a bit of Lake Garda Back to wet and cool UK next year.

Oysterbabe · 07/08/2017 21:35

I just want to get home as soon as possible. Nothing like getting home and relaxing with a cup of tea after being away.

frumpety · 07/08/2017 21:36

Never leave Cornwall with the hordes , we always pootle to somewhere and have a mooch around , then hit the M5 as the queues are dissipating . We have also gone somewhere on the way home for a night to wring out the very last vestiges of the holiday

Sparklingbrook · 07/08/2017 21:37

Dances we sometimes pick the cat up on the way home because I just can't wait.

jarhead123 · 07/08/2017 21:39

I like to get up and get home ASAP. Gives me time then to unpack, get some washing on etc. I treat the day before as the last day

youarenotkiddingme · 07/08/2017 21:41

I'm an up and fo person too!

In fact I like the 7am fight out of Gatwick and then the return flight at 11am! That means getting up early on last day - but I'd come home once I know I'm going home

ParadiseCity · 07/08/2017 21:41

I get 25 days holiday a year - I make the most of each one. No rushing home for me!!

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LEMtheoriginal · 07/08/2017 21:44

Wrong =wrong! No dialect just fat fingers

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ohtheholidays · 07/08/2017 21:44

Always make the most of the last day,we tend to pack the night before were due to leave and then get up have a nice breakfast,make sure the place we've stayed in is tidy,pack any last little bits(things that were used that morning)and then we spend the day at the local seaside.

We give the children some spending money so they can buy any last bits they fancy and pick up rock for all of they're friends,let the have a last go in the arcade and then spend some time on the beach then if the weathers not to great we'll grab some lunch to have in the car,if it's really nice we'll go and have lunch somewhere and then maybe pick up some fish and chips later to eat in the car on the way home for dinner.

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LEMtheoriginal · 07/08/2017 21:47

My life isn't without it's stresses just now so being away without phone service is bliss for me. Thankfully I have the rest of the week off so can chill out at home.

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Oysterbabe · 07/08/2017 21:51

Wrong =wrong! No dialect just fat fingers

Well that cleared that up.

Minstrelsareyum · 07/08/2017 21:51

I cannot wait to get home after a holiday. As the saying goes, "East West, home's best...".

starfishmummy · 07/08/2017 21:52

Left to me I would spend the morning on the beach and leave later but its not usually left to me!!

Bringmewineandcake · 07/08/2017 21:52

DH likes to eek it out, I'd rather just get home. It feels like putting off the inevitable.

IndianaMoleWoman · 07/08/2017 21:53

Nope, for me the holiday ends the night before the travelling home day. Im perfectly happy to tag extra stuff on at the start of the holiday, e.g. a stopover, but by the time I have a suitcase full of dirty washing, a tan and half a stone of extra body fat I just want to squeeze into my travelling clothes and be on my way. I actually really enjoy the first day back after the holiday, slobbing around, scoffing a massive duty free Toblerone washed down with some dodgy souvenir alcohol that tasted so much better in the sun and using the 27 loads of washing I have to do as an excuse to not go anywhere.

PopGoesTheWeaz · 07/08/2017 21:56

Wrong = Wrung

wrung =
past and past participle of wring.

wring =
squeeze and twist (something) to force liquid from it.

Like what you do to face cloth to get the water out.

She wants to do that, but with fun and relaxation from her holidaay :)

hth

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