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To be bloody fed up and ready to go home!

202 replies

annie987 · 16/08/2020 23:59

As is the case for many, we have missed out on a few holidays this year.
Our final holiday - a week in our caravan in Wales - was not cancelled and the thought of it has kept me going. I actually extended the 7 nights to 12!
Well we are here. The weather is shocking and is for the foreseeable. Thoughts of lazy days on the beach have not come to fruition. Instead, I am working incredibly hard to make it fun for everyone (Including two teens!) by planning outings in torrential rain (and all indoor activities are closed!) We are on the campsite next to the noisiest group of people who think playing music, swearing and shouting until 1am is acceptable!
I know I should be grateful that we have a holiday at all but it would be much easier to just go home and relax!! Obviously, I won’t but I want to!!

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InDeoEstMeaFiducia · 17/08/2020 10:55

I can't wait to go on another cruise. Great holiday.

Friendsoftheearth · 17/08/2020 10:57

Its going to be a long wait indeo

Friendsoftheearth · 17/08/2020 10:58

In meantime you always have Beaumaris Jail !! Grin

ThePluckOfTheCoward · 17/08/2020 10:59

I think one of the advantages of holidaying in the UK is that you can get home so easily if you want to cut the holiday short. If things don't improve Op, I'd head home.

HexyAndIKnowIt · 17/08/2020 11:03

@Friendsoftheearth

Beaumaris Jail was always worth a wander Grin
When it's pissing down with rain it's better to have a walk around an indoor museum than sit feeling sorry for yourself listening to the rain bounce off the awning.

Holidays are what you make of them.

HairyFloppins · 17/08/2020 11:03

Go home OP sounds miserable.

Themostwonderfultimeoftheyear · 17/08/2020 11:05

I love a UK holiday. DS is 4 and we haven't been abroad since he was born as there are just so many amazing places within the UK and it's so much easier to jump in the car for a couple of hours rather than navigating airports etc. I do want to take him on the Eurostar next year though if Covid allows and I remember some fab family holidays in Brittany/Normandy when little and ferries are quite exciting for little kids.

Graciebobcat · 17/08/2020 11:17

When it's pissing down with rain it's better to have a walk around an indoor museum than sit feeling sorry for yourself listening to the rain bounce off the awning

Quite. We never used to go abroad on holidays and my parents' idea of fun seemed to be sitting in a car in the rain facing the murky sea with sandwiches and a flask of sweet milky coffee.

I can honestly say we've managed never to do that in spite of going on holiday in the UK every year (as well as overseas when we can).

bettybyebye · 17/08/2020 11:18

OP we camped on Anglesey for a week in August 2018. The weather all summer had been glorious until we arrived basically. Had to put the tent up in really strong winds, first night there was a ridiculous storm, one of our tent poles snapped and my husband basically didn’t sleep all night as he was trying to protect the tent. It then rained basically every day after that - I think we had one afternoon of dry weather where we could go to the beach. The kids were 5 and 3 and trying to entertain them in the rain was hell. I insisted we pack up on day 6 and head home!

SnuggyBuggy · 17/08/2020 11:21

The problem with covid restrictions is that wherever you go you are dependent on the weather. It's same shit different location in the UK.

Lemons1571 · 17/08/2020 11:27

@Graciebobcat my parents and grandparents too!! Particularly the Isle of Wight, in November or February, in a gale, am amazed the car didn’t get blown off the promenade. They were horrified years later when I shunned buying a caravan in Cornwall for an annual holiday in the med, bless them they couldn’t understand it at all Grin

PuppyMonkey · 17/08/2020 11:34

Had one memorable holiday in Cornwall one year - that time Boscastle flooded? We were in a camper van and there had been news footage of one just like ours floating down the Main Street. Had loads of texts from family asking if it was us. Grin

Anyway, we stuck it out until one night the wind and rain was terrifying and none of us slept a wink. DP and said “we COULD just go home” and it was like a weight immediately lifted from our shoulders. Both of us thinking the other would be cross for even suggesting it, then being so relieved at finding out it was ok, we were in agreement.

Went home and had a blissful couple of days in my own lovely home, relaxing and doing nice days out and meals near where we live instead.

Go home OP. Go now.

Grapewrath · 17/08/2020 11:37

I would only now holiday in the Uk if I stayed in a hotel with a spa preferably.
Camping or living in a small caravan does not feel like a break at all and the bad weather just compounds it

Motoko · 17/08/2020 11:39

We've had UK holidays for the last 6 years and have always had good weather, but we usually go in May and September, as we've found the weather is usually pretty good then, and as we live in Wales, we holiday in Dorset.

We had to move our holiday to August this year (and September got fully booked with others moving their holidays, so couldn't book for then). We went the first week, and our neighbour, who was feeding our cats, told us the weather at home was wet. It was lovely where we were, even had to use sun tan lotion!

The trouble with Wales, is that we get our weather from the Atlantic and Ireland, hence all the rain, whereas the south and east of the UK, the weather tends to come from across Europe. Often while the south east is baking in 30 degree heat, we're lucky if it hits 15 degrees here, and even if it's not raining, the sky is covered in cloud. It's a shame, because Wales is beautiful.

ElvisPresleysSideburns · 17/08/2020 11:40

"I greeted them with a chilled bottle of wine and as we'd been looking after the house I had a roast dinner waiting for them"

Hellokitty82** please will you come and look after my house?

m0therofdragons · 17/08/2020 11:50

Everyone goes on about how amazing Wales is but having been twice I just don’t get it. It’s rainy and grim and a campsite with noisy neighbours sucks. Sorry op, go home or stay with alcohol 🍷

lynsey91 · 17/08/2020 11:52

@HexyAndIKnowIt at the moment it's not possible to "just go for a wander round a museum" is it?

Yes holidays are what you make them and normally me and DH usually enjoy our holidays no matter what the weather. That is because we can go to museums, art galleries, castles etc. Not easy at present when everything (if even open) has to be pre-booked

userxx · 17/08/2020 11:54

We’re in Anglesey

I spent many weeks of my school holidays here - it was a helish place back in the 90's. Nothing to do at all apart from get pissed with the local kids. Awful :(

PhilCornwall1 · 17/08/2020 11:54

Last holiday we had in Wales was 2 years ago, 2 weeks in a holiday cottage. It pissed down for the whole 2 weeks and we had to put the central heating on.

Had a message from my mother saying "not sure what it's like up there, but it's boiling down here."

Turns out the good weather we had before we left continued and it was 25 to 28 degrees here all the time we were away.

Think I'd go home if I were you. At least you can be miserable in comfort!

EducatingArti · 17/08/2020 11:54

@Graciebobcat

When it's pissing down with rain it's better to have a walk around an indoor museum than sit feeling sorry for yourself listening to the rain bounce off the awning

Quite. We never used to go abroad on holidays and my parents' idea of fun seemed to be sitting in a car in the rain facing the murky sea with sandwiches and a flask of sweet milky coffee.

I can honestly say we've managed never to do that in spite of going on holiday in the UK every year (as well as overseas when we can).

@Graciebobcat Were you on my childhood holidays or was I on yours? I remember one very wet holiday where my parents sat in the car drinking coffee and reading the papers and my sister and I sat in the back with poster paints, painting pebbles we had picked off the beach.
Takingontheworld · 17/08/2020 11:58

@Hellokitty82

My neighbours have just come back early from camping the weather was awful and 3 kids under 11 in a caravan was dreadful. I greeted them with a chilled bottle of wine and as we'd been looking after the house I had a roast dinner waiting for them

She cried and said it was the best part of her "holiday"

It was an expensive site, indoor pool and gym closed, nothing to do in bad weather and horrible noisy people

Cut your losses and go home what's the point in being miserable

Please be my neighbour.
Mischance · 17/08/2020 12:06

we have missed out on a few holidays this year - a few!!! Just the one would do for me!

Melroses · 17/08/2020 12:08

Last time I went to Wales, it pissed down half the week and was dull the rest. When we were driving home, the sun came out and we could see mountains Hmm

We were not in a caravan. However, a load of fleas hatched out in the house we were staying from a previous holiday maker that had let dogs on the spare bed in the main bedroom. Hmm

If there is no sign of improvement on the forecast I would go home (unless it is worse there)

MoggyMittens23 · 17/08/2020 12:19

@Hellokitty82 how lovely!

Furiousfive · 17/08/2020 12:19

We were in a caravan in Pembrokeshire a couple of weeks ago. Terrible weather, nothing to do in the area we were in apart from beach, and in-laws who hadn't wanted us staying with them due to covid, but then inexplicably kept turning up every day to cram into a small caravan uninvited. We cut our 'break' short too!