Page 12 | To think that holidays are non essential?

MrsAvocet · 02/04/2021 17:00

I'm sure we are all missing some things that other people would consider non essential or pointless.
There's not a lot that is absolutely essential for life, but there is a lot that enriches it. Different people value different things - what a surprise. 🤷‍♀️

BungleandGeorge · 02/04/2021 17:04

@EasterIssland you don’t know what distance I live from my family. I accept the law, which has been the same for everyone. It’s an unprecedented situation so just got to take advantage of the windows of opportunity,

BottleFlipper · 02/04/2021 17:04

I think the last 12 months have shown that the word "essential" isn't perhaps as black and white as it might have meant before.

Sorry OP but I have to disagree.

Parker231 · 02/04/2021 17:07

@EasterIssland - in non Covid times it’s not difficult to see family overseas. I could get on a plane or Eurostar and see my family in a couple of hours. We did the trip at least once a month and to DH’s family in Canada st least once a year.

FrankskinnerscRoc · 02/04/2021 17:11

@Silliantro

The amount of whinging about missing out on holidays here and elsewhere has been shockingly irritating. Will missing out on a couple of trips to Megaluf/bland med cruises REALLY be the end of the world? It's such a shocking tone-deaf and privileged way to live your life.

Will staying at home and talking to your DC/learning a language/read a few books really be the end of the world? It's pretty grim absolutely NEED trips abroad or the seaside to to distract yourself from your own life.

Rest assured that travel will never broaden your mind OP.

May17th · 02/04/2021 17:14

@Silliantro

The amount of whinging about missing out on holidays here and elsewhere has been shockingly irritating. Will missing out on a couple of trips to Megaluf/bland med cruises REALLY be the end of the world? It's such a shocking tone-deaf and privileged way to live your life.

Will staying at home and talking to your DC/learning a language/read a few books really be the end of the world? It's pretty grim absolutely NEED trips abroad or the seaside to to distract yourself from your own life.

Yes it will be the end of the world for some of us (not literally). We are dam well fed up and we have already been reading books and so on in this current lockdown........ we want something different you don’t have to want the same!

We all have our vices in life

Alfaix · 02/04/2021 17:22

We are no longer at the stage of the pandemic where we only did essential things. That was a year ago.
Half the population vaccinated (including me and mine I will admit) means it is time to start living again.
I won’t live without holidays. I can but I won’t. I can live without going abroad, this year, to prevent us having to live under restrictions again all winter.
If we can go abroad without quarantine (with vaccine passports and testing) we will. If it isn’t allowed we won’t and will pay top dollar to go to Devon instead.

Flowers24 · 02/04/2021 17:24

They aren't essential but very important for me/ family

springblossom2 · 02/04/2021 17:24

Oh dear - I completely agree with the OP.
I like a foreign holiday just as much as anyone, and have been fortunate enough to travel to lots of different countries. But, yes, this year it's not happening. We might get a UK break in a cottage/self catering, but haven't booked anything yet.

However, it IS annoying to hear people whingeing and carping on about how they can't have 'their' holiday for one year - possibly 2 - yeah - so what !!

I think the OP was meaning people to have a look at the bigger picture ie how very privileged we are in the UK to have all the trappings of an easy life. And maybe appreciate it. People in other places aren't able to have clean water/shelter/be safe from wars etc.

EasterIssland · 02/04/2021 17:27

[quote BungleandGeorge]@EasterIssland you don’t know what distance I live from my family. I accept the law, which has been the same for everyone. It’s an unprecedented situation so just got to take advantage of the windows of opportunity,[/quote]
I was copy pasting your own sentence ...

EasterIssland · 02/04/2021 17:29

[quote Parker231]@EasterIssland - in non Covid times it’s not difficult to see family overseas. I could get on a plane or Eurostar and see my family in a couple of hours. We did the trip at least once a month and to DH’s family in Canada st least once a year.[/quote]
@Parker231 apologies. That sentence is not mine but it was a copy paste from BungleandGeorge to BungleandGeorge when they were complaining that they couldn’t neither see their family.
My family is abroad , I’ve not seen them for over a year. And some pp are blaming me because I shouldn’t have taken the decision 13 years ago when I came to this country to live so far away from my family.

IcedPurple · 02/04/2021 17:39

I think the OP was meaning people to have a look at the bigger picture ie how very privileged we are in the UK to have all the trappings of an easy life. And maybe appreciate it. People in other places aren't able to have clean water/shelter/be safe from wars etc.

Nice try, but no.

She was being goady and feeling superior that she teaches her kids to speak fluent Mongolian and Latvian while the plebs drink warm pints and get sunburned by the pool in Fuenteventura.

Fembot123 · 02/04/2021 17:47

OP makes shitty post then disappears 😂 Definitely trying to make us appreciate our privilege.

BonnieDundee · 02/04/2021 17:49

The amount of whinging about missing out on holidays here and elsewhere has been shockingly irritating

Likewise your post 💤

mytwocats · 02/04/2021 17:51

i work in the holiday industry,& from what I've seen in 15 yrs is they may as well stay at home,as most are looking at phones all day long,to me that's a huge waste of cash

KarensChoppyBob · 02/04/2021 17:51

@IcedPurple

I think the OP was meaning people to have a look at the bigger picture ie how very privileged we are in the UK to have all the trappings of an easy life. And maybe appreciate it. People in other places aren't able to have clean water/shelter/be safe from wars etc.

Nice try, but no.

She was being goady and feeling superior that she teaches her kids to speak fluent Mongolian and Latvian while the plebs drink warm pints and get sunburned by the pool in Fuenteventura.

picknmix1984 · 02/04/2021 17:53

Why do some people feel the need to judge what other people need or they don't need?

If you don't need a holiday fine. I probably don't need something you do. So what?!

WhatATimeToBeAlive · 02/04/2021 18:02

YANBU, however time off for everyone is essential but needn't involve going away either in the UK or abroad.

dontdisturbmenow · 02/04/2021 18:06

This just shows that despite a pandemic and losses that came with it, there are still people who are spoilt and entitled and quantify their happiness by the level of comforts and luxuries they can buy, and throw tantrums when they are taken away.

EasterIssland · 02/04/2021 18:07

@dontdisturbmenow

This just shows that despite a pandemic and losses that came with it, there are still people who are spoilt and entitled and quantify their happiness by the level of comforts and luxuries they can buy, and throw tantrums when they are taken away.

And just shows how people are jealous of other’s Luxuries and throw tantrums because they can’t/don’t want to have them hence think if they don’t have it the rest shouldn’t have it neither.

IcedPurple · 02/04/2021 18:08

@WhatATimeToBeAlive

YANBU, however time off for everyone is essential but needn't involve going away either in the UK or abroad.

It needn't.

But after a year of sitting at home, isn't it quite reasonable and natural that many people would be craving a foreign holiday?

MrsTerryPratchett · 02/04/2021 18:11

Megaluf?

I've backpacked in villages in China no one spoke a word of English, I've taken a catamaran to tiny islands off east Africa, I've trekked with hill tribes in the Golden Triangle. One of my best holidays... getting bladdered with my best mate in Tenerife.

Travel is bloody brilliant, even the less posh and desperately try-hard bits. I miss it so much. I work very hard in a very worthy job. It's a slog and thankless. Do I essentially need holidays? Maybe not but they make life worthwhile. Learning Mandarin at home isn't the same.

ZiggyBaby · 02/04/2021 18:13

@dontdisturbmenow

This just shows that despite a pandemic and losses that came with it, there are still people who are spoilt and entitled and quantify their happiness by the level of comforts and luxuries they can buy, and throw tantrums when they are taken away.

Yawn

Phineyj · 02/04/2021 18:16

I imagine a lot of people are pretty sick of rolling over holiday bookings and worrying if they'll ultimately lose the money - I had to move 2020's Easter booking to 2022 recently. Stuff paid for in 2019-20 has been stuck in limbo and some holiday companies have been rather shifty about refunds.

When we went into this I don't think many imagined there'd still be so many restrictions a year on.

When you come down to it, very little is actually "essential" but what a way to live!

Abraxan · 02/04/2021 18:18

Will staying at home and talking to your DC/learning a language/read a few books really be the end of the world? It's pretty grim absolutely NEED trips abroad or the seaside to to distract yourself from your own life.

I didn't realise enjoying holidays meant you didn't talk to your children, read books or do other things. I've clearly been holidaying wrong as we've managed to do those things whilst holidaying as well.

Lots of things people enjoy aren't essential.

Doesn't mean we want to live life without them indefinitely does it?