Do you drink every day on holiday?

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Wondering about this. Normally I stick to weekends for a few drinks, with the odd mid week couple of glasses of wine at an events or somesuch.

But on holiday we drank every day for a week. A beer or cocktail or two before dinner, and then sharing a bottle of wine for example. Had a weekend of no alcohol after coming home, just to get a break, but we're away this weekend again so will drink this weekend too.

If you drink, do you drink quite a bit more on holiday?

Outcomes once you have cancer.. probably due to chemo causing weight loss - which you don’t want when you are fighting cancer.

Obesity remains a key cause of cancer.

No, I honestly just like to feel healthier than I went. We also hike a lot and drinking messes with early starts which we like.

Im not convinced we all are perfectly aware of them going by the responses I got. You also didn’t seem to think I was aware of the statistics on obesity related cancer for some reason.

Well this has taken a turn 🤣
just wondering how I can pour that beer back into the can 🤣

Yep. We usually have a week at a country house hotel. So it's G&T before dinner. Wine with dinner. Port and/or liqueur after. Sometimes beer at lunchtime when were out.

Bloody lovely!

Well let's not pretend @FrenchandSaunders that we didn't all see it coming!

I refer you to Kingsley Amis's remark to the effect that no pleasure is worth giving up simply to be able to spend another year in a care home in Weston-super-Mare.

I feel this is turning in to a macabre game of 'would you rather....'

I refer you to Kingsley Amis's remark to the effect that no pleasure is worth giving up simply to be able to spend another year in a care home in Weston-super-Mare.

A nice quotation, but surely the idea is that looking after your health is likely to give you a few more years of healthy, non-care-home life, not more years of infirmity. No guarantee though, of course.

@AllProperTeaIsTheft

ooo I dunno. I used to work in care. An awful lot of the old, old ladies were slim and had lived their lives eating porridge and home cooked food. They didn’t smoke or drink and dear lord their little, frail bodies just seemed to hang on and on even though they had lost their minds many years before. I would have preferred my nans fate. She died at 76 after chain smoking her way through life eating fruit pastilles by the bucket load. As it happens I’m a lot healthier than that, but there’s so much truth in that saying.

That's an individual's choice to make. I like to enjoy a drink on holiday and if I die earlier, so be it. I'm not under any illusion that alcohol is good for you but I'm an adult and don't need a lecture on it.

Yes, water

During normal life, I probably drink 4-5 x 125ml glasses of wine per week.
I am not overweight and I do a reasonable amount of exercise. I don't think having a few extra glasses of wine for 1 or 2 weeks per year when I'm on holiday is massively going to skew my chances

I drink every day on holiday. It’s part of the holiday experience for me. I’m not a big drinker most of the time - I probably drink alcohol once every two or three weeks at most - but on holiday all bets are off. I don’t get drunk* because I’d hate feeling hungover on holiday but I might be mildly tipsy at the end of the evening.

We’ve just come back from a city break overseas in hot weather and we walked many miles sightseeing, and we stopped for a drink every afternoon to enjoy the while we watched the world go by. Then we’d have drinks with dinner and probably one or two afterwards.

My absolute favourite holiday drink is the early evening aperitif before dinner. You’ve had a shower, put clean clothes and perfume on, and it’s the ideal time for a glass of something to whet your appetite.

*Except for the time we were in a Nordic country on the day of one of their big national celebrations and everyone in the town, without exception, was paralytically hammered all day and it seemed rude not to join in