Dear ladies,
Poorly .. need to face some things in less than three months and be at surgeons beck and call with even 1 hour time scale and a driver for life prolonging /saving transplant in a world famous rescignized hospital
Surgeon / Dr / my wonderful team have told me if I want /would like / need to go ANYWHERE then to arrange and go between today and three months time (so until now and first day of november)
My travel insurance all know
i work got myself /my own business so taking time off isn’t a huge problem
just moved into my own lovely place which i’ve been tiling and slowly doing it up
i even jog with the rescues 🐾🐾 and use peleton and am trained with macmillan nursing to do hair ext/wig making /wefts/ eyebrows and lashes .. lyphmptatic drainage and cancer massage to volunteer with ladies (be been offered these services and because im
too far gone - no chemo allowed abs therefor full head long hair and don’t look ‘poorly’ !! which is fantastic as look a picture of ‘health’ and not ‘terminal!’
anyway still dealing with aftermath and some on going abuse (H - refuses to sign D papers and is obsessed )
i have also financial things (fraudulent he took CC out in my name and business name !)
Huge mile stone birthday coming up (well huge to lots im
not fussed) but can go away
Have two teen boys (look like full grown men !)
one has a gf and they are velcro ed together 😄😄 i treat them pretty much daily to Everyman theatre and lunches .. he’s been on me very dream holiday know to man that i’ve treated and paid for - he’s now BEGGING me to not come to another holiday.. he said holidays aren’t important to him and he’s more than happy to skip a holiday this time and spend time in my new place with his gf and baby sit the pet house bunny and i’ll treat him
older teenage son - LOVES travelling like me
Now i’ve got the essay written (and thank you if you’re still with me )
My fortieth is next month
thinking of a ‘memory making’ trip (i’ll take my younger teen somewhere else etc as he doesn’t want to go abroad or leave his girl or his lovely mates )
I’m 30 mins to most london airports
where would you go if could be final holiday with your teenager lovely boy (and in september so not -well hopefully not as extortionate as the prices i normally pay in july/august .. and still ideally hot/ blue skies but not blazing and some breeze…
Miami (up to a week) and/or some part of florida with amazing days out like scary coasters etc ((we’ve already done the whole disney and universal - although i’d live to go back but not sure he works plus it’s exhausting (tiring in an amazing happy way ) but still exhausting
California- not just ‘tourist’ places but nature sides of LA .. Canyons / beaches/ nature trails and parks
ps - regarding these options so far .. while i have a driving licence i won’t be driving or hiring a car so i know this could go against such plans etc
or
Portugal - mine and my older boys favourite place ever .,. just beautiful , not far , won’t be as ££ as an american trip .. can do the caves / ocean trips/ dolphin spotting and the big gun aqua water slide parks (despite late stage now i still give them all good run for their money and run up a thousand steps to go down vertical slides .. i won’t and don’t the word aggressive ‘C’ or tumour or stage 4 / terminal stop me )
the only thing about a spanish / french / greek / turkish / portuguese/ canary island, baleriac island holiday like the one i’ve mentioned is while ANYWHERE right now will be idyllic and pure happiness with my boy it’s also still costly and teens being teens start to get bored of the same beach / slide and beach within a few days , not quite at the chilling and contented age where they’ll just go read a good book etc.
Also i’ve been on these holidays before
A cruise ship ? i find these types of getaways are like ‘marmite’ .. my aunt ADORES them as she wears a gown every night with her suited and bolted 5th husband and they get pro photographer to take a pic of them at the bottom of the grand staircase before dinner .. she loves being waited on .. loves knowing where her grown up sons are .. loves that once she on this glam cruise she doesn’t have to be ‘mum’ and make plans that everything is done and planned … however others have said to me it’s like a mixture of the cruel tube line and westfield stratford shopping mall .. full of thousands of people .. the same faces, feels claustrophobic and not ‘free’ and if one person gets D & S bad tummy everyone does
any thoughts on a cruise? Mother turning 40 and teen boy . both love treatments /madsage / looking around beautiful shops , meeting fun friendly people , good music entertainment but not Ibiza Pacha 24 hour style
Caribeean or med cruises - any recommendations?
also strictly no alcohol is part of my life now (lived prosecco and champagne) but now smoothies , fruit, diet pepsis for me and DS
Went around the middle east alone for the months of november and december end of 2024 and it was like a playground for my DS (and me 😝) and just clean , safe , hot , gorgeous and utterly BEAUTIFUL but i feel i’ve ticked that box now and also while the places i went to were faultless .. just paradise on earth .. i really HATE saying this but it felt too good to be true and almost a little fake with no culture!
Most of my family AND my boys family (his aunties / uncles / cousins ) via their dads side - all live in sydney australia BUT it’s never ever appealed to us to go there .. the long plane journey , the cost , the creepy crawlies etc.. and as a whole nothing appealing (plus not idea with my life limiting terminal illness…)
So
miami
new york
California
any other parts of beautiful usa ?
Cruise ships - yes or no ?
Portugal/Sourhern Spain ?
Caribbean and if so which island ? safest? chilled out? Not the most £££
places we’ve been to and don’t need to go back and/or fiesnt appeal
Australia/ cruises around beautiful places like denmark /norway/
No countries with similar climate to u.k.
so (as beautiful as they are) no scandinavian / german/ austrian / iceland trips or eastern european
also (while love them) not interested (mainly because of the walking and having bad days )
not interested in long weekend types like
rome/ prague/ venice / paris / milan / barcelona/ madrid / malta
(been before )
thailand is an option but i know ill get involved in the charity i work with (SOI dogs) and ill get my boy upset as its a beautiful holiday getting in the bus in the morning and cleaning out the cages and secured safe units and they remember you and are beautiful - now ive gone off on a tangent ..
maldives is too ‘honeymoon -ish’ for me and my teen
not interested in south africa this time around
so with my ramblings above .. does anyone have any recommendations (even if you have a travel WFH business feel free to DM .. as can be ‘win/win’ and i’ll happily be a customer
thank you for reading and hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy this sunshine ☀️