<SOB> who else lives in the middle of nowhere and cannot go on holiday cos every airport is a million miles away and just not bloody worth it

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IM SO PISSED OFF

every airport is so far away and even the near ones have crap flights to crap places and then they charge you a million pounds to get there

i'm not far away from airport, but dh is most busy in summer and won't take holidays

but you could go away any other time of year easy peasy i bet

can you get out to the countryside and camp or something?

and take some solave in how low your green debt must be

no, i won't take time off from school.
We haven't had a holiday together in over 3 yrs! although in may we squeezed in a day trip to brussels, and last month i went on a hen night holiday for a week
dh does go on business trips about twice a yr

look for cheap deals and connecting flights? .. i can't be bothered but i have a sis who is v good at searching for stuff like that

mythumbelinas, you could go away for easter

mazzy, i have just found a lovely cottage down near the welsh borders, would take >6 hrs drive so dh told me to check flight prices, it would cost us £1400 for 4 seats to fly to birmingham!

we go on holiday to cottages etc within 1-2 hrs drive usually (dd's are terrible travellers just now) but i thought i would try somewhere further afield

Foreign holidays with very young children are over rated IMHO. I hate hanging around at the airport, I hate squishing on a plane - dh and I have to sit in separate rows with a ds on our knees (they are both infants). I'd much rather get in the car and go somewhere in the UK (or even hang out at home) at least until they are older. They are happy with a bit of sand or some animals to look at and the odd ice cream. Happy children = happy mummy = happy daddy.

piglit i dont want to go abroad! i just want to go to wales or england!

Sorry np! Where do you live?

between dundee and aberdeen

piece of bloody nonsense

i have looked into the sleeper to london, flying to birmingham, you name it

yes its lovely round here but i just want a change

and i love northern england, peak and lakes etc

I geddit now. I was brought up in Edinburgh. My dad used to take us to the airport every saturday to look at the planes taking off and landing. But we never actually went on one.

£1400 to fly to birmingham!! eek! surely there are cheaper deals to go abroad or do you really fancy that lovely cottage?
i could really do with a holiday right now .. and if i was brave enough should go w/o dh, but i'm not.
So bored .. sorry to interrupt your thread .. have workman here tiling up my bathroom ..

£1400. insanity

can you maybe find a B&B for a stopover for one night in the borders somewhere? we can usually drive edinburgh/liverpool in 3 1/2 hours if we time it right

i do understand what you mean about a change of scene.

piglit, edinburgh is the best option (dundee is the nearest bit its shite) but edinburgh is so crap to get to - its 2-2.5 hrs drive (nightmare with my dd's at this age) or you could get the train but then you still have to get the bus from waverley or a taxi

and you ask yourself, is it worth it? so you end up in pitlochry again, which is very nice but sometimes a change is required

oh thanks mazzy that is a good idea, actually

will think about that

sigh

maybe ill see if there is somewhere i scotland (again) this year

Train?

Oops - sorry, thngs had moved on since I opened this thread!

yes, and i love getting the train PB

thats the next option, although it would be a whole day getting there and a whole day back

hope you lot dont think im moaning now

Oh no, Pitlochry - I know it well. We used to play a game called "count the blue rinses" or "count the white cardis" when we went to Pitlochry. It always seemed to be teeming with bus loads of old dears.

We used to spend our summers near Cruden Bay - lovely beaches but I can just remember the cold wind and the cold sea!

could you make it over to the west coast? that's where we often choose to go. still a lot of driving, mind.

Ballater is v nice. Fort Augustus?

yep thats the one piglit

everywhere in scotland seems to be full of buses and pensioners sometimes, apart from the cities, do you know what i mean?

buses with "Echelfechen Ladies Inner Wheel Annual Outing" written on the back of a cornflake packet and shoved in the window so they know which bus is theirs

i knew i should have gone to T in the Park after all

i shouldnt complain, we are going ot Tighnabruaich and Bute to visit dh's family next week

ZZZZZZZZZZ

Oh np - I really feel for you. I remember going to the same places over and over again when I was growing up. Can't you go to Leuchars and hijack a plane (and pilot) and demand to be taken to the Maldives?

its funny, when i was 18 or so, getting the 2 hr bus to glasgow airport to fly to Ibiza was "all part of the fun and the holiday"

how times change !