Anyone escaping the heat soon? And going "home" ?

[Windandsand]

We will be leaving the middle east for the summer soon and will be staying at mil for the whole if the summer. Dh says its good for the kids to see their family as I have none. He will be there 3 weeks. We won't do anything else as also dh says its too expensive and we should be saving. Although mil lives in a lovely part of Europe, it's a little isolated, me and the dcs don't speak the language and no one speaks English. We all try by usually give up with tiredness. Does anyone else do this every year? Dh says we have to and I am ungrateful for not wanting to let mil see the dc and spend time with them. I would love to take the kids somewhere else, but dh refuses as its free at mil.

What do others do?

Thanks HRH got your message.

I don't get to escape the ME heat until August. You lucky buggers :o

Labootin, where is taking over from the Rattlesnake?

Rock Bottom?

P'raps. Other side of the water though?

When I lived in the ME I always escaped for the summer months, as did 99% of the wives. Only ones that didn't tended to be the few that had jobs that weren't in the schools.

We were lucky in that we kept our house in the UK so had a bolt hole. There is no way I'd have gone and stayed with ILs. So glad you reached a compromise OP