Summer Holidays
 

Who, what, where etc?

Couple more weeks at work for me, then off to the UK for 2 weeks. We're going to be terribly middle-clarse this year and have rented an old cottage in a fishing village in Cornwall. Fresh crab sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer, hurrah!

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1 week in Disneyland, a few days on Van Island, 2 weeks at home! hurrah!

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Don't forget the cream tea!

Whereabouts in Cornwall? We'll also be down there, and are heading to the south of France at the end of August too.

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We went to Vancouver and Whistler last month - ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL :thumbsup:

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Alberta and Idaho and Montana, in various combinations and durations, due to having two separate families coming from the UK and staying with us back to back through the whole of August. Should be fun, fattening, alcoholic and expensive.

Returning to work in September will feel like a rest.

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Staycation.

But then every day is a holiday.:)

I know what Prince Charles feels like when the news says he's on holiday and someone says holiday from what? :rofl:

But I do miss proximity to the rest of Europe.

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Chicago in September! Yeay!u

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I like holidays..................... I enjoyed a nice road trip to the US Open Golf in Philadelphia last month with my mate from England..... Cape Cod in early August, NYC for a weekend in late August and a jaunt to Florida in early November............... lovely beaches of Nova Scotia in between...... might have to have a quieter holiday programme for 2014 as all our parents/siblings etc are visiting for most of the summer.

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Didnt get kennels booked in time, so maybe a weekend away with the dogster but more likely just a few day out here and there with a couple of winter breaks planned - possibly Vegas in the fall, somewhere warm for Christmas and a trip back to UK in the spring in time for the Enfield Pageant and a day at Santapod.

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We don't take summer holidays. It's beautiful here in the summer. However, a week in LA and a week in Mexico is planned for December. It will most likely be raining here then.

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On the last night of our road trip with visiting parents through BC, down to Spokane, then back through Coeur D'Alene, Kalispell, Waterton and home. All I can say is thank goodness for hotel swimming pools to wear out the kids every night after a few long drives! The folks thought Spokane was a bit rough and my Dad cried when he saw the scenery on the Going to the Sun Road. Didn't get nearly enough time to hit the US shops towards the end though :(

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Heading up to Cambridge to get our house on the market, rented it out for the last 3 years, it's very hot here 31.5 yesterday 32 today, not the best weather to be decorating ;) why do we have to do this when we could be enjoying our garden and pool here in Kent , then off to Rhodes beg of Sept for a late summer holiday.

Enjoy your holidays folks x

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Nowhere. I never take my time off since I get too bored sitting at home...lol

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Me and the OH had 8 days In Denmark just the other week although as work is a drag at the moment it seems longer than just the other week. We have three weeks in Australia from middle of November though to December.

No other holidays planned yet as still waiting on my LMO :(

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Hi Coffeepot

I remember you from the 2007 thread!! Hope you're settled in Kent.
:focus:
I am looking forward to Portugal and the UK in September.

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Two weeks coming up soon. Mostly staycation. We'll go up to see the boy in Chicoutimi for a couple of days and take the scenic route back down the fjord, probably with a stopover in Quebec City. The rest will be local tourism. We've been here for nine years and there is still a lot of stuff we haven't seen yet.

That will be followed by trips to the UK, Quebec City and New York (at least for me).

All plans are provisional and subject to when my SIL carks.

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I'm heading to Kingston for a few days on my own to recover from the inevitable nervous breakdown this latest conference will cause me.

Then Labour Day weekend Ben and I are hoping to go to Martha's Vineyard or somewhere in that vicinity

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I don't don't go on holiday here as there's bugger worth seeing as it all looks the same. HID had pissed off somewhere for a few weeks to see another shrewdness of relatives I have no intention of ever meeting. Any time off will be spent filling my freezer while slowly fattening my liver. :thumbup:

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I like "a shrewdness of relatives". Can you translate into French for me?

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Ooo, ooo, ooo, eee eee eee. ;)

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In 2 weeks its off to Scotland for a couple of weeks then a week in Spain

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Thank you, I think I'll be having my summer holidays there.

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Could someone, Millie?, DandH? who actually speaks french, comment on the Apple translators guess, "Une astuce de parents".

Obviously parents is not quite right. But "une astuce"?

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I don't get to go on holidays as I am on disability recovering from a repair to my rotator cuff for 12 weeks, (half done now). Luckily all parties agreed I could go recover flyfishing in the Okanagan so long as I don't hurt myself. My physiotherapist said if I can learn to cast with my left arm I'm good to go but I have to be careful climbing up and down the rocks. Because she is beautiful I will do anything to please her making my treatment more effective. This is my 5th operation in 4 years and I believe the most enjoyable recovery period so far. It still hurts, but because I've been quite sore the last few nights I treated myself to 300 mg of Tramadol Hydrachloride and that smooths out a few bumps. It's possibly as close to being on holidays while being on disability that one could be and I deserve every stitch of it. :)

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Grands singes?

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My condolences in advance.

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Oh top hole old boy.

We're just completing our summer hols...currently in a hotel @ LHR before flying back tomorrow. Three and a half weeks variously in Norfolk, Staffs, Kent & London. Bloody cold the first week but glorious weather since then. I had a week working in London whilst the wife and kids did the tourist thing. That worked surprisingly well.

The big hit of the holiday though was undoubtedly Bressingham & in particular the Galloper!:thumbup:

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I could have written this cos snap!

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LOL - we have just done the opposite trip .... Waterton, Kalispell, Post Falls, Spokane, Okanagan and then home on Sunday. We may have passed you somewhere en route!!

It was wonderful ... two weeks of heavenly weather and scenery.

J :)

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Bressingham is my local garden centre, I do like having a browse round there, and they've got a very nice cup-of-tea shop. I have never actually been into the steam museum though, for shame. :o

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No holiday this summer due to the eldest having a job with no time off :(

So instead we make do with 2 weekend trips to the US to watch her playing in basketball tournaments :)

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Hadn't been for 30 years or more. Appreciated the gardens more as an adult than I did as a kid. The train rides were great and the Galloper (merrygoround) was a big hit with the kids.

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Off to Sauble Beach for a few nights tomorrow. We are saving for a few trips next year, to France to see my parents, Florida for the kids and hopefully Cuba or DR later on when the weather gets shitty. So this year is on hold a bit. Doesn't stop me oiling up and grabbing the Speedo's though.:)