Where are you going on holiday ?

Subject: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 09:26 AM

Our Great Leaders in Britain are about to start their summer holidays (vacations ) ; Mr Cameron & family to Portugal, and Deputy Prime Minister Clegg to Spain.So where are the average Mudcatters going ? We are off (in September) to Bristol -Falmouth- Honfleur-Antwerpen-Amsterdam on a cruise-ship ,but only because it was "Buy One - Get One Free " !! (Couldn't have afforded it otherwise ).

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 09:36 AM

Pub

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 09:38 AM

We've already had our holiday - to Scotland. Edinburgh, the NW Highlands for scenery, then Portsoy Wooden Boat Festival for fun and music. It was great.

The DH collected a magnetic rock on the shore at Portsoy.

I'm sure you will enjoy your cruise, bubblyrat. Cruises are so relaxing because your cabin becomes your little home.

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Joe Nicholson
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 10:57 AM

Saltburn, Whitby, Fleetwood,New Galloway,Whittlebury,Keswick, Ugthorpe and any where else I can find some singing some ale and a wee dram.and no Mr Cameron.

Joe N.

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 11:53 AM

Rail trip with 3 days mountain walking at Kandersteg in Switzerland in September.

Scotland (Fort William & Loch Lomond) for 10 days walking, cycling, eating & drinking in October.

Gower Cwtch for a great weekend singing in November.

It's a good job we're not still working!

Phil

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 12:16 PM

Singapore in October.

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 12:19 PM

shrewsbury folk festival

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 12:36 PM

Have been to St David', Milos and Shropshire. Will be going to Tinos and Suffolk.
It's great being retired!
Rts

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 02:26 PM

Denise is so ill at the moment that we can't get away. but we live in a nice place - a little village near Dorchester.

Tomorrow I am playing in the park at Dorchester.

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 03:30 PM

No Europe this year. I had planned to go to Israel in November, but the trip got cancelled.

But in my March vacation, I did the Central California Coast for a week - visited a lot of missions.

In my May vacation, Christina and I spent two weeks in Utah and Arizona exploring Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Parks.

And then in September, I'll go to North Carolina to take the DaniVan to the Getaway music camp in Maryland - and I'll combine that with a drive to Florida to visit my dad. Oh, and we flew to Florida to visit him in January.

I guess I spend more time on vacation, than I thought I did.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 03:37 PM

Sounds like you have a pretty good life, Joe!

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 03:52 PM

Yes, it's great being retired ! I am so happy that so many of you are enjoying life now that work does not intrude !
    Big Al ; sorry to hear about Denise ,but Dorchester or nearby is a good place to be ( Piddletrenthide ??)
       Joe Offer ; sadly , Israel is not a good place to be right now .
   As for St Davids and Singapore : I have visited both in my service in the Royal Navy (guess which one I preferred ! ! )
      Newport Boy ;Never been to Switzerland, but Scotland has not eluded me (Lossiemouth and Arbroath ) ; Lovely !
Shrewsbury ---?? Well, we are in Tewkesbury , so we MUST get there some time !
Meanwhile ; anyone been to Timbuktu ??

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 06:54 PM

I have a short holiday trip almost everyday...via Google Earth.

Yesterday I drove around London. Today it was South Africa. Not long ago, I visited Iceland...in short sleeves.

... and every now & then, Joe Offer's travels brings him to ME. My big trips each year involve the Getaway and another musical weekend in West Virginia.

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 07:06 PM

I might be able to bring peace to Israel by simply not signing up for any more trips there. I've had three Israel trips cancelled in the last ten years - but I did get there in 1999. There are two more things I want to do in Israel:

• Go inside the Dome of the Rock
• Walk the Walls of Jerusalem

And yes, it's always a treat to visit Bill and Rita, and I do it often.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 08:13 PM

Yes, but I wouldn't go to Mali today...

Going to the beach in a fortnight or so... for a fortnight or so...

Sun
Sand
Sea

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Aug 14 - 08:14 PM

I've just got back from a week in the Almería province of Andalucia, staying in a cortijo in the middle of nowhere at the edge of the Alpujarras. It was extremely hot, dry, stark and utterly beautiful. We spent much of the time visiting the hill villages and enjoying tapas and wine in the bars in the village squares. The people are the poorest in Europe but are totally wonderful, and they have an agreeable tendency to be somewhat left-wing!

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Aug 14 - 12:27 AM

my holidays are festivals.

My big one is the week-long National Folk Festival in Canberra at Easter. Autumn in Canberra is sunny days in summer gear & evenings in thermals, usually followed by minimums of 0-10C, but I'm usually snug in my tent under my 80% down quilt.

My other major festival is different - a 4-day festival in mid January at the Illawarra Folk Festival, about 100km south of Sydney. I hate summer heat & humidity but I still go cos the singing & company is great & the acts are good. Last year & this year the temperatures were in the mid 40s - & last year we extreme gusts of wind that blew down tents & caused major problems in the Food Court where stall holders were trying to turn off their gas & hold down their tents & chase after their stock. It was amazing (saddening?) the number of festival goers who just watched a small number of us helping.

I also go to a couple of 2 or 3 day festivals.

sandra (folkie but not traveller cos I have too many sore bits to sit on long flights & queue at historic sites)

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Musket
Date: 03 Aug 14 - 03:11 AM

We had a two week holiday in Scotland early May and in September we are visiting family in Western Australia.

There is an off chance of Mrs Musket getting some leave she is owed but not practical to take right now and we will book a cottage on the Suffolk coast if she can. If she can't I am making a pilgrimage to Whitby Folk Festival. It's a few years since I was last at the festival and although many things have altered, no Jack in the pub yard, no going from there to Stainsby etc, I will be meeting up with a few old mates.

Next year is part booked already with the early January Tignes Val D'Isere bash and in March a trip to Canada, visiting friends in Canmore and more skiing around Banff.

A bit different to my childhood of Blackpool and a day trip to Skeggy.

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Aug 14 - 05:06 PM

blackpool AND Skeggy....!

and he we are drinking our chateau de chatillon...!

Subject: RE: Where are you going on holiday ?
From: Janie
Date: 03 Aug 14 - 05:16 PM

My holidays consist of blowing off stuff that I really need to do on Sundays - my only day off. I blow most of them off, btw, which means on average I have 45+ one day holidays per year. Not bad.