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    Summer Holidays

    Anyone going please post if good, where you recommend and where you don't

    And please move this to Chit Chat
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    Had a week in Marbella in June (for my girlfriend's birthday); pleasantly surprised as it's not my kind of holiday. Old town is great. I probably ate my own body weight in a week!

    We were also planning to join up Oktoberfest and the Arc but we couldn't both get the time off work, so instead booked a week in Chamonix at the very end of the Summer season (My holiday). Plan to do a bit of mountain biking, walking, wine drinking, beer drinking...

    Bar The Bull kindly paid for the latter one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by betsmate View Post
    Had a week in Marbella in June (for my girlfriend's birthday); pleasantly surprised as it's not my kind of holiday. Old town is great. I probably ate my own body weight in a week!

    We were also planning to join up Oktoberfest and the Arc but we couldn't both get the time off work, so instead booked a week in Chamonix at the very end of the Summer season (My holiday). Plan to do a bit of mountain biking, walking, wine drinking, beer drinking...

    Bar The Bull kindly paid for the latter one.
    You sound so settled and happy. His and hers holidays? Oh I'm nff to be sick. Get off the forum please.

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    I'd never been on a beach holiday before. There were breasts everywhere.
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    You should be well used to tits. They post on here daily. Did you get bored senseless at any stage during the beach holiday? I nearly cried in Cyprus when I couldn't get nn a 72 hole match bet in the Dunhill Links in 2006.

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    £2 a day fixed price roaming charge on mobile internet. Not a problem any longer.
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    True. I'm off in August with a group to Spain. Salou I think we're going too. I know it will be good fun but I'm a certainty to be bored after 3 days.

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    Group = Swingers or School Trip?
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    You're a good judge! It's basically me tagging along with my daughter and her mother's holiday. I was never good or excited by sun holidays regardless of company.

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    I hate places like Marbella.

    Excluding holidays with kids, a few of my favourite holidays have been.

    Cycling holiday in the Pyrenees with the lads.
    Oktoberfest with the lads x 3.
    2 week driving holiday in southern Spain (don't go in July).
    Diving in Philippines.
    Basically all of Australia is great, but it is a bit too far away.

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    I am off to Yorkshire in a couple of weeks to take in the Yorkshire festival of racing.

    5 of us are going to base ourselves in York and visit York racecourse, Doncaster racecourse and Thirsk over 3 or 4 days.

    I made the schoolboy error of arranging to fly in later than the boys on the Thursday. Thought I would skip the arseboxing of checking in and looking for lunch spot, etc. Imagine my devestation to learn that they have organised a tour of Dandy Nicholls' stable Thursday lunchtime. I would love to run my eye over Falasteen.
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    I've just come back from 6 days in Budapest, part work, part with friends from work. I am now a broken man, barely sleeping 3 hours a night. It ended with me falling asleep on a couch of the hotel lobby at 5am and being woken by a senior colleague at 5.30am who was on his way for an early flight. Not great. To say I have the fear would be about as big an understatement as could be. It will take me a week to recover.

    Beautiful city, and I wouldn't mind spending 6 months there if I moved into the consultancy part of our company.

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    I was there a few months ago, and may be back there in a fortnight.

    It is a nice place. Riddled with hookers, though.
    Welsh and Proud.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bar the Bull View Post
    I was there a few months ago, and may be back there in a fortnight.

    It is a nice place. Riddled with hookers, though.
    It does sound wonderful! I have been on two holidays in my short lifetime, I was in Turkey on a family holiday involving my parents, and my brother and his out laws. It was a lovely place, but I was bored silly.

    Second holiday was 5 lads going to Torremolinos this week last year I think, as a sort of Stag/Lads holiday. Best week of my life.

    Given the economic yadda yadda yadda I dont think il see much holidays this year. Might stretch to a couple of days in Galway staying with friends and maybe racing a few days.
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    I`m off to Croatia in September....beautiful place, particularly the coast.

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    We fly to the great state of Texas on 18th July to spend a week with the family, then we've 10 days split between New York and Boston (trips to Cape Cod and possibly Niagara thrown-in too).

    Just as well too. I'm about ready to do a Columbine at work (which goes some way to explaining why I felt no need to include Colorado on our itinerary).
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    Probably down to the river a few days, wandering around the woods other days all day long and football in the park, too. We can't go to America and so on, because our parents haven't the money, so.
    Anyway, Geoff will be 13 soon so maybe he'll take us somewhere .....


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    I've just arrived in Perugia, for the jazz festival. It's a lovely town in its own right and they have some quite interesting court cases from time to time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bar the Bull View Post
    I was there a few months ago, and may be back there in a fortnight.

    It is a nice place. Riddled with hookers, though.
    We (with work) stayed in a very nice 5 star hotel, but despite a large staff presence, they were happy to let plenty of (very obvious) prostitutes in the lobby canvassing for business.

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    I'm now thinking of Florence for a few days, Siena for a day or so for the Palio and Rome for a couple of days. Museum-wise it would be great. Food too. Perhaps use couchsurfing or something like that to meet locals for a few drinks. Anyone been?

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    I'm off to the Quality hotel in Youghal for 5 nights -hotel is next to the beach .Purely for the kids-main appeal to me is no Internet connection or
    racing post for 5 days.

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