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What are your holiday plans?

Brunneria said:
We've just planned and booked a week in a self catering cottage, half way between Southampton and Salisbury. For late Feb.

We've been before, and it was one of the best (and cheapest) holidays EVER!

We can take the dogs.
The accommodation is awesome (a listed chapel, sympathetically converted, with a vast kitchen that used to be the old schoolroom, a vaster main room, that used to be the chapel, a full size snooker table for Mr B, a lovely village setting, excellent kitchen equipment, dishwasher, washing machine and tumble drier - so I don't come home with any laundry to do!)
It sleeps 8 so other family can come and stay.
Perfectly situated for us to visit the Marie Rose exhibition. Several times, because it is so vast we will need to take it in bite sized chunks.
Lots of cathedrals, Stonehenge, Avebury, etc. etc.
Less than 2 hrs from my parents, so we can visit them on the way home.
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What I found intriguing when I went on holiday in the UK was the fact that you could bring you pets almost everywhere but not your kids.

In the late seventies or early eighties I once passed by in the area you are going to. My major memory is a 15th century pub or possibly even 14th century where almost a whole tree was burning slowly in a huge fireplace and I had the best steak and kidney pie ever.
 
Totto said:
What I found intriguing when I went on holiday in the UK was the fact that you could bring you pets almost everywhere but not your kids.

In the late seventies or early eighties I once passed by in the area you are going to. My major memory is a 15th century pub or possibly even 14th century where almost a whole tree was burning slowly in a huge fireplace and I had the best steak and kidney pie ever.
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If you remember where, we'll go and raise a glass to you. :D
 
Brunneria said:
If you remember where, we'll go and raise a glass to you. :D
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I'm sure you will find it if you look for it, somewhere close to Salisbury I think. There can't that many very old pubs in the area so it should be in a guide book or such.

We had started from London at midday to go to Stonehenge but it was January and got dark the moment we arrived as my friends had to find a dealer or two before we hit the road. Pub was on the way back towards London.
 
We are on holiday now in Abu Dhabi where my daughter lives.
We plan to go to Spain in Febuary,to my daughters villa in Alcossbre ,an hours drive north from Valencia.
 
tigerlily72 said:
I LOVE planning holidays. We have a touring caravan so can afford to go away more often and at peak times without paying silly prices!

So far, we have the following booked:

A week at Gwithian, Cornwall in the summer - we are also taking my Dad and the site is very close to a stunning beach - he loves the coast

10 nights in North Wales in the Spring - neither of us have holidayed in N. Wales so looking forward to this one :) - not taking the dogs as there's a lot we want to see/do that may be difficult with the dogs :(. They aren't being left home alone! but will be going to their usual dog hotel ;)

Weekend break at a rally in Leicestershire (with our 2 dogs)

Still in the process of planning Easter break and undecided . . .

I would like to go to Ireland at some point in the future too. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Scotland and we had a fab holiday last June on the Isle of Mull. Planning to return in 2016.

No real desire to go abroad as there's so many beautiful places in the UK
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I'm hoping we might get to Dublin this year, the guys can go to the Guinness brewery and I can make my way to Newgrange to look at the neolithic burial chambers.
 
Brunneria said:
Newgrange is AWESOME.

I will go back one day, and show Mr B...
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It does look fascinating, I'd also like to do a tour of Scotland and take Calanish (or is it called Calanais now?) Scarra Brae, Ring of Brodgar, Maes Howe etc. Julian Cope (he of Teardrop Explodes) did a brilliant book on Neolithic sites in the UK called The Modern Antiquarian which has a gazetteer of 300 plus sites.
 
Re Irish prehistory a Swedish archaeologist was invited to an Irish castle where there was a torc on display. The archaeologist was very much impressed by it and asked where it had been found. Found? It was never lost! was the answer.

I'm not sure I believe it to be true but I like it nevertheless.
 
Sancho panza said:
Portugal in October with a gang of lads for a sixtieth birthday.
If I can get my better half to book some time off work I will take her somewhere for a week or so been looking at Cape Verde.

If I can ever get her to tie the knot lol I fancied Sri Lanka then on to the Maldives I saw one where you transfer to the resort by sea plane would love to do that
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Just go straight to tne Maldives .....now :cool:
 
We have two trips to Center Parcs at different locations.

We are going to the one at Longleat with some friends in March. Will be a 9 hour drive to get to this one so hopefully it is worth it.

Also going to Whinfell in Cumbria in June with my in-laws.
 
dtennant9 said:
We have two trips to Center Parcs at different locations.

We are going to the one at Longleat with some friends in March. Will be a 9 hour drive to get to this one so hopefully it is worth it.

Also going to Whinfell in Cumbria in June with my in-laws.
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Milton Keynes (woburn) when it opens?
 
I fancy west coast of the States but OH fancies Costa Rica.
Haven't had a long haul holiday since being diagnosed so it's a bit of a treat, therefore in my mind I should get to choose :-)


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donnellysdogs said:
Milton Keynes (woburn) when it opens?
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Last (and only) time we went on holiday with Mr. Chris' parents was to the Isle of Wight with 3 yr old in tow. Weather was diabolical, and when we got to the Wax Museum f-i-l collapsed just by the waxwork of the mad monk playing Bach Fugue on the organ. Son thought the trip in the ambulance was highlight of the holdiay.!
 
Not been abroad for a few years now. Now that my colostomy has been reversed I can fly safely again. I am looking at a Red Sea cruise
 
Ha just got home from work and found a Holliday brochure on my pillow so it seems SWMBO is dropping hints looks like I'm under orders lol
 
We've never been abroad on holiday. Our second son is autistic and the waiting in airports and the length of time on planes would have been incredibly difficult to cope with.

This year we have two holidays planned. A week in North Devon with family at the end of May and then a week in Kent in late September.

The place you're staying at @Brunneria sounds just like the sort of place we'd like. Any chance you can let me have the details? We live less than an hour from both Southampton and Salisbury and wouldn't have thought about having a holiday that close to home, but it does sound ideal.
 
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