Just For Fun....inspired By Ummmm...

[gness]

Ummmm said on an earlier thread she'd never had a bad holiday.....

I've had mostly good holidays......but a couple of disasters....so....

What's been your best and worst holidays?.....And why........x

[woofgang]

Dh and I rented a “peaceful cottage - dogs very welcome” in Cornwall. We arrived on the saturday with our two dogs to be told that the holiday week had started on friday. The cottage was cheek by jowl with another cottage and right in front was a duckpond complete with ducks. Dogs looked at ducks and went “ooooo lunch” The “enclosed field” where were welcome to run our dogs off lead was enclosed with barbed wire with sheep in the neighbouring field :(
Anyway we took them to the beach where they drank sea water which they sicked up in the car. then when we got back to the cottage they had a drink of fresh water which they sicked up in the cottage. Happily they weren’t ill and were fine once the salty water was out of their systems. Dh flopped down onto the settee which collapsed under him. Examination revealed that a previous tenant had repaired it with chewing gum. Dh left me with the dogs, went out and bought some wood glue. We repaired the settee, stayed the night and left before daylight the following morning, putting a note through the farmhouse door saying we had to go home because there had been an emergency....never been so glad to get home in my life.

[nailit]

Worst holiday... Benidorm. Last holiday with my ex. I knew then that the relationship was on the way out...

Best holiday...also with my ex. In Blackpool of all places, some years before. Seedy Blackpool...rollor coasters, fish n chips and cheap B&B's. (and lots of sex, debauchery and drinking)

Funny how life changes......

[Prudie]

Although it's predictable all my summer holidays in Menorca are my best because all I ever want to do is lie on a beach or swim in the sea. My worst holiday was this last Christmas in Antigua. We were mugged on the beach 3rd day by a masked man who hit my OH on the back of the head. I spent the rest of the holiday viewing every local with suspicion, nervous at night and couldn't sleep in the villa, generally freaked out the whole time.

[gness]

Well...sick dogs....a collapsing settee....debauchary and a masked mugger are starting to make my holiday disasters look quite pleasant...... ;-)

[nailit]

//debauchary and a masked mugger//
You must have been in Blackpool the same time as me Gness?? ;-)

[gness]

Ahhhh...you were that chap in the Kiss Me Quick hat!.........x

[nailit]

Strangers that pass in the night Gness....

[gness]

Probably safest, Nailit...... :-)

[Samuraisan]

Recently, a long weekend in Puerto de Santa Maria with all the family. Best day was a visit to a Bodega.

[nailit]

^^ some folk would agree Gness!

[gness]

Just had a quick google, Sam.....looks lovely even without a trip to the Bodega.....though I wouldn't say no to that....x

[Buenchico]

I've just counted up and realised that I've only been on holiday 10 times in my life. (My parents couldn't afford to go away on holidays until I was 15, so I didn't grow up thinking that holidays were something you went on every year).

None of the holidays were 'bad'. The best two (Ostend and Malta) I enjoyed most simply because of the company of person I travelled with.

The most memorable though had to be to Australia (which was actually combining attendance at a conference with a bit of holiday). Where else can one find oneself on a luxury air-conditioned minibus, going out into the Red Desert ( http://www.allwaysaustralia.com/states/western-australia/nambung-park/pinnacles-pano-2.jpg ) with a group of elderly members of the Australian Girl Guides Association, who insist that you sing Waltzing Matilda with them repeatedly for hours upon end?

[tonyav]

Good ...... all of them for various reasons
Worst...... Arenal Mallorca ( co's it was a dump ).

[taichiperson]

A weekend away in a hotel in south eastern Scotland that we'd stayed in before and really liked. Sadly that weekend it was their works Christmas party and we had a room on the first floor very close to where they were holding the party. The music was so loud that it was almost like being in the room along with them and went on until one in the morning. No member of staff appeared to be available to receive our complaint, and the following morning the owner was very dismissive and did not believe we had any reason to omplain. They did not respond to an email either.

[jourdain2]

I don't want to think about the worst (rain and cold and a tent came into it) and I am still waiting for the best one to arrive!

[tonyav]

with a group of elderly members of the Australian Girl Guides Association, who insist that you sing Waltzing Matilda with them repeatedly for hours upon end?


Gotta be better than Ten Green Bottles though, Chris ;-)

That Red Desert looks great.

[gness]

Oh my hat!!! Who's going to top a trip to The Red Desert with a group of old Girl Guides!!!!!
I have a vivid imagination, Chris.....and I'm loving what I'm seeing.... :-)

But you're right....it is the company.....whatever's gone wrong I've had fun......even being taken in for questioning over the murder of Lord Mountbatten ended with smiles.....forced smiles in Mr G's case..but smiles...

The one and only holiday I wouldn't repeat is the one with the bickering, unhappy couple who both wanted me on "their side".......lord that was miserable.....so miserable that one evening (after A had thrown kitchen knives at B) I pretended to faint into my dinner just so I could go to lie down rather than spend another evening with them......

Good companions on a holiday are bliss......especially if they love birding......x

[tonyav]

especially if they love birding......x


Rimini was good for birding, gness ;-)

[gness]

Crikey, Taich....I once spent a weekend in Scotland....a buisness trip though.....and my room was above a bar with a late....well all flipping night party......it was hell and I couldn't find anyone sober to complain to.....so I know how you felt.....x

J....I stayed in a tent for one night when I was sixteen....never again!

Hi, Tony....you need to come birding in Portugal......you'd love....errr.....like it?....x

[-SharonA-]

Lots of good holidays, but my worst was in Tunisia. The local men really harassed us, making filthy suggestions, even trying to climb up to our hotel balcony.
It was so bad that all the other holidaymakers and us went out in one big group, everywhere. One guy wanted to buy me, offering his camels!!! Never again it was the one holiday where I wanted to come home after a day.