We’ve just spent an hour or two reminiscing about past holidays and it really put a smile on our faces.
Those holidays before the children came along, those with the children when they were very young in the UK, the first time we went abroad with them, the first time we went abroad without them..ha ha..and all the subsequent holidays, good and bad.
I love reminiscing about my family hols when I was a child, had some good times with Mum and Dad. My best hol as an adult was when I went to Paris for New Year once - fabulous! Nice thread Vagus.
It was only the other week we were reminiscing with ou daughter, now in her 50s, about our first holiday in France when she would have been about 8. We arrived at a campsite with her bursting for a wee, so we sent her off to the toilets whilst we put up the tent. Moments later she was back, hand firmly between her legs, "They haven't got any toilets, only showers". We'd heard about French "squatter" toilets, unlike her, so we put her straight and off she went and came back very relieved.
Strange that. For some reason I always think of a particular place or incident when we were on holiday when I am doing the crossword each morning. Only today I happened to say to my wife,'Do you remember that place when we were in Lesvos when....................?'
Beach holidays are my raison d'etre and I have lots of pictures of them constantly playing in a digital frame. Last couple of weeks when I look at them they make me cry.
And please don't tell me people are dying so get some perspective. Wave your flag elsewhere.
Remembering the lovely holidays birding and real ale hunting with Redman. One year we ticked double the new beers to new birds. East Anglia has over 50 breweries... And some of the best birding in the uk. But mostly I remember watching the sun rise with him, watching the fishing boats launch from the shore. We were sitting in our hotel room drinking tea and just feeling so joyful.
This afternoon OH got an old briefcase out. It was full of photographs going back to 2004/5 when we holidayed in France on our boat. We sailed from Calais to Toulouse.
It certainly brought back some very enjoyable memories.