Does anyone else not go on holiday

Lunar_Eclipse

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Holidays are overrated. They are stressful, don't live upto your expectations and expensive.

Whereas I could spend my life on holiday.

A holiday is simply a period of recreation, so I do hope that the posters saying they haven't had a holiday in years are referring to 'going away on holiday' as opposed to continuously working and not taking any annual leave.

Holidays are vitally important to your overall health and well being. But they do not need to be expensive, or involve going away from home, although I do think it's beneficial for most people to explore new areas and have some adventures in their life.

I have been fortunate enough to travel overseas from a very young age and lived abroad for a significant portion of my childhood. Interestingly I have married a man from the other side of the world, whose family are geographically dispersed across three continents, so we spend our holidays (& any hard earnt, well saved money) predominantly visiting his family. But due to the distance and hence cost involved in travelling so far and at peak times of the year, we haven't been overseas every year since we had children.

My husband has always taken his annual leave though, so even in those years where we haven't even been for a 'holiday' staying with family in another part of the UK (last year), I would still refer to a couple of weeks in the Summer spent relaxing as a family at home as a holiday. Which by definition it is. Nowadays they would include trips to the beach or cycling in forests with an occasional pub lunch or ice cream stop which is what life is all about to me.

MrsE_2

pukkamum wrote: »

The fact is though yes we could have spent all the money on one big hol but instead we have years of adventures in it ahead of us, we go away almost every weekend in the summer and have a full two weeks in the hols and we are hoping to travel round europe this summer possibly for 3 weeks.
Imagine the memories for the kids, driving through the alps seeing different cities and towns.
You don't get that on a package to spain.

IF that suits you, we are all different.
To me all those many hols in the camper van would be the agony multiplied;)
I would happliy do a road trip hol, just so long as I could have a proper bed & bathroom at the end of each evening.

I don't go on packages to Spain....

Pee

I used to have a week in a caravan every year with the whole family. I did think, when I was about 14 that i was missing out as I was never allowed on any of the school trips. Particularly when I was learning French, that seemed really unfair. It was never a matter of money, more a matter than it might not be safe.

Having said this I was talking to a colleague about holidays the other day and she is 18 and keen to go somewhere different this year but went abroad lots (once a year) as a child and didn't especially rate it as everywhere she went was a hotel by the beach and pretty much the same.

Holidays or travel are very important to me, to my Mum they are something other peple do to show off and she doesn't enjoy them - she would worry too much about things going wrong. We are all different. What suits one family will not suit another. If you want to do exciting things on the cheap, there are lots of ways to do that, and if you don't want to, that will be fine, too.

patchwork_cat

mrcow wrote: »

The CN Tower btw isn't that scary. The views over lake Ontario are really cool from the bar.

Didn't mean to thank you. IMO this statement sums up your inability to empathise - it is absolutlely terrifying - I am very scared of heights and that was the occasion that I realised it - the bar is not scary, but the trip up the outside in the glass elevator is and the glass floor on the viewing tower is very frightening. You are obviously not scared of heights, but I am - so LEARN TO APPRECIATE THAT WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT - thankfully as if I ever start saying chillax my family have permission to shoot me. If you are a literate person you don't need to amalgamate 2 words there are plenty of others.

Holidays do tend to polarise people and I am very glad that myself and my OH agree on it as that could be trouble.

MrsE_2

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Didn't mean to thank you. IMO this statement sums up your inability to empathise - it is absolutlely terrifying - I am very scared of heights and that was the occasion that I realised it - the bar is not scary, but the trip up the outside in the glass elevator is and the glass floor on the viewing tower is very frightening. You are obviously not scared of heights, but I am - so LEARN TO APPRECIATE THAT WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT - thankfully as if I ever start saying chillax my family have permission to shoot me. If you are a literate person you don't need to amalgamate 2 words there are plenty of others.

Holidays do tend to polarise people and I am very glad that myself and my OH agree on it as that could be trouble.

Aggghhhh that would terrify me:eek::(

patchwork_cat

I was scared witless - my cousin was wandering all over and I had to stand in the inside, shaking!! I really didn't know I was scared of heights, but now I am really scared even at quite low heights. Would like to go back to Toronto as my grandparent were Canadian, but won't be going up the CN tower again. Maybe when we have saved up and can afford to do it in style and get a sitter for our many cats!

mrcow

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Didn't mean to thank you. IMO this statement sums up your inability to empathise

IMO this statement sums up your tendanacy to generalise.

You don't have to be (or take things) so personal(ally). Calm down dear - it's just a discussion forum :kisses3:

patchwork_cat

Calm thank you - Why is it that some forum user use the comment calm down when people are merely engaged in a discussion - it is a remark intended to inflame a situation. Again I reiterate that this is not personal although you seem intent on making it so and have done since your first remark!

You made your comment, about the CN tower not being scary, personal and your contradiction of my statement that it was shows a clear inability to empathise.

mrcow

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Calm thank you - Why is it that some forum user use the comment calm down when people are merely engaged in a discussion - it is a remark intended to inflame a situation. Again I reiterate that this is not personal although you seem intent on making it so and have done since your first remark!

You made your comment, about the CN tower not being scary, personal and your contradiction of my statement that it was shows a clear inability to empathise.

No - it shows a disagreement. If you would like a discussion to help to understand the difference, then start a new thread and I'll be more than happy to contribute. Otherwise you're just dragging this off topic.

patchwork_cat

Give up love.

OP you feel free to spend and go on holidays or not if you want. Your children will not suffer if you decide not to - my children are older than others on here and I can categorically state that they do not feel that they have missed out. They have there whole lives ahead of them to travel where they want to. I would say though as someone else has said that it is mimportant if you don't go away to take time off.

We took them away when they were little and pretty soon realised that they did not remember the holidays and would talk about other things like carpet picnics and walking the dog by the river and completely forget the £3000 holiday!