Old style holidays

MATH

Lillibet wrote:

Math

In order to pay back the interest free loan you could rent the holiday home (at a reasonabel rate of course!) to tarten flask owning MSEers.

Just a thought?

Maybe I should run an ad, something along the lines of 'bedding supplied, bring ya own vinegar!" -

Hang on I HAV'NT BOUGHT IT YET, WHAT AM I SAYING hehehehe

MATH

Ticklemouse wrote:

LOL - neither did I

Orange tupperware boxes and tartan car/picnic rugs too.

Frisbees, bats and balls, burying dad in the sand and my dad was great at building sandcastle boats and the like

Did you have those beach darts. I think they may have now been outlawed under EU offensive weapons policy or something. We had a set and spent every holiday with an elastoplaste over our temple. I also remember having to build the biggest sandcastle in the world (families from up and down the beach would join in and then the kidz would have to sit on the top until the high-tide knocked it down. Families seemed to mix a lot more and join in, minding each others kidz and stuff even though you had never met them until 10 minutes ago when they came over to ask a lend of the mallet to put a windbreak up!

The summers were hotter and you shorts were shorter in the 70's.

Mrs_Thrift

Another cheap holiday idea is to use a friend or relative's house while they are away on their holiday - you could even swap homes! Of course, you'd probably want to overlap so you at least spent some time with the afforementioned friend / relative, or they might take the hump, hehe!

My Gran and her sister came down to the Midlands from Scotland a few times when we were on our annual family holiday elsewhere and had a lovely time doing all the touristy things near our house.

VickyA_2

Ms_Thrift wrote:

Another cheap holiday idea is to use a friend or relative's house while they are away on their holiday - you could even swap homes! Of course, you'd probably want to overlap so you at least spent some time with the afforementioned friend / relative, or they might take the hump, hehe!

My best friend's family always did that. They had friends in Lincolnshire, down the road from my parents, so their friends would push off to their holiday home in France. This was whilst said friend and her parents could leave their London house for two weeks and spend it in the countryside.

Ticklemouse

MATH wrote:

The summers were hotter and you shorts were shorter in the 70's.

Yeah, but my legs were better too

madmummy_2

Ticklemouse wrote:

Yeah, but my legs were better too

so were MATHs!!!!

(I know cos I'm his other ½)

Party_Animal

elona wrote:

We live near York so have been doing this for years without consciously planning it.

A tour of the breweries near you would be a nice way to spend a few days.

Ticklemouse

Not if you can't stand the smell of hops Bleurgh!!

Caterina

MATH, yeh why don't you rent out your second home on the sea? I bet there would be a lot of takers (me included hehehe).

Well done on realising your dream!

Caterina

Galtizz

When I was young we spent 2 weeks most years somewhere in Britain in a tent. As I grew up I always swore I would never go camping again, all that waking up wet from the dew, from laying against the side of the tent all night, and having to get up in the early hours of the morning and get dressed (hat and coat over p.j's) to run across a freezing cold wet field to go for a pee! I hated it.

About 5 years ago we bought a tent and haven't looked back. Camping is great. You don't need a car, most campsites are on a bus route. We have a big 4 man dome tent and we keep it in a huge sports bag with wheels so you can pull it along from the bus stop to the campsite (we put the clothes in a similar bag and pull one each). The standards of sites have improved so much in the last 20 years. I stayed in a really posh one last year in Devon that had underfloor heating in the shower blocks! AND I didn't see 1 spider OR daddy longlegs (how posh is that!)

We have also taken the tent abroad twice now. We book a cheapy flight somewhere, search the internet for a site and get a train and bus to the site. Last year we went to the dordogne in France for around £300 for 2 of us, that is flights, campsite and train tickets. we wouldn't have been able to go abroad if we didn't take the tent.

With a tent you can also get away for the weekend. If it's nice we often get up early on a Saturday morning in summer and take an hour or 2's drive into the country and camp for the night. You can usually get a decent enough site for £8 - £10 and we get a change of scenery for a night for the price of a take-away and video, or 2 cinema tickets.

So for all you people who think yuck, camping? in a field? have a look on E-bay or in the classifieds and get a cheap second hand tent and give it a go, you never know, you might enjoy it.