what do single over 60s do for entertainment and holidays

Jasper1

Look at your local leisure centre. They seem to have lots of classes which are free and funded by lottery or local borough funding. I have started doing a lot of tai chi and chi kung which I really enjoy. As one person said the world is your oyster!

aardvaak

If you like walking you could take a camera with you and join https://www.geograph.org.uk and post photos online

Ilona

I can recommend a company that I have been on holiday with as a single person. Traveleyes organizes holidays for visually impaired and blind people. Sighted people can book, and get a discount, if they are prepared to pair up with those who cannot see and act as a guide.

The outings are in groups so you are never left alone with someone. You describe to your partner what you can see, so they can get the best from their holiday. You change partners every day so you get to meet everyone.

It was great fun, and very rewarding. I went to Skipton in Yorkshire, and Sorrento Italy. Amar Latif is the founder, he is amazing.
Hope I can link to this as it's a great idea for single travelers.
https://www.traveleyes-international.com/index.php

If the link is removed, gooooglie Traveleyes

Ilona

EdGasket

Not quite 60 yet so don't know if I am disqualified from this thread but my greatest joy is changing the oil in my car.

zygurat789

EdGasket wrote: »

Not quite 60 yet so don't know if I am disqualified from this thread but my greatest joy is changing the oil in my car.

Now that's moneysaving

nannygladys

Just read this thread and as I'm retiring next week it's been very interesting!

I'm off on a short holiday the week after I retire partly for visiting my poorly step father and also to start the rest of my life without paid work. I've decided to take the summer off and do very little and come September sit down and study my options so I will keep reading here with interest.

Nannyg

pollypenny

We've just come back from a Saga holiday to China. There were four single people on the trip and everyone mixed in together. Only 15 of us.

As for U3A, I must be very lucky. Ours is brilliant and we've made loads of friends. You can do intellectual, fun or a blend of both. There are active groups, bowls, table tennis, three walking groups, gardening, trips, quizzes and crafts.

The thing is about U3A, you want something, you start it.

moneyistooshorttomention

One thing that surprised me about retiring rather is that I guess I expected to wake up each morning (or, at least, a lot of mornings) and think "Thank goodness I don't have to go into work any more:T".

In the event - I very rarely think that. Once in a while the thought surfaces of "I'd be stuck in the office and bored out of my mind if I was lucky/management finding yet another way to try and make my life a misery if I was unlucky" and I'm glad I don't have to be there to get my income any more.

Don't know whether that's just a personal thing - as that job was SO bad that I had to have for many years latterly that I had to learn to "blank it out" as best I could from my mind until I had to go in there again next workday and maybe its just an extension of that learned "blanking out". So I do wonder what other peoples experience of this is.

I think a holiday is a good thing to do initially shortly after retirement - as a sort of reward for having put in all those years and now you can relax/its Your Time at last and maybe some thoughts for the future will crystallise in your mind whilst on holiday.

It didn't work that way for me, in the event, as I had been needing/expecting to move house for many years by the time I came to retirement and thus retirement gave me the chance to move to "next stage up the housing ladder" house in a cheaper part of the country (without having to concern myself about the fact that one of the reasons its cheaper is because there aren't many jobs here and some of the ones that are aren't open to non Welsh-speakers:mad:). So I just got stuck in with deciding where to move to/selling last house/buying this one and then renovating this one. I'm nearly as up square with renovating this house now as my money will allow for (ie not finished yet - but a good deal better) and there are some other matters to get fully dealt with/"under control" (eg troublesome neighbour causing problems still) - but, once that's fully sorted out - then Retirement Proper at last:D

pollypenny

Well, fancy that! Some jobs in Wales needing Welsh-speakers!

Murphybear

Farway wrote: »

U3A is a mixed bag, I was in two groups, one was fine, other was very clique

There seems to be a mixed feeling to U3A, some think it should be scholarly, others, like me, think it should be helpful and social

You never know what you will find

I am no longer a member

I belong to 2 U3A groups. Between them I play bridge, scrabble, Mah Jong and croquet in the summer. There are groups for chatting, knitting, walking, dining (we go to a different pub/restaurant each month), singing and lots more. It doesn't have to be intellectual and most of all it's fun:T. It's worth joining to see how you get on, I've made a few friends and learnt a lot.