What was your first holiday without your parents?

JackCork

Mine was when I was 18 to Greece with my friends.

Voyager2002

Mine was when I was 16 (right after 'O' level exams): three of us went by train to the south of France to work in the maize fields.

worried_jim

Magaluf '92. About fell off.

zagfles

School cruise when I was 10.

Doshwaster

Excluding school trips, backpacking around Ireland with some friends when I was 22. Before that I had been too skint for holidays.

PompeyPete

Coach holiday from school in Lancaster to Deauville in Normandy, in Jul 1969 when I was 15. First time abroad too.

I remember we were allowed to only take £5 spending money for the week.

My next venture abroad without my parents was in May 1973 for 6 months. A paid holiday, Flying the Flag in the Far East onboard HMS TIGER, a helicopter Cruiser of Her Majesty's Grey Funnel Line.....I set off still a boy, I returned a Man!

jolfc

Gran Canaria when I was 16 so in 1987. I worked full time in a nursing home and had a great wage every month as no tax to pay when you first started working. I went with the cook who was 19. It was a fab holiday.

I had been to Brittany on a school trip when I was 12

814man

June 1980, just joined the RAF aged 17 and about 12 of us went to Magaluf. Absolutely loved it at the time, bit of a rite of passage I suspect, my son then did very similar last year.

maman

Caravan on the Gower cost with some girlfriends. One was in rehearsal for a musical and I still remember the songs!:)

spadoosh

A school trip to lake annecy via the Eiffel tower at about 13 years old. So about 2000/2001.

First without 'adults' was me and friends driving to south of france at 17, as new drivers in two cars with one map between us, navigating the inner ring road of paris was interesting. Next year was similar drove to near bordeaux. The year after we did a coach trip to torquay and lads holiday to Zante.

DigForVictory

School trips, then my best friend found a package trip to Turkey & her sister didn't fancy it so I got taken. Just after A levels so mid 80s & apparently the pair of us (thought to be sisters) rated half a million camels. Our fathers, in stereo, demanded to know why had we come back?