Very depressed

Rebob

I found it easier to save for a cheap weekend camping. Last year we went 17 times for holidays from 3 days to a week. Borrow a tent and you can improvise the rest. Try https://www.ukcampsite.co.uk cheap meets. We are away at the August bank holiday for £3 per night for the family!!!! There are about 20 families so we are organising a tea party and a sports day for the kids. Cheap and fun!

Loadsabob

We've had some fantastic VERY cheap holidays. Mainly because the kinds of things we enjoy doing just happen to be quite cheap. I'm not really in to luxury (fortunately!!)

We had three weeks in the Loire Valley, France on the WWOOFing scheme - "Willing Workers on Organic Farms". VERY OS, that, you just find your way there and work in return for board and lodging. We found a lovely English couple with a small holding, and they were wonderful hosts, didn't work us to the bone or anything, just mucking out animals, weeding, putting a fence around a field, getting the goats in and out. Our return coach fare was about £100 each, at the most, and that was it. In fact, I actually saved money by being there instead of at home having to buy food and charge up the elecetric key! And we had an amazing time, and ate better than we could have hoped...with loads of smashing wine! It depends what kind of hosts you get, but I'd say most people have positive experiences of it.

Last year was two weeks camping in Cornwall, all the places we'd never been to. We're lucky, we don't really need abroad when we have such gorgeous landscape and wildlife on our doorstep. Again, very cheap, though it did rain EVERY DAY!!! And Boscastle swept away the day before we were due to go there. We felt like terrible jinxes.

Then this year, the gorgeous hut in the woods. £90 for the week! Bonkers!

I really want to go WWOOFing again...perhaps in Ireland this time...