Always the same or loving a change?

[Carole]

Likewise i thought this madness of the first order until relatively recently. I too have found somewhere - turns out it's just up the road from your gaff.
and what's good about the whole going-to-the-same-place thing is that the holiday starts @ the very moment you get there. There is no 'day or two' to acclimatise, find out where everything is, what's the score? that kind of thing - Day One, Holiday Starts.

If you only have seven days, which are really only five days, what with the getting there and then the getting back getting annoyingly in the way, that makes a HUGE difference.

@Withnail

Yes I agree.
When we bought our place in Spain we went there A LOT because we owned it. Then I got bored and wanted to see other things.

So now we have a compromise of some time in Spain where we know and the other holidays where we dont know.

 

[Apricot]

@Apricot

This has got to be a joke...right?

If its not a joke then it's very narrow minded

I fee sorry for your husband that wants to explore.

You seriously think "abroad" smells?

Actually you are right...ABROAD does smell

...of Bouganvillea in Spain, of Olives and Thyme in Italy, of exotic spices in Morrocco, of the wind and the sea of the Caribbean, the smell of earth and animals in Africa, the smell of money in New York , the smell of poverty in India, the smell of sex in parts of Thailland, the smell of fresh air and foliage in New England, the smell of new people, new experiences.

So why exactly dont you want to go?

It's sort of a joke - it's a running joke in our family that I never want to go abroad. We haven't been abroad since we had children, mostly due to finance. I suppose we will go eventually.

 

[Apricot]

@Withnail

Yes I agree.
When we bought our place in Spain we went there A LOT because we owned it. Then I got bored and wanted to see other things.

So now we have a compromise of some time in Spain where we know and the other holidays where we dont know.

On honeymoon in Fuerteventura years ago, we nearly got talked into buying a timeshare on the island. It was over-priced but ironically what really put us off was the thought of having to go there over and over again.

 

[shoes]

How do you nearly get talked into such a thing? When I was in Gran Canaria I grew tired of being hassled and eventually ended up just telling them to f**k off.

I'm not one for holiday's in general, in fact I managed the thick end of 10 years before somehow ending up with someone who lives for nothing else. She's taken me to Amsterdam and Croatia so far. Interesting places, but honestly, if I hadn't been, I wouldn't feel like I've been missing out.

Apparently we're going to Bruges soon, although I have been enticed by being allowed to drive over and naff off to spa-francorchamps for a day or five.

 

[Apricot]

How do you nearly get talked into such a thing? When I was in Gran Canaria I grew tired of being hassled and eventually ended up just telling them to f**k off.

I'm not one for holiday's in general, in fact I managed the thick end of 10 years before somehow ending up with someone who lives for nothing else. She's taken me to Amsterdam and Croatia so far. Interesting places, but honestly, if I hadn't been, I wouldn't feel like I've been missing out.

Apparently we're going to Bruges soon, although I have been enticed by being allowed to drive over and naff off to spa-francorchamps for a day or five.

We were young and innocent. We wasted half a day of our holiday listening to their sales pitch. They wanted us to sign up at once and I said I wanted to think about it for a bit, could I have a phone number, and the salesman wouldn't give us his phone number. At that point we got a bit suspicious.

I did get pregnant on that honeymoon though. In fact we've only had two foreign holidays and I got pregnant on both of them, so maybe it's just as well we don't go very often.