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Holiday anxiety

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morethan2 Thu 08-Sept-16 07:29:45

I wonder if anyone else suffers from this? I love holidays. I feel really privlaged to be able to go abroad. It's somthing that was unobtainable to me as a child. A holiday was blackberry picking or if we were lucky a day trip to the nearest seaside (New Brighton) for a few hours. I think it was triggered a few years ago when we missed our flight while sitting eating in the terminal. Then a year later I burnt my arm just before going. We still went but I couldn't swim and dressing needed changing regularly. Then a few months ago the day before our much planned trip to tour Greece my husband trapped a nerve and all we could do was sit by the pool. I'm due out on Sunday to our regular village in Greece and I found out yesterday that they've had terrible storms, cars in the sea, floods and the airport temporily closed. Now it'll probably be cleaned up before we go but I just feel jinks and my anxiety is sky high. I'm worried about the milkman, getting to the airport and all manner of stupid things.

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Aslemma Sun 11-Sept-16 15:54:22

I try to fly from Stansted as it's my nearest airport, being only an hour away on a (free) bus. If I have an early flight I get to the airport as late as possible the night before and sit it out. There is no way I could go to bed, as I would feel worse after only a few hours sleep.

In some ways I'm lucky as I always travel solo so don't have to worry about anyone else, the only problem being when you want to use the loo and there is nobody to keep an eye on your bags. It seems however that I'm probably a good judge of character as I invariably find a friendly soul to keep an eye on them

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morethan2 Sun 11-Sept-16 17:45:39

Well I'm here, all went smoothly. No catastrophe. As soon as I'm in the departure lounge I'm fine. But up till then I'm a mess. Like I say I know it's silly, I know I'm privlaged to be able to go on holiday but like lots of people's anxieties there often appears to be no rhyme or reason to it, well apart from some deep rooted issue that would probably take too long to unpick and cost a fortune with a physiologist. Lots of sunshine and wine to look forward to for two weeks. Thanks again for sharing your experiences

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chelseababy Mon 12-Sept-16 14:46:51

And I'm here in Corfu. Fortunately we decided to go for a much earlier train than was necessarily. Just as well as the next two were cancelled! We got a taxi from St Pancras to London Bridge (well worth the £16) and got a train to Gatwick almost straight away. So we there by 01:30 for our 05:50 flight. I'd much rather that than be fretting about being delayed and missing flight.

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