Keeping in touch with friends made on holiday

Skydancer - how lovely!

Ah skydancer. A perfect holiday romance.

Kate1949

We don't like to 'make friends' on holiday. We prefer to do our own thing.

Making friends is like falling in love. It just happens sometimes.

We made friends over 30 years ago. It fizzled out when the kids grew up and now it’s just the odd email and yearly Christmas card but we live in different parts of the country so not easy to maintain a real friendship.

Aldom

Kate1949

We don't like to 'make friends' on holiday. We prefer to do our own thing.

Making friends is like falling in love. It just happens sometimes.

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Not to us on holiday escaped. We have some lovely chats with people on holiday but we don't want to 'make friends' with them. We are not 'friends' type of people.

We have a 2 that we exchange Xmas cards with going back 30 years , we usually write a few words about the family inside, but no other meet up in all those years. Another is a chap who worked in a bar we went to, we then didn't see him again for a few years but he turned up in a different resort working in a restaurant he was so friendly that we keep in contact via FB now and he is married and living in the UK.

We are exactly the same, Kate1949 - my husband will chat to anyone and there's been many a time I've thought he's disappeared somewhere when we've been on holiday, only to find him blethering a way to someone, but we don't 'make friends' either.

That's us exactly ViceVersa. We have lovely chats as I said but the minute someone says 'Would you like to meet up later?' we politely decline.

Most of our best friends have been made on holidays, we caravan in the U.K. and abroad and I can honestly say that every main trip we go on we make friends that we arrange to see both at home or on a caravan site somewhere we all want to visit. We are in our 70s and it is a sheer delight to make new friends but still keep up with old ones. Of course we have our neighbours and friends from the village, but I suppose these caravan friends, some dating back to the 80s & 90s, all have something in common. Wherever we go around the U.K. we always have someone to meet up with for a meal together and a catch up. I love it, and can’t understand people who don’t want to make friends on holiday.

Kate1949

We don't like to 'make friends' on holiday. We prefer to do our own thing.

Same here……..it’s nice to chat to people on holiday but that’s as far as it goes, can’t be doing with the exchanging addresses and sending Christmas cards malarkey.

I used to have to warn the Bodach not to make eye contact on holidays, as I had no wish to find ‘pals’! Now that I am travelling solo I still try to avoid it, though in Paris I ran into a lady who had been sitting near me at dinner the previous evening, then she was sitting beside me in a church. She was all set for us to ‘chummy up’, so I had to invent a prior engagement!
Having said that, long,long ago I went on to an internet holiday destination forum to ask a specific question, and began ‘chatting’ with a few others . It was then suggested we arrange to meet up, which we did, and we have continued to do so for the last fifteen years or so. It’s very informal, with maybe only a couple of meetings over the weeks, but lovely to see everyone.

In 1969, DH and I went on holiday in Austria, where we met a young couple from north Germany. We have been lifelong friends, no language barrier as she was an English teacher and I was a German teacher. The husbands had their sport/hobby in common and each had enough of the other language. It's been amazing.

We made some friends one year in France. They were an Italian family and we kep tin touch sending Christmas cards etc. Eventually they came to visit the UK and were staying in London. At the time we lived in Oxfordshire so suggested they visit Oxford by train We picked them up at the station and took them to our home for a meal before returning them to Oxford, showing them some of the sites and seeing them off on the train in the evening. We had a lovely time, despite the language barriers. The wife spoke quite good French so we mostly communicated in French. Sadly a year or two later she became ill and died very young. We lost touch after that.

A friend of mine regularly goes on hholiday alone, usually coach tours or cruises. She makes friends all over the country and often keeps in touch and meets up later. She loves dancing and if she meets a dancer may meet up for a dancing weekend somewhere.

I met an Australian woman in Sydney 20 year ago and we are still in contact. It’s a tad intermittent, with flurries of emails every now and then, but I’m glad that we’ve maintained it. I doubt we will ever meet again, sadly.

We met a couple in Italy 45 years ago who had two girls the same age as ours and we’ve never lost touch even though they live in Staffordshire and we live in Surrey. We’ve visited each other’s houses several times and it has been a lovely friendship and definitely not like a holiday romance! Sometimes you just click with people.

When I was working as a holiday rep I met so many different people so expected to still be in contact with some of the reps. But I also am still in contact with guests that I looked after whilst they were on holiday. Some of them I've visited and stayed with and some are just Christmas emails to catch up, I love to stay in contact.

I never speak to anyone! So many times I've been caught and the people just spoke about themselves and all their complaints. I make no eye contact and have been known to pretend I'm speaking on.my phone....I'm not unsociable I just can't be bothered!!

Not really...no

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Rather than offend anyone I haven't the slightest interest in having any future contact with, I just give a wrong digit in my phone number or give an old long-gone AOL email address!!
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I think the best thing is exchange some form of social media. Instragram for example. I have one but do not put there much, just flowers images. But I can look to others accounts, it has got a messenger etc

I have made friends with people on fb whom I have never met. So kind of that sort of thing

I don't feel the need for friends at all. I'm an odd bod. I've always found friends a bit of a chore.

We have 3 friends we have known since 2007 and we not only been on holiday withem a few times we have visited their homes and stayed with them a number of times and visa versa.

2 of them are currently on their way home from Portugal in their campervan and will be calling and staying with us for a while.

Number 3 blotted her copy book in a big way and so we haven't seen her for a while.

I love your threads on here lol

I do NOT like to give out my personal info to someone I just met. And if pushed I would shut down pretty quickly. It is just a bit scary out in the world anymore..... Hubby now he just thinks it is great to invite folks to our house even gives them our address and phone number....