Now retired, my husband wants us to travel - I will miss Grandchildren!

Oh it would be so nice to get away from chilly drizzle. Such a miserable day today.

I don't find hotels boring. Eat, drink, charter a deep-sea fish journey, swim, exercise, hotel tours into safe areas. It's a wonderful holiday away from chilly drizzle.

It would get very boring just staying inside a hotel compound for four months.

I like to explore.

Perhaps the OP may come back and let us know what she has decided to do.

Of course they do. My niece, the most neurotic safety conscious person I know, holidays there (and nowhere else) every year. But she doesn't set foot outside her 5* hotel compound in Cancun. I was assuming that if the OP and her husband have had a long-standing dream of going to Mexico for 4 months, they'd be travelling round. Perhaps I'm wrong. Which is why I'd be interested to know.

People holiday in Mexico because it's reasonable, warm, pretty, with good food, and the resorts are nice and safe.

If Mexico is so dangerous, why do so many people holiday there?
Because the vast majority stick to the very safe, sanitised tourist areas, which are extremely well protected by the Mexican government.

If you look at the crime statistics for certain areas of the USA, I expect you would find some that are equally alarming - and that is in a country that is supposed to be one of the richest and most powerful in the world.
Well, of course there are dangerous areas everywhere. But a few seconds googling will show you that Mexico has many more than most. Just check out the advice given to tourists going to the US against that given to those heading for Mexico.

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/mexico/safety-and-security

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/usa/safety-and-security

If Mexico is so dangerous, why do so many people holiday there?

If you look at the crime statistics for certain areas of the USA, I expect you would find some that are equally alarming - and that is in a country that is supposed to be one of the richest and most powerful in the world.

willsmadam I think you comments to Jane10 are rude and insensitive, as are your comments re singles holidays. What you believe is a sense of humour is just nastiness.

No.

Probably!

But, as DH says I always like the last word may I have

The Last Word

This is all getting a bit personal and off the point but could that be because all there is to be said, has been said ?

I'm with Jane10 and I didn't pick up your "joke" either (Friday 21.10) Willsmadnan .

Maybe that's because I live so close to the border though

Jalima

I too wondered why Mexico

Perhaps he is a brickie?

I can think of nothing more boring/depressing than a singles holiday
Well, it depends if you're single or not - if you're widowed, divorced and all your friends are in couples sometimes it's difficult to find someone to go away with. A widowed friend recently plucked up the courage to go on a singles holiday despite misgivings, met up with some other older ladies and thoroughly enjoyed herself. It has renewed her confidence.

Who let the meow cats in?

Doesn't sound an ideal place to go Maggiemaybe.
The thing about jokes willsmadnan is that they're meant to be funny. Yours wasn't. I think you may have revealed the reason for your other thread btw. Hmmm?

I wonder where Minalta's gone, and what she thinks about how her thread has progressed. I'm still intrigued as to what plans she and her husband have for their travels, should they go ahead. Why Mexico? Wei love travelling, but as I said earlier, our Mexican friend strongly advised us against going it alone out there. There were around 22,000 homicides alone last year. An estimated 70 kidnappings per day, most not reported. Of course, if the plan is to stick to the tourist areas, there shouldn't be a problem.

Oh dear... t'was a joke jan10. I can think of nothing more boring/depressing than a singles holiday. Such a shame some GNers have lost their sense of humour with advancing years.

As you're free willsmadnan perhaps you'd like a singles holiday. Better than going after married men.

No willsmadnan there is so much more to our relationship than that sort of facile nonsense. We have a lifetime's shared experience. That forges the best kind of relationship. It means that we are in agreement over most things including holidays and the importance of our times with our family.

Reading your last but one posting jane10 I can see why you invest so much in your grandchildren. Do you and your partner actually have anything in common? Is that the norm for life over the border?
BTW ... I'm a red wine-loving cordon bleu , with a garden , and I'm free.... send him over ! Then you can devote 100% of your time to your GC.Problem solved!

Burns was an equal opportunities poet. I'm sure it would be OK with him. No nonsense though!

Southern?

Oh yes, I suppose most places are south
Are we allowed to a Burns Supper tomorrow night?
Bearing in mind that DH has Scottish blood?
(he likes whisky)

Ha. Don't bake, no roses, no garden. He drinks red, I like white.
We're Scottish. None of your Southern sloppy nonsense for us.

You could make him a , pick him a rose from the garden (mine are still going strong), give him a kiss, a bottle of - it doesn't have to be a Hallmark card!

I usually forget it myself.
Although I did buy a card last year.
And forgot to send it.