Desperate for a holiday

GagaJo

The thing is, the world is changing. Between covid and global warming, we can't fly off with impunity anymore. I'm an overseas teacher, grounded in the UK because of this. Life isn't going back to the old carefree, wasteful, polluting way it was before. At least, it isn't if we want there to be a liveable world for our grandchildren.

I agree with you, GagaJo, much as I’m going to miss our old ways. We’re very lucky in that we’ve done a lot of travelling in the past, but had already talked about cutting it back dramatically before Covid struck.

We’ve just had a lovely seaside break in England - not at all crowded or expensive. And in September we’re off on the train to London for a few days. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the hotels we looked at were much cheaper than pre-Covid, so we’re staying for four nights instead of the two we’d planned.

A vacation abroad is not a need
Secondly, covid - it is getting very ugly in Spain and whatever you may plan now, may not be possible when the date comes

I’ve confused just trying to work out where I can and can’t go so it’s a week in Ireland and the odd night away in Yorkshire/Cumbria.

….I don’t see many on here sharing your desire to holiday abroad at present.

We’re going to Zakinthos in September, and we went to Kefalonia last September. I’m not afraid, we’re both fully vaccinated and we both unfortunately had Covid seven months ago. Before Covid we travelled abroad three or four times a year, and I loved seeing new places, meeting new people, and experiencing new cultures. I particularly enjoyed going to Japan and other Far Eastern countries. We’ve visited almost all the European nations and enjoyed them all. America, Canada, Australia, we’ve been lucky enough to visit them all. I will be extremely happy when we can resume travelling to all these places.

My son and his wife have had both jabs , they took off for Spain with the two youngest 8 and 13 , had a lovely few days then poor DIL went down with Covid ! They all are in isolation , DS is allowed out to get provisions , GD has it now ! Son assures me they are all fine ! Room has a balcony, just not a great holiday for anyone , they can’t even book to come home , isolation counts from day that GD took ill , if he or GS take ill it’s another 10 days or till they all get negative tests , we are all mad that he didn’t listen to us , poor kids stuck inside , and the cost , plus time off from jobs

Luckygirl
Just for you. I will be here tomorrow and think of you while having their wonderful ice cream and hot chocolate.

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Lucca

GillT57. “ I won't be holidaying in the UK though due to crowds and prices”

Totally agree with you on that.

Totally with GillT and Lucca on this. We’ve just had a week in Somerset before the schools broke up, and it was very nice, but definitely not the same as going abroad. We don’t sit on a beach all day when we go abroad, as Lucca says, it’s a different way of life, different food, different culture, different language, different history. There’s so much to enjoy and learn, and so many places to explore. Staying at home with the phone and WiFi off would bore me to death.

I'd definitely go abroad if I didn't have my dogs. Two of them are very old and I couldn't live with myself knowing they'd get separation issues and be bewildered. My lovely spaniel has dementia. It wouldn't be fair on them at all.

But people are leaving from all corners of the UK to go on holidays abroad. And how lovely for them!

If you're double jabbed and follow all rules then it's perfectly fine to want a holiday abroad.

Before Covid we went abroad several times a year and would love to do some again but even though we’re double jabbed we wouldn’t consider it at the moment. Just too risky for us and others. I know we’re lucky and have a comfortable home near the coast and others aren’t as lucky. We’ll be staying at home for the foreseeable future.

Nanna58

Germanshepherdsmum, I am sure that some people may be even more ultra cautious than you , and you might be uncomfortable if they accused you of being a risk . OP not breaking any laws, rules or regs , she just has a different mindset from you all on travel and doesn’t deserve to be told she is a risk to others.

Exactly. If OP goes abroad she will take all the necessary precautions. I’d rather encounter her than an anti vaxxer !

However much I love travelling abroad (not to lie on a beach by the way) I won’t be going for a while, but fully intend to in 2022.

The thing is, the world is changing. Between covid and global warming, we can't fly off with impunity anymore. I'm an overseas teacher, grounded in the UK because of this. Life isn't going back to the old carefree, wasteful, polluting way it was before. At least, it isn't if we want there to be a liveable world for our grandchildren.

Germanshepherdsmum, I am sure that some people may be even more ultra cautious than you , and you might be uncomfortable if they accused you of being a risk . OP not breaking any laws, rules or regs , she just has a different mindset from you all on travel and doesn’t deserve to be told she is a risk to others.

It's interesting what holidays mean to different people. For me, a week or two on a beach is not my idea of pleasure. I burn very easily and can't stand the sand getting on my body as soon as I've covered myself in sun cream. it means you have to go back into the sea to wash it off and then start the process again.
I lived by the sea when I was little and loved pottering around in the rock pools and playing in the sea. When we lived in Suffolk we used to leave home at around 5.30pm to drive to the coast- usually Walberswick - and pass all the day trippers setting off for home.

Now I much prefer cities and visiting museums and galleries and people watching. For me it's my mind that needs a rest and not my body.

Fine for you to take a risk with your own life/health OP, my point is that you are also taking a risk with the lives and health of others rather than have a perhaps more expensive but less risky holiday in the UK at present. No-one is saying you can never have your three holidays a year abroad again but I don’t see many here sharing your desire to holiday abroad at present. In fact by the time you factor in the cost of tests, possible quarantine and possible damage to your business is a UK holiday really any more expensive? However as I said I live a long way from you (north Norfolk, have you tried it?) you’re not a risk to me!

GillT57

We too are missing our planned holidays; both just retired, no longer with elderly parents to care for, but may leave it for a while. I am not too bothered about having to quarantine back here to be honest, but would be worried about trying to find somewhere to stay in Spain for example if one of us tested positive pre -flight home. I won't be holidaying in the UK though due to crowds and prices, but will just use my back garden and support local pubs and restaurants who need our custom.

Good idea. Now that theatres etc are opening up there's lots of things to do unless you live miles away from anywhere.

I do not greatly miss going on holiday - I live in what I consider to be the most beautiful place in the world and we always used to come back saying why did we do that, this is so lovely?

And now I am on my own, the whole business is far more difficult.

But, having been brought up by the sea, I do miss that - and will try to get away somewhere by the sea for a few days.

No I am certainly not desperate for a holiday and if I was would choose to holiday in the UK at the moment. Certainly would not risk going abroad right now. Each to their own we all have to weigh up the risks and do what we feel is right for us.

I’m thankful we had four overseas holidays in 2019 culminating in a trip to Australia for my niece’s wedding. We love travelling overseas. OH’s job involved international travel. During my work vacations I would fly out to see him in places like Egypt.. I also regularly visited Australia where a lot of my family live. So I am missing going away. We have a holiday booked in Italy for September (which we had to postpone from last year) but we are unsure what’s happening there currently. And yes, I enjoy being at home too, but that was mainly when I worked full time and I’m retired now.

We’ve booked three short breaks this year in the UK and DD 2 x 1 week holidays (school age children) prices as normal.

Life is a risk, I ride my horse, I think that’s more of risk, which I’m happy to take the risk, live life! I go every day to the stables, 20 people running around, sorting horses out, riding together, chatting away …not one of them has fallen off their horse or caught covid since March 2020! I have family who work the travel industry, so I’m thinking of them, money makes the world go round! just heard on the news ppl who’ve been vaccinated from amber can visit us with the need to quarantine! But they won’t cause it’s too expensive!

Nor me kitty

Germanshepherdsmum

What do you mean OP, ‘the risk, if there is any’? Of course there’s a risk, not only to you but to those with whom you come into contact. Glad you’re in Wales, a few hundred miles from me.

Blimey…..a bit aggressive.

What do you mean OP, ‘the risk, if there is any’? Of course there’s a risk, not only to you but to those with whom you come into contact. Glad you’re in Wales, a few hundred miles from me.

Germanshepherdsmum When doing a very stressful job I was often desperate for a break but frankly staying at home with the phone and WiFi off would have fitted the bill for that. Now that I’m retired every day is, by comparison, a wonderful holiday. ”
Yes but that’s you !!
We’re all different.
I love going abroad for the different way of life, food, language, culture etc and to me that’s a holiday.

kittylester

I have never understood the concept of being 'desperate' for a holiday.

I'm desperate for a paddle but don't care where!
As long as there's sand not mud.