Holiday ideas

Skiing in Austria.

Hubs and I have planned a trip to Istanbul, Türkiye & The Bosphorus in early May ..

After the Easter mad rush, we plan to go to The Alhambra, Granada with dear friends. They drive so we shall make a few stops in the vicinity ..

We live in The Madrid Capital so we shall do some local museums and enjoy the city before it gets too too hot ..

I’m so excited - we have booked to go to Madeira next year for the Flower Festival & the Flower parade on the Sunday!

We haven’t made any firm plans yet, but reading everyone’s ideas is giving me the travel itch. I agree that if you don’t block your own dates out early, something always comes up and the year disappears. A short Paris trip sounds perfect, especially now Notre Dame is reopening. After that, maybe pick one or two places you’ve both been talking about for ages and get them booked before your DH’s cycling schedule takes over. Otherwise you’ll end up waiting again and missing out.

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Quite fancy trying Thailand again, but one and only trip there was to Pattaya( a ‘stop over’ few days after NZ trip) It was very disappointing- sleazy, not a nice beach, not very scenic & far too commercialised. Can any one recommend a 5* hotel in an unspoilt area of natural beauty? We like being able to walk around safely too. Any ideas welcome.

I can recommend the Centara Grand Beach Resort and Villas Krabi.

Lovely setting, accessible by boat or you can stroll round the headland in the crystal clear warm sea.

Quite fancy trying Thailand again, but one and only trip there was to Pattaya( a ‘stop over’ few days after NZ trip) It was very disappointing- sleazy, not a nice beach, not very scenic & far too commercialised. Can any one recommend a 5* hotel in an unspoilt area of natural beauty? We like being able to walk around safely too. Any ideas welcome.

I have been to the Isle of Wight (first time driving on to a ferry) and Isle of Man this summer. Both delightful.
I’m ignoring Christmas/NY and flying to Cape Verde on 21/12 until 2/01/26

For the last few years my son and I,53 and74, spend his inheritance on 3 weeks travelling. We have been to Thailand, bali, Vietnam and we are off to Sri Lanka in January. As he flies from Poland and I,m in the u.K. we meet half way and have our first two nights booked from then on we decide where we want to go.it still amazes me that all you need is a phone to arrange everything hotels,flights,trains,buses.
My dl is wonderful although using :my dying wish as a reason for going is becoming a family joke.
I,m not sure how many more years we can do it but I,m so happy we are .

Our joint holiday this year was in Brittany. We stayed in four different places and thoroughly enjoyed exploring.

Husband had several solo cycling holidays in Britain and France in the spring/summer. He recently came back from a trip to the Canary Isles with his brother. Unfortunately he ended up in hospital there with severe respiratory problems (including pneumonia) after inhaling seawater - it was a bit touch and go for a day or so, but he’s home now and almost completely recovered. (Also very appreciative of the excellent hospital care he received.)

I’m booked on a solo holiday to Malta next month and I confess to being slightly nervous. I haven’t had a recurrence of my amnesia since early this year, but it’s always in the back of my mind that it could happen again. I’m determined to chance it though and keep telling myself that it’s more of a problem to other people if it happens because I won’t remember it. 😶‍🌫️ 😂

We’ve booked for Antigua in March next year and will probably book somewhere in Greece in June or September . We very rarely go back to the same place . We may return to the same country but a different area .

I’m off to Barbados on thursday as our daughter is gettting married there the following week.

Still a London city break this year to go, I never ever tire of London and I used to live there.
Next year a Panama Canal cruise from USA. No disparaging comments please re cruising.

I take your point Aveline. I'm looking at it from a purely selfish perspective I suppose. We've been five times but there is still more to see. The Venetians are doing their best. They have banned cruise ships and there is a daily charge for visitors. All along the front ow there are ramps running alongside of the bridges which rather spoils the look in my opinion but much better for people with mobility problems who can't manage all the steps and bridges.

I like to set markers in the year. Holiday booking are punctuation for me.

We may well take a train or two down to southern France or into Spain. We no longer fly and we also don’t book until much nearer the time, I just can’t think that far ahead. I’m amazed that so many people do!

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Last April, we went on a Fred Olsen cruise and visited Keukenhof Tulip Gardens which I would thoroughly recommend. Despite recovering from a debilitating hospital stay and being rather weak, I was able to participate fully because we had hired a wheelchair from Mobility at Sea.

Now I'm back to full-strength (such as it is!) we have booked a Riviera Travel cruise on the Rhine to Switzerland in May next year.

I loved Venice too but I loved it so much that I'm not going back. I don't want to add to the massive tourism that is ruining it.

I'm interested to see how many people seem to go to the same place several times. We went to Venice for our 20th wedding anniversary so have ticked that off the list.

We were planning to go to Lake Garda before Covid but DH doesn't approve of flying and doesn't like driving and going by train will be an awful long journey. We are lucky to live fairly centrally in Europe and will hopefully be able to settle on something suitable where we haven't been before.

I do miss the sea though - it's 1000 km in any direction....

That's lovely Georgesgran. We found New Yorkers friendly. Our granddaughter loves New York too.

Kate DD2 is stunningly beautiful (yes, I’m biased) and a full-time wheelchair user, which makes her quite noticeable.
I’m amazed when random people rush up to her in some NYC establishments and greet her like a long-lost friend!

Next year I’m hoping to visit Japan with a friend - a cruise is involved - and then on to Sydney to stay with my daughter while the friend returns to the UK. I’m going to Morocco next week with another daughter & family (half term) for some pre winter 🌞. I’ve decided it’s now or never especially after the big op last year. I think it’s called ‘SKIing’ 😉

Nothing planned yet.
I am waiting to see what coach trips are planned, and what singing holidays. They have to fit in around my choir dates.

We’ve tried not to fly for the last 7 years and explore more of the UK. We tend to go away in May/June, then again in the Autumn, nothing planned yet for next year, I’ll look over the Winter.

No plans at all and we are unlikely to have any until well into next year

We have never really gone in for big bang holidays. This year we did the traditional Dutch bulbfields 3 day jaunt, a week in Suffolk with the family and then a week in Northumberland to visit the archaeological dig DS was directing.

All holidays arranged only a month or two in advance. We will do the same next year, but currently have nothing specific in mind.

Molly I've stood on Juliet's balcony in Verona. Exciting. Sorry if it sounds like I've been everywhere man. We just like Italy.