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So why aren't you having the holiday you'd like? Can't get the time off? Don't have the money?

And if these weren't issues, and you were able to live the globe-trotting lifestyle of Gareth, then where would you *like* to be going and/or doing?

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a finite amount of time and money, but I've really gone holiday mad lately. at least in theory. current places I want to holiday in include:

Iceland (again)

Berlin

Syria

Egypt

Lebanon (again)

London

Cork

Boston-New York-WashingtonDC-Yorktown

Edinburgh

and so on.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I'd want to trot the globe. But things I will do when and if I make enough money to venture beyond London: go to Italy because I've never been; visit friends in Scotland and York because I haven't been for ages; spend some peaceful time with Matt in the Lake District or somewhere.

(There's an arts marketer's conference in York in January actually that I conceivably could blag a place on. Hurrah for free trips!)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

now i'm depressed*

― kephm, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha-ha, I have actually won one war with my family, in that they have agreed to come HERE for Xmas. I haven't been back to see them in nearly two years firstly, well, because of that minor fear-of-flying problem I've developped post-9/11, but also because GODDAMMIT, IT'S THEIR TURN TO COME HERE.

So I guess I should save some time off for Xmas.

Wherever I go, it would have to be somewhere I could get to by train or by car, but then that's the whole Continent I could explore, and if I could get my head around a boat, well, bits of Africa, too. I'd love to visit North Africa.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to go through the Chunnel. I really want to do that. Do I need a passport for that?

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

My gf has to drive from Denver to the East coast in a few days time, and I'd love to do it with her as a kind of other side of the coin to our southwest US roadtrip experience. I want to take her to Venice too, but then I can't really count that as I've been about 30 times already and ma going back in 3 weeks.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd like to have a holiday, period!
(=a time free from all my three different jobs simultaneously)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to come to the UK, also see my wifes town in Norway and pretty much do the whole Europe thing. But my fear of flying has been keeping me within a driving range vacation.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I have, however, finally been given confirmation today that I can have the last week of this month off. First proper holiday in ... I don't know how long, since I haven't had a JOB in so long. Tours don't count.

HSA and I plan to go to Wiltshire with his mum and do AS LITTLE AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE except climb the hill and weed the White Horse (doesn't that sound like a euphemism? I'm going to Weed The White Horse, man) and sleep in the sun. Hooray! I am very grateful for HSA and his family for this opportunity.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds nice Kate! I like holidays where I can get to be lazy.

I just got back from vacation a week ago, and I'm already desperate to go on another one. I'm not allowed to have any more time off though.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to be travelling round Italy seeing Radiohead like my friends are right now, not that i'm bitter or anything.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Today is the last day of my vacation and it totally didn't work. I had lots of fun but for some reason was never able to unplug. I had work dreams almost every night. So the b/f and I have decided that we'll be taking two weeks in either italy or new orleans this christmas, so there's that to look forward to. It also helps to have a fun time planned for six months from now because the next five months might be really scary at work. I will survive, etc. But has anyone ever had an experience like this, where you had a putatively satisfying vacation but were never able to forget work for a moment?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I also want go on holidays to Brest and Paris, so that I can travel by train in France. and I want to go to Prague again. and I want to travel around the West Country of England. and and and.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you hire an English car with an American drivers liscence? It doesn't matter which side of the road I drive on in Wiltshire as the roads are all one-lane roads. It's quite remote so it might be nice to have a car for at least part of the time.

FAP Avebury, anyone?

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I like holidays where I can get to be lazy.

Yus. The FAP wasn't like that (and wasn't meant to be like that), but Seattle a few weeks back and NZ/Aus last year were TOTALLY lazeouts mixed with fun things. Wondrous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to visit friends that are flung round the globe. A trip to Toronto is way overdue, but I'll be seeing her hopefully in NYC for a weekend before Christmas, and another friend's upped sticks and returned to Australia along with my godson and the rest of the family, so I'll have to visit them some time. One of my other best friends is emigrating to New Zealand in sept. so that's somewhere else far away and expensive I'll have to go to see them.

Anyone fancy emigrating far away, just become close friends with me, seems to work a treat!

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

gareth takes my holidays on my behalf

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm intending trips to Dublin and the US in the coming months. Maybe a weekend in Amsterdam also? The other place I really, really want to go to Lisbon, I have found a mental image of it as a very dusty and exceptionally quiet place (this I know is analagous to my belief that the whole of the centre of Boston, Mass. was made of wood, but with help from Fernando Pessoa).

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to go to lisbon helsinki iceland chile moldova dnepropetrovsk new orleans seattle sf council bluffs pittsburgh skopje stockholm

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

don't forget Rhyl

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Honofuckinlulu, that's where I want to be.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

*cue tiki necklace and spooky whistling*

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bederson.org/dana/august-2000/dana%20eating%20gamla-stan%20stockholm%202%206-16-00.jpg

― Dada, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly I have plenty of fucking time pero no cash right now. Supreme laziness abounds.

If I could've afforded it I wanted to drive up the west coast to Alaska. Next summer. Till then I'll just have to be sated with occasional drives to Austin to do things like meet Joel. *sniff*

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth, get off this thread. You have more holidays than anyone I've EVER met in my entire life. Including travel writers.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I wonder whether I shouldn't follow the example of certain of my friends and get a well-paid job that I hate so I can afford to get away from the horror every single weekend/fly to New York every two weeks or whatever. But on balance I would rather have my own pleasant job and retain the excitement of going away once in a blue moon...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The problem is, when you get a well paid job, that you end up not being able to take any time off...

Hey, wait a minute, I've got a shit paid job and they STILL hassle me about getting time off. :-(

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm intending trips to Dublin and the US in the coming months.

Tim! When!! I demand to know! Inquiring mind and all that.

I think I promised to go to LA and somewhere in Texas and Miami and the UK all over the NYC FAP but of course this would mean I'd have to stop NYC FAPing enough to have money.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Lisbon is neither dusty nor quiet. It's pretty smelly and loud but very nice all the same.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Given loads of money and time, Japan would be first on my list - I'd spend a few months there very happily. China next and ditto, then more far east - Cambodia for Angkor Wat would be next in line, then Bangkok I think.

Closer at hand, I have somehow never got around to Italy, and I could spend a while seeing art and architecture there.

But if I have some spare cash and time, as I hope to next year, and I'm still on my own, somewhere for fun with other ILXers might be top of the list, and I've loved NYC the couple of times I've been, so that is a pretty likely destination.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I just want that kid's drooly cookie.

But in all seriousness, I'm dying for a vacation. I had two of them last summer and since then I really haven't gone anywhere.

Kate, at least you could get a week off. They raised hell when I took two days off (without pay, mind) to go to South Dakota at my office.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh goodness Martin, you must see Italy. It's so lovely.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Leigh you spoil all my fun. Turns out Boston's made out of bleedin' stone as well (also other things like metal and glass but plainly not wood). Typical.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, at least you could get a week off. They raised hell when I took two days off (without pay, mind) to go to South Dakota at my office.

Jesus Christ, Mandee! Quit! If they have that much trouble getting along without you, then they should be deprived of you and forced to cope post-haste!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 10 July 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

(I think Tim is due in NYC & perhaps Nashville sometime this Sep. But when, when?)

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

he wouldnt say. he was pretending to have lost the power of speech, but i am sure it is to coincide with a clientele gig

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

This much is sure, but rather than having to research time of said gig, wouldn't it be nicer if TH just let the cat out of the bag himself?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

my parents are going to italy today, i wish i was going on holiday. sadly i have no cash to go on holiday at the moment. still i should be moving soon, so that will fill my time.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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