Holidays!

Go to Estonia rather than Poland Gareth - it's gorgeous and inexpensive and all the women are beautiful.

hmm, until just now i didn't really think i was going on holiday this year, but this doesn't sound too bad.

This is all kind of true. But the toilets do pong a bit.

On more savoury matters 10 of us are going to a GIT in Normandy next month to a) drink all their wine b) drink all their cider c) eat all their cheese. It will be rollicking good fun except for the bits where people expect Emma to speak French at all well just cos she has a degree in it.

AND there's a table tennis table there!

I don't think you truly appreciate what you will be missing by not being in the snoring/wanking room.

Bask in the power of euphamism.

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Gareth - it's just struck me, this is what you're doing with all this talk of beers and holidays.

I'd like to go to Norway or Northern California. But, knowing me the furthest I'll probably get is Richmond.

or visiting T in Fulham

ugh trying to sort holidays out for a group (including gf's) and it's a NIGHTMARE.

planning involved just to spend a week in the sunshine is the worst imo

This is why I don't go on vacations.

Well, that and the fact that I don't have a credit card to put the plane tickets on.

well i got a credit card a few years ago for both that and car rental, but i mean trying to get a week where people will commit is proving insane.

just go for a romantic, easy and CHEAP trip driving around france for the two of us again i reckon, which looks like its going to lead to drama for turning down an offer to go elsewhere with others.

just booked alicante, late sep.

What y'all doin?

People don't seem to say much about their holidays here.

I'm having a week of 'austerity' holiday at home in London after just forking out over £5k for a lease extension. It's been pretty good - up until today's miserable rain. And I haven't spent more than £10 a day more than I usually would at work because I've been really into walking a stretch of the Regent's Canal everyday.

my week of leave ends tonight. I got wasted every day, applied for a job, spent way more money than I should have, didn't read enough. Just left a party that was just getting started cause I have to get up at 6 tomorrow. The end of a holiday is always emotional; "living for the weekend" to the power of something

The end of a holiday sometimes brings on a feeling for me of just how odd holidays can be: the pressure to try to fit in the maximum amount pleasure in a short space of time.

One of the reasons I'm so poorly traveled is I find choosing and booking a holiday about as stressful as moving house.

Whenever I've gone away, it's almost always been at the behest of someone else, i.e. they will be the one who suggests where and when to go, and I'll just follow suit.

It's my understanding that a lot of people actually enjoy doing this and regularly window-shop holidays as a sort-of hobby.

Me? I don't know where to even begin. All I know is I'd like to go somewhere for a bout a week in mid-late October. Apart from that, I have no idea where to even figure out where to go. I've Googled "Places to go on holiday October 2025" and I just get expensive resort-style all-inclusives and package holidays; or long blogs that are thin on details. Or I just get a long list of pretty much every destination imaginable.

Basically, for me it's like being someone who's never cooked in their life being sent to a large supermarket to buy food for a meal. I could randomly select ingredients and end up making a tuna and icecream sandwich. How am I even supposed to know where to start?

What are you interested in? I’ll tell you where to go.

go somewhere nice

(or think about some broad categories. beach v city. sunny v temperate. touristy v off-the-beaten path. if in doubt just go spain, france or italy and stuff your face accordingly)