Does Anyone Have Any Nice Holidays Planned?

[naomi24]

After waking this morning to a chilly, icy landscape some posts to warm us all up would be welcome.  

[barry1010]

Wish I did have, naomi, sometimes I long for a bit of winter sun but my wife reminds me I complain about the heat, the mosquitos and the blerdy cockroaches when I'm abroad.  So I've decided to take the Danish approach and hygge. 

On the opposite end I quite fancied one of those river cruises up the fjords until I watched a YouTube review.  That put me off river cruising on a large boat for life.  We've always enjoyed cruising on the Norfolk Broads and the canals, going along at our own pace, master of the tiller. 

[naomi24]

This will do for me.

 

 

 

[maggiebee]

My grandson teaches scuba diving in the Maldives. I've been invited out but it's just so expensive to travel to that I'll have to give it a miss at the moment. Maybe next year.

[Khandro]

I don't think you are missing much, if it's any consolation maggie. It may look fantastic on the photos with palm trees and beaches, but it is extremely humid, uncomfortably so, a bit smelly and on our island electricity had to be generated making a lot of noise to fill the oxygen tanks

The staff were all rather surly Muslims (it's a Muslim country) and we had a distinct feeling that they resented serving us 'infidels'.

Your grandson is in the best bit: underwater - it's fabulous !  I'll never forget the colours of the fish and being so close to a giant ray

[Samuraisan]

We've booked our next flights to Japan for the end of March. Three weeks. Our three children and their families are also coming, so should be great.

[bednobs]

those river cruise boats they advertise on the telly look like it'd take one wave to break them in half barry

[barry1010]

It wasn't that that put me off, it was the over organised coach trip vibe.