Holidays.

[Katelb]

If you could choose a holiday destination anywhere in the world and have an all-expenses paid holiday,where would you choose?


I have always wanted to go to Mauritius so that would be my choice, and it is one of the few places OH hasn't been to during his working life,so we could both enjoy it.:)

[sheddie]

I would choose Vienna, because I love the music and history. X

[Crocus]

I think you all know the answer to that, definitely the UK!!!!!

[eleanor2]

if it was all expenses paid i would book on the top luxury liner to go a month up the river nile.i would want my own personal guide and interpreter to be at hand.i would want this guide to be a high official who could get me into the pyramids and sites out of hours.personal tour.then two days in cairo museum with my personal curator.i would want to visit the pyramids by night.camp out and watch the sun set and then rise again the next morning.is there any chance of this.yes in my dreams.

[Oola]

I think I would have to opt for New Zealand or Canada.

[Crocus]

Even with all expenses paid, I won't stay in a hotel, I will just book into a self catering cottage in the Yorkshire Dales, on Skye, in Wells, possibly in Sidmouth, (it's a lovely town), Burford, Bibury, Windermere, Crieff, Pitlochry, Alnwick, oh goodness I can just carry on! Perhaps a few days in a Castle won't be so bad ...........

[dinger]

I would like to go to Hawahi [Don't know if spelt right] and wear my hula skirt and garlands round my neck .Would be heaven x

[Katelb]

Well we ought to somehow do a lottery syndicate then our various dreams might come true!!!! Dream on Kate! x

[Crocus]

Dream on Crocus!

[sunflower]

For my all expense paid holiday, I would like to spend time in New England USA. I'd love to stay in one of those lovely houses with the verandah that surrounds the house and a swing seat. Preferably, it would be a farm house, so I would love to share in the day to day running of the farm. I'd also like to visit the summer and Fall festivals, and go to an Armish country market to buy the lovely home made food, and perhaps buy an enormous handmade quilt.

[jazzactivist]

I would like to go to India, as I love the food and the colours and challenging lifestyle and variety of cultures really interests me. I also fancy Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, again as the different indigenous cultures seems really interesting. I wouldn't bother with plush hotels at all, as I think that they isolate you from the real experience of a place, so I'd just stay in small local guests houses or with local people. If I won the Lottery I would just buy a nice camper van, convert it to veg oil fuel, and set off arund the world for years of discovery.

[Crocus]

Hi Jazz, sounds quite interesting the places you would like to go! What you had said about staying in hotels, I agree with you. With us always staying in a self catering cottage and during the first 3 visits to the UK in B&B's, we've learnt so much about the country it's people etc. By going to the supermarkets, farmers markets and shops, gave us a another perspective on life in the UK.

As a "tourist" on a bus touring a country, you only see what a brochure tells you, the "must see" stuff, the popular tourist stuff. That's why we prefer to rather do all the driving ourself, navigate where we want to be, even if it means we might get lost. This way we learn "the lie of the land", so to speak.

You're talking about buying a campervan and then tour to whever you want - exactly what we would like to do at some stage. Hire a campervan/motorhome, or whatever, and then travel at our own pace, stay over where we want (camping sites and the like) and for how long we choose. If time and money were'nt an issue, I would very much to like tour the UK from top to bottom, criss-crossing and zigsagging with a camera and a very very thick journal to write down every little detail! :cool:

Oh well, dream on Crocus, dream on, perhaps one day when the boys are sorted and we, hopefully, have enought breath left ........;)

[franbee]

I would do the campervan thing too, but in France, Italy, Germany or Spain, in fact anywhere warm.

[dinger]

I would also fancy a visit to Ireland .

[Redstart]

I'd like to visit: Skye (for the knitting and the history), Ireland (because my great grandfather came from there) and Vienna (because it's a city I visited as a child and I would love to go back). And I'd like all three places with nice en suite accommodation and good food and all expenses paid; I'd travel to the two islands by boat as I don't like flying.

And I forgot - I'd like a nice expenses-paid cruise to Panama to see my daughter and while there I want to go up into the cloud forest.

[Crocus]

Won't mind to see Ireland as well - will include it in that campervan holiday I've mentioned. I also won't mind to see Norway.

[Katelb]

I think after Mauritius,I would like to tour Scotland,it's almost on our doorstep so we wouldn't have far to go,but there is something unique about Scotland and it's inhabitants and beautiful scenery.

[Pippa]

Any Scandanavian country for me, the love affair has not dimmed.

[Crocus]

If you get the chance to go to Scotland, and if you perhaps haven't been there Kate, Pitlochry is a lovely town and just outside the town is Scotland's smallest distillery Edradour. It's really worth a visit. Lots of beautiful places in Scotland ...............sigh, sigh.......

[Redstart]

I only mentioned Sky because at the beginning of January my daughter and family moved to Oban so I'll be going there every year from now on - in fact we have a crossing booked on a DFDS ferry for the 16th December from Amsterdam to Newcastle (see daughter and grandchildren and then south to spend Christmas with my then 87 year-old mum). So instead of exploring Wales, we'llbe exploring Scotland from now on.

By the way, the whole family love it in Oban.

[Crocus]

Hi Redstart, we stayed in a B&B in Oban a few years ago. It rained quite a lot and it was very cold, but we enjoyed it nevertheless. We very much would like to see Skye. Apparantly it's a beautiful island, and on Seasonally Scottish, the BBC Food programme with Clare McDonald (they own a hotel on Skye) she always talk about the beauty of the island in all of its seasons. All the travel programs we've seen on Skye and the pictures and articles I've read on Skye, shows the beauty of this place. There's a kind of magical atmosphere surrounding it.

[franbee]

Skye is lovely Crocus, well worth a visit.

[Crocus]

It's just WHEN (will I get there) - not for a long time still! Sigh again.....

[emjay53]

I think I live in one of the prettiest parts of the UK and am very happy to mooch around the West Country on holidays really, which is just as well as I dont have the money for anyhing more exotic. However, if it was all expenses paid, I think a nice cruise across the atlantic on the QM 2 and then a stay at the Waldorf Astoria in NY for a week (I have actually stayed there, I won an all expns paid hol to NY about 10 yrs ago and it was great), then a train journey up to Boston and then a trip to Niagra, and then back for another few days in NY and then home again on the QM 2.

[buecherwurm]

I just love Cornwall. Unfortunately haven't been back there for a few years and getting withdrawal symptoms already. So, I hope to be able to go to St.Ives next year. I also like Scotland and especially Edinburgh. But the last couple of years I spent my holidays in Ireland. I stay in Dublin and Donegal mostly but sometimes travel by Bus Eireanne from town to town to spend a couple of days in each. Hate having to pack all the time, though. This year a few friends will come to Dublin with me. So I'll be kind of a tourguide for a couple of days. Should be interesting......

[Rustic Pumpkin]

Does it have to be just one?

I guess the real blow the budget one would have to be London to Venice on the VSOE with a direct flight from Venice to New York on Concorde (brought out of retirement especially for me) to pick up the QM2 for a round the world cruise, stopping off just about everywhere, with a detour to Everest Base Camp!

Well, I wanted to get it all in!

[littlemiss]

i wanto go to koh toa island on the thailand coast, it means 'turtle island'