holidays

We went to Bempton last time we were up there, but rather it was late in the year. Have just looked up Danes Dyke. Looks like a must. Thanks.

Ooops posted in wrong thread- should be in 'holiday in October'!

Now throwing a spanner in the works- lol- how about Switzerland?

I mean a spa resort in the Alps- with all the autumn colours, flaming larches, and hot water pools and fabulous views.

Like Ovronnaz- above the Rhône valley (train to Sion from Geneva airport and bus up) or further down, Loèche-les- Bains (otherwise known as Leukerbad) (train to Sierre and then bus up - or rent a car of course.
The spas have indoor and outdoor hot pools, jacuzzis, massages, etc. October is a good time to get special offers.

vq my DH and I were at Bempton last year. It was fabulous, watching all the seabirds. We just missed breeding season so most of them had gone . If we have the DGC with us we usually stay in a static caravan on one of the big sites. If we are by ourselves we have just found the joy in a "bus tour". We live near a very good company and have been with them to places the length and breadth of Britain, and abroad. Can't afford a proper holiday this year though.

Also why do a lot of hotels charge more for single travellers and then put them in a glorified cupboard.

NfkDumpling....if you go to Flamborough try to find time to include Bempton and Danes Dyke.

why is accommodation so expensive, especially self catering, a caravan can cost up to £200 for two nights at a popular park, which is cheap if there are four or more but why is there no accommodation for singles or why cant they hire accommodation per person. It is sheer greed by holiday providers. Does anyone go alone on holiday.

a friend in her 70s goes regularly with A group of singles and there are excersions/outings etc and she likes it but they have to sit together in the dining room at the same seat at the same time and they even have their seats on the bus planned and get quite quarrelsome if someone sits in their seat. I couldn't stand this. I would want either self catering (yurt/caravan) or in a hotel where I could just arrive for breakfast in my own time, after a traumatic journey I would just want to relax not go jaunting on excersions (cant spell the word). I prefer to stay at chain hotels such as holiday Inn/travel lodge, which is where my employers put me when Im on a training conference. The ideal holiday must be there somewhere but I don't think it is.

Flamborough head is worth a visit whilst you`re up there, NfkDumpling.

Oooh haven't been to Filey in years. Might go for a day next week if the weather holds.

Went to Spurn point last year VQ- loved it - and we've just managed to find somewhere in Filey to take the 'van at the end of June. I think we got the last pitch in East Yorkshire! Everyone seems to be heading there. Must be the gannets"

DD1 and family have stayed in yurts. Very comfy with own 'facilities' at the back. Basic cooking equipment but no fridge as no electricity, log burner and proper beds. To be recommended apparently.

stansgran, ive just read the link and the yurts and hut sound really good, just my thing but as I have no one to go with I could not afford it. It would work out really cheap for a family though.

I think most people have covered why they holiday or travel and what they expect and get out of it.

We are not all the same and it's up to you how you spend your time in leisure whether you choose to stay at home or somewhere else.

You could stay home and do something different everyday and have a lovely time doing things you normally wouldn't do.
Thing is to have a positive approach to life and all it can offer. Things don't always work out but look at what was good in your day.

For me holidays and travel are different, travel is in the blood and you can't wait for the next adventure.
We can spend months traveling and for us the only thing we miss is food mainly something as ordinary as a roast and all the trimmings.
We keep in touch with our family via Skype.

I am thankful my husband and I still have the good health to be able to travel and feel very fortunate after along working life.

www.swintonbivouac.co.uk/accommodation/
For you Etheltb .

iam64 no offence taken and I know none was meant.
Wait till I get my winding up head on, at the minute my brain has shrunk to the size of a pea due to endless daytime tv, but I will be back in top form soon

Hey white wave, i like these too !! But not cruising , too deep and contained within perimeter!!
Just not my scene .

ethel, I do hope my comment about you being back on form isn't taken badly, it's great to see you back

ethelbags1, it sounds as though you're feeling much better now, as you're back on negative form . We're all different and that's one of the joys of life isn't it.

I love holidays as much as I love being at home. The downside of holidays is I'm away from my dogs and family, the upside is I've no responsibility for the dogs or the family.

I love holidays in the UK, self catering in quiet parts of the country. Scotland is wonderful in October or February and I avoid the south coast during the busy summer months. If I get the chance,I'm off to Greece in May or September,not too hot not too cold. I'd love to visit Morocco, wish I'd had the chance to go to India when I was younger (before health stuff got in the way) but feel I've been blessed because I seem able to enjoy a visit to almost any place.

I would really like to go on a 'glamping' holiday in a yurt. at maybe a holistic retreat. I could go there alone without having to consider anyone elses needs , that would be great for me.
Anyone been on a retreat or yurt holiday, I would love to know what it is like. Apart from spiders what ive seen sounds good.

the other type of holiday would be a canal boat I have watched so many on tv recently that I would love it but would have to have someone to go wth me.

We went to Lake Como by coach a couple of years ago, vegasmags, and as we got the last two seats on the coach (and a big discount because of this ), I sat next to a single lady who was part of a group of about 12 people who went on at least one holiday every year together. Four of them had met on one singles trip and the others had been "picked up" in subsequent years. They were a good crowd and got on so well together. They lived all over the country but met up once a year to decide on their next trips. I wonder how many singles holidays end up with happy outcomes like this, and yours.

I enjoy going to different places and worked until I was 64, saving as hard as I could. My ambition was to become a 'professional holidaymaker'. I was shocked to discover that I was a bit bored while sitting by a pool on a Greek island. I realised that, now that I am not working, I am not stressed so don't need the wind down time.

We still go away in the winter, partly because I have a bad chest and getting away into some clean, warm air in February is good for me. Also we have an allotment and we do not want to leave it in the summer.

This winter we are going to Turkey at the beginning of October and then maybe Cuba in February. Any advice on Cuba would be very much appreciated as we have not been there before.

I love going on holiday and take as many as I can - not that many by some standards but I love looking forward to them. As I live alone, one of the great things for me is to have company - someone to hang out with and share things. A few years ago, I plucked up the courage to go on a singles holiday to China and I made some great friends. We have had quite a few trips together since then and I am off to the States in September with one of them. I love seeing new places and meeting new people. I feel that holidays have enriched my life in so many ways.

Oh ethelbags I think your problem is that you do not choose the right type of holiday for you. There must be something that you want to do or see or take part in. Maybe there is not in which case you are better off staying at home and keeping to you own routine and surroundings. But, you really are missing out on so much with your 'glass half empty' attitude.

In the years when I was widowed with DD still very small, I went on holiday with my mother and it was a nightmare, I would try to plan something for her and for DD and it never worked out, we went to butlins once and DD just cried to be on the beach, mother had a long face as she doesn't like sand. In the clubhouse DD made a lot of noise and was disruptive and mother had a long face as she doesn't like clubs, they remind her of pubs which she hates. the best part was going to bed with my book.

At blackpool it was similar, DD was disruptive in the dining room, mother hated the long walk to the beach or the shops and I hated all of it, I would go to bed at 8pm after Id put DD to bed and no one could understand why I didn't want to go to the bar and booze (nightmare).

I think a holiday really is "what you make it". I would love to take more holidays but family responsibilities and financial constraints make even short breaks quite difficult.

I have friends who holiday so often they are almost never at home. They have probably had more holidays in a year than I have or will have in my lifetime. It makes me wonder whether they appreciate how lucky they are or does someone who can only get away occasionally appreciate it more?

The anticipation of a holiday is never good for me as quite often things go wrong at the last minute which prevents me from going. I have lost count of the times we have been packed ready to go and something has happened meaning we couldn't travel.

day6 I so agree with you. Also being alone I just don't have anyone who would go with me, not that Im not capable of going alone. The only people I know would want a booze filled holiday in the med, which is not my cup of tea.

Unfortunately my late husband grumbled when we went anywhere I liked and I would grumble when we went where he wanted, it was the same for my subsequent partner. How do you get someone to disquise their boredom and jog along so you can enjoy a holiday I don't think its possible to find a holiday to suit two people. It always seemed that It was 'give and take' which I hate. We would go perhaps sightseeing and I would be fuming, saying I wanted to go home but the next day late DH would take me somewhere to please me and he would be sulky.

I would have loved a relationship where I had a partner who would just want what I wanted but I never found one.