Our neighbours are off next week for what must be the 3rd holiday/break already this year - and they tend to go to France for a few weeks over the summer. And have a trip booked to the US over Christmas. 
Jealous? Moi? A little. But I'm also usually left feeding the cat and he makes me sneeze 
I do feel very lucky to have the means to holiday a bit more in retirement than I did when we were working but it's usually a long weekend European city break in the spring, a late summer holiday of a week or so somewhere hot (Spain or Greece) and then one or two walking weekends away in the Lake District or somewhere like that if/when we can fit them in. How often do other gransnetters get away?
He has done it! The toolmakers son has resigned!
Hundreds of illegal migrants to be put in existing military barracks
The government changed women's pension age and called it progress. Did anyone actually ask you?
I miss the woman my daughter was before she lost her husband
