YouWish

I have to admit, we’re not one of those families that really ‘does’ holidays.  Far from my father’s example of one summer holiday and one skiing holiday this year, we’ve not been on a proper, actual holiday since March 2004.  And even then we only went because my lovely Dad thought we really should have a honeymoon, since we had failed to do so some 9 months after we were married.  He and my stepmum simply booked us a long weekend in Budapest and told us when and where we were going, and left the rest to us.  It was bliss.

That’s not to say we haven’t taken some time off work, however.  We’ve been known to take the odd week at Christmas to go and see family in Cumbria, Kent and Gloucestershire, as well as the odd long weekend with the massed clans of in-laws, but we have done nothing that resembles a normal holiday where we go away, forget about work and just enjoy ourselves in a random location that is not related to family.

Of course, we both know this is a problem.  Mr Melanie did try to get us away on holiday to see friends in France this year by taking advantage of a Ryanair deal for extremely cheap tickets.  It was 2 days before we were due to leave that we both realised it simply wouldn’t be possible, for so many reasons, and we didn’t go.  So I looked at the schedule again and decided to at least block out a week where we would accept no commitments, in hopes we could then shut up shop for a week and get away somewhere.  

But where?  Neither of us likes very hot weather, which rules out the friends we were going to stay with near Perpignan.  We don’t like just lying around on a beach, but Harvey is a little too young to drag round museums and other tourist attractions, although I think he’d make an exception for Legoland and Chessington, or possibly Eurodisney.

There’s only one conclusion we’ve reached about our fast-approaching August holiday, and that’s that we haven’t a clue where we should even start looking, and neither of us has time to trawl the web for inspiration.  It’s time for me to put the power of YouWish to the test, I think, and see if there’s someone who can repeat Dad’s feat of five years ago.  Watch this space to see how we get on.