where did you used to holiday when you were little?

Andy From Sligo

when you were a nipper at school going age where did you used to holiday in the summer holidays - did you holiday in Ireland, or go abroad like on the continent, ....... or did you holiday in Trabolgan LOL

recylingbin

Cancun.
My parents were drug mules.

tomwaterford

My cousins house 5 miles away


This was the late 90s

Felix Jones is God

Nowhere, I was in hiding as my father had kidnapped me and we were in hiding for a few years

Poochie05

Camping in Wales once, but generally no where.

Jayop

Bundoran, Rosnowlagh, Up around the North Coast.

TG1

Barleycove in west Cork, I have very happy child hood memories of swimming in the sea while the hailstones pelted down around us!

Pherekydes

Rush, Dollymount, Skerries, Howth, Portrane, Donabate. All the usual northside places. Mostly it was on the 16 bus route, i.e. outside the front door.

r93kaey5p2izun

We never went abroad as a family though I was lucky to have rich unmarried aunts who took me with them a couple of times. We usually went camping in Cork or Kerry, mostly Glengarriff. Love that part of the country.

ElleEm

Butlins in Pwelli*. Good times!

Edit- *Pwllheli. Feckin Welsh spellings!

mud

Inchydony

theteal

Westport, Westport, Westport. I used to hate it as a kid.





I bloody love the place now!

Andy From Sligo

Poochie05 wrote: »

Camping in Wales once

sorry for your trouble

Spanish Eyes

Butlins where the Asylum Seekers are now, lucky fekkers. It was ace. And less than an hour from our hall door, but a whole world away. And a HUGE swimming pool, and when we went to the pictures a voice would call out to "cabin number 8...etc. you child is crying" Totally ignored as far as I can remember!

And a farmhouse in West Cork near Beal na Blath. Us kids were in the attic and it was TINY.

The Farmer and his missus were amazing, showed us all the animals, and milked the cows for us kids from the smoke we were agog.

We had such a lovely childhood really when I think about it. Must have driven the Ma and Da mad all the same, but it was great.

Turtyturd

Courtown, Blackpool.

When I was old enough and going away with my OH my parents started bringing my little brother to Spain and Florida, f*ckers.

diomed

Enniscrone

The Backwards Man

Holidays? Holidays????

When I was wee there was no such thing as holidays. We were damn glad to get a day in school because it meant a day off work.

That's whats wrong with society today, kids hardly in this world a wet week swanning about on holidays

HeidiHeidi

Lough Key Forest Park. Six kids, two parents and a dog in a four-berth caravan. Needless to say we got creative with tents and the boot of the estate car :eek:

Best crack EVER.

Can't have been much of a holiday for our poor mother, though......

ETA - oh, and Enniscrone featured occasionally as well - that's where I saw my first colour telly, in Tom's Top Ten They had the colour turned up to the last, and the newsreader (Maurice O'Doherty, possibly) looked like he was about to have a coronary

Andy From Sligo

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Lough Key Forest Park....

very nice place

hairyslug

Sneem, my friends uncle had a few houses down there.

Used to go to Rhyl as well, it's a right ****hole now though

Turtyturd

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Butlins where the Asylum Seekers are now, lucky fekkers. It was ace. And less than an hour from our hall door, but a whole world away. And a HUGE swimming pool, and when we went to the pictures a voice would call out to "cabin number 8...etc. you child is crying" Totally ignored as far as I can remember!
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Was in Mosney(a) a few times. Main memory is the glass windows between the restaurant/swimming pool which resulted in groups of kids mooning the people in the queue.

Nekarsulm

Newcastle Co.Down, (one Aunt)
Millisle Co.Down (another Aunt)

Enniscrone once or twice (b&b)

maudgonner

Packed off to the cousins in various parts of the country, then they would come to visit us in return.

I'm from a farming background - some of them loved being on the farm, but some of them were horrified by the conditions, bloody townies!

Andy From Sligo

Turtyturd wrote: »

Was in Mosney(a) a few times. Main memory is the glass windows between the restaurant/swimming pool which resulted in groups of kids mooning the people in the queue.

ah yeah - Butlins was in Mosney wasnt it.
I holidayed in Butlins holiday camp in UK in Clacton on Sea every summer , loved it.... its a housing estate there now!

sadie1502

Another Barley cove West cork here. Every summer with a tailor tent. It used to take hours upon hours to get there. But such happy memories there.

doolox

As a kid our family had one family holiday for two weeks and another for one week touring around the country when my fathers brother who was a missionary priest visited home. Other than that our family never went on holiday in over 20 yrs and my parents never went abroad as my father was afraid of flying and would not cope with "foreign" food etc. He was self employed and preferred to stay at home making money.....

Since I got married 20 yrs ago there hasn't been a year we haven't been abroad sometimes twice a year and also around Ireland at other times.

MilesMorales1

AN IRISH HOLIDAY, ARE YOU ****ING JOKING ME. WHEN I WAS YOUNG AN IRISH HOLIDAY MEANT YOUR FATHER HIT YOU OVER THE HEAD WITH THE CHAIR, INSTEAD OF THE TABLE*



*May or may not be true.



We went to.... lladuno? Wales I think. I dunno. They were all bad and involved me getting beaten by my dad for being bad, so I've blocked those memories out.

tupenny

Aaah the Clare Inn. Loved it! Bunratty, the Burren, spin to lahinch. Same every summer but great memories

Mister Vain

Courtown and Salthill.

Wibbs

I was really lucky, especially for a kid in the 70's and early 80's. It was very unusual among my peers. We travelled all over Ireland, Kerry, West Cork, Donegal and Mayo, but also to many places in Europe; the UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland and further afield to Morocco, the Bahamas, New York, and Florida. As I said I was very lucky to have those childhood opportunities and cherish the memories. Especially when I had occasion to revisit some of the same places decades later and saw the changes. My faves were and are France and Spain, with Italy coming in behind.

ToddyDoody

Offaly due to relatives.

Ninjini

An annual day trip to Tramore.

MRnotlob606

I never went on holiday as a child, I'm only 21 but I was always jealous of other kids saying the went to Spain,Portugal etc for their holidays.

josip

Over the years a couple of days in Bray, Ardmore, Salthill, Knock :eek:, Clifden and the jewel in the crown, a week in Fossa caravan park in Killarney.

Andy From Sligo

if theres one regret its not having enough money to take family and kids on a regular holiday abroad every year , you know just for a change of scenery and to break the long year up and for them to visit another part of the world, but money just simply wasnt there, we lived by our means and paid bills etc and not much left for holidays. when they got older and could pay for themselves they have gone to a few places abroad

iguana

We went to Mosney a few times and it was a fantastic holiday. A really great place for young and old children. I'd love to be able to take my little guy there now. I've taken him to Trabolgan a few times (and we're going again this week) and it's really poor compared to Mosney. Grand for toddlers but must be really boring for older kids.

My husband went to Disneyworld and Universal Studios when he was a kid in the 80s. And he's somehow under the impression that he didn't grow up rich.

OldMrBrennan83

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Andy From Sligo

Wibbs wrote: »

I was really lucky, especially for a kid in the 70's and early 80's. It was very unusual among my peers. We travelled all over Ireland, Kerry, West Cork, Donegal and Mayo, but also to many places in Europe; the UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland and further afield to Morocco, the Bahamas, New York, and Florida. As I said I was very lucky to have those childhood opportunities and cherish the memories. Especially when I had occasion to revisit some of the same places decades later and saw the changes. My faves were and are France and Spain, with Italy coming in behind.

it was great that you could do that isnt it - good to widen up your world with travel

JupiterKid

Donegal when I was very small. Later, our boat on the Shannon and occasionally abroad. I loved the Shannon as a kid!

Tony H

the earliest holidays I remember were in Tramore in the 60s , then Ardmore and Inchydoney in the 70s , caravans in Tramore and Ardmore and run down chalets in Inchydoney , happy memories of all .

Dial Hard

Portugal for two weeks and then Wexford for two weeks every year from when I was 5 til I was in my teens (34 now). We weren't well off by any means but my dad nixered like a mofo on top of his day job so we could do it.

When we were in Wexford he'd only come down at the weekends because of work. The excitement when we heard him pulling up outside was always unreal.

I'm the youngest of five and all my sibs bar one have partners and kids of their own now and we all do a massive family holiday together every three years or so. Then we need a two year break to get over the stress of it

Agent Smyth

From about 72 to 78 my parents had a caravan in McDaniel's Brittas Bay, so every June we would decamp down to the caravan for the summer returning late August before school started in September. They were great holidays when the days seemed to last forever

Mister Vain

As Mick the bull Daly said, an Irish holiday is when your father used to beat you over the head with a chair instead of the table.

smash

Had it lucky as a kid. Used to go abroad for 4 weeks of the year and then somewhere in Ireland for another week or two. Abroad was usually Spain, the Spanish Islands, France or the UK.

Spanish Eyes

There is a place being built around the Midlands Centre Parcs

http://www.centerparcs.co.uk/en-ie/villages/longford-forest

I'd say that will be brilliant given the weather here .

The new Butlins Mosney. I am not being smart, but kids just love love things like that and if you don't have to drive hundreds of miles for the same thing isn't it going to be great!

Noisin

Strandhill for 2 weeks every summer in a mobile home, we only lived 35 miles away, thought we were going very very far away. 5 kids 2 adults in a mobile home. Some summers we got to head up for 2 separate, 2 weeks. Loved Strandhill. Got to go to Kerry also quite a bit. We still head to Kerry for a Week every summer. My dad, all my siblings and kids. Love that week in Kerry.

Andy From Sligo

awful lot of peeps on here went camping or caravanning - surprising that ...

When we were very young Kerry and England, Wales. From when I was around 10 to 18 went to France a few times, England many times, Spain, Austria, US and Canada (different year to US trip so not the same trip) on family holidays.

I was nearly away more before I was 18 than from 18 to now (31). Have no real interest in going abroad on holidays and think it's because it no big deal to me having gone to a lot of places as a child/teen.

Wibbs

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

it was great that you could do that isnt it - good to widen up your world with travel

Yeah Andy I'm very grateful to my folks for it. And you know the best thing for me? I knew how lucky I was at the time which I'm really glad about. It hit home on a school trip to Lourdes(dead fash at the time) when I was 12 and all the other kids where so excited and nervous. I even noticed this in the adults which kinda threw me(I recall a couple of the ma's praying when we hit turbulence). Everybody in their Sunday best to go flying. It was a different time. For me hopping on a jet plane was of course exciting but no great mystery to me. The first time I flew on my own I was 14. Short hop to England. Flying the Atlantic on Aer Lingus' 747 Jumbo jets was fantastic. Even got up to the flight deck when my da put the talk on one of the aircrew.

osarusan

Kilkee, in my granny's house. Went fishing,went to the beach, played pitch and putt. One set or other of my cousins from elsewhere the country would be there too and we'd all sleep in the 'parlour' and on armchairs and wherever there was space. We'd do it at least twice over the summer for 3 or 4 nights.

We'd normally just catch enough mackerel to eat, but on the last day we'd catch as many as we could before heading home and offering them to neighbours if we'd caught a lot. Our biggest catch was 252 in one day.

We were thrilled by it every time.

blackbird 49

We went a few places around Ireland, went to France once, mostly we would get the ferry from Dunlaoighe to Holyhead and then my father would drive to London to stay with his sister for 2 weeks, it was great as she worked on the buses and we would get to travel all around on them, years later when I was old enough to go myself it just didn't seem the same