Will you get a break/holiday this year ?

whelan2

Will you take a break/holiday/s away from the farm this year? Have a few planned this year and it's what keeps me going during crappy times in the spring.

Mooooo

Hoping for one holiday in the summer must suspect things out yet. Haven't gone away proper in a few years

I said

Does bringing the kids count

Bullocks

I said wrote: »

Does bringing the kids count

No , never !

I said

Bullocks wrote: »

No , never !

Not a break/holiday so

whelan2

I said wrote: »

Does bringing the kids count

We are 20 years married in May, we are going to Spain with out any kids for the first time ever. Never been anywhere without any of them , cant wait. A real holiday

Reggie.

Might try to escape away for a while before NO2 arrives

I said

Reggie. wrote: »

Might try to escape away for a while before NO2 arrives

Do because babysitter s get scarce with two to be minded

whelan2

I said wrote: »

Do because babysitter s get scarce with two to be minded

wait until there's 3 :cool:

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

wait until there's 3 :cool:

Hey hey.....I've reached my quota

Buford T. Justice XIX

Reggie. wrote: »

Hey hey.....I've reached my quota

Isn't that what you said last time?

Bullocks

whelan2 wrote: »

We are 20 years married in May, we are going to Spain with out any kids for the first time ever. Never been anywhere without any of them , cant wait. A real holiday

Let me know what it's like! My wife would hardly go shopping without the kids , not too mind a holiday

Lady Haywire

Estonia and Russia later on in the year, Finland goes without saying too! Though does Finland count when I'm going abroad to babysit? :pac:

tractorporn

Have booked a week in Fota Island lodges in May. It's our first holiday with the wee man and we're sharing with my sister in law and her family so praying for some good weather.

Reggie.

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Isn't that what you said last time?

Nope...:)

Timmaay

Haven't escaped since Jan 2016 now, ended up cancelling 2 different trips due to my mum being sick. Nothing planned over the summer yet but need to just book something and go, too easy to make excuses and end up just slaving away all year I find!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Reggie. wrote: »

Nope...:)

RedPeppers

Was away in Portugal with the OH in January , seems a distant memory now. Will try get a few days away in Ireland during summer with the little ones maybe somewhere like Achill were thinking.

whelan2

Heading to Liverpool tomorrow, bringing youngest lad to a game. Then going to spain in May and france in June...... feck it , I'll be dead long enough

_Brian

Week booked over Easter with caravan up north.

Two weeks in France with caravan in August booked too.

Plan maybe 4/5 other longish weekends with it in various other locations in Ireland other than that between now and Halloween which is our last weekend with it out of storage.

Have never been away without kids ever, not a single night have we both left them.

Username John

_Brian wrote: »

Week booked over Easter with caravan up north.

Two weeks in France with caravan in August booked too.

Plan maybe 4/5 other longish weekends with it in various other locations in Ireland other than that between now and Halloween which is our last weekend with it out of storage.

Have never been away without kids ever, not a single night have we both left them.

Jaysus, we went away for a weekend last year on our own (and the kids were 2 and 3 at the time)

_Brian

Username John wrote: »

Jaysus, we went away for a weekend last year on our own (and the kids were 2 and 3 at the time)

Eldest is 14 here.

Username John

_Brian wrote: »

Eldest is 14 here.

I know

(well, I knew they were teenagers)

Oh, mad to get away from em, we are

AntrimGlens

We've booked to go to Spain for a fortnight in late June early July. Oh sounds lovely doesn't it, EXCEPT the wife won the 'discussion' about were we are staying.
We're half an hour from the airport in a 'resort' which is mainly for kids, so i can expect fourteen days of screaming, roaring children jumping into several swimming pools and being pestered to go on a tractor tube down a water slide whilst attempting not to drown one of two children sat in my lap.
I always said i would never ever go to one of these places, which i imagine is likely to be full of english blokes using the all inclusive cost to justify having a couple of pints of stella along with their full english at nine in the morning, just to set them up for the day, to take the edge off if you know what i mean mate..

Anyways it's booked and paid for and theres a kids club which i know they would prefer than having to trek along through architecturally pleasing streets with their father, discussing the history of Franco.

So having said all that, i decided to stick our own gaff up on Airbnb to let for the fortnight that we're away as the Irish open golf is on up the road and hoping to attract some rich yanks to rent it for a week or two.

Question, has anyone ever used Airbnb before, either to stay in or rent out? Just intrigued to see how it worked for ya.

We'll be going somewhere more culturally appealing next year. (Even Leitrim Lady H!!)

Lady Haywire

AntrimGlens wrote: »

We've booked to go to Spain for a fortnight in late June early July. Oh sounds lovely doesn't it, EXCEPT the wife won the 'discussion' about were we are staying.
We're half an hour from the airport in a 'resort' which is mainly for kids, so i can expect fourteen days of screaming, roaring children jumping into several swimming pools and being pestered to go on a tractor tube down a water slide whilst attempting not to drown one of two children sat in my lap.
I always said i would never ever go to one of these places, which i imagine is likely to be full of english blokes using the all inclusive cost to justify having a couple of pints of stella along with their full english at nine in the morning, just to set them up for the day, to take the edge off if you know what i mean mate..

Anyways it's booked and paid for and theres a kids club which i know they would prefer than having to trek along through architecturally pleasing streets with their father, discussing the history of Franco.

So having said all that, i decided to stick our own gaff up on Airbnb to let for the fortnight that we're away as the Irish open golf is on up the road and hoping to attract some rich yanks to rent it for a week or two.

Question, has anyone ever used Airbnb before, either to stay in or rent out? Just intrigued to see how it worked for ya.

We'll be going somewhere more culturally appealing next year. (Even Leitrim Lady H!!)

Jaysus don't be coming near me unless you want to take over for a week and let me and the father go away!! I'll send you a PM with pros/cons, easier than starting a discussion here and going off on a tangent

Bullocks

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Estonia and Russia later on in the year, Finland goes without saying too! Though does Finland count when I'm going abroad to babysit? :pac:

I wouldn't mind seeing Russia, what's the plan over there for your holiday ?

Buford T. Justice XIX

I have tickets to a concert with the eldest lad in June so we are trying to decide will we go for a few days and take in Tayto Park as well. Plus a friend is dead 25 years this year and I haven't been to the grave since so a date trip to Armagh might get slotted in too.

Like Whelan 2, hoping to hit Liverpool for a match next October but having changed both cars this year, it might be a stretch.

We'll see what milk price is like over summer so here's hoping.

charolais0153

Russia doesn't look too good today

Lady Haywire

Bullocks wrote: »

I wouldn't mind seeing Russia, what's the plan over there for your holiday ?

charolais0153 wrote: »

Russia doesn't look too good today

Well it was going to be St Petersburg but eh...:pac:

Brother lives in Estonia so it's just a ferry over. Plus he works with a few Russians so we wouldn't be lost in translation so to speak!

whelan2

charolais0153 wrote: »

Russia doesn't look too good today

Parents heading to st Petersburg in a few weeks

whelan2

_Brian wrote: »

Eldest is 14 here.

Eldest is 16 here. I suppose in one way in a few years they wont want to go on holidays anymore with the parents. Enjoy it while they are young. We are all going to France together.