Are you going on holidays in August?

Ubbquittious

While ye're all off laughing and chatting and staggering back to your seat with two pints of Guinness in your hands on the Costa Santa del Paloozamajig and getting sunburnt it's fellas like me who keep the show on the road.

If it wasn't like lads like meself keeping a watchful eye all the windows in your house would be smashed, you'd have no running water or electricity and the fox will have ate all your hens by the time you got back.

I know some people are pretty much forced to go on holidays in August because that's when their work place closes or they have kids who have to go back to school and long may it continue because that's the one month I pretty much have the whole country to myself I get the chance to let the only 11-year-old in the country who doesn't go on holidays drive me around swerving along the deserted post-apocalyptic roads in the tray of a single cab Hilux while I shoot foxes with a shotgun and shout "Yeeeeeeeeehaw!" with each one I hit.

me_irl

Anyone who buys a pint of Guinness abroad is either a) not Irish or b) homesick to the point of desperation.

SCOOP 64

Did your mates go off without you.

jamesbere

I will battle you for the right to be king of this post apocalyptic wasteland

Aglomerado

I'm going away at the end of August because I f*cking refuse to sit in the office on my 40th birthday. I hate office birthdays.

Glenster

Ubbquittious wrote: »

If it wasn't like lads like meself keeping a watchful eye all the windows in your house would be smashed, you'd have no running water or electricity and the fox will have ate all your hens by the time you got back.

Keep your eyes off my house you creep.

RhubarbCrumble

I'm going at the start of September. Does that count?

Couple days away yeah, main holiday will be early October though

osarusan

No, working for the whole month.

Off for 3 weeks, spending two weeks up at home and one abroad.

Mint Sauce

me_irl wrote: »

Anyone who buys a pint of Guinness abroad is either a) not Irish or b) homesick to the point of desperation.

Guaranteed to give you the scutters quicker than the local tap water. Had the misfortune of taking a sip from a mate who was trying it out in Ibiza, absolute muck.

Beta Ray Bill

You've no maybe option FFS

Considering going to Memmingen late August on the bike via Overlanders.

Only problem is that I've got no one to go with..... weak...

grahambo

grahambo wrote: »

You've no maybe option FFS

Considering going to Memmingen late August on the bike via Overlanders.

Only problem is that I've got no one to go with..... weak...

Go on your own sure

Kimbot

Don't forget, I know where you all live :pac:

r93kaey5p2izun

I'm on holidays but not going on holidays. Not sure which option to choose.

hairyslug

My wife is heading off in a few days to my sisters villa, she's only bring one of the kids so me, the 2 others and the dogs are gonna sit in our own filth for a week.

JollyBustard

Going away most of the weekends in August, which is nice.

But back for work each Monday.

The joys...

hairyslug

hairyslug wrote: »

My wife is heading off in a few days to my sisters villa, she's only bring one of the kids so me, the 2 others and the dogs are gonna sit in our own filth for a week.

Forgot, I'm off to Wales for 4 days after she comes back.

Beta Ray Bill

bluewolf wrote: »

Go on your own sure

I could, but I'd be horrendously lonely.

hairyslug

grahambo wrote: »

I could, but I'd be horrendously lonely.

You'll be on the bike though, you can go at your own pace, stop when you want, I did wales and west England a while back by myself and really preferred it to the group trips.

Beta Ray Bill

hairyslug wrote: »

You'll be on the bike though, you can go at your own pace, stop when you want, I did wales and west England a while back by myself and really preferred it to the group trips.

But what about those lonely nights?

Kimbot

grahambo wrote: »

But what about those lonely nights?

Stock up on hand cream before you go :pac:

number 2 back and sides, half an inch off the top.

None of yer smalltalk, Magda.

Syphonax

Aglomerado wrote: »

I'm going away at the end of August because I f*cking refuse to sit in the office on my 40th birthday. I hate office birthdays.

I never tell anyone in my office when my birthday is and I always dread other peoples birthdays and Christmas as everyone seems to think its a big deal and lets all have cake and small talk about nothing.

I usually dont go on hols in August cus everyone else does so its quiet in work, plus its too fookin hot, I like my hols in colder climates, hate the beach.

ima lovely guy btw

PandaPoo

Going away for a week at the end of August. Looking forward to it for the last few months. Going to sh*t myself with excitement soon

LirW

Week visiting the family in Austria, would prefer not to go. I don't like most people over there but my sister's expecting her baby in September and I really want to see her before.
Also a bad timing because we'll get the keys to our house in around 2 weeks and I want to be in before my son starts school, so he doesn't have to go in Dublin for 1 or 2 weeks.

Aglomerado

Syphonax wrote: »

I never tell anyone in my office when my birthday is and I always dread other peoples birthdays and Christmas as everyone seems to think its a big deal and lets all have cake and small talk about nothing.

I usually dont go on hols in August cus everyone else does so its quiet in work, plus its too fookin hot, I like my hols in colder climates, hate the beach.

ima lovely guy btw

Yeah I agree with you, I joined a new unit recently and was asked how old I was, "39" I replied, and was then asked when the zero came up, I answered truthfully ("Late August" - not exact date) not knowing the traditions of the unit...
I don't even like fecking cake! And those tea parties at a dusty unoccupied desk are so fecking twee.
I'm a pints girl.

Anyhow, I don't normally go on hols in August, this is an exception, and it's only 3 days. I normally go away in September (which I'm also doing this year!)/ November/ February/ May.

Birthdays are sh!t. But I want to go to a nice place for this one.

Hector Bellend

I'm going to Amsterdam in September. Primarily to look at fannies.

3 mini breaks for me, June, Sep & Nov.

Did loads of work travel this year, couldn't stomach a two week holiday really, be as happy at home, sadly :pac:

erica74

I wish, haven't been out of Ireland in 3 years. I've even let my passport expire and still haven't renewed it.

RobertKK

US for two weeks, take in the solar eclipse and some of the national parks.

mikel97

To Inismor yayyyyyyy with the new bf lol

Beta Ray Bill

jonnycivic wrote: »

Stock up on hand cream before you go :pac:

That's a hard core tip right there.

Any recommendations?

It will need to be of the right viscosity so that I wont need to bring loads (As I'll be riding) but still "Do the Job"

G.

Aongus Von Bismarck

I'll be taking a short week long break to head to the Swiss Alps to take on a few of the more challenging hiking trails.

It's truly beautiful this time of year. The clean alpine air, the blue open skies, the colourful wild mountain flowers in bloom, the splendid vistas of awe-inspiring mountains folding as far as the eye can see.

I always try and incorporate vigorous physical activity in to my sojourns. It is certainly better for the soul than the depressing package holidays most people here go on. Ambling around some concrete monstrosity of a beach resort in their soccer jerseys guzzling cheap Spanish lager and dining in restaurants with pictures on the menu.

Ubbquittious

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I'll be taking a short week long break to head to the Swiss Alps to take on a few of the more challenging hiking trails.

It's truly beautiful this time of year. The clean alpine air, the blue open skies, the colourful wild mountain flowers in bloom, the splendid vistas of awe-inspiring mountains folding as far as the eye can see.

I always try and incorporate vigorous physical activity in to my sojourns. It is certainly better for the soul than the depressing package holidays most people here go on. Ambling around some concrete monstrosity of a beach resort in their soccer jerseys guzzling cheap Spanish lager and dining in restaurants with pictures on the menu.

But its the the moneyspinner created by the bland depressing resort monstrosity tack of the tack banal mundane holiday places that ultimately keep your supermega global conglomerate hedge fund investment stress 200 hours a week glass building office jobs going.

Its exactly the feckless soccer-jersey wearing lad pouring his money into said resort place for cheap pints of swill that enables the thinking man to go for a nice stroll in the Alps and more importantly, the resort serves as a magnet to draw these uncooth, unspecial, uncuddleworthy mongrels in to keep them well clear of the Alps and hopefully get them drunk enough to not remember there's such a thing as an Alp lest they ever be tempted to go there.

McGrath5

Heading over to San Francisco in a few weeks, staying there for 3 days with some friends who are living there, then hiring a care and driving down the Pacific Coast highway to LA then onto Vegas, bliss!

beertons

Camping overnight in Redcross, Wicklow tomorrow. Been on a few breaks already this year.