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Taking holidays to go to the pub

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This seems amazing to me, Paddy O'Gorman interviewed people who save up and take their holiday to spend it in the pub watching Cheltenham.

What is the attraction.

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Junkyard Tom

osarusan wrote: »

People enjoying stuff I don't enjoy....what's the world coming to.

It's worrying. Different people like doing different stuff? This simply can't end well.

JupiterKid

Personally I think it's pretty silly but live and let live. If people want to spend their hard earned cash getting trollied in the local, then that's their prerogative.

__Alex__

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

If you are good at gambling they do pay you

One never hears about the losses, only the wins.

Bandana boy

__Alex__ wrote: »

One never hears about the losses, only the wins. :P

You will always hear a good bad beat story

Widdershins

I've no idea what is attraction of watching people race horses, or going to pubs, or going to pubs to watch people race horses.

infogiver

MadYaker wrote: »

I could understand taking holidays to go to Cheltenham, but watching it in the pub? No.

The atmosphere is great in certain pubs. Roaring at the screen and the banter and the craic.

jimgoose

infogiver wrote: »

The atmosphere is great in certain pubs. Roaring at the screen and the banter and the craic.

Certain sleepy little locals have some shyster running a private, illegal book as well. This is often the source of more entertainment, piss-pulling and roaring laughing than the racing and pint-lofting combined. :pac:

Wanderer2010

Yourself isit wrote: »

You're not going to explore the world in two weeks.

I've done a 6 month trek around Europe, but I was younger. I'll do the same in the US some day.

On a normal 2/3 week holiday I'll sit back and put the feet up in a nice hotel.

That to me is an utter waste. Would you not get bored just sitting in a hotel bar, night after night (after day), seeing the same people, doing the same things? There is a lot you can do in 2 weeks if you plan it right. I don't get much time during the year to travel what with work etc so when I do get a few weeks off I fill it to the max with day trips, meeting new people, eating new food, trying new things. I would rather be in work than just rotting away in some hotel bar.

Bandana boy

Before my current job which is very busy around Patrick's day and the August Bank holiday , I would always take 3 days off for Cheltenham and the Galway races
Would always go to Galway , for Cheltenham 1 day in the pub , one day visiting my father and one day at home.

Was always great craic , even when not winning .

[Deleted User]

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

That to me is an utter waste. Would you not get bored just sitting in a hotel bar, night after night (after day), seeing the same people, doing the same things? There is a lot you can do in 2 weeks if you plan it right. I don't get much time during the year to travel what with work etc so when I do get a few weeks off I fill it to the max with day trips, meeting new people, eating new food, trying new things. I would rather be in work than just rotting away in some hotel bar.

Holidays should be going what you want though and going around on big trips is tiring and you end up feeling like you need a holiday to recover before going back to work.

I would use a good proportion of my annual leave just going up home, I'd often just take a week off and spend it relaxing, around the farm etc just to get away from work but with no interest in going anywhere.

Same for going away to relax, getting away from work, and relaxing for a week with a beach or pool to sit beside and drink beer and eat for the day. The idea of getting up early and traipsing around the place on day trips etc would be my idea of hard work. The fact I travel quite a bit for work also adds to this as you get tired of airports and trains and lugging a bag around etc.

jimgoose

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

That to me is an utter waste. Would you not get bored just sitting in a hotel bar, night after night (after day), seeing the same people, doing the same things? There is a lot you can do in 2 weeks if you plan it right. I don't get much time during the year to travel what with work etc so when I do get a few weeks off I fill it to the max with day trips, meeting new people, eating new food, trying new things. I would rather be in work than just rotting away in some hotel bar.

That's well and fine and sounds like good fun. But you see, to some people, particularly older fellas, all that sounds like little more than bloody hard work. When you see a bunch of 50-year-old, seventeen-stone truck drivers enjoying a rare few days off from traffic, CPC, TIR paperwork, mewling warehouse managers and The Wife, laughing like ten-year-olds with their nags and few pints, you get it.

infogiver

jimgoose wrote: »

Certain sleepy little locals have some shyster running a private, illegal book as well. This is often the source of more entertainment, piss-pulling and roaring laughing than the racing and pint-lofting combined. :pac:

What it is, is very very exclusively specifically rural Irish and these places don't exactly welcome strangers either.

jimgoose

infogiver wrote: »

What it is, is very very exclusively specifically rural Irish and these places don't exactly welcome strangers either.

It's suburban Cork as well, biy!

valoren

I've taken days off for sport in the past.

The Irish Open was in Fota, Cork three years ago. First time back in 12 years.
Took half day on the Wednesday for the pro-am.
Thursday off to play a round with the brother and father (not Fota obviously).
Down early Friday morning, an hour or two by the range just watching.
Then followed a few groups then back to the range for the later groups.
Went with my OH on the Saturday for the day.
Picked a spot by the 10th tee to watch the tee shots for an hour.
Then a picnic by the Marquee.
Beautiful weather too.
I've often taken the Monday off for the Masters, it finishes late on the Sunday so can have a lie in the next day.

Horse racing, Rugby, Cricket are not my cup of tea but can completely understand someone taking days off to indulge themselves.

Winterlong

A day in the pub watching Cheltnham, placing bets, supping pints and having the craic with some friends? Bingo!

jimgoose

Winterlong wrote: »

A day in the pub watching Cheltnham, placing bets, supping pints and having the craic with some friends? Bingo!

Well in short, it is. A good few people around where I live take all or part of Cheltenham week off, and spend it in one of cosy little locals around, where everyone knows everyone else. The fire is on, the bookie's is next-door and the whole ambiance is quite relaxed and comfortable. Actually going to Cheltenham for race week is bowel-evacuatingly expensive and exhausting. The crowds are outrageous and you would not believe the amount of walking involved.

Erik Shin

valoren wrote: »

I've taken days off for sport in the past.

The Irish Open was in Fota, Cork three years ago. First time back in 12 years.
Took half day on the Wednesday for the pro-am.
Thursday off to play a round with the brother and father (not Fota obviously).
Down early Friday morning, an hour or two by the range just watching.
Then followed a few groups then back to the range for the later groups.
Went with my OH on the Saturday for the day.
Picked a spot by the 10th tee to watch the tee shots for an hour.
Then a picnic by the Marquee.
Beautiful weather too.
I've often taken the Monday off for the Masters, it finishes late on the Sunday so can have a lie in the next day.

Horse racing, Rugby, Cricket are not my cup of tea but can completely understand someone taking days off to indulge themselves.

Yes...But you went down and watched the golf...Not TV...That's the difference no?

[Deleted User]

Erik Shin wrote: »

Yes...But you went down and watched the golf...Not TV...That's the difference no?

There is no difference, if you want to watch the sport you enjoy then it may mean taking time off to be able to do so. Taking a day off to watch it on tv is just as valid as going to it.

Erik Shin

Journey Fast Locomotive wrote: »

There is no difference, if you want to watch the sport you enjoy then it may mean taking time off to be able to do so. Taking a day off to watch it on tv is just as valid as going to it.

That would be a definite no, taking a week off to watch horseracing in the pub....As opposed to actually going.... Not even in the same ballpark I'm afraid.

BPKS

mariaalice wrote: »

This seems amazing to me, Paddy O'Gorman interviewed people who save up and take their holiday to spend it in the pub watching Cheltenham.

What is the attraction.

It was a piece of Radio that was cringe worthy in the extreme. The fella who wouldnt go abroad on drink 'foreign beer', instead staying in his local pub boozing on Guinness and backing horses. The lad who was proud of being a terrible husband and father cos he spent all his time and money in the pub and bookies.

I would also imagine that the vast majority, if not all of the locals in the Finglas pub that were interviewed would be against water charges, bin charges and so on. And they were also "entitled" to everything.

Yet they could spend between €2000 and €2500 on a week in the pub and the bookies. :mad::mad:

lertsnim

topmanamillion wrote: »

In the way that domestic sport/live sport is prioritised.
For example, we`ve a population of 5 million people and we`ve never put a team in the Champions League groups while similar size countries do it on a regular basis. Cyprus for example have 1/5 of our population and do it on a regular basis. Similar with Belarus.
We must be one, if not the, largest country in Europe not to have done it.
That should be a cause for national embarrassment.

How do those countries do in other sports? National embarrassment my hole.

[Deleted User]

Erik Shin wrote: »

That would be a definite no, taking a week off to watch horseracing in the pub....As opposed to actually going.... Not even in the same ballpark I'm afraid.

So I should sit in work and miss all the racing becuse I can't/don't want to/can't afford to go?? Rubbish.

Pac1Man

Are the shops open tomorrow?

Erik Shin

Journey Fast Locomotive wrote: »

So I should sit in work and miss all the racing becuse I can't/don't want to/can't afford to go?? Rubbish.

Yes, that's exactly what i said :rolleyes:

Jodotman

If I wanted to lie on a beach in the sun all day with absolutely no Craic I'd buy a vr headset, watch videos of a pool and sea and have a hair drying blowing on me.

Cheltenham is a bit of Craic

Noddyholder

Is it not cheaper to do it that way, Some folks book flights & go through all the stress of airports, hotels etc etc & then find some Irish bar & sit there for there holidays...

Wanderer2010

Noddyholder wrote: »

Is it not cheaper to do it that way, Some folks book flights & go through all the stress of airports, hotels etc etc & then find some Irish bar & sit there for there holidays...

Yeah this happens a lot with people. Again, I think its a complete waste of time. Booking hotels, going through airports etc just to sit in an Irish bar talking crap to the locals and drinking all day? What a shame.

[Deleted User]

BPKS wrote: »

It was a piece of Radio that was cringe worthy in the extreme. The fella who wouldnt go abroad on drink 'foreign beer', instead staying in his local pub boozing on Guinness and backing horses. The lad who was proud of being a terrible husband and father cos he spent all his time and money in the pub and bookies.

I would also imagine that the vast majority, if not all of the locals in the Finglas pub that were interviewed would be against water charges, bin charges and so on. And they were also "entitled" to everything.

Yet they could spend between €2000 and €2500 on a week in the pub and the bookies. :mad::mad:

You did here the bit where they saved up their money and took holiday to indulge in this ritual, plus you have no evidence for the rest of your post it's just prejudice, while I wouldn't dream of taking holiday to sit in a pub and bet on horses, mainly because I cant drink and it sounds boring, nevertheless if that is how others want to spend their money that's their choice.

Having said that a lot of posters who are doing this seem to be very defensive.