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where did you used to holiday when you were little?

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  • 26-04-2016 8:09pm
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    Andy From Sligo
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    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 :D
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    recylingbin
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    Cancun.
    My parents were drug mules.


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    tomwaterford
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    My cousins house 5 miles away


    This was the late 90s :(


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


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    Poochie05
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    Camping in Wales once, but generally no where.


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    Jayop
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    Bundoran, Rosnowlagh, Up around the North Coast.


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    TG1
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    Barleycove in west Cork, I have very happy child hood memories of swimming in the sea while the hailstones pelted down around us!


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    Pherekydes
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    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.


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    r93kaey5p2izun
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    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.


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    ElleEm
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    Butlins in Pwelli*. Good times!

    Edit- *Pwllheli. Feckin Welsh spellings!


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    mud
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    Inchydony


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





    I bloody love the place now!


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    Andy From Sligo
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    Poochie05 wrote: »
    Camping in Wales once
    sorry for your trouble :D


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    Spanish Eyes
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    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.


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    Turtyturd
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    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.


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    diomed
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    Enniscrone


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    The Backwards Man
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    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


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    HeidiHeidi
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    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 :D 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 :D


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    Andy From Sligo
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Lough Key Forest Park....

    very nice place


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

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


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    Turtyturd
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    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.


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

    Enniscrone once or twice (b&b)


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    maudgonner
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    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! :)


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    Andy From Sligo
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    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!


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    sadie1502
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    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.


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    doolox
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    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.


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    MilesMorales1
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    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.


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


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    Mister Vain
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    Courtown and Salthill.


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    Wibbs
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    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.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    ToddyDoody
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    Offaly due to relatives.


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