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So where are you travelling to for the festive period

  • 08-12-2014 9:45pm
    #1
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I'm gonna join my family in Scotland from the 22nd, looking forward to it, I'd say many of you a making a long journey back to Ireland or where ever. :)

    Edit: I also meant where are you travelling from too.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #2
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Staying home with my family


  • #3
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Ireland! 12 days to gooooooooooooo:D:D


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Neighbour's house down the road.


  • #5
    Lucena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    France. Only back for one sodding week as I have to be back to work on the Monday after Xmas Day.

    :(


  • #6
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,112 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Sydney for Christmas, cairns then Sydney for new years, then Perth in the new year for a few days.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



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  • #7
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Travelling from SPAIN (WHERE I LIVE) to Ireland.




    Sssssspaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain! Eeeeespain! Spain!


  • #8
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Lucena wrote: »
    France. Only back for one sodding week as I have to be back to work on the Monday after Xmas Day.

    :(



    Ah ****e! You just edited your post and now I look like a spa.


  • #9
    Lucena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    Verdad?


  • #10
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    To the kitchen. Then to the couch. Rinse and repeat for 2 weeks.


  • #11
    athtrasna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    Is this the "dear burglars, my house is empty " thread?


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  • #12
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    Travelling from SPAIN (WHERE I LIVE) to Ireland.




    Sssssspaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain! Eeeeespain! Spain!

    It would be espain in the arse if the weather messed up your flights like it did other years.


  • #13
    Lucena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    Ah ****e! You just edited your post and now I look like a spa.

    Sorry, thought it seemed a bit stalkerish, so I changed it. :o


  • #14
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Lucena wrote: »
    Sorry, thought it seemed a bit stalkerish, so I changed it. :o

    Hardly! I never shut up about the place.


  • #15
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    If I leave the post code I will be doing well.
    Have spent a total of 92 hours on planes this year, countless hours in the car and way to many hours on trains.
    So will try and spend most of the 2 week christmas holiday on my arse.


  • #16
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    To the fridge and back.


  • #17
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    anncoates wrote: »
    To the fridge and back.
    Might not be there by Christmas. :(

    http://newsone.com/3067409/nfl-legend-william-the-refrigerator-perry-on-the-brink-of-losing-his-home/


  • #18
    KeithM89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    Drogheda :(
    I's rather spend the day in a flotation tank filled with cow shit


  • #19
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Traveling back from the US to Ireland


  • #20
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Might not be there by Christmas. :(

    http://newsone.com/3067409/nfl-legend-william-the-refrigerator-perry-on-the-brink-of-losing-his-home/

    Ah man. Today seems to be the day of the homeless ex celeb. First Danielle Westbrook and now The Fridge.

    Wipes tear from eye.


  • #21
    whupdedo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭whupdedo


    Up to mammys for the breakfast lunch and dinner


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  • #22
    Meangadh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    If I can't be found in either my house, my parents' house or my local, my plans have gone seriously awry.


  • #23
    SMJSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭SMJSF


    Down the bog-ar*e of nowhere down the country on Xmas eve.... going to be extremely bored by about 12pm Xmas day!


  • #24
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Italy for a week, then work Christmas party, then home. Nice December.


  • #25
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    back to ireland from england for the last time. something satisfying about finally buying a one way ticket.


  • #26
    seventeen sheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭seventeen sheep


    It's my first Christmas ever away from home ... So ... I'm staying in a fab luxury hotel five minutes down the road from home! Baby steps! :D

    I will be spending three nights there with my gorgeous ridey boyfriend, and our beautiful baby son. And spending Christmas day with my amazing parents and siblings. Life doesn't get much better. :)


  • #27
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    seventeen sheep wrote: »
    It's my first Christmas ever away from home ... So ... I'm staying in a fab luxury hotel five minutes down the road from home! Baby steps! :D

    I will be spending three nights there with my gorgeous ridey boyfriend, and our beautiful baby son. And spending Christmas day with my amazing parents and siblings. Life doesn't get much better. :)

    I don't know if that actually counts as being away from home.....


  • #28
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    seventeen sheep wrote: »
    It's my first Christmas ever away from home ... So ... I'm staying in a fab luxury hotel five minutes down the road from home! Baby steps! :D

    I will be spending three nights there with my gorgeous ridey boyfriend, and our beautiful baby son. And spending Christmas day with my amazing parents and siblings. Life doesn't get much better. :)

    ah i'd say it does.


  • #29
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Won't be home for Christmas this year, be back in late January for a week :-)


  • #30
    Littlekittylou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    Travelling from SPAIN (WHERE I LIVE) to Ireland.




    Sssssspaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain! Eeeeespain! Spain!
    you lucky thing!


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  • #31
    Luxie
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Luxie


    No family left in Ireland (most dead, what's left dead to me) so will happily spend it alone.


  • #32
    Dario Salty Lubrication
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dario Salty Lubrication


    Between my bed and the food


  • #33
    Deco99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭Deco99


    SMJSF wrote: »
    Down the bog-ar*e of nowhere down the country on Xmas eve.... going to be extremely bored by about 12pm Xmas day!

    Is that bog-ar*e of nowhere called home before you went to college joined a society full of people who like you know have travelled and totally seen the world?


  • #34
    Green Fish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 29 ✭Green Fish


    I hate airports around Christmas. Bad memories.


  • #35
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    So where are you travelling to for the festive period

    I'll be going from A to B.


  • #36
    Auldloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    Im driving back to Ireland from the UK tomorrow, leaving in a few hrs. Off until janurary now :) 5 hr drive, 2+hrs ferry then 5 hr drive so not looking forward to that! Unfortunately I've got all the signs of incoming man flu tonight and I can't sleep. Will be the first time in 8 years I've spent xmas or new year in ireland and I've got loads of plans :)


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  • #37
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    I'll be making the pilgrimage back from the exciting world of European finance in Frankfurt to drab and dreary East Galway.

    I always initially like my visits home. Hearing how people are doing, letting them know how well I've done. Inevitably though I grow bored of listening to how Frankie Muldoon bought a 12 Ford Mondeo or Theresa Gibbons got an extension on the house and most of the people in my hometown couldn't begin to understand what it is I do. Each year I come back I realise how little I have in common with small-town Ireland.


  • #38
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I'll be making the pilgrimage back from the exciting world of European finance in Frankfurt to drab and dreary East Galway.

    I always initially like my visits home. Hearing how people are doing, letting them know how well I've done. Inevitably though I grow bored of listening to how Frankie Muldoon bought a 12 Ford Mondeo or Theresa Gibbons got an extension on the house and most of the people in my hometown couldn't begin to understand what it is I do. Each year I come back I realise how little I have in common with small-town Ireland.

    Indeed. I feel the same :rolleyes: Plebs eh?
    What can one do?


  • #39
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Aongus, stay away from the Clare folk, loads of snobby bastards down that way.


  • #40
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Auldloon wrote: »
    Im driving back to Ireland from the UK tomorrow, leaving in a few hrs. Off until janurary now :) 5 hr drive, 2+hrs ferry then 5 hr drive so not looking forward to that! Unfortunately I've got all the signs of incoming man flu tonight and I can't sleep. Will be the first time in 8 years I've spent xmas or new year in ireland and I've got loads of plans :)

    You'll be bored within 48 hours.


  • #41
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Travelling from Donegal to kildare, such a boring 4 hour car drive ... But at least I dont have to get a plane!


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  • #42
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Aongus, stay away from the Clare folk, loads of snobby bastards down that way.


    Stalker Donegal man :P


  • #43
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I'll be making the pilgrimage back from the exciting world of European finance in Frankfurt to drab and dreary East Galway.

    I always initially like my visits home. Hearing how people are doing, letting them know how well I've done. Inevitably though I grow bored of listening to how Frankie Muldoon bought a 12 Ford Mondeo or Theresa Gibbons got an extension on the house and most of the people in my hometown couldn't begin to understand what it is I do. Each year I come back I realise how little I have in common with small-town Ireland.

    So....you live in Germany then?
    And finance is your career?

    You should have mentioned it sooner as we may have not known about it.


  • #44
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Flying back to the US to see friends and family in 4 different cities. Used to live in the US, but haven't been back (for a hollier) in nearly two years. Am very excited about seeing my friends and especially, my sister and her two kids. But am also bricking it that the weather will throw a spanner in the works somehow.


  • #45
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Smidge wrote: »
    So....you live in Germany then?
    And finance is your career?

    Isn't he a pet :D


  • #46
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I'll be making the pilgrimage back from the exciting world of European finance in Frankfurt to drab and dreary East Galway.

    I always initially like my visits home. Hearing how people are doing, letting them know how well I've done. Inevitably though I grow bored of listening to how Frankie Muldoon bought a 12 Ford Mondeo or Theresa Gibbons got an extension on the house and most of the people in my hometown couldn't begin to understand what it is I do. Each year I come back I realise how little I have in common with small-town Ireland.

    They must so look forward to your visits though. It must be so fascinating for them to get a glimpse of how the other half live. A chink of hope in their otherwise dull and pointless existence.


  • #47
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Chucken wrote: »
    Isn't he a pet :D

    I definitely cherish the updates from where the grass is greener.
    I find it keeps me in my place :D


  • #48
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,694 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Yokosuka, Kanagawa, to spend time with my wife's family.


  • #49
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    osarusan wrote: »
    Yokosuka, Kanagawa, to spend time with my wife's family.

    How is Xmas celebrated there?(if you dont mind me asking :))
    I am imagining that sprouts and baked ham are amiss :-) )


  • #50
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,694 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Smidge wrote: »
    How is Xmas celebrated there?(if you dont mind me asking :))
    I am imagining that sprouts and baked ham are amiss :-) )

    It's not all that widely celebrated, although department stores and the like will have lots of decorations and push people to buy presents.

    It's celebrated mostly by families with kids - they might have a Christmas tree and some presents. There's no religious aspect to it for the vast majority of people obviously, and many people don't celebrate it at all. New Year's Day is just after, and that's the biggest holiday of the year here.

    Somehow, KFC have made their food synonymous with Christmas here, and there are long queues of people waiting to buy buckets of chicken to take home for dinner on Christmas Day.

    Lots of western-style pubs will do Christmas dinners for expats who want to get the food they know and love, so I guess they're busy in the evenings (it's a workday). I've never been though.


  • #51
    rubin_spitfire
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭rubin_spitfire


    Family will be visiting from Lichtenstein for two weeks.


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