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Holiday destinations?
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:25 pm
by bap
Where are you going on holiday this year?
I'm taking my family to Perugia, Italy. It will be our first Summer holiday that isn't beach based so I'm not sure how the teenage kids will cope...
Just before Easter we're going to Boobies Bay, near Padstow in North Cornwall, for a few days.
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:31 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
couple of music festivals, choir tour to Litchfield cathedral (where Mr Allwood is headmaster of the choir school!) for a week in August...
Maybe Ontario in October if I can afford the time off.
Re: Holiday destinations?
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:31 pm
by Richard Ruck
bap wrote:Where are you going on holiday this year?
It's looking like Horsham at the moment....
The down-side to self-employment!
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:32 pm
by Katharine
Just a cautionary tale - today I have received news of the sad death of a colleague while on holiday abroad. Foolishly she had not taken out travel insurance, and as she was in hospital for more than two weeks mostly in intensive care it has been very expensive. Foreign nationals cannot be cremated there so she has to be brought home with yet more expense. I don't have many more details.
I have mixed emotions at the moment, sadness at her death and anger at her foolishness.
PLEASE, PLEASE check on your insurance before travelling - I was told that it would be a minimum of £30,000 for the family to find.
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:33 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
Wow. I've never bothered with travel insurance. Am currently in discussions with a couple of airlines over lost baggage. Maybe next time I'll bother.
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:58 pm
by Great Plum
definately bother with travel insurance...
(so says the Kuoni employee!
)
I'm off on my honeymoon to Kenya and Zanzibar in June...
Re: Holiday destinations?
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:10 pm
by Mrs C.
Richard Ruck wrote:bap wrote:Where are you going on holiday this year?
It's looking like Horsham at the moment....
The down-side to self-employment!
I`m not self-employed, but could be the same destination!!
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:13 pm
by AKAP
Australia
Haute Provence (cycling)
North York Moors (cycling)
Barnstaple
Norfolk (cycling)
The advantage of retirement over self employment.
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:20 pm
by Laura M
Insurance, is a must wherever I go I make sure I take out adequate insurance. This year if I go to Kenya, I'll make sure I have lots.
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:21 pm
by Vonny
Ruthie-Baby wrote:Wow. I've never bothered with travel insurance.
I thought you
had to have it if you travelled abroad?
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:01 pm
by midget
AKAP wrote:Australia
Haut provence (cycling)
North York Moors (cycling)
Barnstaple
Norfolk (cycling)
The advantage of retirement over self employment.
Glad to see you are coming to BARNSTAPLE -home of the traffic jam and 15 charity shops.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:16 am
by Euterpe13
Down to Torre del Mar ( next to Malaga) for 3 weeks, same as last year - the complex has the biggest private swimming pool I have ever seen - capacity for 200 people ! Three lovely weeks of sunbathing, tapa-ing and reading brain-dead literature .. bliss !
A word on travel insurance - I always pay for travel ( whether air tickets or car hire) with a credit card, which has automatic cover included.
You have to be mad , or very rich, to travel without it !
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:16 pm
by Great Plum
Vonny wrote:Ruthie-Baby wrote:Wow. I've never bothered with travel insurance.
I thought you
had to have it if you travelled abroad?
Not as far as I know - it is strongly recommended... The only thing you need is an E111 in Europe...
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:24 pm
by BTaylor
I've got a mini-me on the way, my first, and due at the beginning of June, so I think a summer holiday may not be on the cards.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:27 pm
by Mrs C.
Congratulations!!