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What we’ve been talking about ‘We’re all going on a summer holiday’. But are we Cliff? Are we really? When you hear some people’s horror stories about their time away on a mid-year sunny vacation, it’s hard to think why people bother. Well, think about that no more, as we exclusively reveal some wildly positive true-life stories of summer holidays that went very well, thanks. Yes, OK, there are a few sadder tales being told here, as well. Bucket and spades at the ready . . .
Last summer, I had a reunion with my closest group of friends from uni, who now live in London, Milan and Nice. We met up in Milan, ate an unbelievable amount of pizza,
and drank lots of beer. It was amazing. We speak almost every
day but I still miss them.
The arms race with water guns that my brother, my cousin and I had one year, in which they kept getting more and more cool water
guns and giving their discarded ones to me. This culminated in all
of us staging a drive-by water- shooting on some friends as they
stood outside a chip shop.
Going on a school trip
to Orlando, Florida and all its associated theme parks when I
was 14.
Although I didn’t appreciate them at the time, any childhood holiday was great because
they didn’t cost me anything, I didn’t have to book flights and
hotels, and I didn’t have to organise cover for work.
I went on a school trip one summer
and tore the
ligaments in my ankle: that wasn’t
fun. Especially since I had to hang out with the teachers while everyone
else went off
doing adventure activities and other
exciting things.
GOOD BAD
Endless sunshine, local
outdoor swimming pool five minutes from
the flat, cold beer and tapas picnics in Madrid. I was pretty
poor, so spent the summer outdoors,
teaching a few classes
a week to get by, but those were some incredible summers in
the city.
Snorkelling in the Seychelles and meeting
turtles and lion
fish.
I once chose a
holiday destination by opening Google Maps and flinging my cursor across the screen with my eyes closed. I won’t mention the town I
ended up in (it was on the west coast) but it was comically bad.
I remember being heartbroken when my
first long-term boyfriend broke up with me just a week before I went on a big adventure trip to Asia
with three friends. Lots of dramatic sobbing in gorgeous crystal waters, but overall it’s true that
the best way to get over a break up is to experience a new part of the world.
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Stuck in a French campsite with
near biblical rain as a ten year old. I remember waking
up and looking down to see the
entire tent flooded in about four inches of water.
Anything involving a caravan as a teenager
with two younger
brothers. Hell on earth being cooped up with it raining outside, making
sure you didn’t trail mud indoors, no TV
and fighting over a tiny bathroom. Maybe that’s why I’m not exactly an outdoorsy type.
Getting so insanely
sunburned at Blizzard Beach in Florida when I was 14 that I thought I was
going to die. It’s
a good job 14 year olds aren’t massively self- conscious . . .
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