It’s cold, grey and wet outside … so what better time is there to plan lovely holidays for this year. I’ve perused the allotted holiday I have for this year, and I’ve come up with a plan.
My big holiday I’m thinking of is:
Hungary – specifically this one – specifically protecting orchids. Looks like a good one where you work in the mornings and then do activities in the afternoons, specifically learning Hungarian, tradional archery, folk dancing(?!!), fet-making, honey-cake baking. That’s towards the end of July – anyone know what the weather’s like then? I’m told hot, but how hot? Unbearably hot?
Iceland – a midsummer trip back to Reykjavik, stay with my cousins/aunt/uncle (hey, they don’t know it yet but they keep on offering – hell they tried to find me on two previous occasions but I evaded them! It’s a bit of an *extravegance* holiday for me as I’m not used to going away and not doing any kind of conservational doings whilst I’m there, but it’s somewhere I love and I want to go back there. Plus there’s research for my book of course. And inspiration … don’t forget inspiration.
A weekend in the country – at Easter. Specifically a charming oak framed, thatched cottage I know of in the Blissford area of the New Forest. It comes with free board and lodging so long as I cuddle the cat and walk the dogs, and I believe this year the owners even said something about paying said house-sitter for the trouble. Can’t be bad, I say…
National Turst Acorn Break – a week doing one of these. I’ll probably try and lead one so that they wave the fee, but only if I can persuade Jenny to resusitate last years (quashed) plans (thanks bl**dy Cirencester!) and co-lead.
Then, if I’ve done my calculations right, I should have enough days left to take the 3 I have to at Christmas, have a couple extra pre-christmas and maybe a couple of extended weekends.
Roll on the summer then… 🙂
The Hungary one looks really cool — but it says it can be from 30 to 40 degrees C in the summer — now I’m Australian, so to me that’s just *hot*, but I think for you it might be almost unbearably hot … but who knows?
It says that the weather breaks at times anyway, so you never know … anyway I think it looks excellent.
I’m trying to remember what it was like in Estonia last summer. It may have been uncharacteristic but I think it was mid-30’s most of the time, cooling off at night (with as you say occasional breaks) although the occasional breaks happened during the night not the day ;o and that was not too bad…
And I think it is work morning, activities (which will probably be more under shade) in the afternoon – and they don’t tend to work us in dangerously hot weather – and it does look good…
Do you reckon I’ve sold it to my self?
I think you’ve talked yourself into it!
My leave allocation is about 28 days a year, plus public holidays, which is pretty damn good. However, year after year goes by without any holiday (as opposed to leave) booked. I had a week in Skiathos with the kids in 2002 and Bernie and I managed a weekend with Rachel in York that year as well. In 2003 we had a couple of days in York for Rachel’s graduation – and that was it. Our last family holiday was in April 1994!
Time for a Moss Family Holiday? I think so. Well at least the senior members of it! 😉
I would go in a second if I had the money — you should do it! 🙂