Holiday destinations?

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:40 pm

Two ideas!

1. Now I am retired, I find that I have plenty of time for sailing, but during term time at least when the rest of the family Eastburn are at their various schools, no one to do it with. June is a great month on the water and the Scillies are at their most beautiful. Anyone interested in the water and even remotely connected with CH is automatically a member of the CHC & SC (CH Cruising and Sailing Club - a virtual club of which I am, apparently, the virtual vice-commodore.)

By virtue of these variously virtual facts, I am offering a shared expenses week afloat in June to any OBs who are reasonably fit and reasonably vice free. Sailing skills can be taught if not already present, but an ability to leap nimbly ashore with lines and to cook a tasty dish in a tilted kitchen would be useful attributes. The boat is fantastic - hot showers, huge frig and reasonable stereo make for comfortable living afloat and she is a fast and exciting yacht to sail. We share expenses for food, fuel and moorings; as Scilly is not particularly cheap, my guess is that this will be about Â£50/Â£60 per person for the week. Apart from getting to Cornwall, that is all it should cost. If you are interested, please drop me a PM with your email addy/phone number.

2. I came across an interesting website yesterday about holidays in the Dordogne, namely:

http://www.holidays-france-dordogne.com/index.php

For an all-in holiday (even the booze is included as well as tennis, clay-pigeon and rifle shooting, kayaking on the Dordogne etc) at Â£285 per person per week (children Â£185 in tented village) seems excellent. I am contemplating taking my family (Judith, Jonathan 17 and Oliver 13) next Easter. It is possible to go with a group of like minded people when the cost is less and presumably the drinking and the tennis/golf/badminton/kayaking/shooting more intense than if the place is filled with unknowns. Of course, there is no compulsion to meet with anyone else (except around the massive farm table at mealtimes) if one is disinclined so to do. Anyone interested????

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:46 am

The sailing does sound appealing but I will be on my honeymoon is Kenya and zanzibar at the time...

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:04 am

Great Plum wrote:The sailing does sound appealing but I will be on my honeymoon is Kenya and zanzibar at the time...

GP - if we hear any more about you and Zanzibar and you getting married we will all start thinking it isn't going to happen! Here is your limmerick from me! - if I have your and your brides names I might come up with something better!!

there was a young couple who married
and went for their honeymoon
to a place in deepest Africa
under the sun and the moon
they then went on to Zanzibar
where they spent all their money and dosh
and had to have a swift transfer
or be hit on the head with a cosh!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:06 am

Matt and Angie...

soon to be Mr & Mrs Plum!

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:14 am

Great Plum wrote:Matt and Angie...

soon to be Mr & Mrs Plum!

can't find the limmerick page!!

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:23 am

Jude wrote:can't find the limmerick page!!

viewtopic.php?t=347&start=270

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:58 am

Great Plum wrote:Matt and Angie...

soon to be Mr & Mrs Plum!

thought about plumlets yet?

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:39 am

dam sons?

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:44 am

Victoria and Mirabelle are obvious choices for girls...

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:49 pm

these posts are plum awful!!!

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:53 pm

...really "plumming " the depths

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:56 pm

hey Mrs C - glad to C you again - Was feeling a bit lonely out here as the only Mrs C.... did you have a good break?

Well the honeymoon looks to plumb the depths of their pockets!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:43 am

Oh dear oh dear...

this thread is falling apart!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:56 am

Jude wrote:hey Mrs C - glad to C you again - Was feeling a bit lonely out here as the only Mrs C....

A cry for help from a damson in distress!

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:37 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
Jude wrote:hey Mrs C - glad to C you again - Was feeling a bit lonely out here as the only Mrs C....
A cry for help from a damson in distress!

to be rescued before she turns into a prune ?