Posted: 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 £50/£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 £285 per person per week (children £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????
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 £50/£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 £285 per person per week (children £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????