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Previously on "HOLIDAYS - Any Ideas ?"

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  • MarillionFan
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    Butlins.

    Sorted.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by lukemg View Post
    Got two sons, 11 and 2 years old, went to Majorca for hols but didn't feel like much of a break for me between keeping these two AND the missus happy...
    Any suggestions for destinations + activities for the next one (with them obviously, already got golf break with lads sorted...)?
    try Club Mark Warner plenty for the kids to go off and do without needing your attention.

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    A tad unconverntional - but even if the weather isnt good theres plenty to do underground -



    A former secret nuclear missile base in Ukraine has been turned into a museum.

    The base was once a hub for the Soviet Union's most advanced nuclear missiles and military technology.

    Visitors can explore the only existing silo in Ukraine and a command post hidden 40m underground designed to withstand a nuclear strike.

    Kirill Skorodelov reports.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14671046
    Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 30 August 2011, 17:00.

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I should think your 2 year old will be happy whatever. It's the 11 year old that's your issue here. Try "Summer Camp" or buy him a ruck-sack, a pair of hiking boots and a tent, drop him in Edale and say "See you in Kirk Yetholm" in two weeks.
    WHS, and stuff the 2 year old in his rucksack.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by lukemg View Post
    You are right, plan was to go to big complex so 11yo could make pals, which he did.....on the last bleedin' day.
    Oddly, above plan is close to one my dad proposed when I was a feckless teenager with little interest in anything. He had read about this course where they essentially dump you in the wilds. 'He's had everything too easy that lad' was his prevailing view at the time, which as it happens is probably true...
    It didn't do me any harm...

    I also swam across Loch Long when I was 12 because it was too far to walk round the top via Arrochar to the Ardgarten camping site.

    Kids today don't know they're born!

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  • lukemg
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I should think your 2 year old will be happy whatever. It's the 11 year old that's your issue here. Try "Summer Camp" or buy him a ruck-sack, a pair of hiking boots and a tent, drop him in Edale and say "See you in Kirk Yetholm" in two weeks.
    You are right, plan was to go to big complex so 11yo could make pals, which he did.....on the last bleedin' day.
    Oddly, above plan is close to one my dad proposed when I was a feckless teenager with little interest in anything. He had read about this course where they essentially dump you in the wilds. 'He's had everything too easy that lad' was his prevailing view at the time, which as it happens is probably true...
    Last edited by lukemg; 30 August 2011, 13:04.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by Bunk View Post
    I wouldn't bother, it'll just be more Griceresque pish.
    Noted.

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  • Bunk
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I was constructing my reply at the same instant you posted.

    I tell you what, I'll hang around all day on the off chance that you may post something similar.

    Actually, no I won't.
    I wouldn't bother, it'll just be more Griceresque pish.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by pacharan View Post
    Which is what I just said. Dug.
    I was constructing my reply at the same instant you posted.

    I tell you what, I'll hang around all day on the off chance that you may post something similar.

    Actually, no I won't.

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  • wobbegong
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    Originally posted by pacharan View Post
    Send the kids on a PGL adventure holiday and do what you want with the wife.
    A 2yr old?

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  • pacharan
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I should think your 2 year old will be happy whatever. It's the 11 year old that's your issue here. Try "Summer Camp" or buy him a ruck-sack, a pair of hiking boots and a tent, drop him in Edale and say "See you in Kirk Yetholm" in two weeks.
    Which is what I just said. Dug.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by lukemg View Post
    Got two sons, 11 and 2 years old, went to Majorca for hols but didn't feel like much of a break for me between keeping these two AND the missus happy...
    Any suggestions for destinations + activities for the next one (with them obviously, already got golf break with lads sorted...)?
    I should think your 2 year old will be happy whatever. It's the 11 year old that's your issue here. Try "Summer Camp" or buy him a ruck-sack, a pair of hiking boots and a tent, drop him in Edale and say "See you in Kirk Yetholm" in two weeks.

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  • pacharan
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    Send the kids on a PGL adventure holiday and do what you want with the wife.

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  • lukemg
    started a topic HOLIDAYS - Any Ideas ?

    HOLIDAYS - Any Ideas ?

    Got two sons, 11 and 2 years old, went to Majorca for hols but didn't feel like much of a break for me between keeping these two AND the missus happy...
    Any suggestions for destinations + activities for the next one (with them obviously, already got golf break with lads sorted...)?

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