Your best ever holiday?

[IccyV2]

We were talking about this the other day.

We were living in the Caribbean and my wife fancied a proper traditional European family resort holiday, the sort of all inclusive holiday with reps and entertainment and kids clubs, etc.
So we booked two weeks in Tenerife and I expected hell on earth, fighting for sunbeds, drunken larger louts, shouty mums and snotty kids and all the best/worst the Brits bring on holiday with them.

But it turned out to be a brilliant two weeks, the hotel was nice, the food was decent and the entertainment was first class, a cabaret every night with decent acts. The kids loved the activities during the day and I can't recall a bad thing about it. We enjoyed it so much we signed up for the following year before we left.

That holiday was perfect.

[Yorick]

Blimey. Iccy was too close for comfort

[Yorick]

1985. Had 12 month backpacking holiday

Toronto a month staying with cousins

New York, New Orleans, San Francisco & Los Angeles a few days each

Hawaii camped for free for a month.

New Zealand worked a month on Basil farm then toured both islands 2 months

Australia worked for a pal in Sydney a month. Bought car and did 10,000 in 3 months.
Sydney, up the coast to Cairns for Barrier Reef. Darwin, Ayers Rock, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Sydney

Singapore a week.

Malaysia 3 weeks up west coast, down east coast. Week on Pulau Tioman

Northen India and Nepal 3 months by train and bus

Phew

[Rockburner]

Not exactly a "holiday", but 3 months vanning around the Spanish coastline January to Brexit day (the original one).

January in Northern france is chilly and depressing (although slightly less so than the UK); especially when you've just said goodbye to the wife who's told you that she no longer wants to be with you.

A day or two meandering and I'm lying on a beach and swimming in the Med. Another 3 months of doing that by myself and I was nigh on reborn.

[cvilla]

A few years ago took the nipper to our friends in Germany, so 1st flight; then underground to city, got chips and cake in underground shops, pretty descent for nipper, all good, a few days later head out to Austria (1st time), go for ski lift and walk up and down snowy mountains (1st for nipper), on the way we go past Olympic ski jump place (1930's Olympics) there is no snow at this lower level but folk are walking up the ski lift stairs, we think it's part of a tour, No folk are actually doing practice ski jumps utilising the fake ski snow/grass stuff and it turns out the ski jumpers are part of the national team! It's great you hear a hiss sound as they run down the artificial snow then as they take off just Silence....until you hear German swearing as they mess up the landing:) So overall a bunch of new stuff with family and friends, it just worked out:)

[Druid]

Three weeks in Canada last year.
My wife and I flew to Vancouver, spent a couple of days looking around the touristy sights. Then picked up a hire car, caught the ferry to Vancouver Island and spent 5 days exploring a small part of the island. Back to the mainland and up into the Rockies finally ending up in Calgary.
I had wanted to visit the Canadian Rockies for years and retirement (and a lump sum from my pension) meant that we had both the time and the money to do it.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Probably our first trip to the USA, flew to Boston, had 3 days there, flew to San Francisco, had 3 days there, drove round California, Nevada and Utah, flew back from Vegas, it was the first time I'd had a foreign holiday that wasn't an organised package trip, it was just a really relaxed chilled time, but we did a similar holiday in Sweden that was nearly as good, and I was very tempted to say the first motorcycling holiday I had in the Peak District, with the children we had some superb holidays in North Devon

[Taipan]

1985. Had 12 month backpacking holiday

Toronto a month staying with cousins

New York, New Orleans, San Francisco & Los Angeles a few days each

Hawaii camped for free for a month.

New Zealand worked a month on Basil farm then toured both islands 2 months

Australia worked for a pal in Sydney a month. Bought car and did 10,000 in 3 months.
Sydney, up the coast to Cairns for Barrier Reef. Darwin, Ayers Rock, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Sydney

Singapore a week.

Malaysia 3 weeks up west coast, down east coast. Week on Pulau Tioman

Northen India and Nepal 3 months by train and bus

Phew

You need to get out more!

[Count Steer]

Three weeks in Canada last year.
My wife and I flew to Vancouver, spent a couple of days looking around the touristy sights. Then picked up a hire car, caught the ferry to Vancouver Island and spent 5 days exploring a small part of the island. Back to the mainland and up into the Rockies finally ending up in Calgary.
I had wanted to visit the Canadian Rockies for years and retirement (and a lump sum from my pension) meant that we had both the time and the money to do it.

Did something similar in reverse. Flew into Calgary, had an overnight there. Picked up the hire car, drove to Banff. Snowboarding for a week - broke my wrist, with a FOOSH* injury (saw the same English doctor I'd seen the year before for an eye problem - still had my Canadian medical card ).

That turned the holiday into a road trip for the next 2 weeks - I could still drive an automatic. Across the Rockies, Okanagan Valley etc on to Vancouver and VI, where spring was springing. Flew back from Vancouver.

That was, despite the wrist, an excellent trip.

Others inc a trip to Singapore and Penang at Christmas (before Penang was connected by bridge(s) so it was a lot quieter). Many involving covering most of Turkey, mainly on local transport but with the odd car hire too. Lots of others involved going up and down mountains.

For the memories I'd go for that Canadian holiday and the Singapore/Penang ones but can't remember any bad ones.

*Falling On OutStretched Hand

[Nobby]

Best holiday ?
This one, and long may it last.

[Docca]

I've been all over the place.

Riding around Oz x 2 (once with wife on a Harley, once just me on an 1150gs)
India for 6months
Thailand for 6 months
Cambodia
Most of Europe including some recent fab' family holidays in Portugal, France etc


However, the holidays that are my favourite and I remember with most fondness: family camping in Cornwall and Wales with the dogs, wife and kids. Absolute heaven and I'd like to do that forever.

[Cousin Jack]

Probably the best was our first road trip in the USA. Flew into Seattle, drove round the Olympic peninsula, then up and across the North Cascades, then up to Glacier National Park and into Canada, back down into the US, over Lolo Pass (with the famous double bends for 99 miles sign), down along the Columbia River to Portland, and then down the Pacific Coast to SF, with an inland detour to Crater Lake. Lots of miles, and about 5 weeks.

[gremlin]

Isle of Wight, summer 1985. Sandown Bay Holiday Camp.

Met some gorgeous bird, wooed her with my charm and wit and 40+ years later we're still together.

[weeksy]

Morzine. Pick a year, any year. Its just fab.

Id argue 2 years ago as that was when Crust came a d the boy was racing the European Champs in Champery. The race wasn't his best result but the overall trip was fantastic

[Soupdragon]

Not a traditional 'holiday' as such but what a memory......

A group of 12 spotty youths on mopeds going to Monsters of Rock, Donington in 1981.It was absolute carnage on all the senses and just the best time. Suzuki AP50s, the ubiquitous FS-1Es, an ER50, a pal on his Mum's C50 (fastest of all of us) and me on the slowest but coolest moped - a Honda CB50J with single seat and Mead Speed clip-ons. The bars were still too big for the weedy fork legs so I wrapped bits of Party 7 cans around them that I cut with tin-snips!

Camping in a great big field with 'real' bikers on their Katanas and GPZs made us feel like proper men! It was all so funny and we were taken under their wing a bit. There was a massed fart lighting competition one night that saw a big scorch mark in someone's ground sheet and I dimly remember someone running off because he'd tried so hard in the build-up that he'd 'over-extended' himself!!!!

AC/DC, Blackfoot, Whitesnake..... Just hard, driving classic rock all compered by the great Tommy Vance.

It was my first proper time away from home with friends and I'll never forget it. Apart from anything else, it introduced me to the unspoken bond that unites motorcyclists, and that still exists today.

[McSatan]

I was going to describe all the spaztackularly good ones I've had, NZ, Australia, America, various bits of Africa, all the good stuff, road trips etc.

[Eclipse]

I have never been on Holiday and last time I went to a beach was maybe 30 years ago
when mum dad and older brother were alive, we went to Blackpool and on the beach they
had donkey or horse rides and one of them bit me nipple fkin hard lol.

I remember sitting on a key side or something similar and having a red string with lead weight on the end
and if I lowered it into the water, waited a few seconds and pulled it up there was crabs on the end of it.

If I could go anywhere for a Holiday I think it would be India, would like to take some diesel engines
and useful tools to those in Rural areas.