Somewhere warm and away from the media circus.
I instantly thought "jamaica" but her indoors said she aint got that sort of money.

Andy

*buggering off* is maybe a bit harsh

But a couple of weeks in the sunshine and NO Christmas commercialisation (sp) would be heaven

Just my natural language

Say it as I think it. Sorry

edited

It's only commercialisation if you let it. Why not stay and try to capture the real spirit of Christmas, hard as it may be. After all you will only have to come back here.

Nice edit BTW

I'm looking at going away, don't know where yet, probably going to get one of those last minute deals

Et tu Brute?

Do what

Don't get me wrong it's not purely to get away from the media circus.
Just that there is nothing different or exciting about staying here over that period. 33 years of the same thing is getting tiring.
Half the family I don't want to spend Christmas with, the other half are in Indonesia or somewhere (I forget what it said on my birthday card last week) only contact I've had for about two years lol.


Andy

We're not thinking about it, we are buggering off! Isle of Skye here we come!

No problem....but go because you want something better not because you're running away. And I sort of agree with Einstein but if there's a chance to do anything and have the sunshine...that's my choice

i have just bought a place in cyprus the only trouble is it wont be ready till august

i would love to go away for christmas just me and my beutiful mrs and kids.

roll on next christmas

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.

go on your own then

Off to NZ, but once spent Xmas in Thailand and it was bliss. Sp nice to get a break from the cold and Xmas.

Lost on me

His supposed dying words..

Even you, Brutus.


Can't quite work out the relevance though


Go on my own. FFS
Sipping rum on a beach bar on my own on Christmas day.
What a nice feeling of Christmas that would be.

Andy

Correct. The relevance being I'm imploring you to stay and spread a bit of true Christmas spirit, and Lou drops the bombshell from the blind side!

im thinking of buggering SS for xmas. I wonder if she would like me gift wrapped

Bet the ribbon falls off

My parents go to Florida for Dec every year and love it. I was going to join them this year but after just buying the ex out of the house Im rather skint

Si

I'm good at dropping bombshells

And on that bombshell........

im going to egypt on the 12th till the 19th cant wait already packing my bags

The grass is always greener, hey? We don't really like Christmas in Portugal as it isn't really Christmas - no snow (well, last year was different ), no falling leaves, no seeing your breath in the morning...

(Awaits flood of requests for a house swap...)

You can come and see my breath in the morning any day you like and you can scrape the ice off my windows and you can choose the warmest coat you have..............and you can drive home from w*rk every night in the dark and never see your neighbours til the weekends....................and have the central heating up high........................and, yes, let me be in Portugal and let me moan at all the nasty things going on there

TBH everything you describe about the winter days sounds 'cool'. Crisp, icy mornings coupled with beautiful winter sunrises..........

me and the girlfriend did a Jordan: Lawrence of Arabia tour over christmas. 9 days, Jordan top to bottom, including Petra and a night in the desert. awesome landscapes.

I'll get in before anyone else does. I wouldn't mind doing Jordan desert or no desert!