Holiday websites are so infuriating
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All I want is a nice quiet location to read some books for a week, get some sun and go for some walks. All I get offered is noisy locations that are infested with drunks or kids in the middle of a coastal urban sprawl. Oh, and why do they have to be packaged with flights from an airport that is 5 hours drive away when there is a perfectly good international airport 5 miles away.
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Have you considered Tunisia?
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
All I want is a nice quiet location to read some books for a week, get some sun and go for some walks
Ok, well I was thinking Scotland fitted all those bills. That was until you mentioned the sunshine... I understand you might want to go abroad for it but not a lot of people appreciate how much Britain itself has to offer. Pembrokeshire, for example, would fit your bill perfectly. Just find a little cottage or something near the Preselli Mountains or in the middle of the Beacons and you're set.
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Ed.Poore wrote:
I was thinking Scotland fitted all those bills. That was until you mentioned the sunshine...
That is one area we do seem to lack quite a bit.
Ed.Poore wrote:
not a lot of people appreciate how much Britain itself has to offer
I do realise the UK has a lot to offer, but near guaranteed sunshine isn't one of them.
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1. I actually know what a gerund is. 2. Was trying to be less grammatically correct. :-D
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Josh Gray wrote:
Why oh why do they always show such tiny poor quality photos?
I don't mind that so much as the apparent get-lost-if-you-don't-fit-into-family-or-drunk-20-something-categories attitude. I'm a single person wanting a quiet get away.
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Have you tried SAGA?
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leckey wrote:
Where are you for holiday?
I think there is a missing gerund in that question. Did you mean: Where are you going for holiday? I was wanting to go somewhere warm. The Algarve (southern province of Portugal) or mainland Spain, especially Catalunya (but not a city break in Barcelona). If I want a desitnation near Barcelona, most holiday websites want to fly me from Manchester to some piddly little airport about two hours drive north or south of Barcelona, when I can get a perfectly good flight from Glasgow (the city I live in) to Barcelona itself and then get on a train to my final destination. If I go to the piddly airport I have to hire a car and I'm not interested in that.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
leckey wrote:Where are you for holiday? I think there is a missing gerund in that question.
Participle.
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All I want is a nice quiet location to read some books for a week, get some sun and go for some walks. All I get offered is noisy locations that are infested with drunks or kids in the middle of a coastal urban sprawl. Oh, and why do they have to be packaged with flights from an airport that is 5 hours drive away when there is a perfectly good international airport 5 miles away.
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Have you tried SAGA?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Very funny! :rolleyes:
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
leckey wrote:Where are you for holiday? I think there is a missing gerund in that question.
Participle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
Participle.
Participles to you too! :)
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The airport is 5 hours drive away because you're being cheap - get your hand a bit deeper in your sporran and pay for the international airport 5 miles away :)
Caslen wrote:
The airport is 5 hours drive away because you're being cheap
No, it is because I am not being offered anything from my local airport. If I want to fly from my local airport I have to book each part separately. If I do that then I don't get the protection if any party providing a service that makes up the holiday fails in their obligation. In other words, if my flight is cancelled and I have to wait until the next day for the next one I don't get recompense for missing a day of the holiday, I still have to pay for a hotel room for the missed day. If I book the whole as a package then I do get that protection. It is nothing to do with being cheap.
Caslen wrote:
get your hand a bit deeper in your sporran and pay for the international airport 5 miles away
That comment is racist.
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Mark Wallace wrote:
Participle.
Participles to you too! :)
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Don't you dangle those things in front of me!
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Caslen wrote:
The airport is 5 hours drive away because you're being cheap
No, it is because I am not being offered anything from my local airport. If I want to fly from my local airport I have to book each part separately. If I do that then I don't get the protection if any party providing a service that makes up the holiday fails in their obligation. In other words, if my flight is cancelled and I have to wait until the next day for the next one I don't get recompense for missing a day of the holiday, I still have to pay for a hotel room for the missed day. If I book the whole as a package then I do get that protection. It is nothing to do with being cheap.
Caslen wrote:
get your hand a bit deeper in your sporran and pay for the international airport 5 miles away
That comment is racist.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
That comment is racist.
No it isn't, I, as a Yorkshireman, have often been described as a Scotsman with the generosity removed and it doesn't bother me a bit - but then I do have a sense of humour too. See ----> :laugh:
Caslen wrote:
No it isn't
If you replace the bit that says "get your hand a bit deeper in your sporran" with an action relating to, say, african tribal spears and you were addressing a black person along with the remainder of the disparaging remark (which on its own isn't offensive) then what do you see? If you still can't see the rascism then you are a fool.
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Caslen wrote:
No it isn't
If you replace the bit that says "get your hand a bit deeper in your sporran" with an action relating to, say, african tribal spears and you were addressing a black person along with the remainder of the disparaging remark (which on its own isn't offensive) then what do you see? If you still can't see the rascism then you are a fool.
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