Vacation V Staycation Costs

Thank you Grandad😁 We had a very adventurous young married life, breeding never interfered, so we are in our caring period at the moment,  happily looking after our inheritance. Decades away from our 80’s. I retired at 45, so sort of had a good ten years of no work and living before commitments arrived. 👍

I'm not that much older than you but I've never had the view that it can only be this country or abroad. Some of our foreign holidays are only 7 days and we actually went to Malta in December 2019 for only 4 days. Variety is the spice of life.  

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3yrs more than you with retirement

Also off thread is your international reduced rate document up to date ours for this and next year has not arrived yet? may have to contact RDG? 

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Its a case of keep them "just in case" we were hoping to do Amsterdam and local services , when it resumes as a direct service

I do not think its changed?

Totally agree with that; we're not in our dotage yet either, but at 56 OH had to have bypass surgery, completely unexpected, but the months leading up to it were extremely worrying, as it became obvious something was wrong; he'd taken early retirement 3 years earlier with no sign of any health problems.  He's so lucky to have survived it, it doesn't matter what age you are, you don't know what's round the corner.  We've always walked, cycled and led a healthy lifestyle, but when something like that happens, it's devastating, and out of your control.  We've certainly learned that.  

As said, as we don’t know what is round the corner-could be that runaway bus-there is an understandable desire to make the most of life and, I think, many on here may also be considering how long going over there will be an option the wish to consider.

So far this year we have had 14 medical appointments, now thankfully reduced but still looking at five years of ‘surveillance’ for one of us and ongoing appointments, post Covid, for the other-but feel lucky and you don’t have to look around much to find people far, far worse off than us.

I do smile when recalling a colleagues humour when he said “those optimistic fools don’t realise the light at the end of the tunnel is actually an express train”!

We are so lucky to live where we do and for us when over there is not possible we would likely stay at home, except for family visits, not replace it with holidays here.

We would hopefully still be able to have our meet ups with friends on rallies etc but we go over there because it’s different.

My analogy is a football match (apologies for sounding like JVT) which normally lasts 90 mins and which could be seen to compare with a good life span. Assume you are a striker and at 60 mins gone you still haven't scored a goal: now you might say, no worries I've still got 30 mins left but it is not in your control, you might get injured, substituted or even sent off. The time to score that goal is as soon as possible, if you then go on to score more goals even better. 

 

At present I very definitely wouldn't want to be abroad unless  there was some pressing reason other than a holiday. The virus is running out of control in the EU and the sight of individuals heading for holidays to avoid lockdown indicates further problems. There are all sorts of interesting places in our own isles to explore and I just hope we'll be able to see them this year. It's a seize the day scenario for everyone (with plastic gloves on...)