So, as the end of season approaches, what have you all got planned for your holidays? I think I'm going for some cheap sun with a mate but haven't entirely decided yet.

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

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-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Golf

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Announced this week, I'll be overseeing a new project within the same company I work for now. £1.9 million fit-out of existing office area. It's got to be finished in four months which is optimistic to say the least.

I therefore won't be having a holiday as I'll be busting my gut to make this a success. If I do okay I can start to name my price in the salary reviews with huge confidence that I can move jobs and earn a fortune!

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Completing the web certification I started 2 yrs ago, but wasn't able to finish due to slavery at my former company. And still looking for a job with benefits and paying well enough for me to have a life again. ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Congratulations DB - ticket to the bit-time eh?
I was in the project management racket many moons ago - designing & building chemical plants though.

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

...freudian slip DB. Of course, I meant "big-time". (Aaaaaarrgh)

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

After the last years stagnation this is the challenge and opportunity to shoot up the pay ladder and establish myself.

Just as I was looking to leave this company as well! Needless to say my postings on here will be reduced but I have needed an excuse like this for a while!

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Don't suppose you had anything to do with that Oil Plant that caught on fire the other week did you Clarky? ;))

Holidays.....Florence in May, Portugal in June, somewhere else in Oct and back to Barbados for xmas....

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Am leaving it late but had intended to catch a game before end of season and spending a week at Bamburgh/Whickham. Start off in June with a trip to Phantom of the Opera, Abd , followed by a week in the same caravan in Morayshire that we trundled the family too for ten years running in the 70`s, and then 4 days in Edinburgh staying at the same hotel (used to be The Grosvenor) that we spent our honeymoon in the year of 63, right sentimental aul sod these days, to think once I was your archetypal macho male Geordie "Get it doon yor neck man",

Lucky when younger that I travelled a great deal cos my last hol foreign in Teneriffe put me right off, Herds of Brits sitting in bars watching "An audience with_____on video , probably seen them all before, Sky football , place a bet on the nags quicker than the UK, failed club turns in the hotels, and ten different appearances of the originial Drifters within a ten mile radius, thanks but no thanks, would consider riding the rockies in a train , and a return visit to Barbados and Coolangatta in Oz , apart from that , Newcastle/Scot and Ireland , who needs the sun when you got the patter.

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Aye, I can tell you're a romantic auld fool, Buff!

Gav - not guilty m'lud. Mine are all spick 'n span - last time I checked anyway. Pharmaceutical chemicals were my bag, not then greet big dorty ones with smerkin chimney's and aal that.

Oh yes, I forgot, hols - Madeira in August. Been once for a work conference/shindig sort of thing - nice place, shame about the airport - one of the most scary landings in the world. This time it's pure relaxation, assuming the plane get's doon - and before anyone asks, yes I did read the story about the Airbus crash-landing there this week!!!

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

heading back this summer and after that.....who knows?

Newcastle, Dublin, Edinbrough...wherever i'll enjoy living and can get a job that i don't mind doing.

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

haha nice one Clarky!! you've just saved my life!!

Me and the missus were considering Madeira but you've just put me off....she's THE most nervous flyer in the world (had to fill her full of drugs to get her to Barbados!) so any kind of dodgy landing would've had her having a heart attack just moments before she killed me :)))

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Gav - if you go to Oz get to Hamilton Island. The flightpath for the landing will make you cack your pants big style. The plane banks almost 60 degrees on the approach! Did not enjoy one little bit.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Moving house by the river, lets hope the Tyne doesn't burst its banks. Wellies on order anyway, Peeler crabs 10p each, anyone.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Ireland for 3 weeks for a honeymoon (I'm getting married late July). Hope I can follow Buff's example and return 28 years later for a sentimental visit.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

WAHEY Stevo!! best wishes and all that :))

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Had my holidays last month. Will be spending several days in the coming weeks in the company of Ant and Dec!

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Go on Dan.....Get their autographs for my daughter will ya mate? she's be very impressed......

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Dan, are these your names you've dropped here? :-)

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Dan , youre in the big time now marra .. RGS boy meets Byker Grove's finest ! Stevo congrats bonny lad , all very quiet , enjoy it mate will you be driving aboot or staying put in the same hotel room like ? Gav you're a tart , well impressed with that little itenerary ! Me , im staying in Sydney , but Shanghai in june for a friends wedding , she's Chinese so we have to do the respectful thing and will be the only westerners there .. then a few days in Beijing . Then caroline's ( the missus ) birthday and were off to Fiji for a long weekend .. weekend after off to Brisbane for the British Lions first match of the test series , then doon to Melbourne for the second test the week after . August me mate is doing a five gig tour here and in Adelaide and joining him for 3 dates in Tokyo and Osaka . Hopefully trying to get to Wanaka in NZ for a weeks snowboarding too , but all a bit hazy at the mo . Could be worse :) .

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Holidays are undecided.

Me I want to tour the South island of NZ again and introduce the young “un” to mountains and some of the great walks in the area.

The missus wants Port Douglas, the barrier reef, cocktails and sunbeds

Probably end up in Busselton!!

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Me, I DRAEM of gannin to Busselton!!

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Sting: Starting on the North Antrim coast (used to live there) and then probably onto Donegal and the West Coast. The North doesn't get as many visitors as it should (can't think why...), whilst the coast- line is stunning, Dunluce Castle, Bushmills, Rathlin Island, Giants Causeway etc. Well worth a visit.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Sticking around Calgary over the summer. The weather is too nice here. Golf a lot, the Rockies are an hour away. Lovely in the summer. Horrible in winter unless one can Ski, which I can't/won't. September, off to Texas for a week, a little lake resort just north of Houston, pure R & R. Just booked our "winter" hols in Mazatlan Mexico, last week of November and first in December. Then it's Christmas and time to start planning our next trip, maybe February or March. Thanks for the tip on Tenerife Buff, never been but was thinking about it. Not any more.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

There are some decent parts of Tenerife, PetiC.

The problem getting some winter sun from the UK is that you have to fly half way round the world. The only really reliable place within say a 4hr flight is Tenerife, or possibly nearby Lanzarote.

The Canary Islands, like Madeira, are entirely volcanic so are very rugged and not heavily vegatated.

We've been a couple of times to a nice little town on the rugged NW coast of Tenerife, called Los Gigantes - named after the massive cliffs that tower above the town. It's relatively quiet and civilised, but still quite heavily 'anglicised' if you find that to be a turn off, which I have to say I do - why is it that Brits abroad can be so arrogant, patronising and generally sickening?

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

So true Clarky. Personally I love Mexico, people are friendly, tourist types are usually American and Canadian, however the European contingent is growing, especially in Cancun. Very few Brits and those I have met in Mexico have been very pleasant and fun to be around. I found years ago that Spain, Majorca etc had become so "english" it was alsmost like being at Blackpool with really nice weather.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

I have also been looking to Portugal, never been there other than a quick stop at the airports enroute elsewhere. Anybody out there able to give any first hand info on Portugal??

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Bloody 'ell, how the other half lives eh! I'm going to Torquay for a week in May! Mind you, it is a very nice part of Torquay and we have got a very nice apartment overlooking the harbour and I am going with me old man's sister and husband. What more could a woman ask?!!

Also going to Barcelona for four nights in July to add a further notch on my "great stadiums of the world" tour! Oh, and I've just had a weekend in Cardiff!!

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001