Denmark can be quite expensive. I have a yearning to go there next year too. But also Chile. And New Zealand. So there is about 8k worth of holidays just there.
Damnit. And we can generally do holidays on the cheap, just taking a ferry, shopping in supermarkets, and renting a house off-season. But yes, the year we went to Amsterdam put us into debt for half a year afterwards.
To be fair the 8k was mostly made up of Chile & NZ. I costed a Scottish summer holidays trip to Denmark at about 1k for two of us for a week, but then decided to have a bargain trip to Greece together with a short break later in the holidays in London
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That's really useful, thank you. You're much better at these sorts of holiday than I am - as I recall from previous posts. I always do a bit of research and then get cold feet about being somewhere unfamiliar and having to navigate public transport. Holidays are seriously the only times I wish we could drive.
Copenhagen is where I fancy at the mo. We've always tended to go to one place and plonk ourselves there, again because of the travel aspect, and we all like city activities like museums and galleries and shops.
I want to go to Denmark very much. I am trying to get my family to be excited about going somewhere in Europe. I think the only person who ever gets excited like I do, is my daughter. I live with these two guys... who don't really do enthusiasm. Is this a male English thing?
I'm not sure - some of my friends have got enthusiastic husbands, which I can get very jealous of when I'm having a bad day!
But Europe will never be this close for you again, so obviously you must go. With The Boy, my experience is that he is indifferent to negative before we go somewhere, and only willing to admit it was all worth it after the fact.
That is my feeling. I want to embrace this closeness. I also want to go to the Balkans. Oh the plans I make in my head. "Let's go here and there and everywhere."
We have the Peak district in a couple of weeks. (Promise a full report, and I believe one could get to the place we are staying via train from Brighton...) I may drop the kids off with my inlaws, and we will be grown-ups and do London for a few days in the Autumn. I am sort of tempted to do some travel on my own as well.
Mr. Jenner seems to prefer that I create a plan/idea, put it together and then he pays for it and shows up. Which is great. Though he will irritate me on occasion when he suddenly wants to become an expert while traveling and decide that we should do such and such, after I've come up with some plans.
Denmark! It is the best place! Last time I went there I found that suncream was remarkably cheap, but erm, everything else was like being on holiday in London...
Scandinavian hostels idea seconded, they're lovely (though they often charge for sheets if you don't bring your own).
If you were going to out the way places, then couchsurfing would work, even as a family - we stayed with several remote families who were excited to have foreign visitors and had plenty of space. It wouldn't work in Copenhagen though as that's mostly tiny flats.
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Copenhagen is where I fancy at the mo. We've always tended to go to one place and plonk ourselves there, again because of the travel aspect, and we all like city activities like museums and galleries and shops.
What did you do, when you lived there?
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But Europe will never be this close for you again, so obviously you must go. With The Boy, my experience is that he is indifferent to negative before we go somewhere, and only willing to admit it was all worth it after the fact.
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We have the Peak district in a couple of weeks. (Promise a full report, and I believe one could get to the place we are staying via train from Brighton...)
I may drop the kids off with my inlaws, and we will be grown-ups and do London for a few days in the Autumn. I am sort of tempted to do some travel on my own as well.
Mr. Jenner seems to prefer that I create a plan/idea, put it together and then he pays for it and shows up. Which is great. Though he will irritate me on occasion when he suddenly wants to become an expert while traveling and decide that we should do such and such, after I've come up with some plans.
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Denmark sounds good.
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If you were going to out the way places, then couchsurfing would work, even as a family - we stayed with several remote families who were excited to have foreign visitors and had plenty of space. It wouldn't work in Copenhagen though as that's mostly tiny flats.
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