So where are you travelling to for the festive period

braddun

burglars will love your announcing you will be away on the internet

Smidge

braddun wrote: »

burglars will love your announcing you will be away on the internet

Eh..only if they know the anonymous people on here

Super-Rush

Dublin.

Ugh.

Rabies

I'm coming home to have my first Christmas in 9 years in Ireland, and my brother's wedding too.

Can't wait

Vandango

bodhrandude wrote: »

So where are you travelling to for the festive period.

Back to Ireland.

Jude13

Ditto back to Ireland, a 3 stopper

athtrasna

braddun wrote: »

burglars will love your announcing you will be away on the internet

See my post on the first page!

BetterThanThou

Getting wasted and making my family regret being related to me, that's what Christmas in Ireland is about, isn't it?

7ofBrian

Flyin home from Canada for a few days

Scruffy19

Flying from Vancouver to Dublin on Wednesday night on a one way ticket and me mother hasnt got the slightest clue

Deco99

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I'll be making the pilgrimage back from the exciting world of European finance in Frankfurt to drab and dreary East Galway.

I always initially like my visits home. Hearing how people are doing, letting them know how well I've done. Inevitably though I grow bored of listening to how Frankie Muldoon bought a 12 Ford Mondeo or Theresa Gibbons got an extension on the house and most of the people in my hometown couldn't begin to understand what it is I do. Each year I come back I realise how little I have in common with small-town Ireland.

I can imagine the conversation...

Local Paddy: Glad to have the christmas upon us now, few days off, get tired of trek up and down to dublin. Hows the internet start up ted?

Local Ted: Not bad, might be launching an IPO next year..... oh god look who's in? Aongus.

Local Paddy: Oh god, whats he at now? Working in a bank is it?

Local ted: Ya, or more like it, sits at a computer and runs programmes that tell what buttons to push. Oh god he's coming over, I'll start the conversation before he tries to explain what version of excel he's using.

Aongus: Hello boys...

Ted: Aongus, oh sure looka who tis, tis Aongus back from Germania, Did you hear Mary got a new mondeo, a 12, no recession there yak yak yak...

Paddy: Well done ted, that got rid of him.

NormalBob Ubiquitypants

Scruffy19 wrote: »

Flying from Vancouver to Dublin on Wednesday night on a one way ticket and me mother hasnt got the slightest clue

Not to freak you, but a friend of mine was living in NY and decided to do this. His family also decided to surprise him in NY. Hilarity ensued. Between the four of them they spent nearly 7000 on flights alone to surprise each other. :pac:
They all met eventually in Sligo on the 27th. He had to return to NY on the 30th.

AudreyHepburn

I'm staying at home with my family....have some decent time of work this year so looking forward to a few days putting my feet up, indulging in seriously unhealthy foods (and drink!) and generally being idle!

Scruffy19

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

Not to freak you, but a friend of mine was living in NY and decided to do this. His family also decided to surprise him in NY. Hilarity ensued. Between the four of them they spent nearly 7000 on flights alone to surprise each other. :pac:
They all met eventually in Sligo on the 27th. He had to return to NY on the 30th.

Ahh jesus that would be a nightmare if that happened! Lucky enough my sister knows im back so no need to panick :D

TheBeardedLady

Scruffy19 wrote: »

Flying from Vancouver to Dublin on Wednesday night on a one way ticket and me mother hasnt got the slightest clue

Nice! Are you moving home for good?

rainbow kirby

London -> Dublin on Sunday 21st. Home for 10 days, and will be down in Limerick visiting OH's family for some of that.

Scruffy19

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

Nice! Are you moving home for good?

Thats the plan! See how it goes back home for a few months and if its not working out then might move over to London!

Ush1

I'll be in Cork with the baby and herselves family. (I'm from Dublin)

iDave

Back to Trim for me

seventeen sheep

Wompa1 wrote: »

I don't know if that actually counts as being away from home.....

To clarify, I'm staying five minutes away from "home" home, i.e. my parents' home! I don't live anywhere near there, so it's actually a proper holiday for me!

TheBeardedLady

Scruffy19 wrote: »

Thats the plan! See how it goes back home for a few months and if its not working out then might move over to London!

Good luck with your plan.Would love to see your mam's face.

Hoop66

Dun Laoghaire->Dundrum->Dun Laoghaire

'Tis some life I tell yer...

SMJSF

Deco99 wrote:

Is that bog-ar*e of nowhere called home before you went to college joined a society full of people who like you know have travelled and totally seen the world?

No, born and only lived in Dublin, if you must know!

Crumpets

Ireland 9 days to go, cannot wait!!!!!!

The_Valeyard

I believe I shall be moving from the bedroom to the sitting room this festive season.*






*excluding nights out, etc,etc

Mint Sauce

Home for the night. Some of us don't get two weeks off.

Frigga_92

We stay put over Christmas. We have 4 dogs and Christmas is a difficult time to arrange someone to look after them so it's just easier to stay at home. Plus, it wouldn't really feel like Christmas if it was spent away from our dogs.

yeppydeppy

I live in North Cork but I'm heading to Achill for two weeks from the 20th - can't wait.

26sdrawkcab

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

We stay put over Christmas. We have 4 dogs and Christmas is a difficult time to arrange someone to look after them so it's just easier to stay at home. Plus, it wouldn't really feel like Christmas if it was spent away from our dogs.

I'm excited about getting the doggy stocking !

bear1

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I'll be making the pilgrimage back from the exciting world of European finance in Frankfurt to drab and dreary East Galway.

I always initially like my visits home. Hearing how people are doing, letting them know how well I've done. Inevitably though I grow bored of listening to how Frankie Muldoon bought a 12 Ford Mondeo or Theresa Gibbons got an extension on the house and most of the people in my hometown couldn't begin to understand what it is I do. Each year I come back I realise how little I have in common with small-town Ireland.

Jays you sound like a barrel of laughs. Germany has really rubbed off of you.

bear1

Oh and I'm doing Warsaw to Galway. 1 week
Can't wait to come home. This contracting ****e is getting on my nerves with being away from home for so long!

bodhrandude

Well thats my flights booked, off in the 23rd to Edinburgh on route to Dundee and then Dunblane, will probably take in Glasgow, Bridge of Allan and Stirling too and then back to Dublin on the 5th. I wish Shannon still done the flights to Edinburgh, was just an hour and a half from Galway, still the Citylink and Gobus are a pretty fast commute to Dublin airport.

Mesrine65

Tunisia, as far away from Xmas as I can get TBH

The festive period starts this weekend for me. OH coming home from Scotland and will be here for over 3 weeks. Daughter No.2 finishes uni on Friday and apart from a couple of exams is off till near the end of Jan.

Only one missing will be my eldest daughter who is in Oz so a huge thank you goes out to the inventor of Skype. x

Chucken

bodhrandude wrote: »

Well thats my flights booked, off in the 23rd to Edinburgh on route to Dundee and then Dunblane, will probably take in Glasgow, Bridge of Allan and Stirling too and then back to Dublin on the 5th. I wish Shannon still done the flights to Edinburgh, was just an hour and a half from Galway, still the Citylink and Gobus are a pretty fast commute to Dublin airport.

Aer Lingus fly Shannon Edinburgh and Ryanair have it on again.

AgileMyth

Getting home on the 21st but back to Belgium in time for work Christmas eve.

bodhrandude

Chucken wrote: »

Aer Lingus fly Shannon Edinburgh and Ryanair have it on again.

How much though, I got a return for 89 euros with a checked in bag each way so not too bad. I had to wait till I got date confirmations before I could book otherwise I would've have booked last Thursday as it was 39 euros cheaper. I checked Shannon on Ryanair and there was no flights going on Thursday for the December and January calender.

Grand Moff Tarkin

Home with the family but my one fear is that the odious in laws will call to us as they are a nasty bunch.

mosstin

SMJSF wrote: »

Down the bog-ar*e of nowhere down the country on Xmas eve.... going to be extremely bored by about 12pm Xmas day!

Your family take after you then?

SMJSF

mosstin wrote:

Your family take after you then?

my family take after me? Who ever said that there's anybody younger than me in "my family"? and did I say I was going to relatives?
For all you know I could be minding a house, or working...

efb

Festive Period? A tampon with tinsel???

wendell borton

I'm going 2000 miles, its very far through the snow.

silvervixen84

Flying from London to Cork on the 22nd, back on the evening of the 1st. Looking forward to catching up with everyone.

Auldloon

wretcheddomain wrote: »

You'll be bored within 48 hours.

Lol no I won't! Isn't that for teenagers or people with no imagination!

Sunny Dayz

Travelling from the midlands up to Donegal for Christmas to spend it with the outlaws. It's the first Christmas in all of my 30 years that I won't be spending it with my own family. It's gonna be strange, good, but strange.

Going Strong

About five miles up the road on Christmas Day to my brother's for dinner. There'll be a job lot of us - 10-14 depending on which of his inlaws has to be elsewhere or not. Other than that, I don't have to be anywhere which is a blessed relief as "Me Time" has been a bit short on the ground the past six months.

This year my mother has cancelled her usual "Everybody *must* come to mine and be ordered about in nagging tones while I moan about how hard it is to heat up bought-in 'meh' on a plate and then drop large hints about when can ye all feck off again so I can watch Coronation Street.", err, wholesome family gathering. Re-fecking-sult.