Your best summer...and why...

So what was your best summer ever?

For me it was 1992. Finished the Leaving Cert, first summer going out with the woman who is now my wife, first time going out and drinking properly after a year or 2 of silly stuff, had a job so was paying my own way, got to the Uni where my (now) wife was (which had kinda dictated the choices a few months earlier!) and the charts were full of anthems like the Shamen 'Ebeneezer Goode' that we thought were great at the time.

BrowmThomas

Waiting for someone to say the Summer of 69!!!

kneemos

BrowmThomas wrote: »

Waiting for someone to say the Summer of 69!!!

Thought of it,but you know,so cliched.

booooring!

When I learned how to stop ejaculating prematurely

Jesus Wept

300 words, title: mo laethanta saoire.
In your own words.

And yes, you must use paragraphs.

BrowmThomas

kneemos wrote: »

Thought of it,but you know,so cliched.

Sorry...I couldn't resist, was funny in my head!

Pinch Flat

Summer of 90. Headed out in the ferry to France, final destination south west Germany after a night train from Paris for a summer job. Me and about a dozen mates, Italia 90 and lots of drinking and general mayhem. Great fun was had

ToddyDoody

Summer of 09, got a large payout from a personal injury claim in April and had a great time spending the windfall on a 6 week world cruise. How do you top that?

Mint Aero

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Summer of 09, got a large payout from a personal injury claim in April and had a great time spending the windfall on a 6 week world cruise. How do you top that?

By not being handicapped.

petrolcan

1990.

Arm wrestling on a car roof at 50.

Repairing dent on said car with a spade handle and making others believe it was a shopping trolley dent.

Dropping my bike several times because I didn't quite understand weight distribution whilst cycling 40 miles to camp.

Watching Mc Ginley skim my plate over the lake at said camp!

Shooting stars

Cold Football Special at 20 miles.

Meeting Amelia. She was perfect but I didn't know she was into me until it was too late.

The Backwards Man

Every summer above ground is a good summer.

Apart from '85, it was just pish.

Filmer Paradise

petrolcan wrote: »

1990.

Arm wrestling on a car roof at 50.

Repairing dent on said car with a spade handle and making others believe it was a shopping trolley dent.

Dropping my bike several times because I didn't quite understand weight distribution whilst cycling 40 miles to camp.

Watching Mc Ginley skim my plate over the lake at said camp!

Shooting stars

Cold Football Special at 20 miles.

Meeting Amelia. She was perfect but I didn't know she was into me until it was too late.

Is there a code to translate this?

Brian from Bray

Every summer when I was young was great.

DareGod

2004

First love
Turned 18
Lots of sunshine
2 weeks in Spain
Some great albums came out
Met one of my music heroes at the time
Oxegen '04
Saw some amazing concerts
Still felt excitement
Still cared about life

Fun times!

fullstop

1995, because the weather was awesome unlike seemingly every other summer.

Menas

I honestly dont have a best summer! I loved my summers from when I was doing the leaving and in uni. Part time jobs and travelling and doing grown up things...
I suppose my best (as in ideal) summer would have elements of every summer I have lived thru! A cop out answer.

NachoBusiness

1989.
Met a girl from Tralee at The Cure.
Santa Ponsa in August.
Good times.

Mister Vain

No particular year but when I was a young lad in primary school the summers were always great. No school, staying out late in the evenings and playing soccer with jumpers for goal posts. Sleep overs in friends houses. Trips down to Tramore and Courtown. Just pure freedom. Good times.

mad muffin

The summer of 2015. It was nice and cool.

shugy

best summer, cant remember the year but all i know it was warm

petrolcan

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Is there a code to translate this?

Yes

ToddyDoody

The last few haven't been too bad.

any ones during later secondary school or college were fairly poor for me due to not actually having any friends to 'play' with.

The last few years I've had money to go places and do things, + the greater confidence / years to do things id like to do... As well as having a few friends of similar interest.

jester77

Probably the summer after I had graduated. Started working for a German company and they brought around 20 graduates over to Frankfurt for 3 months training. They put us up in a hotel for 3 months, everything was paid for and we also got daily expenses. This hotel also happened to be the same hotel where all the new trainee air hostesses for Lufthansa were put up. Trips to the sauna downstairs were frequent! It was the first time having proper money and first time having a proper summer in terms of weather. It was non stop partying, cheap alcohol in comparison to Ireland and beautiful girls. It was the sort of summer you never wanted to end.

Backpack20

This summer for definite, I haven't been on holidays for a good few years until this summer ! Travelled on a j1 to Chicago at the start of May , had the best summer of my life did more things during that 4 months than I ever have living in Ireland . Also to top it off we travelled all around California for the last month .

Buckfast W

Last summer was pretty cool. Got the Irish Pub book about 2 years back and last summer managed to put a pretty big dent into it by visiting a few pubs. Oh and the weather was much better :-)

biko

Summer of love - San Francisco 1967

donegaLroad

1995... living in Cork at the time. Wine, women and song, plus 30C every day. I thought I was in Heaven.

My Darling Clementine

1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2009 were all pretty special

Whitewinged

World cup 1994!!! I was 10.

The atmosphere where i grew up that summer was the best.

Buckfast W

Whitewinged wrote: »

World cup 1994!!! I was 10.

The atmosphere where i grew up that summer was the best.

Where did u grow up?
Just curious

Whitewinged

Buckfast W wrote: »

Where did u grow up?
Just curious

I dont think you need to know since you will probably never grow up!

Buckfast W

Whitewinged wrote: »

I dont think you need to know since you will probably never grow up!

I'm confused do i have some sort of terminal illness that will prevent me from growing up?

valoren

1992 for me as well.

11 years old and going into the final year of primary.

Locally organised soccer tournaments (We won!). Community Games medals (We came second!). Pairc Ui Chaoimh School Sports Day (I won!). The Barcelona Olympics*, Nick Faldo winning the Open, Denmark winning Euro 92 plus some cracking pop songs.

One of my favourites was "This used to be my Playground" by Madonna. A nostalgic song about her youth. Ironic, that I now feel that way about the Summer of 1992.



*There's something about the Olympics that makes a Summer more memorable for me.

Overflow

BrowmThomas wrote: »

Waiting for someone to say the Summer of 69!!!

Well done, it was you !

MetzgerMeister

1995 was a good one when we had Scatman John, The Outhere Brothers etc.

My favourite was 1998 as I finished primary school, weather was superb, went with folks to Spain for 2 weeks where I had my first kiss Also played golf in the glorious weather every day for the whole summer.

I tend to base my life around music and when I listen to any of the 1st 3 Prodigy albums (only got into them around that time) they all remind me of 1997 / 1998.

Whitewinged

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

1994 was a good one when we had Scatman John, The Outhere Brothers etc.
8.

That was 1995

rainbow kirby

2012 was pretty good - first summer together with my now-husband, went to the Euros in Poland and the London Olympics together, also went to Zurich for the Diamond League athletics.

CruelCoin

2007.

I spent it in New Zealand and trained to become a OWSI with PADI (Scuba instructor).

The 3 months it took to do that were the best of my life. So laidback, having the time of my life with amazing people.

If i could be stuck in a timewarp, i'd go back in an instant.

Wizard!

2009.
Got married with my lovely wife.
Went to Sharm El Seikh for 15 days of vacations, all inclusive and lots of money to spend.
Scuba diving in Red Sea Coral Reef, 34-38°C every day, long days (we where there in June)
Amazing food in the hotel (I gained 10 pounds ), lots of activities in the region and inside the hotel.
24/7 with my love.

5starpool

1995 - 2001 inclusive were all great summers, but 1998 on my J1 in NYC was probably the most enjoyable to live through. This summer just passed was great as well, as I got married and had around 6 weeks off in total between that and changing jobs, which was pretty sweet.

HalloweenJack

One of the summers from secondary school when I had nothing to do and all the time to do it. Ended up doing nothing but I was fine with that.

Galwayguy35

1990

Great atmosphere around the country during the World Cup.