Summer Holidays

[schmenke]

Summer is already half over :s .
Anyone been anywhere exotic or exciting for summer vacation? Or, like the schmenkes, haven’t taken holiday yet?

Post pics if you have any :D

The schmenke clan will be hitching up the wagon next week and embarking on the usual summer road trip to Wallyworld, well, this time to Farragut State Park in Idaho.
Nearby, what the kids are looking forward to:
Silverwood Theme Park | Just North of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (http://www.silverwoodthemepark.com/)

What daddy is looking forward to:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7453/9306027413_6e63d3c3fc.jpg

[Lucy]

Enjoy your holiday ;)
I was only at weekend trips, but not to some pretty destination :(
Stupid year... lot of work and less fun :(

[janneppi]

I'm on my third week.
Nothing exotic, i've been drinking beer, washed my carpets, spent a week and a half in the family cabin, waxed on and off the car. If weather isn't bad, I'll try golf for the first time on friday. Next week I'll propably do a two-three day drive somewhere in Finland.

[J4MIE]

Not been away since Sweden in February which is most unlike me :s . Next trip is to Spa for the Grand Prix 5 weeks on Saturday. To be honest I don't mind not being away in summer, it's not unpleasant weather so prefer to go in spring/autumn to put off winter as much as possible....

Still hoping to get to Kenya for three weeks in November though and maybe Sanremo in October with a bit of luck :D

[donKey jote]

been coming to our summer abode near the ancient city of "A r s e" every year for the last ~25 years. Just started my third week, almost three more to go...
http://i40.tinypic.com/2d2dpok.jpg
Highlight this year is the free Wifi on the balcony, from the new ice cream caff at the bottom of the pic :andrea:

[race aficionado]

Tomorrow I will be flying to my favorite country - Colombia.
I will be landing in my hometown Medellin tomorrow afternoon.

We are no longer Pablo Escobar's play house.

BBC News - Colombia's Medellin named 'most innovative city' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21638308)

I am so psyched! :D

[gadjo_dilo]

been coming to our summer abode near the ancient city of "A r s e" every year for the last ~25 years. Just started my third week, almost three more to go...


:confused: You have a six week summer holiday?

[janneppi]

It's not uncommon in communist western Europe, heck, I have four weeks for summer, one week for winter holiday and a six additional days the company I work for asked us to take days to help with financial issues. :D

[donKey jote]

no, six weeks per year, plus flexi-time here and there... I took five this Summer... a bit naughty, but thanks to the Wifi-balcony I'm pretty much online to work so not everybody knows :bandit:

[donKey jote]

:confused: You have a six week summer holiday?

2+3=6 :confused: :p

[BleAivano]

:confused: You have a six week summer holiday?

The CBA/union that I is connected to entitles me to 5 weeks of vacation each year of which I am entitled to use four straight weeks
during the summer plus additional 60 stand alone hours called "arbetstidsförkortning"
which were suppose to mean that employees would work 25 Min less per day but most people save the time and use it when needed.

Some other unions/CBAs have 6 or 7 weeks of vacation but no "arbetstidsförkortning".

I haven't been around much this summer, 1 day in Stockholm and it seems also rally spectating on Saturday (probably SS19 & 22) (http://www.motorsportforums.com/european-national-rallying/146459-midnight-sun-rally-sweden-14-16-july.html#post1145860).

However I was 4,5 days in London in early may this year. A very nice city but just not quite as pretty as Stockholm. ;)

Also when the weather is like it has been the past weeks, warm and sunny, I'm not really in the mood of going anywhere coz'
when the Swedish summer shows itself from its best side its very lovely at my house.

[gadjo_dilo]

I had a hell of a year and all I tried to do to change things failed lamentably.. Including my plan of a nice holiday, a week just for me, without thinking of work, family or so called friends. Since I was again on the verge of depression I did a crazy thing. Inspired by the song InwO1ObFPPE
Yesterday I packed a few things (admitting you know what 'a few' mean for a woman) and took the first bus to the seaside. Now I'm in 2 mai -Vama Veche, a bohemian small vilage by the Black Sea, on the border with Bulgaria. But fatality again. On the beach I met my (so called) best friends. We're trying to live again the experiences of the old times but it's not the same.
I don't know how to post pics but it's nothing spectacular about this place. What is special is the spirit of it and that is hard to explain. It was always a place for free people (can you imagine that even the communists tolerated a mixed nudist beach?) who camp on the beach, play guitar on the sand and drink without causing trouble.
Vama Veche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vama_Veche)

[gadjo_dilo]

2+3=6 :confused: :p For me it's possible after 3 beers and half bottle of Lady M. :p
(you started your third week, almost three more to go)

[gadjo_dilo]

Highlight this year is the free Wifi on the balcony, from the new ice cream caff at the bottom of the pic :andrea:

I have WiFi in my room. :p

[gadjo_dilo]

......called "arbetstidsförkortning""
.

Love this word. Tried to pronounce it a few times and now my tongue looks like a tie

[pino]

Only had a couple of weeks here http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/18/qusyrahe.jpg

[Rudy Tamasz]

In a couple weeks I'll be going to this place with my family: http://www.magavia.com/uploads/1309379094_dscn9364.jpg

I've also spent a couple weekends in my country house. The terrain there is flat so I could admire the excellent views of thr big sky with very picturesque clouds.

[D-Type]

I had Phase 1 of my summer holiday a few weeks ago - ten days with friends on a hill farm in Southern Italy.
I've just had Phase 2, three days at Goodwood Festival of Speed.
I'm waiting for the boss to decide what Phase 3 is (I'm sure she has something in mind)

and I still have the Goodwood Revival to look forward to.

[odykas]

been coming to our summer abode near the ancient city of "A r s e" every year for the last ~25 years. Just started my third week, almost three more to go...


Arse? :erm:
Colossal vacation btw, 5-6 weeks :up: :eek:

Nice thread schmenke :)

[Donney]

Not much of a holiday here, I have lots of work to do, which is great being self-employed. I'll probably spend a few days in Barcelona in August but not more than that.

[markabilly]

2+3=6 :confused: :p

What!!! You got to be kidding...

[markabilly]

no, six weeks per year, plus flexi-time here and there... I took five this Summer... a bit naughty, but thanks to the Wifi-balcony I'm pretty much online to work so not everybody knows :bandit:

What!!! six? I am lucky to get 6 hours of vacation time in a month.

[Mark]

Had 2 weeks in Mallorca during the spring. Which is a better time to go away, as Jamie says, might as well spend summer in Britain as the weather is better and it's too hot to go to the likes of Spain.

[Big Ben]

I have left 20 paid vacation days out of 22 a year. So vacation wise this has been a very slow year and so far I have nothing planned for the summer. I'm only pondering spending a week in London in fall (don't worry I'm not after your jobs). I wish I could cash in some of these days.

[gadjo_dilo]

been coming to our summer abode near the ancient city of "A r s e"

You're lucky. My dream to spend a holiday in Pula, Croatia still hasn't come reality........ :p

[gadjo_dilo]

I have left 20 paid vacation days out of 22 a year. So vacation wise this has been a very slow year and so far I have nothing planned for the summer

Come in Vama! It's fun.

[donKey jote]

Arse?


Yep, the greek/phoenician city of Arse, roman Saguntum and present day Sagunto (Sagunt in Valencian-Catalan :p ). Hanibal laid siege to it on his way to Rome in the second punic war.
The locals don't know much English...

Arse pottery: http://i39.tinypic.com/hx9nax.jpg

Arse dealer: http://i41.tinypic.com/33elbo2.jpg

Arse boat:http://i41.tinypic.com/2mgmvb8.jpg

and Billy's retirement home, "Mount Arse" : http://i41.tinypic.com/1zxct5.jpg

[donKey jote]

What!!! six? I am lucky to get 6 hours of vacation time in a month.

to be honest I use much of my summer vacation to relax by programing things for work that I don't have time to do otherwise :p

I've just spent three weeks dossing around, now my real vacation starts: 2 weeks to finalise our new asset database :bandit:

[odykas]

to be honest I use much of my summer vacation to relax by programing things for work that I don't have time to do otherwise :p


I do that sometimes. This year a lot of java programming is planned.

But my vacation plan spans 2-3 weeks, not 6 :eek: :evil:

[ioan]

Summer is already half over :s .
Anyone been anywhere exotic or exciting for summer vacation? Or, like the schmenkes, haven’t taken holiday yet?


No summer holiday yet, it will be in August and I will happily stay home!
Due to my job I constantly visit exotic places, just landed back from Malta a couple of hours ago, so when I can I stay home and enjoy it, a reason for the miss to hate me! :D

[ioan]

to be honest I use much of my summer vacation to relax by programing things for work that I don't have time to do otherwise :p

Same here. Don't remember last time when I had a real vacation, with no work emails or calls.
The best part is that every time I take a vacation, on the first day the phone will ring more than on any other normal work day. :s

[ioan]

I have left 20 paid vacation days out of 22 a year. So vacation wise this has been a very slow year and so far I have nothing planned for the summer.

I started the year with a backlog of 61 vacation days and after taking 3 weeks out for the upcoming month of August I still have 50 days left to the end of the year.
If all goes by plan I might be able to catch up with my vacation days in about 10 years or so! :laugh:

[donKey jote]

we're not allowed to carry over... any vacation backlog (prior extraordinary permission) must be taken until March of the following year :s

[donKey jote]

But my vacation plan spans 2-3 weeks, not 6

it's 6 per year, and I'm not always able to take 5 in one go, like this year :)
As a matter of fact (pure coincidence ;) :andrea: ), I'll be meeting some colleagues who are coming over to Cheste for some tests end of July, so that's my excuse if my boss' boss realises and gives out to me about it :bandit:

[ioan]

we're not allowed to carry over... any vacation backlog (prior extraordinary permission) must be taken until March of the following year :s

Fair enough.
We are allowed to have up to 3 years old vacation days, so this year I am using my 2011 vacation!

[janneppi]

I've mostly managed to get work stuff out of my head for the last three weeks. Only small thoughts of the looming workload appear, but they get quickly suppressed back. :)
As a last act, tomorrow I'm taking a two day drive on smaller roads to visit friends, then to the family cabin for the weekend.

[Garry Walker]

Same here. Don't remember last time when I had a real vacation, with no work emails or calls.
The best part is that every time I take a vacation, on the first day the phone will ring more than on any other normal work day. :s
Yep. I have not had a real vacation this summer yet, just a couple of days off when I wanted. Of course, on those days I end up discussing work stuff on the phone for 2 hours anyway and sitting behind the laptop for the rest of the day :laugh: .

I would quite like to take a vacation and get away for 2-3 weeks in the autumn, but reality is that I just won't have the time for it.

[Gregor-y]

It's too hot in the summer to be outside during the day. I'll stay in an air conditioned office and take time off in the fall.

[race aficionado]

This is where I spent a couple of days in an awesome natural reserve in my home country with my wife and son. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/24/by6unyze.jpg
I'm having the best of times.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/24/8u4ejesy.jpg

[Starter]

It's too hot in the summer to be outside during the day. I'll stay in an air conditioned office and take time off in the fall.
The main reason we do September vacations, in addition to the weather, is that all the kids are back in school and everything is much less crowded and a lot more pleasant to enjoy.

[gadjo_dilo]

I already miss the week I've spent in Vama....
To add some salt on the open wound I'm looking to some pics that nicely summerize the spirit of the place:
Vama Veche, in asteptarea 1 mai 2013 "Tovarasi, pana maine sa-l tundeti!" (http://aradeanca.com/vama-veche-1-mai-2013/)

:(

[anthonyvop]

Spent many a weekend in the Florida Keys. Getting in some quality fly fishing.

Took the Wifey on a road trip with stops at Amelia Island(Nice Seaside town), Charleston South Carolina(Lots of history and beautiful), Asheville North Carolina(A foodie destination. Who Knew?), Gatlinberg Tennessee(Tourist town but had to say we've been) and Savannah Georgia(One of my favorite towns in the USA). Also drove the Foothill Parkway and part of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

A Good time was had by all.

[ioan]

A few more hours to go to close all open business stuff then it is vacation time for 23 days!

[gadjo_dilo]

A few more hours to go to close all open business stuff then it is vacation time for 23 days!

Concediu placut, Ioane!

[janneppi]

First work week done after back from vacation, pretty horrible stuff, sleep rhythm is way off, motivation non-existent and I have no idea what tasks weren't completed during my absence since most of my co-workers aren't back yet. I had only 90 emails waiting, of which 40 required some action.

[odykas]

<donkey>
On vaca until 25/8 http://www.smileys.me.uk/smileys/Banana/burning.gif


</donkey>

[flatheader]

Lake Como, Monte Carlo and Paris. In my head. The outside of me is sweating and mowing the grass....

[donKey jote]

<donkey>
On vaca until 25/8 http://www.smileys.me.uk/smileys/Banana/burning.gif


</donkey>
:up:
flying back tomorrow http://www.smileys.me.uk/smileys/Banana/burning.gif :bandit:

[gadjo_dilo]

:up:
flying back tomorrow http://www.smileys.me.uk/smileys/Banana/burning.gif :bandit:
..........adding an extra day to your already shameless 5 weeks summer holiday. :p

[donKey jote]

wasn't entirely shameless... I did have that very slightly guilty conscience http://www.smileys.me.uk/smileys/Banana/burning.gif

... for the first 3 days :bandit:

[schmenke]

schmenke on recent holiday in Idaho:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/9432400420_4e1d6e3c5f_c.jpg

[gadjo_dilo]

Correction: Half of Schmenke on recent holiday in Idaho.

[555-04Q2]

schmenke on recent holiday in Idaho:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/9432400420_4e1d6e3c5f_c.jpg

Oi, what happened to the Speedo? :p : ;)

[BleAivano]

Was at a concert last night at lovely Sundbyholm, This pic was taken about 1½ before the start of concert
but when the concert started this place was packed with people (about 13'000).

http://imageshack.us/a/img29/341/sjne.jpg


http://ekuriren.se/image_processor/1.1872700.1376203990!/image/1173130312.JPG_gen/derivatives/wide/1173130312.JPG?maxWidth=468&maxHeight=480
http://ekuriren.se/image_processor/1.1872698.1376203956!/image/3400301032.JPG_gen/derivatives/wide/3400301032.JPG?maxWidth=468&maxHeight=480

Dude enjoy your holiday with full fan because i already miss the fun due to some family problems but any ways i struggle to enjoy the holidays..Where you go in these holiday?

[D-Type]

Dude enjoy your holiday with full fan because i already miss the fun due to some family problems but any ways i struggle to enjoy the holidays..Where you go in these holiday?
If you had read the thread you would have seen that nearly everybody has said where they went on holiday. [/moderator]

[yodasarmpit]

Spent the New Year in New York, absolutely amazing holiday. And went to Krakow in July, what a beautiful city.

Would recommend both.

[odykas]

:up:
flying back tomorrow http://www.smileys.me.uk/smileys/Banana/burning.gif :bandit:

Don't worry donks.
Less than 10 months to your next colossal vacation :p :

Btw, I'm back :mad:

[pino]

On my way for a long vacation tohttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/27/a5ebu8yd.jpg

:D

[555-04Q2]

On my way for a long vacation tohttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/27/a5ebu8yd.jpg

:D

Looks stunning :)

[pino]

Me now :D http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/30/u9eva7ag.jpg

[gadjo_dilo]

Me now :D http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/30/u9eva7ag.jpg
Too rocky for my taste.....

[gadjo_dilo]

I'm on the second part of this year's holiday.
As usual I dreamt of Paris, Barcelona and Vienna.
As usual I ended up in the country at one of my cousins holiday house near Campina.
They say that during holidays the weather you enjoy is according to your soul.and if it's true mine should be very dark as it rained a lot (not lightnings and thunders though....) and during nights it was freezing cold. The place is superb,although wild, people very nice, although half of the village is from Bucharest.
They also say that in this area is the purest and the healthiest air in the country and it's compared with the air in Davos-Switzerland. However I still feel the smell of mowing hay and cow's p•o.
The place is quiet and boring as Heaven so all I could do was wandering barefeet through the grass, drinking beer, enjoying barbecues and visiting the other ( as boring ) villages in the neighbourhood. When it was sunny I could sprawl in the grass with a book in my hand.
Came back tonight in my boring hometown right in the middle of an ecologic protest. I'm finally relaxed, with my batteries reloaded and ready to face the viccisitudes of life for a few months until Christmas when (as usual) I'll fall again on depression.
Until then I'll smile and continue to dream: next year it will be definitely Barcelona.

[555-04Q2]

Too rocky for my taste.....

He's having a rockin holiday ;) :p :

[pino]

Too rocky for my taste.....

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/09/02/yva6u7yb.jpg

Any better ? :p :

[555-04Q2]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/09/02/yva6u7yb.jpg

Any better ? :p :

Where do you land your private jet? :p :

[odykas]

I hope pizza is better :p :

[pino]

Where do you land your private jet? :p :

In the harbor near ;)

Ody, pizza is excellent :p :

[gadjo_dilo]

A sunny beach, good pizza, a private jet.....
What else need somebody to be happy?

Next year I shall also have all these. :p

[gadjo_dilo]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/09/02/yva6u7yb.jpg

Any better ? :p :

Better but not the beach of my dreams. I like to lay on the sand (hate all those chairs) and look at an endless sea. In your pic those dams make the sea look like a pool.

[donKey jote]

What are all those umbrellas for, are you expecting rain? :crazy:

[schmenke]

Last week: St.Mary's River valley, near Kimberly, British Columbia.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5335/9663292993_1c3ddd8c8c_c.jpg

[555-04Q2]

Last week: St.Mary's River valley, near Kimberly, British Columbia.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5335/9663292993_1c3ddd8c8c_c.jpg

Nice..... :erm: .....stick :p :

[schmenke]

It's not a stick, it's a staff :p : . Or is that "shaft"...? :erm:



:uhoh:

[555-04Q2]

:laugh: you not going to admit that you got shafted are you :s hocked: :p :

[tfp]

schmenke on recent holiday in Idaho:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/9432400420_4e1d6e3c5f_c.jpg

I got bored and decided to look at posts nearly 3 years old for holiday inspiration, I decided that I need to go here haha!

Where in Idaho was this Schmenke?

[Starter]

My summer holiday will be later this month in Patagonia.

[Firstgear]

I got bored and decided to look at posts nearly 3 years old for holiday inspiration, I decided that I need to go here haha!

Where in Idaho was this Schmenke?

Ummmm, you can't go - that was his Private Idaho.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=b52s+private+idaho+video&view=detail&mid=5931AA7B052183A310895931AA7B052183A31089&FORM=VIRE1

[gadjo_dilo]

Reading again this thread makes me sad. That was my last holiday and I felt so happy, free, careless and secure.....Just looked at the pictures I took.
Since then I couldn't leave home, not even for a day and that's enough to lose your mind. :s

[schmenke]

...Where in Idaho was this Schmenke?

Farragut State Park (lake Pend d'Oreille). Very nice. We returned there last summer.

We've also stayed at Priest Lake State Park. Also nice, but prefer Farragut.

[tfp]

Farragut State Park (lake Pend d'Oreille). Very nice. We returned there last summer.

We've also stayed at Priest Lake State Park. Also nice, but prefer Farragut.

thankyou schmenke! I must see this place! what are the temperatures like?

[schmenke]

Hey, tfp, we've travelled there 3 times in the last three summers, mid to late July, and it's been hot! Over 30 deg. C every day with no rain. Summers there tend to be hot and dry. Last summer we were almost forced out of our campground due to nearby forest fires.