Not being selfish and keeping my CO2 emissions down by holidaying in the UK

Sri Lanka in January, 14 days. Half the time kitesurfing and half finding some elephants and tea.

Snowboarding in March. No plans yet but probably not France as we fancy somewhere different.

We’re quite lucky with holidays, get lots of leave so will be away in the camper for some other trips, with the bikes on the back.

Eldest_oab should be somewhere in NW USA, possibly Canada.
We are hoping to go meet him. I fancy the High Sierra, Cascades or similar. Some biking and canoeing, maybe a hike.

You’ve listed the European destinations that appeal to me least there, Andypaul.

You’ve listed the European destinations that appeal to me least there, Andypaul.

Shame..

Two weeks camping.
We have the tent but not yet the vehicle to move it comfortably.

Plan is for Holland for loads of cycling (if worst of Brexit nonsense is wrapped up one way or another in time to book) or UK.

After my second year running of dealing with the fall out of return flight cancellations and attendant incompetent airline customer “service” and battles over compensation and expenses I’m done with flying for the foreseeable (and that’s leaving aside my concerns about the environment).

Edit: Idiot. TUI don’t own Thomas Cook.

Not being selfish and keeping my CO2 emissions down by holidaying in the UK

Same here. I’m personally getting to the point where hearing of a long haul holiday does not fill me with envy but makes me think the teller selfish. A week’s long haul holiday does more damage than a lifetime’s single use plastic.

But at the same time…….the thought of the world being closed off to what I could get to by other means also feels a little sad.

Turkey. An antidote to the utterly shite weather we had on this year’s Netherlands camping holiday.

I’ve a hankering to get back to White Room if I can, I had a great time doing the Mega and just self-guiding around parks last year but I did miss the more sort of curated experience, not to mention the epic food.

And there’ll be a week of uplifts in Wales, because we’ve got that one pretty much dialed now and it takes almost no thought.

Spring: Pyrenees (road)
Summer: Alps (road and bit of mtb) followed by northern Italy (lying in the sun, maybe a bit of riding, see how it goes)

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Already got my boozy/cycling trip booked in Spain for next Febuary. Then for my 60th later in the year it’s a 5 week European campervan tour. Not fully worked out a route for that but more than one country will be involved 😉

Balearic sun and pools for me.    Turning down 2 work trips to the US though as a “virtual” option became available.

Supposed to be Cyprus for my mum’s 70th and New York for my wife’s 50th and son’s 21st.

Cyprus flights alone look to be costing more than our AI jolly to Crete next month so no sure if it’s a goer.

I’d happily bin Cyprus for a week in Croatia, MTBing and diving.

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We’ll be staying here for most of the year 😏

My wife has booked a holiday cottage in the middle of nowhere on Lewis.

Picnics on giant empty empty beaches, sitting indoors watching the rain on the windows, and miles of hikeabike across endless bog trying to find some single track.

@kryton I probably hold the record for long haul madness. Each year for 3 years I’ve had to fly out to Japan and back to meet some execs in a room to sign a piece of paper then fly back again.
This year I’m hoping I can just stay at home.

Bookmarking because we haven’t got a clue yet.

I’ve got a pass from the Mrs to ride Passportes so that’ll be 4 day in the Alps, driving or flying, who knows.

As for family Hols, we’ve been to Morzine for the last 3 years. We love it, but it’s becoming a bit samey now. We always promise ourselves we’ll try new things, we usually don’t.

Package stuff to Spain et al isn’t really my thing, but my Wife and kids would probably like it, but they seem to start at £3k, but I’m not sharing a room with the kids so it’s more like £4k for a ‘suite’ and that’s a lot of money in my book.

I’m not against staying in the UK, my Wife needs at least 90% chance of warm sunny weather to be happy, but they last few summer have been good, she might risk it, but they money being asked for a hateful caravan in some faded seaside town is madness.

I’m kind of thinking either Centre Parcs in Holland for a change, or skip next year all together. Hopefully Politics will be boring again, put some money away and take the kids to Florida.

Main holiday is currently planned to be 1 week camping in Devon followed by 1 week camping in Cornwall.
Not sure how I feel about striking and then re-setting up camp in the same day but it’s too far from Yorkshire to do two seperate trips so going to do both in one.

Got 3 nights away in Potugal in Feb without the children and now Mrs pp has set her sights on a return to Disneyland in October.

Debating between Kyrgyzstan to do part of Silk Road Race Route, North India riding or Turin/Nice Rally and few peaks in Italian Alps.