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[Olly]

I'm just off for a long weekend in Berlin with my best friend. S and I have known each other over 20 years, and we're ideally suited because we both like similar things, including frequent coffee-stops! We also like to have dinner, and then go back to our hotel room and read or watch TV, sounds dull I know but at least we're both the same! I just can't wait to have an uninterrupted three days with her.

 

I also like going away with her because I know she WON'T:

get drunk and start arguing with someone on the next table in the restaurant; ,

chat up a random bloke and invite him to join us for dinner ,

be really picky about the hotel room/restaurant/anything else;

take hours getting ready and hog the bathroom,

or get tired and emotional and start telling me how unhappy she is. All of these have happened to me on holidays with other friends!

 

A few people have posted about holidays recently, and it got me thinking - who do you like to go away with, if not your OH and/or children? Who would you never go away with again?

[Chickvic]

NEVER go away with my sister! We drive each other nuts , I'd go on holiday with my brother though

[Guest]

Well....we have often gone away as a family - 19 plus of us is not unusual - and we have never fallen out!

 

I often go away with my sister and we get on so well, last year we took a mutual friend with us to Ireland and she kept saying "you get on so well" and we do! I am always the driver and even after getting stuck in the middle of Dublin up a one way street, behind a huge delivery van - she was amazed that I didn't rant at Anne for directing me down that road! Life is just too short to argue if you ask me!

 

Louise

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[ClaireG]

I will never go away with one of my friends and her husband again. My friends family has a place in Cornwall that i've been to with my friend on sevral occasions. Last year she suggested that DH, DS and I might like to go for a long weekend with her, her DH and DD. Everything was going well until the last morning, which was my friends birthday. I had planned to make a special breakfast. I went into the kitchen and the side was coverd in pepper seeds and there was washing up everywhere. Chuntering to myself i strated to clean up. I then found a woodlouse in a packet of babyrice that had been left open on the side My friends DH came into the kitchen to ask if i could be quiet as my friend was still in bed. At this point i saw red and told him i was disgusted at how he had left the kitchen and the fact that there was a woodlouse in his DDs food . He stormed out the kitchen and i carried on tidying and making breakfast. It got to breakfast time and he didnt appear. I thought he was in the loo so didn't say anything for a while and then asked my friend where he was. She said he was sulking in the garage He then decided to pack all his and his DDs belongings into the car and forced us to leave early and on his wifes birthday to

[Scramble]

I would love to go away with my sister or one of my best friends

The other friend would drive me bonkers though!

 

Oh Claire! you've been though it!

[Snowy]

My best friend is great to go away with - we are both laid back and our boys all get on well together. She doesn't do beaches though (but doesn't moan if I insist on a beach day ). But I would NEVER go away with her as a couple - her OH would drive mine (and me) absolutely insane!

[theherd123]

NEVER go away with my sister! We drive each other nuts , I'd go on holiday with my brother though

 

 

Total opposite for me!

 

Went on holiday with my brother and he drove me nuts but would love to go with my sis

[joybelle]

I`ve always wanted to go to Andorra in the French/Spanish Pyrenees, but no one

wanted to go there not my OH or any of my friends, so I decided to go on my own.

I booked a week with Inghams who specialise in Lakes and Mountains holidays.

I went on organized trips every day and met some great people. I had never flown

on my own so I was a bit worried about that but I was fine. I had a great time and

would go on my own again without hesitation

 

joy x

[jlo]

we quite like our own company as a family but we did go away with some friends skiing last year.

 

TBH, it was not as bad as I was expecting and we are still friends. However, they are quite keen for a repeat performance and we have had to politely decline!

[Redwing]

I went on holiday to France with my brother a couple of years back, we had a great time and he is interested in the World Wars so I went to some very unusual places which I would never have seen otherwise

 

I had a great holiday with my OH and my best friend in Lapland (shame our home here was burgled while we were there though )

 

I had a terrible holiday with a friend who lives abroad, she had separated from her partner and was a little down so we paid for her, her toddler and her mum to holiday with us in Norfolk. The immaculate and luxurious holiday cottage, pre booked trips and baby stuff (we had to buy a car seat etc...) cost over £1,000 not to mention the 600 miles I drove. All our friend did was moan about the cottage, the cheapness of all the baby stuff we bought and the fact that she wanted to go to Tescos, we couldnt go out for more than three hours at a time because the different timezone meant that feed and nap times for the toddler were at strange times so most of the trips were a no no it was a nightmare and after myself and OH dropped them off at the airport at the end we had a little whoop and a dance in the car

[Lydia]

My sister and I once spent a very long week in Malta together. We're still talking but there is a definite unspoken agreement of never ever again!

 

A few years ago I left hubby in charge of the animals went to Ireland and met up with 3 girls who I knew only on the internet. We'd never met and never even seen photos of each other before we arrived to get the ferry in North Wales.

 

It could have gone horribly wrong but it was the best 4 days of enormous fun I've ever had We remain firm friends and often meet up.

 

The following year I went one better and flew to Australia to meet up with another girl who I only knew on the internet. We spent the next 2 weeks together, took in 5 cities and met up with other internet friends along the way. We all continue to correspond via Facebook and email and I am going out there again next year to see as many as possible.

 

As long as you're careful and look out for yourself I thorough recommend going away with strangers. The only absolute must for me is make sure you don't share a room - it might seem like a cost saving but being on your best behaviour 24/7 with someone you don't really know is hard work.

[Willow]

We had a lovely time with one of my sisters, her husband and her youngest (who is simialr age to my boys) staying with my BILs parents in France last year. We've stayed with my BILs parents before without my sister and BIL). We had a lovely time. Whilst my OH and my BIL are very different and weren't that keen on each other initially after 25 years they have become good friends and work very well together so they spent a contented couple of weeks putting a new roof on my BILs parents restored Breton long house in the garden and we did beach with the children. Did a couple of days out with the children and all squeezed into the Zafira.

 

Even me stepping on a Weaver fish didn't put a dampener on things.

 

I won't stay with my mum and other sister again though sadly. Too restrictive and too much tidying.

 

My brothers wife wants us and the sister we went to France with to go away to Center parks this autumn which I must get around to looking into as I think that woud be fun. Their children are quite a bit younger than ours and hugely enjoyed a recent day at legoland with their older cousins.

 

For friends there is only one set of friends I am sure I would enjoy going away with (they keep chickens as well ).

[Cinnamon]

I don't think I would ever be tempted to go away with family or friends really.

 

Sounds like a good way to end a good relationship to me.

I don't like to 'have' to do anything, & we like to do our own thing when we are away with no ties at all.

 

My worse nightmare would be my friend M, who I love dearly but is the most disorganised,frustrating person in the entire world.

She would drive me mad by being nearly too late for everything

[Ain't Nobody Here]

We would never choose to go away with family or friends . We are really anti-social on holiday and like nothing better than a holiday cottage with no-one around for miles .

 

I have been away for weekends with old uni friends but after a rather disappointing one 3 years ago (where 2 newly separated members of the group behaved rather badly) a repeat performance has never been suggested.

[Alis girls]

Kids and Oh arguing so I'll go on my own if no one minds.Ta

[Blackrocksrock]

I went to visit my daughter and her partner in Dublin and she and I went to Brussels for a break and it was great but again I also insisted we had a room each as if I wake up during the night I like to read my book - my OH doesnt like flying or holidays

[Gem_Seb]

We went to Greece with our friends (another couple) we were best of friends when we left, it was a bit stressful as i sprained my ankle the week before going so i did slow everyone down a bit!

 

After a few days they started having petty arguements and it went on and on! They were at each others throats 24/7!! Even to the point if he looked in the direction of another woman she would go mental which was pretty hard for him not to do on a busy beach! We started going off on our own to avoid the akwardness and by the end of the holiday hadn't spoken to each other in over a week. They had even started drinking and eating all our food and hiding the evidence hoping we wouldnt notice!!

 

We havent spoken since although im not sure why as the problem they had was with each other not us!! Oddly enough they added me as friends on facebook the other day and have predictably split up!!

 

It put me off going away with friends again as we were insepreable before we went and i do miss their company!

 

Just goes to show how you think you know someone!!

[Seagazer]

For about the last 5 years we have spent October half term with my brother and his family and my sister and her family in Devon. Brother's family and my family get on great (in fact SIL is my best friend) but my sister's family are quite hard to take and the tension runs throughout the holiday. I'm to say that we were all relieved when they have a day out by themselves. The Dad is very grumpy and really, really over the top with telling his kids off and my sister doesn't tell them off at all! We all had such a great, relaxed day without them. I feel really mean typing that

 

My brother's family don't get up early or like to do as much walking as we do, so we tend to be up and out early and arrange to meet them at lunchtime somewhere which works out fine.

 

I don't mind socialising whilst on holiday (non-family) but have had the experience once of meeting another family abroad during the day round the pool and then they expect you to want to sit with them every night in the hotel. I don't mind the odd night but I do like it to be just my family sometime.