h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've never got the difference between holiday and vacation, but I've had something like this for few weeks. I've been doing a lot of nothing, spent some time with family and friends, read some books and now I'm going away for a long weekend. That will be the end of my time off w*rk.
It sounds all nice but I still feel somewhat dissatisfied. My backpack is whining in the closet and my swimsuit hasn't got wet. I haven't got out of the country, I haven't even got to seaside. There will be sea this weekend and the weather seems to hold. Good thing I've paid for this trip well in advance, otherwise I'd end my vacation (or was it holiday) at home, doing laundry and ironing. And I hate ironing.

I believe the difference is that you go travelling during a vacation while a holiday (or a series thereof) only means you don't have to go to w*rk. But as you know English is only my 3.5 language (after Danish, Low German and German)

At least you got to Manchester this year and it was good to see you there , let's hope we'll be seeing each other again soon.

There is (some) talk of a nodnoL meet in August

Ah, so I had a pre-holiday vacation on Manchester. Or something in that line, anyway. And actually I'll have a post-holiday day trip to Stockholm in August with 23. I guess I'm just having some sort of end-holiday s.

I had that kind of Friday 9 May because that was my last holiday - ever

mm .. Stockholm interesting idea

There will be a London meet 27 September, if memory serves

Don't yet know whether I will be able to go

I will not make it there. Uni weekend and so.

But Stockholm is only 2 weeks away.

- men Stockholm har blivit kallt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80n2rDIQuCc

Stockholm a cruise to Stockholm

I visited Stockholm with a dozen colleagues during the Stockholm Water Festival in early August 1993. It was al. I particularly remember a spectacular lunch with gallons of onboard a luxury motor yacht which we were told had once been the king of Denmark's. We sailed out through the archipelago of Stockholm in the most excellent weather

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Water_Festival

The trip will start today. And we will do nothing that exciting, the main plan is and window shopping.

Yes, today I would also have to content myself with that, but back then we were the guests of some filthily rich Swedes who hungered desperately for publicity

I knew there was something wrong with the planning!

Nope. Nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned

We very sensibly arrived shortly *after* the Gripen jetfighter had crashed during an air show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iToQ2FykoI

Expensive shows they used to have.

Indeed! But at last they were lucky that it did not crash into the audience

I guess my holiday this year will be either Oman or Amman ..

Why? Is the cheaper there?

no .. from that point of view there's no good reason to go there, really

the weather is better there

It sounds like you were looking forward to going somewhere that doesn't require any teeth to pronounce it.