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I need a holiday, all this endless work and stress, so I'm going to try and prise myself from my desk for a week and take the family away somewhere.
That I expect would be a good week but when it's over how long will I remain recharged? Usually a holiday seems like a distant memory after about 1.5 days back at work. There's a bit of me that thinks its just an expensive, frivolous thing to do.
What's your experience? Do holidays have any long-term benefit?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Two weeks on a Caribbean beach, drowning in rum and having the mind off the hook is paradise.
You return refreshed and fully charged and ready for a full day's work.
After that full day though, you feel like you need a holiday.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Exactly. And they don't come cheap...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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When you said '1.5' I thought you were going to say 'hours' not 'days'! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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If work gets you down that much then maybe you need to work somewhere else, or less.
A holiday's a nice change and a chance to totally relax for a few days and experience somewhere new, but expecting 1 week to have more of an effect on your happiness than the next 25 is just not realistic. Down time is nice but you need your up time to be good to you as well.
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A holiday is good to just give you brain a rest, th body a relief from stress and keeps you from going postal.
Here today gone to Maui...
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Well there certainly are exceptions[^]. 
Here today gone to Maui...
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I agree with you there.
I've been to San Diego, Oceanside and many of the beaches in CA many years ago and they weren't that bad but I wouldn't go now, I hate big crowds.
Here today gone to Maui...
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Just have a week off, and stay at home. Cheap and easy.
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Depends on what you make of the holiday. Get some good memories in and they'll last you
through 20-30 years. Looking back with regret on how many I didn't do....
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(Enlarging Upon DD's Carri bean recommendation)
I suggest a good all-inclusive. The ones that absolutely forbid tipping. You've not had a real vacation until you've had one without any money in your pockets (assuming you're wearing clothing at all).
I just came back about a week-and-a-half ago and haven't lost it yet.
The secret, as stated in my post at the time [Click Here, Mon]: Plan not to do anything whilst your there, and then, don't even do that.
Irie I !
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I did look at that. But I have two reservations, firstly that you just end up eating at the same place the whole time rather than exploring the local restaurants/tavernas etc. Secondly complimentary booze from 10am until midnight.
Sounds like a recipe for disaster. There are two occasions I've experienced cheap or free booze. Once when a local nightclub decided to do a promotion and sell a pint at 10p, that descended into chaos and fighting. Another occasion they gave you two free pints of London Pride on St. Georges day - the same, and this was in the Square Mile of London.
I can see the Brits maximizing the use of complimentary alcohol, and with my 4 year old son and 2 year old daughter in tow I'm not sure I want to risk it.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott did not write: I need a holiday, all this endless work and stress, so I'm going to try and prise myself from my desk for a week and take send the family away somewhere.
FTFY 
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : ‘I know all about it. I've already found it.’
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.’” Vincent Van Gogh
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Quite.
Ito to work for a rest.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm just happy that I enjoy my work.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Holidays or vacations here in America, do have long term benefits. They keep the wife happy and she will remember them fondly for a long time, mine is STILL gushing about the one she and I took to Jamaica last July.
Also they build memories in and about the family as a whole. Your children will grow up and move out but you and they will always have memories of vacationing together. Hopefully good memories, but even disaster trips create memories of how you all survived, persevered, and made the best of it. We went camping last Sept and had just eaten dinner when the rains came so we all huddled in the tent in the pouring rain, the tent starting to leak around the edges, and sang along with bad music from my son's phone.
Enjoy the time with your family. Yes the routine will still be there when you get back but the time away is well spent.
Unless you are the one person who says on their deathbed, "I should have spent more time in the office."
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I like when my wife and kid go away for a few weeks. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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"Cat following track missing a huge amount."(8)
Bonus CCC (Because I like this one!)
"At this stage fellow is avid supporter of the women of the lake."(4,10,3)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
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track = TRAIL
missing A = TRIL
cat = LION
following TRIL
TRILLION
You don't do the Guardian crossword, do you? Trillion was an answer this week, with tril derived as track missing a, and previously 'shortage' clued as bronz appeared just before you did something very similar.
Probably just coincidence (or you're just a warm lefty really  )
Regards, Stewart
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No, not really, mostly a telegraph man.
But these things must get in and stick around somewhere.
I am certainly not a warm lefty, more a Heartless Tory Bastard(tm)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am certainly not a warm lefty, more a Heartless Tory Bastard(tm)
Hence the wink
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Stewart Judson wrote: or you're just a warm lefty really
Depends what underpants he puts on! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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