Now I'm more or less retired and have been for the last 3 years or so, I don't do 'holidays' in the conventional sense and have taken instead to having several short trips abroad on my own each year rather than one long one as our children have been old enough to make their own arrangements for the last decade or so and my wife lost her appetite for travel around the same time although I did manage to get her to Italy twice and Spain twice in that time. So far this year, I've done 3 days in Iceland and a trip to Portugal for the day and also had a trip booked in France a couple of weeks ago but had to cancel and rebook that one for a few weeks time. Have got a 3 day trip to Sweden all booked for October and I'm currently researching a 3 or 4 day trip to the Danube Delta in Romania for July. Usually have 3 or 4 days in Spain/Portugal in November or December as well but haven't thought that far ahead yet. I don't do touristy places and tend to head for very sparsely populated areas and last year's trips to Bulgaria and Finland were perfect for me in that respect. Oh, just remembered I had 2 nights in Prague in April but that a bit touristy and not at all sparsely populated so wasn't on my schedule, my son had to go there and I just went along to keep him company.
