I need a long, well earned and most of all, overdue holiday



SKEG VEGAS BEACH - IT ACTUALLY MANAGES TO LOOK
NICE AND RESPECTABLE IN THIS PICTURE

 It's August 2004, I am 19 years old and it's time for the Jackson family holiday.

Every year the family went somewhere along the Lincolnshire coast for a week for a holiday. In 2004 myself, my parents, my brother and sister, their partners, the neices and the newly born nephew all went to Skegness (nicknamed Skeg Vegas). It was a decent week but little did I know that it would be the last time I would go on holiday, at least to date.

Now, don't get me wrong, I've had trips since then and stayed in several hotels, but I've had nothing I would consider a holiday. I think a holiday is where you go somewhere and just completely relax for all the time you're there, all my breaks since the 2004 holiday have seen me either only in the area for a football match, or doing something all of the time without any time to relax.

Now, for all those who read this and are thinking "But Skegness is only 50 miles from where you live, why not go there for the week?" Good question is my response, the reason being that Skegness is not the place you really go for a holiday to relax. Skegness is a very popular destination for families, meaning that you're always surrounded by families and their kids, if I'm going to go on holiday I want to be somewhere where I don't hear screaming all day long. I know I could easily just go at a time of the year when kids aren't going to be there....i/e during the autumn, but Skegness, and anywhere along the Lincolnshire coast for that matter, is a bit of a shithole with sod all to do.

I'm unsure where I'd want to go, I'd like to go travelling maybe and I do have an option to go on this thing called "Complete North America -  Route 66" where you drive down Route 66 in America and see all the landmarks along the way, that is something I am extremely interested in, but the person who I am potentially doing this with isn't going to do it until mid-2013.

So where to? Where to indeed? Well that all depends on what's happening with my career. I recently got offered a job in America. I'm not sure whether I'm going to take it yet, but if I do I'd love to go and see some of my friends who live over that side of the Atlantic, in both America and Canada.....although the latter I would certainly have to wear multiple layers for for reasons I mentioned in a previous blog.

I suppose I should stop moaning, but I do need a good, long break after nearly 8 years without a proper holiday.