$1000 Weekends
We love
being ex-pats. We have tried to take
advantage of the culture and the location and the vicinity of surrounding
countries/opportunities whenever possible in all the places we have lived
overseas. When we started living
overseas many years ago, there wasn’t a lot of money or time in the budget to
do much but we still managed to visit some incredible places and see some
fantastic sights in each place we have lived, albeit on a minimal budget most
of the time which meant cheap hotels, long uncomfortable bus rides, you know
the drill.
Nothing is different
about that philosophy now except the location has changed, there is a more
money in the budget, and we have a bit more time too as my husband has off work
every other Friday. That gives me two 3
day weekends each month to try and come up with something exciting, either here
in England or “on the continent”. So far
we have managed to go south towards the coast for a weekend, to Cardiff, Wales
for a weekend, and will soon have a nice weekend in Cornwall. We have also hit Belgium for a weekend and I
have just managed to set up a weekend in Sardinia. Also on tap are a lot of the “English Must Do’s”
such as Ascot, Windsor, Diamond Jubilee celebrations, and Royal Chelsea Flower
Show. And I’m just getting started!
Needless to
say, these weekends are no longer budget cheap, especially if it is a weekend
where we have to fly somewhere and rent a car, stay in a hotel, pay for food,
yada, yada, for two people do cost more than one even when I am getting every
discount I can find, every Groupon coupon, every mileage usage and points usage
due me. So it’s about a $1000 for a good
weekend away. That probably includes all
of the above plus gas and entertainment, entrance fees, diving fees (sometimes
we dive), transportation, whatever. The
end point you ask? It’s a hell of a lot
of fun, we are enjoying the heck out of ourselves, we are seeing a ton of
wonderful things, and we aren’t broke yet
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