advice please: best place to get away from UK at Christmas - on a tight budget?

I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I'd like to go to a country that's warm enough to wander round in the
daytime without being all wrapped up, and preferably, a country where
everyday life still goes on around Christmas (shops and sights open,
for instance).

Of course, the big problem is that so many Brits go abroad around
Christmas, fares tend to be sky-high. so, has anyone here got any
suggestions? (just one proviso: I can't face the thought of
backpacking).

Thanks in advance.

Spain? Portugal?

Spent a very pleasant new year in Barcelona recently. Shirt sleeve weather.

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"viv hughes" wrote in message
om...
I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I'd like to go to a country that's warm enough to wander round in the
daytime without being all wrapped up, and preferably, a country where
everyday life still goes on around Christmas (shops and sights open,
for instance).

Of course, the big problem is that so many Brits go abroad around
Christmas, fares tend to be sky-high. so, has anyone here got any
suggestions? (just one proviso: I can't face the thought of
backpacking).

Thanks in advance.

Spain? Portugal?

Spent a very pleasant new year in Barcelona recently. Shirt sleeve weather.

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"viv hughes" wrote in message
om...
I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I'd like to go to a country that's warm enough to wander round in the
daytime without being all wrapped up, and preferably, a country where
everyday life still goes on around Christmas (shops and sights open,
for instance).

Of course, the big problem is that so many Brits go abroad around
Christmas, fares tend to be sky-high. so, has anyone here got any
suggestions? (just one proviso: I can't face the thought of
backpacking).

Thanks in advance.

"viv hughes" wrote in message
om...
I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I'd like to go to a country that's warm enough to wander round in the
daytime without being all wrapped up, and preferably, a country where
everyday life still goes on around Christmas (shops and sights open,
for instance).

Of course, the big problem is that so many Brits go abroad around
Christmas, fares tend to be sky-high. so, has anyone here got any
suggestions? (just one proviso: I can't face the thought of
backpacking).

Thanks in advance.

What are your interests?
Nowhere in Europe can promise the weather.
Personally, we like Egypt (preferably south, e.g. Aswan) at that time of
year. You can 'do' Christmas with the Euros who would certainly also be
there in good seasonal spirit, or ignore it alongside the Egyptians!
And don't dare complain about any lack of sightseeing!
Once there, it's dirt cheap, too, whatever the flight might cost.
That would be our choice. But the Costa Sharm would give the same advantages
(but less Egyptian, maybe more pricey).

Surreyman

"viv hughes" wrote in message
om...
I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I'd like to go to a country that's warm enough to wander round in the
daytime without being all wrapped up, and preferably, a country where
everyday life still goes on around Christmas (shops and sights open,
for instance).

Of course, the big problem is that so many Brits go abroad around
Christmas, fares tend to be sky-high. so, has anyone here got any
suggestions? (just one proviso: I can't face the thought of
backpacking).


Tenerife or Madeira seem likely to be your best bet

Keith.

"viv hughes" wrote in message
om...
I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I'd like to go to a country that's warm enough to wander round in the
daytime without being all wrapped up, and preferably, a country where
everyday life still goes on around Christmas (shops and sights open,
for instance).

Of course, the big problem is that so many Brits go abroad around
Christmas, fares tend to be sky-high. so, has anyone here got any
suggestions? (just one proviso: I can't face the thought of
backpacking).


Tenerife or Madeira seem likely to be your best bet

Keith.

Try Australia or New Zealand. Airfares will be the expensive part, New
Zealand is the cheapest place for accommodation. Also look at Fiji.


"viv hughes" wrote in message
om...
I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I'd like to go to a country that's warm enough to wander round in the
daytime without being all wrapped up, and preferably, a country where
everyday life still goes on around Christmas (shops and sights open,
for instance).

Of course, the big problem is that so many Brits go abroad around
Christmas, fares tend to be sky-high. so, has anyone here got any
suggestions? (just one proviso: I can't face the thought of
backpacking).

Thanks in advance.

Try Australia or New Zealand. Airfares will be the expensive part, New
Zealand is the cheapest place for accommodation. Also look at Fiji.


"viv hughes" wrote in message
om...
I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I'd like to go to a country that's warm enough to wander round in the
daytime without being all wrapped up, and preferably, a country where
everyday life still goes on around Christmas (shops and sights open,
for instance).

Of course, the big problem is that so many Brits go abroad around
Christmas, fares tend to be sky-high. so, has anyone here got any
suggestions? (just one proviso: I can't face the thought of
backpacking).

Thanks in advance.

Following up to viv hughes

I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I don't like Xmas much but we gave up going away to avoid it due
to the high cost of renting at that time of year. Get in a big
stack of books and videos and go away a week or two after, its
cheaper.
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

Following up to viv hughes

I live by myself and I'm on very limited means. Christmas for me is a
pretty depressing time (everywhere's shut, everyone's visiting their
families, etc) so this year I'm trying to save up to get away for
about a week or so.

I don't like Xmas much but we gave up going away to avoid it due
to the high cost of renting at that time of year. Get in a big
stack of books and videos and go away a week or two after, its
cheaper.
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap