The Great British Holiday - it is brilliant!

They way that they are constantly changing the names of countries it would be hard to keep up with the job of being a mapmaker these days. But I guess that it would be good job security though. I am pretty familiar with the globe and what is where, and who belongs to who, but sometimes I’m really thrown for a loop about some places. This time stemming from a conversation at work with a buddy who is planning a unique vacation for his family this summer vacation season. He has had enough of Disney World and the typical family style get-a-ways that they have fallen into the routine of, so he has gone on-line and has spent a good amount of time researching to come up with The Great British Holiday at Butlins Minehead.

I had to have him repeat that a few times and still had to have him write it down to make sure I was hearing correctly and I had to tell him that he had stumped me and wanted an explanation. That is when he took the piece of paper back and wrote the web-site address of www.ecomparison.co.uk/butlins, he had it memorized from spending so much time exploring it recently, so that I could look it up on the Internet at home and see what it was all about, so of course I did eventually. I had to cut and paste one of the pictures that I was so ogling at for some time!

So I have to tell you that I was surprised at what I saw, it really looks like a great place to take the family, just a tad difference in the language, but not a major issue, the money exchange isn’t all that difficult for the family to understand and adjust to and still feel safe and be able to have a grand old time with everything that this place has to offer.

Who knows, one day we may win the Lottery and I will have kept this in mind for a place to vacation when that day comes. And I don’t think we have an rich relatives that are going to be kicking off any time soon. And too bad that President Bush’s stimulus checks aren’t several amount times the amount that we are still waiting to receive in the mail.