We stayed at the Hotel Ayaz in Bodrum. This was a culture shock holiday for me, I remember absolutely loving the colourful sparkly slippers (I got a gold pair complete with yellow bobble to take home).s
I also remember all the locals smoking from the hubbly bubblys on the pavements around the marina.
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My parents bought an apartment in Hotel Jupiter in Benalmadena on the Costa del Sol.
We did numerous visits, always out of season as the apartment was rented out. The hotel had the most amazing pool and I never once got to swim in it as it was always drained for maintenance during our off season visits.
We took our hire car into Gibralter and I remember the monkeys jumping on my shoulder to get the food. I loved it.
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I have vivid memories of the hotel stairway as of numerous days we found a swallow resting in the stairwell. I now know that they would have been resting during their migration, but at the time we thought they were trapped so I remember picking them up (clearly they really were that exhausted) and carrying them down to the ground and releasing them back up into the air. I was only 8 and thought I was helping them.
We stayed at Ifa Regina Mar.
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My dad is from Mullingar in the centre of Ireland so we took the car and visited my numerous Uncles, aunties and cousins. On this visit we attended a historic event at my Uncle Edwins, a thrashing.
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We had a long weekend in our campervan in Belgium and explored the city of Bruges.
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My first visit to France was a booze run day trip to Dunkerque with my dad and brother.
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Another week off school allowed me to visit Cefalu in the Italian island of Sicily. We stayed in Le Sabbie D’oro.
I have three strong memories from this holiday, the first was the hotel pool. It was the coldest and deepest pool I’d ever been in and as such, I had the entire pool all to myself all week. Any adult who dared to jump in, promptly jumped straight back out.
My second memory was my dad making friends with a local man who invited us back to his vineyard up in the hills, which we gratefully accepted.
The third memory was the long hot hike up the Mount Etna volcano and wishing my parents would let me ride one of the donkeys up the steep hill.
In February, my nan took me to a whole new continent and we spent two weeks exploring the Disney Parks in Florida.
I have fond memories of my nanny singing along on the ‘It’s a Small World’ boat ride, whilst my favourite was Wet n Wild waterpark.
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I continued to rack up the new countries as we visited Lido di Jesolo in northern Italy staying at the Hotel Jet.
On this holiday my sister joined us.
During our weeks stay we took a day trip to the iconic city of Venice.
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My dad was redoing our driveway and wanted to be left alone so my mum took me on a surprise holiday to Crete, making Greece by fourth country.
We stayed at the Zorbas Taverna in Agios Nikolaos in Crete.
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