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BBC News today

31/1/2018

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An article in today's BBC news caught my eye. It was about people having drink related accidents on holiday not being able to claim. That of course doesn't bother me any more but the fact the article stated that drinking is part of what a holiday entails did make me take notice.
I remember years ago, especially in my teens when my annual holiday did indeed involve booze, and was often focused purely around booze. The chances are I would be in Spain, the drinking would start early in the day and go on until the early hours of the next day. I would spend hours round the pool drinking beer, ogling the girls and wishing I had the nerve to talk to them and that would be the sum of my holiday.
Now I would hate to go on a holiday like that and I wouldn't be caught dead in an 'all-inclusive' resort because for one I would hate all the drunks, and two I would resent subsidising their drinking. It just goes to show what a massive attitude change has taken place since I quit alcohol and I expect the same will happen to you if you decide to quit forever.
On this note I had been hoping to take my wife on a Thames dinner cruise this summer and have been looking at what is on offer. To my disgust every cruise I can find involves a free bottle of wine per couple. Obviously I can have water or a soft drink instead, but these cruises are expensive and once again I resent having to pay for something I just don't want. Surely there must be a cruise with a menu that doesn't include booze!!!
This sort of expectation that everyone will want to get pissed or at least need alcohol involvement to enjoy themselves is perhaps the only thing that gets me riled these days. Everything else I take with a pinch of salt.
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