me and hubby talk to anyone

i think its nice that you can be friends with the people, staying near you........

A few times we have met people to have a chat and a drink with at night. That is nice but during the day we like to do our own thing.
I am always wary though after hearing a horror story about a colleague who met a couple on holiday and exchanged addresses. 18 months later they turned up on the doorstep early on a Sunday morning with photos
My friend was still in her pyjamas

To be honest on the holidays we go on there's quite often no one to talk to anyway. We book last minute villas in the Algarve, sometimes allocated on arrival and they are often a bit remote or the villas next door are unoccupied.

On our holidays to the Far East we find that there are not so many Brits around to talk to, as the hotels we choose don't appear in British brochures. Might get chatting to the Dutch/Germans/Swedes/Danes/Locals but rarely hear a British voice.

I feel very lucky in that although our children are young adults themselves now, they still like to come
on holiday with us.
We really do enjoy each others company and do most things together as a family, at home and away.

But we all love meeting new people, and feel that it's a great part of the holiday.
We've made some great friends over the years and still see them when we go away from time to time.

However, like Macca, we like to do our own thing of a day and not be tied (we have enough of that at home )

If we meet up with the same people at a bar of an evening etc, that's fine, but we never get into anything
too heavy because I would hate to feel obliged to have to meet people ( or indeed have anyone think they
are obliged to us. )

Our lives are too *timetabled* at home to be like that on holiday too.

i love all the different accents that you here when on my hols...its just great

I'm the sociable one and my hubby is fairly quiet. I don't mind the odd natter when we're out of an evening but hubby will rarely talk to anyone first.

We tend therefore to just do our own thing and if someone wants a chat fair enough but we don't go out of our way to strike up a conversation.

My hubby wouldn't say boo to a goose when he's sober, when he's had a few drinks he'll talk the hind leg off a donkey"¦he's also one of those people that if he connects and likes you, then he'll show it, if he doesn't like you, then he will avoid you like the plague.

I'm quite sociable and will respond to a conversation with anyone to pass a little time away here and there, but when they tell me their life story and their obligatory bragging rights within minutes, then I drop them like a ton brick.

It reminds of the time I went to Cala n Forcat in Menorca and the place was really a poo hole, but we didn't have a lot of money in those days and we weren't street wise regarding the levels of accommodation.

We had this couple latch onto us and within minutes they're bragging about what they have and didn't have, according to them they had their own company blah blah blah"¦..and I sat there bored to death pretending to be interested, until I could stand it no longer and walked away from them in the middle of the conversation and I thought to myself "if you have so much money and own a company, then what are you doing in a poo hole.?"

I had a couple last year come and sit at the same table in the concert room of the hotel because there were a couple of seats spare, and all night long she bore the pants off me bleating about her wonderful son and his achievements and when she got onto the subject of grandkids, I got up and said I'm tired, so goodnight"¦...she got the message.
She was one of those people who if you said your son had climbed Mount Everest last week, then her son would have done it the week before and cooked chips on the summit.
Gawd, I hope they're not there next week.

I prefer my own company these days with the exception of a few Spanish friends.
I wouldn't go away with friends and I even stayed in a different hotel to the one my son was staying in, in Tenerife, to give us both space and we only met when they decided and arranged it.
Some people need their own space to do their own thing and sometimes people don't want to talk, it's not that they're being rude, it's just the fact that they prefer to not talk, and sometimes I actually think it's rude when people "force" themselves onto other people, just because they're bored to death of talking to their partner or have run out of conversation.

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My hubby is the one who will chat to anyone . His common ground for striking up a conversation is football .............. and then he can talk all day !! During the day I prefer to just chill, maybe listen to some music and people watch. I don't mind having a chat with other holidaymakers over a drink after our evening meal but I don't like to be "adopted" by anyone else and then be tied to making arrangements for trips out or meals, etc. We mostly go to bed quite early when we're on holiday so I don't want to feel obliged to sit up until the wee small hours

We usually chat to people round the pool in in the restaurant but mostly keep ourselves to ourselves but this year was totally different, we made friends with two lovely families (Hi Suze, Sandy, Pete, Terry if your reading this) as our son made friends with their children. We met up a lot of an evening in a local bar,as we were half board and they were self catering. We had a great time.

Hubby will talk the hind legs off a donkey!!!!

Hubby will talk to anyone and everyone, especially if he's had a drink. He's even been known to invite people over to our home. Thank God they've usually forgotten by the morning as well I usually say a polite hello to people who we see every day, but don't really like to spend time with other holidaymakers. We usually go away with Shirley H & OH. Us girls like exactly the same thing and we're really lucky as the men get on so well together. Sometimes it feel as though its us girls against the men. Last year 2 friends came as well. Luckily we all got on well, but we all said at the start of the holiday, that everyone did exactly what they wanted to do. If it meant going separate ways - ok. This is what we did, and we all had a great time.

We normally tend to keep ourselves to ourselves. A polite hello each day and on our way. We have found that with a young daughter now, we tend to do a lot more talking with other parents around the pool which is nice.

On one of our first holidays abroad as a young couple (many moons ago), we got chatting to another couple one evening in the bar. They seemed quite nice and "normal" and we met up with them a few times during the course of the holiday. On their last night in the resort, the chap gave my husband (then boyf) a business card and went on to explain that he had his own S&M business and if we wanted a pair of furry handcuffs or something special :yikes, to give him a ring. I just stood there open mouthed while my husb politely said thanks but no thanks. I think we spent most of the next day laughing (and we didnt keep the business card by the way).

Sarah

We have made loads of friends over the years but mainly through the kids. They pal up then we parents have a drink and it goes from there. However the last 2 years we have been on holiday without kids and have not made any new friends. Being self catering doesn't help I suppose.

THis year we are doing a coach tour of the Rockies with a cruise up to Alaska. I expect we will make some friends there!

My hubby will speak to anyone too, last year he was up early to get our sunbeds and often at the front of the queue! , so by the third day quite a few people even knew his name, but if he takes a dislike to someone he wears a bored expression and walks off. Now me I like to keep myself to myself, only saying good morning in the lift! Well no not quite that unsociable.

My hubby is the one who will chat to anyone . His common ground for striking up a conversation is football

I'm pretty much the same, but i've had some conversations where you start walking away and the person follows you continuing to chat but more in hope of inviting himself in for a beer

Sadly, they are very much mistaken! I will chat to anyone, but that's as far as it goes!!

Football is usually a conversation stopper with me as I can't stand it. Once in the US the Mexican hotel staff were so pleased to see a Brit so that they could talk about football (all their clients were usually yanks). They were amazed when I told them I didn't watch and couldn't stand it! 'But you are English'! they said. They couldn't believe that I didn't know there was a Mexican playing for Blackburn City or Bolton Rovers or some other northern town!

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Football is usually a conversation stopper with me as I can't stand it. Once in the US the Mexican hotel staff were so pleased to see a Brit so that they could talk about football (all their clients were usually yanks). They were amazed when I told them I didn't watch and couldn't stand it! 'But you are English'! they said. They couldn't believe that I didn't know there was a Mexican playing for Blackburn City or Bolton Rovers or some other northern town!

I like football and last year in Cuba a member of staff came up to us with 5 pound coins he had been given as tips wanting to exchange them for a fiver. He asked us where we were from we said Scotland. He then asked about football and who we supported. Did we support Celtic or Rangers he asked. Neither we said. Greenock Morton he enquired.

It was just so random we dissolved

I've been on quite a few trips on my own. I haven't done the full travel thing. I've been on mountain holidays with hofnar and usually there are only 9 of us, we go as strangers and come back as friends.

Sounds a bit cheesy, but true!!

Over the years we have met many people on our holidays but never swapped addresses etc, until last year when we were in Playa Del Ingles. We have kept in touch with a lovely couple and their two daughters whom are the same age as mine

we tend to find lots of new freinds wherever we go in fact we met a couple while on a cruise only to discover they lived 5 miles away from us.
in fact we became such close freinds we now all go on vacation together and dennis even got me a job with him