You know you're on holiday when...

[✈ Elle ☀]

New game now!

Finish the following sentence:

"You know you're on holiday when..."

Number them, and let's see how many we can get!

Flooey xx

[✈ Elle ☀]

1) ... you're not drinking with one eye on the clock, witing for someone to shout "Time at the bar".
2) ... you chat to someone who happens to live within 10 miles of your house, when you've probably passed them in Sainsbury's every week for the last 15 years.
3) ... you suggest starting your night out at 10pm, and no-one bats an eyelid.
4) ... you actually LIKE singing Abba again.

[Madstock]

5)...your sex life improves overnight (sorry if it's only my 'friend' I'm talking about)
6)...You wear clothes that you never get to wear back home.
7)...You get a decent measure in your short.
...You bump into Elle in the local shop.

Keith.

PS bloody cool No 8

[ExPat Rat]

09, your not posting on here

10, you get a text back from your mates in the UK saying "Get stuffed"

11, you get on with the kids (money orientated)

12, the misses lets you watch the footie in the bars

[Alan]

13. Everyone around you appears to have radiation sicknes...
14. The nudists on the beach are fat´'Northern Europeans' and not nubile young girls...
15. People actually buy those stupid little glow things...
16. The only people you dare to talk to are those who are wearing premiership shirts, because you're worried you´ll look a pratt trying to seak 'foreign'... (except don't try this with shirts with 'Beckham' on the back, it simply doesn't work)

[✈ Elle ☀]

17) Your shop assistant doesn't care that you've been waiting 10 minutes whilst she discusses her lovelife
18) You actually have a conversation over dinner with your spouse
19) You forget that roads are for cars... and walk blindly across
20) The diet goes out the window

[ExPat Rat]

i will have to keep an eye on number 18!

[✈ Elle ☀]

Lol Ratukoula. I liked your number 11... and loved Keith's number 8!   

21) Bars have soap operas on the big screens
22) The beer scooter takes you home EVERY night
23) You eat things you can't pronounce

[ExPat Rat]

24, someone else is taking your dog out.

25, the waiter looks blankly at you when trying your best spanish that you never ever learnt ever 

26, Mrs Ratukoula brings out HP brown sauce that you never get at home..............pmsl

[✈ Elle ☀]

LMAO at 25! Been there... still do that! 

27) Suddenly you develop an interest in bingo
28) You discover that your missus has 50 more new items of clothing (all essential for us ladies of course!)
29) You actually speak to the neighbors
30) You go to  see a drag act at a showbar - and enjoy it.

[Madstock]

I couldn't agree more with No 14.

31) You promise that when you get home you will continue to take this much exercise.
32) You pay 2 Euro for a paper.
33) You wear a baseball cap when you wouldn't be seen dead in one back home.
34) Bart and Flooey both buy you a pint in Waxbar.

Keith.

[ExPat Rat]

Lmao at 30....(ye know to much elle) lol

By the way 26 was a joke....honest, no really it was!

35, you think you are the best line dancer ever at texas raunch

36, you look at the newcomers white legs on day 7

37, you have a beer at 10am daily....

[cymmon]

You have a beer at 10am daily, thought that was at home??
Beer at 8am to cure whatever the beer scooter made you eat the night before!

[✈ Elle ☀]

Ha ha ha ha at 36!

40) There's speedoes in every direction
41) There's a fancy dress group in most bars you go in - all drinking odd coloured cocktails
42) It's 10.40PM and no-one in the bar has three drinks in front of them
43) The bread is called Bimbo
44) You get dry just walking from the shower
45) You throw the w**ker sign at a motorist and they think you're giving way, and wave back to thank you (read this elsewhere lol)
46) You can see the sun!

[ExPat Rat]

47, you let the misses say its pink when all men know that your top is really salmon!!