Vacations Blog

There are many holidays I have enjoyed from soaking up the sun in Spain, walking the mountains in Wales or braving the roller coasters in America.

I still have a few experiences I would love to try out. One of them would be trying my hand at the fruit machines in Las Vegas. A friend of mine has just come back from there and she hasn’t stopped talking about it. It’s true that you can gamble 24 hours a day.   She said she lost quite a lot of money, but had set herself a daily limit, so didn’t really mind too much as she really enjoyed the whole thrill of the place.

Something I really would like to experience is a safari holiday.

Safaris are meant to be absolutely fabulous.   On a recent visit to Florida, I visited their Animal Kingdom Park and got a little taster of what a safari might be like. The problem with anything run by Disney is that everything is so controlled and even though there are lots of animals you never get that close. It must be such an experience to be on a real safari and be within a whiskers touch of a lion.   I bet that must feel absolutely exhilarating. 

Holidays to South Africa are certainly gaining in popularity and are a great holiday choice.

The problem is that keen as I am to book a safari break, the one thing that really stops me is the thought of all those spiders. I can’t stand the things. They scare the life out of me.It’s so silly when you look at their size to mine. It’s the fact that they seem to be able to move so fast on those big fat hairy legs. It’s a shame really as my fear has unfortunately rubbed off on both the children and my husband has had to get up many a time during the night to get rid of spiders in the kids bedrooms.

Be very careful though and whatever you do DO NOT hoover up a spider into a paper hoover bag. My mother in law did this once and a little while later she couldn’t understand why the hoover bag was moving around so much. The spider had decided that the warm hoover bag was a good place to have her babies and instead of one spider, there were hundreds of them.   It was absolutely hilarious and an experience never repeated.

Now if somebody could ensure that I could enjoy a safari without encountering any spiders, I would be there like a shot. If not, then it looks like somehow I am going to have to work at overcoming my fear.   It’s strange a huge animal like a lion doesn’t worry me, just a tidily spider!!