Going on Holiday on spec

Not in the last year obviously but do people still it, I went Morocco in 1982 on spec
Not in years.

Once went to the IOM on spec for a week of beers only to find the place full up with bikers for the Manx Grand Prix.
 
Amsterdam 1976
Mexico 1983 (once there tried to charter a plane to Guatemala on spec too, big mistake)
Ingoldmells 2004 (even bigger mistake)
 
Its easy to do now given all the on line booking sites. A few years ago we went to Japan. Just booked one hotel for the first night and then made it up as we went along, booking hotels on line as we decided where and when we wanted to move on.
 
Me and a couple of mates went from Melton on a Friday afternoon down to Gatwick, they had a travel shop there called Late Late Gatwick and we thought we would grab some flights to the sun, no flights to be had though and ended up sleeping rough in Gatwick airport (which you couldn’t do now) next morning managed to get a flight to Malaga for a week, not cheap in fact very expensive.
One good thing was we emptied the3 quiz machines that were in there and next morning we emptied them again, there must have been a lot of thick cunts hanging about filling them up at night.
 
Some time ago went down to London's second airport looking for a decent priced flight back to HK. Missed the flight and kipped over...lost a fookin fortune on the quiz machines....
 
Last time I went to an airport Mahrez was hogging the only available quiz machine all night long. He seemed to be baffled on "which team won the Premier League in 2016".
 
Went to the west coast of America 15 years ago.Started in SF and worked down to LA.Had a plan of the route(Yosemite,Route 66,Big Sur,Vegas etc) But just booked hotels /motels as we went along.Best holiday i have ever had.Sure you have to have a plan of say getting to Vegas(it ain't allthat!) on a certain day to get into a hotel(stayed at ceasers palace).
 
Done West Coast of US in 99 just using the Rough Guide as went a long. 2014 went to Japan on my own on a one way ticket. Decided at midday and flew at 8. 10 days making it up as I went along and home via visiting a mate in Abu Dhabi.
Will be a while before can do that again.
 
I'm coming up to Leicester on Saturday, for a day on the lash with my brother in law.

I don't know where I'll end up, so does that count?
 
Craziest a mate and I did was for the Red Star game. We booked a single flight and a match ticket. Sorted a hotel when we landed in Vienna then went to the desk to see where we could go.

My mate had his mind on the canaries so we booked a single flight from Vienna to Madrid, left the airport then booked another flight later that day to Tenerife North then Lanzarote. That was a long day.

Then we ended up trawling Puerto Del Carmen looking for a place to stay. We got sorted in the end and got home but I’d dread to think how much all that cost us. We’d have been far better off booking a return trip for Vienna and a package deal.
 
Last time I went to an airport Mahrez was hogging the only available quiz machine all night long. He seemed to be baffled on "which team won the Premier League in 2016".
Whenever Mahrez is subbed, he always comes off with that bewildered expression he had in the terminal whenever a plane took off to a BCA (Big Cunty Airport) without him on it.
 
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