Summer seems to have finally arrived in Sheffield, with a spell of warmer weather to end June and the school holidays just around the corner. the Star went out to speak to residents in The Peace Gardens to ask what they are planning for their summer holiday in 2024.
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00:00Thank you, so it's Alistair from the Sheffield Star and we're no more than out here asking people today what they're going to do with their summer holidays.
00:06Have you got plans at all?
00:07Yes.
00:08Ooh, what are you thinking?
00:09We are doing three weeks. We do Faze, Adventure Week and Two Weeks in France.
00:15Ooh, that's pretty good. Have you banked up holidays all year to make that happen? Alright, saved it up.
00:21Yeah, yeah. This seems to be our annual adventure, so why not while the children also have three weeks?
00:27The strategy each year, bank it up, make it a big three weeks. It's the meta, tell people how to do it properly.
00:32Two weeks is lovely, but three weeks just gives you that extra time to think.
00:36I think you're rubbing it in. I've only got two weeks.
00:38About three weeks feels like six when you're in the middle of it, you just forget about everything. How about yourself?
00:42I've got two weeks. We're going to Turkey, well there's eight of us going, so I'm going with my family and some very close friends.
00:51So yes, sunshine, beach, boat trips, that sort of thing.
00:56Is it, takes a lot of planning or is it all quite off the cuff, like how much time do you have to put into making this happen?
01:02We went last year and we loved it lots. We don't normally go back to the same place, but we decided this year to go back.
01:08So ours was quite an easy, let's just find two weeks that were free and we'll book it.
01:14Yours is probably more complex.
01:15We've done this now for like three or four years, so, but it's planning the itinerary of when you land to then where you go next.
01:23So apart from that, but that's the exciting part.
01:27Well, I have been to the Downwell Festival last week and I'm going to see Paul in a few weeks' time.
01:38And just going out with you and spending lots of time with you and, you know, just having lots of fun.
01:50Are you going to plant yourself at all?
01:53I've got a little boy, so like taking him to like different places and things like that.
01:57There's like different parks and stuff, always looking for places to take him.
02:00And I'm also going to Benidorm at some point and getting away from the UK for a little while.
02:05But yeah, just doing loads of like family activities and things like that.
02:09When you've got summer holiday plans, do you prefer to be out of the country or stay here in the UK?
02:13I prefer to be out of the country, but I've just got a house.
02:18I don't know whether that will be happening, but hopefully sooner rather than later we can have a look at going somewhere nice and safe.
02:27That all sounds like a lot of fun, like a lot of things back to back that will be just on their own.
02:31Brilliant. How about yourself?
02:32No, it just depends what's going on in the UK, what the weather's like.
02:35But to be honest, I've not been abroad for five years.
02:38I've just been here for the first time in five years.
02:40So normally I find something to do in the UK, just get up in the morning and hang out.
02:45Yeah, so this summer we're going to be going to Sweden, me and my wife.
02:49She's got family out there.
02:51So we usually go and see them in the summer to celebrate, catch up with family, catch up with friends.
02:56It's nice to get away from Shetland for a while as much as we love it.
03:00But yeah, it's a nice place to go.
03:03More of a reliable plan you've done rather than trying something new, I suppose?
03:06Yeah, yeah. I mean, we might try some new stuff while we're out there,
03:09but it's always nice to have a place to return to when we do go to Sweden.
03:14Yeah.