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Badger Jun 2018 2:07pm, 7 Jun 2018 9,436 posts	0 Badger The one I went on last year study l struck me as a lot like an Exodus trip, with a lot more conversations about pensions. Not altogether a bad thing.
GregP Jun 2018 3:51pm, 7 Jun 2018 103,375 posts	0 GregP Love you people In other news, this has been my first up-close-and-personal experience of upland Britain in over a decade. It’s magnificent. We’ve just walked down to Dovedale and back and I’m happily exhausted. Walking fitness is something I didn’t know I didn’t have. Turns out I haven’t got it in spaces.
Dvorak Jun 2018 3:54pm, 7 Jun 2018 16,189 posts	0 Dvorak Wide open spaces?
GlennR Jun 2018 4:28pm, 7 Jun 2018 35,946 posts	0 GlennR The ace of spaces.
LazyDaisy Jun 2018 5:03pm, 7 Jun 2018 22,766 posts	0 LazyDaisy I'd be perfectly happy with a holiday like that, whether it was put on by HF, Exodus or even in some circs Riviera Travel (though emphatically not river cruises) because I like talking to people and am generally quite sociable. OH is not, however, and such holidays would be his idea of hell, so we don't go. Which is not to say that one of these days I mightn't go on my own. I imagine there are a reasonable number of singletons, for whatever reason, on these things?
GregP Jun 2018 5:07pm, 7 Jun 2018 103,376 posts	0 GregP Can someone explain the ‘exodus’ reference? There’s a smattering of singletons here - and for the most part they would see LazyDaisy as a kindred spirit. It’s very non-judgemental and very non-competitive. There is also an awful lot of food
LazyDaisy Jun 2018 5:13pm, 7 Jun 2018 22,767 posts	0 LazyDaisy It's sounding better by the minute, Greg The Exodus thing is a company that does adventure holidays to exciting places - treks in the Atlas Mountains perhaps, or white water rafting in the Rockies or similar. It's also a company that sponsors parkrun in the UK, and is now advertising a trip to Sicily to climb Mount Etna on the basis that you can fit in the Etna parkrun during the trip. That free 5k run will only cost you about £1400 Oh, nearly forgot! VG indeed young Sharkie Summers, that's excellent jumping and WAVAing
Badger Jun 2018 5:48pm, 7 Jun 2018 9,437 posts	0 Badger LD, absolutely yes there are singletons who want that kind of trip but don't want to do it alone/unsupported (or of course are looking for somebody to do such trips with in the future).
Drell Jun 2018 6:28pm, 7 Jun 2018 2,197 posts	0 Drell When I was single I used to go on a lot of guided walking holidays on my own. Various companies, including Exodus. There were usually many other singles, of a wide range of ages.
GregP Jun 2018 6:34pm, 7 Jun 2018 103,378 posts	0 GregP Even if we decide with retrospect that this HF type thing isn’t for us, I think there’s no doubt it is A Good Thing. Seventy-something year olds banging out ten days’ straight of 10+ mile days waliking in the uplands is inspiring stuff too.