![]() I’ve been doing these amateur blogs since January, and when I started, I would have probably not thought twice about writing about Playa Del Ingles, Gran Canaria and Magaluf, Mallorca, however I have decided to write one now, and the memories I have from these places with my friend Sarah. There is a little more behind this and it’s a lot more personal, for those reading this now will know, I will talk to you about this at the end of this blog, but first let me tell you about some of the memories that I have. Now we have all done the boozy holidays, going out every night getting drunk, waking up the next morning, in vomit, urine, the previous nights pizza, hanging out your rear end and then going to sit by the pool and slap on the factor 4 Carrot Oil and fry. We have all been there and have the T-Shirt, and I have hundreds of memories to treasure and remember, not only that we met some amazing people over the three years, people who I can call friends. We had two enjoyable years in Gran Canaria in 2014 and 2015, Jade joined us in 2014 and it was just me and Sally Stumps in 2015. (I’ll explain Sally in a moment), and we went to Magaluf in 2016, maybe not as enjoyable as Gran Canaria, but I still have some memories to treasure. Everyone knows where Gran Canaria and Mallorca is and what they have to offer, most of us have probably been so I won’t bore you with those details. Gran Canaria 2014![]() In August 2014, myself my friend Sarah and Jade, one of Sarah friends jetted of to Gran Canaria, this was my first holiday in four year, after looking after my mother who unfortunately suffer from MS, and I was determined to have a good holiday, and it didn’t disappoint. We had the pleasure of meeting so many people on this holiday, Kristian and Craig from Essex, Myky and Tom from Birmingham, Jimmy from Birmingham, not to mention many more. I also met a lady from Glasgow called Barbara who I still message occasionally. I have previously been to Gran Canaria, so I knew what to expect. Our flight out, is a moment I will treasure forever, we pre ordered Champagne for the flight, when I ordered mine, I mentioned that it was Sarah’s 30th birthday (it wasn’t), never did I expect Jet2 to have banners, a card and cake and for the whole plane to sing happy birthday, she wasn’t happy, but once the Champagne started to flow she saw the funny side. To this date, I do not know how I pulled it off, as I would have assumed Jet2 would have had our date of birth on their flight itinerary. I don’t think the people sat being liked us as we were having too much fun, but that what holidays are for, fun. When we arrived, we immediately made our presence known round the pool, for literally getting drunk, wasting all our money on inflatable toys, making a fool of ourselves and annoying everyone. Sarah took part in the Ice Bucket challenge, having to convince hotel staff, to give us a bucket of ice, was not the easiest of challenges itself. One of the of memories from this holiday that will stick in my mind was getting a final warning in the hotel, for chucking a pillow out the window as Sarah had pinched it the previous night and Jade throwing a pizza of the balcony because she had put on a stone on the holiday. It was then we thought we should start to behave for the rest of the holiday, but did we? No we didn’t but thankfully we never get thrown out. It was a great holiday, and it was just what I needed. The flight home was funny, we bought our mothers these hideous parrot ornaments, only for Sarah to accidently smash it whilst going through Security at Gran Canaria Airport. These are only some from this holiday, reading this you may think we were probably nightmare, and you know what we probably were, but we are on holiday and we had an absolute fun time. That’s all that count, Right? Gran Canaria 2015![]() Moving on to 2015 and me and Sarah headed back to Gran Canaria again. This year so the introduction of Horsey Hilda, who to this day is still famous. Now horsey Hilda is basically one of them horse heads, who we named Hilda. We had so much fun with her (I refer to Hilda as her), from wearing her on the plane, to causing havoc around the pool with her on, to this day people still call her Hilda. This was also the year where I dared Sarah to change her name to Sally Stumps on Facebook for a drink and she did and was stuck with it for 60 days, people will know Sarah would do anything for a laugh, that was her character. Sarah also lost her phone on the first night, no surprises losing her phone. We also met up with Kristian and Craig during our second week, who we met the previous year, Sarah went as far as ordering a new phone, and then getting her mam Susan, to post it to Kristian so he could bring it out to her when he flew out. The first night I went to take a picture on her phone, only to drop it, her face, was a picture, thankfully it didn’t smash. She even decided to send her ex a postcard. Like last year we made our presence known around the pool, causing general havoc, drinking and soaking up the sun, and Hilda was the star of the show this year, these people who come for a relaxing holiday must be thinking what the fuck, but mine and Sarah’s holidays we had no intention of relaxing, that’s not what we went on holiday for. We met many more people including Jane, Victoria (who I believe was nicknamed Dot) and their friend Tony, Jane told me and Sarah after a few drinks to and knock on the hotel door and wake Dot up who was asleep, and we did just that. We also met up with some people we knew from Newcastle for a night out in the Yumbo Centre, which resulted in me getting them kicked out our hotel, along with Sarah for the night. Sorry about that, but never wake me up when I’m a sleep. Again this holiday did not disappoint. We decided this time to go on a couple of day trips, Paltimos Park, Aqua Land and some Crocodile Park, which we were not happy at, as it cost Eighty Euros round trip and a further thirty euros into the actual park. We blamed a lady called Kim for suggesting that to us. We had many great nights out, walking up the next morning, saying we are never drinking again, and one hour later sat with a vodka. Again another great holiday, we met so many people again, I can only put this down to Sarah’s personality. Magaluf 2016![]() After two great years in Gran Canaria we decided to do Magaluf, and whilst it had considerably more downs than ups, there is still some good memories we have. Magaluf destroyed me, physically and mentally. I was 30 and Magaluf did make me realise I can’t do these drinking holidays anymore. Our first day the weather was a bit disappointing, so we had a drink and hired on of those quadricycle things, and we are blasting around Magaluf, Sarah with a can in one hand, she loved a can now and again, and how we didn’t take out a tourist is beyond me. It was the same night where Sarah got her infamous tattoo on her stomach (most people will know what I’m talking about). Hilda made her appearance again, and she was as famous as ever. Again Sarah made her presence known around the pool, but that was just her personality, making friends with anyone and everyone. Again we met so many people and made so many friends, we caught up with Kath a lady who used to work at Tesco, who moved to Mallorca, we went to met her at the doctors surgery she worked at, and ironically Sarah ended up seeing the doctor as she had been bitten by a jellyfish the previous day when we hired a pedalo. The day of the pool party, she bought a I love Pussy vest, and wore that, along with Hilda and Tutu, sat in the pool with a vodka, she certainly was enjoying herself. We literally drank ourselves into oblivion. I also decided I wanted to create a slip and slide in the hotel corridor, squirting fairy up liquid all over, I decided to go sliding, only to be fine one hundred euros for doing so, and not to mention walking the entire floor up at 7am banging pots and pans together. Also a few knew Magaluf also had its downside, where we did have a few disagreements amongst other things, but that aside we come back with some funny memories. She also lost her phone again, which it would not be a holiday for Sarah if she did not lose her phone. They are only a few of the memories, but there are hundreds more to last a lifetime. Sadly Sarah died suddenly on the 12th March 2019, whilst I am writing all these fond memories and sharing some of the pictures from our holidays, I’ve laughed at the fun and mischief we caused but it also breaks my heart writing this. Knowing that we will never be able to recreate these memories hurts so much. I met her back in Gran Canaria in 2006, and we have been best friends ever since, as with all friends we had our disagreements, maybe more than what your usual friendship gets, but that’s us, we were both stubborn. But it was her personality I will never forget, and it was her personality that give us thirteen years of friendship. We had our own little phrases we joked on about like “Round the Corner” and “How Dare You” that only us will know the meaning behind. They say there is always meaning behind every story, and I guess that the meaning behind this story / blog is to enjoy life and cherish those friendships, make memories that you will remember for a lifetime. You never know what will happen tomorrow, next week or next year, which is all the more reason to cherish those friendships and memories.
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