One of the major plus points of the company I work for is the amount of holiday allowance I get- It's huge, after having been there so long. So in 2012 when home was the last place I wanted to be, I ended up away every single time I had vacation time! This included 4 different trips abroad and another week spent in the Lake District with my dad. Soon after returning from Tenerife I again felt the urge to just get away so I started looking at dirt cheap holi...

One of my favorite holidays to date was my 2nd cruise with Annie which was named 'Aegean Discovery'. This time we were on a Thomson Cruise so it was a lot more relaxed and casual than our last but we soon grew to love it for this very reason. With the ports of call being in Turkey and Greece (both firsts for us), the weather and scenery were just fantastic and it was the first time I saw for myself that those images on the front of travel magazines, they really d...