What Kati Did Next; Change of destination avoids a divorce

HONEYMOONS. Where do you begin? Maldives? Bahamas? Cuba?

Where would you like to go for the most memorable and generally most expensive holiday of your life?.

Ireland anyone? A trip to Ireland? No? No takers? Oh come on now, what’s wrong with Ireland? We love Ireland.

All right, so maybe it’s not the most common of honeymoon destinations but we had our reasons.

Family over there makes for cheap accommodation, flights are cheap at the moment, tipple dead cheap. So nice and cheap all-round. Or so we thought.

A distressed phone call was received from friends who were camping over in Mayo. “You’re not flying over are you?” the conversation began. “Why?” we replied. “Because,” our perturbed caller continued, “the drink is so expensive, I was hoping you could drive over with a boot stocked to the brim with booze.”

We probed. How expensive? “You don’t want to know,” came the reply.

“Even the Guinness?” The silence was deafening.

We sat dismayed staring out of the window into a rainy garden and there we stayed for a good 10 minutes until I broke the silence.

“Listen,” I began, “if we go away to Ireland for two whole weeks, it rains the whole time and we can’t even get drunk, we will come back divorced.

“And I want you to bear in mind we never go away for two whole weeks and this is our honeymoon.”

Again we sat staring. “So what about Spain?” I suggested.

Well you have never seen the tables turn so quickly.

Within seconds he was at the computer, within minutes he had booked flights, within the hour, we were both sat looking at our flight, hire car and villa information with big grins on our faces.

The little one toddled in. We leapt up and starting singing at the top of our voices, “We’re all off to Sunny Spain.”

There’s nothing wrong with Ireland of course, we said to ourselves.

Let’s go in the winter, it’ll be all romantic in the snow. Le’ts go in the winter when we can wrap up against the cold. Let’s go in the winter when we can drive over with all the accoutrements we need for a chilly break, boots, waterproofs and all the booze we can shove in the boot.

We’ll call it our second honeymoon. Yes, that’s what we’ll do.