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how can I talk him out of it.
I have to ski..no option there and have been used to three weeks a year. For some obscure reason (maybe I am a crap skier  he wants to go on a cruise.
is it that bad a holiday or should I stick to skiing alone......
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Weird. Time for a younger model?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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let him go on his cruise, you go skiing. I would need to be paid quite a lot of money to go on a normal sort of cruise (on a big ship with too much food, too many clothes and (shudder....) "entertainment".
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pam w, and too many people who are minded to go on a cruise!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ehhhh? 
Hello sailor!
What's got into him? Do you think he's been surfing naughty websites like "Oceanheads" behind your back?
Surely he must agree to some form of therapy/treatment....
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3 weeks skiing plus cruise - might consider it (though very unlikely to happen here as all funds go towards skiing)
No skiing plus cruise - separate hols? 
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I think that he is having some sort of mid life crisis. How can skiing with me be soooo bad to want to go on a cruise?
Bingo anyone? 
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I love sailing (and have done several sailing holidays without my husband, who doesn't). So it's not that I don't like boats - I enjoy a canal holiday too - but I just can't see the appeal of a cruise. Being in your own boat, deciding where to go, feeling sick as a dog and still having to work, and arguing about who's turn it is to unblock the loo (and who blocked it...) is so much more enjoyable. 
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Cruise = beige slacks
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I'd rather unblock pam w,s loo than go on a cruise
Surely when you have a mid life crisis you start doing things too young for you rather than the other way (I did anyway)
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we have done sailing holidays too (Flotilla). He did not like the joining in aspect. When we have stayed in chalets he has kept himself very much to himself. How on earth will he (and me) cope with a cruise? I loved the flotilla holiday and would have no problems with that, but to be held captive on a huge boat with lots of random people! At least in a ski chalet you have a common talking point, AKA skiing
I need good reasons to put to him why we shouldn't do it.
I have tried lets ski whilst we are fit enough and cruise when the knees give out....
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You know it makes sense.
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sarah, yes, Force 7 is far too much in a little boat. The odd thing about sailing is that although you spend quite a lot of the time being scared or cold or wet or sick or bored (not usually all at once, but often more than one) it can be quite addictive. A bit like skiing, really.
margaret, have your ski holidays maybe become a bit "samey"? Maybe you should try something new? Find out whether there is something your husband has always wanted to try, but never liked to ask? Surprise him with a sexy new set of thermals?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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margaret, tell him that on a cruise he will be surrounded by people keen to talk to him and be bestest friends, because they go on cruises because they don't have any friends. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Can you get the galley slaves up to water skiing speed?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I have tried the sexy new thermals. Didn't quite go the way I would have liked....
Arwe thermals ever sexy?
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margaret,
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Arwe thermals ever sexy?
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Depends whats inside.
As to the original problem the answer is compromise. Norwegian Fjords in Late March with a set of skins and a different hill each day. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Norwegian Fjords in Late March with a set of skins and a different hill each day.
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Yes, that sounds perfect for someone who likes to be alone.
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But Austria is landlocked!!!!
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margaret, he could do Lake Geneva (several circuits) in March while you have a proper holiday nearby.
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Now that is not for me to say. He maintains I am the only woman he ever wants in his life, but I cannot help but think maybe he does not want to ski with me anymore....
We have had a couple of family holidays where he has not had to ski with me, and enjoyed them. Bear in mind that although a cautious skier I will attempt most slopes and I have offered to go into ski school. When we have gone into ski school in the past we have been put in the same group although to be fair I have probably been at the bottom.
T Bar, in the summer I will walk up any number of hills or mountains just to see what is on the top, but if it is snowy, I want to ski (the easiest way with lifts!!)
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margaret, is he a keen skier who finds you a bit slow? One possibility might be one of the intensive coaching holidays where you could each join in the right class for your own level - 3 hours or so in the morning, then you could ski together in the afternoon? http://www.snoworks.co.uk/
OK, I wasn't being serious about the thermals, but I do think that top quality coaching (and there are plenty of other possibilities, it's just that snoworks typically have plenty of different levels in the same week) makes a huge difference.
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I have suggested a course, I would love to get to be a better skier, he does not take instruction lightly. I think that perhaps I am a "boring " skier but he is not that far ahead of me, dare I say it, just thinks that he is. He is not as fit as he used to be, and I think that he is finding skiing hardwork.
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margaret, well the answer is obviously for you to go on a course alone then zoom past him. Spur him on.
Is the cruise in addition to skiing?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Go on the cruise. Great fun. Love the one Mrs a and I did to St Ptersburg. Can thoroughly recommend P&O.
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You know it makes sense.
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Or whale watching cruise in Alaska... with ski weekend tagged onto end 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ditch gramps.
Ski with friends.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Cruises:
- Panama
- Alaska
- Galapagos
Ooops, it's all in the Americas... a bit far, I'm afraid
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We are avid cruisers in the Summer (Royal Carrib, Celebrity ,P&O, etc). In fact we usually have three hoos per year - one ski one cruise and one other for the sun. Bit boring skiing all the time innit?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Agree with everyone who has said do both holidays.
I have never been on a cruise but felt quite tempted by a Saga 121 day world cruise I saw advertised in the Telegraph last week At 39 I am a little too young to go!
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Shudder.
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At that time I would much rather have been on a big ship, I had the largest restorative G&T I have ever had that night 
Actually I wasn't sick but felt it a bit, this was supposed to be a family flotilla in the Ionian, novice sailors for the most part and lots of kids most of whom spent that leg throwing up or crying 
