It’s the time of year when everyone starts thinking about their summer vacation.  But here’s something I found every interesting.  Did you know that in Europe, workers are given far more paid vacation time than we are here?  I have a close friend that now lives in England and he was telling me that they get about 4 weeks per year to take whenever they want to go on ‘holiday’ as they call it there.  Here, we have to usually work a full year before we are given just one week of paid vacation a year.  In fact, you have to work about 5 years or more to earn 4 weeks of vacation time.  Why is this?  Are they more valued in England than we are here in the US?  They are happier workers that’s for sure because of the time they get off.  I think it’s time we worked to ‘Save our Summer Vacation’ . There is a movement by petitioning Congress to proclaim August 7 as a “National Vacation Day.” Get your friends and family to sign the petition NOW so that we can hopefully have this day passed in Congress!

My dream vacation has always been to go Ireland.  I guess it’s because of my Irish roots.  In fact, I am mostly Scotch-Irish and long to see the rolling emerald colored hills.  I have sat and looked at every picture I could find of Ireland and find it to be an absolutely fascinating and beautiful country.  When ‘Riverdance’ came out, I was absolutely mesmerized watching them do the Irish jig.  Perfect unison and absolutely breath taking to watch.  I must admit that I have checked out HomeAway Vacation Rentals to see how much it would take for me to take that dream vacation.  I have my special ‘vacation’ fund set up so that I can take that vacation as soon as possible.  It’s not nearly as expensive as I thought it would be thanks to HomeAway.  Maybe you could find your perfect vacation spot and they’ll find most everything else you need to make that dream come true for you too.