Holidays at Home

Chris creates holiday snaps by combining the pictures on the fridge with old photos of him at parties.

Your suggestions

• Recreate an exotic diving holiday by sticking your head in the fish pool, and breathing through the hose pipe.
  Paul L Cass [6 Jan 2003]
• Ever wanted to drop by Rome? Just get some of your moped driving mates to park you in for a couple of days. If they are good mates prepared to go the extra mile, they can hang around and make sleezy comments everytime they see your girlfriend.
  Matt Parker [6 Jan 2003]
• Spread sand around your living room, put Backstreet Boys really loud (or something you consider to be worse than this), ask some of your sister's friends to go around in the smallest outfits possible being obnoxious and thinking they are hot and you're in Rio de Janeiro!
  Laura Prado [6 Jan 2003]
• Go to a McDonald's, order lunch and as you eat it, simply pretend that you are eating in a McDonald's somewhere else.
  Robespierre Mullet [6 Jan 2003]
• Holiday in Afghanistan this summer. Just cover your garden in sand, wear black clothes and brandish an AK-47 and pay some Marines to kill you. Simple.
  Jake Wilson [6 Jan 2003]
• To achieve that "get away from it all" feeling: Go out and get very drunk. In the meantime you will have arranged,to have someone put random scenic posters all over your home and play foreign films(without subtitles) on all of your TV's. When you get home it will feel like you're in a strange new land.
  Angela Flanagan [6 Jan 2003]
• Leave your window open at night and listen to the neighbours rowing/shagging/throwing up after a boozy night out. If you're lucky, they might even sing a nice catchy tune, like Viva Espania. Nice.
  Joy Bates [6 Jan 2003]
• Let all your friends know you are heading "Outback" for a holiday. Then just camp out back of your own home.
  Zy [6 Jan 2003]
• Glossy brochures transport you anywhere. I've been doing it for years as no place measures up to the brochures anyway so there's no need to go in the first place. None of the hotels look like the real thing and none of the scenery looks anything like the brochures so save yourself money and stress and stay at home and be inspired by the pictures instead.
  Debbie Thomas [6 Jan 2003]
• Simulate Tasmania. Dig a 1000 ft hole in your backyard, jump in and YOU are in tassie.
  Mista Mullet [6 Jan 2003]
• Want to go to England, just pour a watering can over your head
  Mick Williams [6 Jan 2003]
• Pretend you are visiting your own town. Wear tacky clothes and take photos of everything. When eating in a restuarant, act like you don't understand the menu. Talk very loudly. Buy t-shirts promoting local landmarks.
  Robespierre Mullet [6 Jan 2003]
• Leave all your taps on around the house overnight and by morning your bed will be a gondola and your house your own private Venice
  Damon Stevenson [6 Jan 2003]
• Stay in your own private room with three meals a day and a colour tv all at NO expense - steal a car.
  C W Hague [6 Jan 2003]
• Read up on a foreign language, then make a random reverse charges call to your dream destination and get someone else to explain all of the major sites to you . Just like the real thing.
  R S Hague [6 Jan 2003]
• Want to go to Rotarua - sit in a hot bath and fart a lot.
  C W Hague [6 Jan 2003]
• Go to a local public playground and crawl across the sand box. beg for water and get horribly sunburned. Later tell everyone how you were lost in the Sahara Desert.
  Rancid Aupair [6 Jan 2003]
• Go to Kansas: Find a flat place and set up lots of fans to blow on you, you can almost imagine the wheat is really there.
  Stardust [6 Jan 2003]
• Go to a Starbucks, order a coffee and as you drink it, simply pretend that you are eating in a Starbucks somewhere else.
  Subterrane [6 Jan 2003]
• Go shopping in Puerto Vallarta - Visit your local Mexican Deli and attempt talking the cashier down a buck off your tamales and Coronas
  Marie Taylor [6 Jan 2003]
• Time how long it takes to do some task around the house. Then try again, but this time take twice as long and put "bro" at the end of every sentence. Now imagine you're in New Zealand. Easy isn't it!
  Mad Gorgon [6 Jan 2003]
• Go to a public bathroom and clog all the toilets. Then take a big wif. Wow, You made it to france without leaving your town.
  Nick Bacardi [6 Jan 2003]
• Duct tape a picture of your child's face to your cat's head. Take the cat in the bath with you. It'll be just like trying to teach your children how to swim at your hotel swimming pool at the beach.
  scott quick [27 Jul 2003]
• Go to the chemist and get yourself some of those tiny bottles of shampoo, shower caps, and tiny chocolates to put chocolate on your pillow. Go to the grog shop and get those tiny bottles of liquers and pretend you're staying in a classy hotel. Also get some of those cheap towelling slippers and if you really want to go overboard, some fluffy towels and put them into your bag so you can pretend you're stealing them.
  Julie Done [21 Nov 2003]

Any suggestions?

Have you got some great holiday at home activities?