Where do you go on WEEKENDS! ?

I have three little kids and this is rural Western Scotland. � 

I mostly go to the utility room at weekends to load/unload the washing machine, although I usually tack on a few minutes on either side to get a little peace into the bargain.

If it's dry and not midgie season, we air out the kids.

Lol, sorry but I laughed when I read this one. I felt the same way when my girls were little. Our weekend activities revolved around them and whether it was raining so had to have an indoor floor picnic or dry so could take them to the park to "air out" as you so beautifully put it.

Weekends are mostly at home for me, to catch up on housework, grocery shopping etc.  Some weekends we'll go into town ("town" = Sheffield city centre, about a mile away from my house) to do shopping or meet up with people or whatever.  Venturing further afield is a rare occurance, mostly for financial reasons.

edit- we have friends who live in different neighbourhoods of the city, yes.  But that might only be 4 miles away, so it's no big deal to go over to their place or for them to come to ours...I agree that the compactness of places here means that it's pretty easy to get to a wide variety of places.

I live in a 'burb of Leeds, just like Andee does.  DH and I both work in city centre, so at the weekends - we really like staying at home!  It's difficult convincing either of us to go into the city at the weekends - we don't like fighting the shopping crowds, etc.  We're near enough to Harrogate, York, and other places around West and North Yorkshire, where we can either take the train or drive to visit friends at the weekends when we want to.  We like getting out into the countryside on fine days, and going for long country rambles.

Occasionally, we'll do a long weekend somewhere else - either a city break (like London, Edinburgh, Bath, etc) or a walking holiday in another part of the great British countryside. 

Lol, sorry but I laughed when I read this one. I felt the same way when my girls were little. Our weekend activities revolved around them and whether it was raining so had to have an indoor floor picnic or dry so could take them to the park to "air out" as you so beautifully put it.

Oh, you should see how long it takes me to peg out the clothes in summer. 

My excuse is that they have to be shaken out just right so I don't have to iron. 

Oh, you should see how long it takes me to peg out the clothes in summer. 

My excuse is that they have to be shaken out just right so I don't have to iron. 

I hear you.  I'd rather re-wash things than iron! 

My weekends are the same as most people.  I have two little ones and I do the majority of the housework at the weekend bacause DH is usually home and I can go about getting things done uninterrupted.  If I want a weekend away, it's usually to Belfast.  During the summer, weather permitting, we try to go to the beach with the rugrats in Buncrana, Donegal.  We're pretty boring

When we lived in Devon (Exeter) we'd usually go to the city centre to roam around. We also did the weekly shopping. Sometimes, when weather was good, we'd drive to the beach or moors.

In Cumbria (Carlisle area) we were in a VERY rural village and petrol was very expensive to get anywhere else - so we mostly stayed at home with an occasional foray to the Lakes.

I live in a village in Somerset, so on weekends we go to  . . . other villages in Somerset.  Sometimes we splash out and go into Devon, or even as far as Hampshire!  But mostly Somerset.  It is a situation where the villages are pretty close to each other, so it's not unusual to drive to the next one over to meet friends or go to a particular restaurant, for example.

Yeah, travelling on the weekends isn't as popular here in the US, but that's because things are just so much closer together. Chances are you've got whatever you want to do within half an hour of you, at most.

I live on the seafront in Worthing so every weekend involves at least one walk along the beach with the dog. If i want to go shopping or partying then its a 30 minute bus ride along the coast to Brighton, if i have a long weekend then its usually off in the other direction to catch a ferry to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. London is an hour on the train if theres a good gig on..

We live in a sleepy part of the UK but we are 30 miles distance from various cities or towns that have their own individual appeal depending on the mood we are in. 

If we want to..we are only 50 minutes away from the bustle of London...or 40 minutes away from the beach...

Our local town has all the usual general places to go e.g cinema, theatre, restaurants...and of course friends 

I live in NW London.  Most weekends (with the exception of about 4 or 5), I play a sport - either field hockey (~7 months) or cricket (~4 months) - sometimes I'll be playing both (overlap).  So I go where the games are, which tend to be north, west or southwest of London (or the outskirts of London in those directions).  When I'm not playing sports or doing something that involves my sport clubs (Fri or Sat night), I tend to spend most of my time in NW London with friends from there, though I'll occasionally head into central, north or west London to go to cool pubs or restaurants with people. 

I live in Bath and my weekend consist of a pilates class then wandering around town. I work in Bristol, so by the weekend I'm sick of traveling 1.5 hours per day. When my BF was in England I spent some weekends going to Sheffield, but we also met up in Oxford, Birmingham, London, Exeter, etc. Once he moved to Dublin that was my new weekend destination. Oh, and I have a friend over in Northamptonshire, so I'll go there for an occasional weekend. I would probably travel more on the weekend if I had a car. Once my Young Person's Railcard expired train travel became way too expensive and I'm way too impatient for long bus trips.

This is a fascinating topic -- for me, in the US, one of the big attractions of the UK is the sheer volume of easily-reachable places to go exploring of a weekend. I live in Central Illinois, and I could drive three hours in any direction and still basically be in the cornfields of the midwest (although there's always Chicago, I suppose) -- I love the idea of bring, say, half an hour from London and also from the coast, or of being able to take city breaks in Edinburgh, Sheffield, Oxford, etc. or to go biking in the countryside, poking around little villages, discovering new pubs, etc. It's an aspect of my childhood (in the UK) that I really miss now.