What is everyone doing for the summer? Plans, trips, or just surviving

[RayOfLight31]

It is finally that time of year when people start making summer plans or realising they have not made any and quietly panicking about it. The World Cup is going to eat a significant portion of many people's schedules regardless of what else happens, but beyond that I am curious what everyone is actually doing.

I have some vague plans that are either coming together or not depending on factors I cannot control yet. There is a trip I have been talking about for two years that may or may not actually happen this summer. I have decided to stop predicting it and just let it either happen or not.

Anyone doing anything interesting, whether ambitious travel or sensibly staying home and enjoying the long evenings? What does summer look like from where you are?

[WWFRoss95]

Staying in the UK deliberately this year. The summers have been beautiful enough recently that I wanted to actually be here for one instead of rushing somewhere to experience weather I can get at home.

[Ria3]

Big trip planned for September which is technically not summer but the anticipation is doing summer work for me emotionally. Something to aim at while I get through July and August.

[BlackMamba]

Between the World Cup and work I genuinely have no idea where the next two months will go. I have done less planning this year than any year I can remember and I feel oddly fine about it.

[Di87]

Festival season. I go to at least one every summer and this year I have two lined up. The one I am most excited about is much smaller, around 5,000 people, and those tend to be the best experiences.

[Sinead77]

First summer with a proper garden. This sounds minor but it has genuinely changed my relationship with the season. Having somewhere to be outside that is actually mine feels like a significant quality of life upgrade.

[NeutrinoX74]

Camping. Three nights somewhere without phone signal. I do this every year as a deliberate detox and come back feeling disproportionately restored.

[ECWAlex98]

Working through most of it but finishing a project that has been dragging for months. The satisfaction of actually completing it will be its own reward. At least that is what I tell myself.

[Fan]

Nothing planned at all and absolutely no regrets. The best summer I ever had was the one where I just said yes to things as they came up instead of trying to schedule them.

[ParallelSelf34]

Going back to work actually after a sabbatical