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"Never again". From arguments to screaming, Mikis, 45, had to face the obvious: it is not always good to go on a family vacation. His last experience with his brothers and sisters in Spain has convinced him. At the microphone of Eve Roger on Europe 1, he returns on these holidays, far from being of any rest ...
"We had everything framed for it to be really beautiful holidays"
"I came from a large family, since we are five brothers and sisters, we spent a few years together, skiing or in Corsica, but each time it went very badly. Last time it was decided to retry, it was in Spain five or six years ago, between brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law and children. beautiful house.
So we all left from different parts of France to meet there. Knowing that we have different means, those who had a little more money had put a little more money ... In short, we had everything framed for it to be really beautiful holidays. But it did not go well at all.
"It started to fart immediately"
For the first meal, we went shopping and we immediately realized that it was not going to do it at all. Between those who wanted to share the races and who had decided to make meals to the economy, that is to say to go to the freezer and take 500 pesto of chicken that was going to eat during all the holidays, and those who wanted to eat things a little cooler, market, things maybe a little more expensive ... It started to fart right away.
And then, we recognize, in the family, we have a central point of discussion, it's our childhood. And usually, there is our mother in the middle of it all. She is very bohemian, she lived a very good life and is a little party live after, with a lot of wrongs. It is therefore to the one who has been the most abused, the least well dressed, etc. It starts from there ... It makes her cry, poor, so she goes away, and there, we settle our accounts between us.
Generally, the sisters-in-law try to get in the middle to calm things down and they take the rest. Then it's the kids: 'Mine is stronger, he's swimming by himself,' mine he's no longer dipping ',' you have to sleep earlier ',' let him live '... love, but we have a certain pleasure in hurting ourselves. All.
"It was very, very badly finished"
It was very, very badly finished. My older sister left five days before, my other brother came back to Paris with his chicken drumsticks, and at the end, we ended up with two to settle what we had to settle in the house, do the housework, etc. It's also happened to some to leave one or two days and go somewhere else. For example, the last three days of vacation, I ate every day with my 4 year old son in all the snacks around the house, because I did not want to eat with others anymore.
Every time, we say that there will be no shouting, that it will go well ... But now, we refuse to leave together. We see each other quite often, without any problem. To take my personal case, it's not so good with one of my brothers right now, but with time, it'll be better. We just do not have to be together. "