"Due to the massive holidays we teachers get, I struggled to get time off.
In fact, the way Phelan talks about it, it sounds less like a highly pressurised three weeks of elite sport, and more like a massive lads holiday that somehow managed to define sport for a generation.
"Last year was a massive year for holiday travel," said Amy Ziff, editor at large of Travelocity.
"If you have to hire a car it becomes a massive barrier," especially on holiday weekends when rental rates soar.
It required you to click through to a random-sounding page labelled "Browse interesting calendars", and then ignore the massive list of national holiday calendars which made the page look really, really boring and instead click on an unassuming "More" link. .
Domestic tourism is down by 20%, according to the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises, and February's anti-German protests in Athens especially deterred northern Europeans -- who are massive spenders on overseas holidays -- from choosing the Mediterranean nation for this summer's break.
I wrote on holidays, spent massive amounts of time away from home.
