Now, you're probably wondering what I'm doing here on a lovely Thursday morning.

Well, it's Vic here with your Thursday retrospective episode of Sober Awkward.

You might be thinking, hang on, haven't I heard this before?

And the answer is yes, yes, you have.

But like all good drinking stories and bad toilet humour,

they both get better with age, or at least less embarrassing the more times we tell them.

On Thursdays, we dust off our favourite episodes from the archives,

something you might have missed, loved or listened to at the start of your sober life.

Think of it as a journey back in time, or a jolly leftover, a bit like lasagna that tastes

even better on day two. So sit back, relax and enjoy this vintage slice of awkwardness.

A retrospective episode reheated and served right to your ears.

All right, Hame, it says here that you want to start with a game. You know I love a game.

What is it? Monopoly, Warhammer, Tetris. It's not a drinking game, is it? I did think about it. But then maybe with coconut water or orange juice. Yeah, wouldn't be a very funny drinking game. That's not really the time or place. No. I want to take, I want you to take your phone out or your laptop. Get that open. You can do this as you're listening as well. And I want you to Google the first hotel that pops into your head. Of course you were talking

about centre parks. I'm thinking butlins. That's a classic English hotel holiday. So I want you

to Google that. And whilst you do it, I'll talk you through why. So the planning of a holiday

for me is the most fun part of the whole trip. I love it. I love the packing. I love the daydreaming

and the chastra about the fun we're going to have and the buildup.

I love getting to the airport and I love, then obviously the holiday happens after that.

Well, if you're a bit odd like me and love the planning, once the flight has been booked, you might start thinking about where you're going to stay. you'll hop on Google like you're doing now, Vic, or you're doing it home,

and if you're sober and you're Googling hotels,

this is where it can get a bit problematic.

As I said, every hotel we looked up had booze on the landing page. So the first one that popped into my hammer, I thought I'll Google something. I thought the Ritz, that's like the best hotel in the world. I googled the Ritz and booze comes up three times on the home page, three different photos. To be fair, I then Google the best hotel I know, which I think is the Bershal al-Arab in Dubai. I think that's like a seven-star hotel. Oh, yes, the one with the Fisher Tanks. Yes, the one that looks like a sale. No booze. I thought, ah, UAE, very different story there. So no booze and the whole thing. So if you're Googling down one in the UAE, probably there'll be no booze. So, Vic, you've gone for Butlins. Which, which Butlins are we in here? It's Butlin's big weekenders, exclusively for adults, that weekend a feeling, it says. Yeah, that screams, please. So actually, all it is, is a picture of a burger with a pint of beer next to it. Okay. So it's the first picture that's come up.

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