The votes are in.

Last week with a tanned  €25 Golden Discs on offer, I asked you for your favourite song about being on holidays or to play/sing along with while you’re on holiday.

You chimed in in your tens.

But there could be only one winner.

Third Place:

Karakoy by Brazilian Girls

Songs, Spoofing And Spliffs writes:

It takes you on a walk and skip along its namesake streets in Istanbul, with Sabina Sciubba’s vocals overpowering the soft-washed trumpets when the chorus arrives.

A simple song but misleading,its a story,of walking and missing in one the worlds greatest cities. It’s a sunny little novella of pain written sharply with enough nuance to make you start a few teary daydreams…This is a live version from Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir.

Runner-up:

Cups by Anna Kendrick

Slightly Bemused writes:

‘When visiting my daughter after that film came out, she used love to sing that song on car rides as we travelled between locations. A four hour drive from the town she lived in to the one where she was born to visit her grandparents could be filled with several renditions.

Maybe as it came on the radio, or maybe as she practised the rhythm section on the dashboard (thank god for large American cars, and sincere apologies to the rental company cleaning crew).

Of course when I tried to accompany in vocal section, my little lovely darling who is blessed with perfect pitch (pun intended) she would correct me. I now know the correct places to put the little ‘uh-ohs’ and how to put the right nasal sound to the words. My daughter was very particular about the details!

It has been a while – she is in college now, and Cups is no longer her favourite song. But I still sing it, even if it is only in my head whenever I travel.’

Winner:

Hot In Here by Nelly

Italia 90 writes:

‘I was on hols in Lanzarote in 2002. I’m just after getting divorced. Brand new GF, intelligent and witty af, never a dull moment. She booked us on a catamaran day trip/booze cruise.

It’s full of Irish nurses and the ratio was 5 or 6 to 1? Mighty session all afternoon and we continued at a little bar in the harbour, tequila cocktails and shots.

One of the little nurses was flirtin like mad and before things got messy, I was in a taxi back to the Fariones. Went for a bit to eat, then up to the apartment.

Low and behold, there in front of our door was the flirty nurse. Lying there on the mat, unconscious and butt naked.

The GF starts laughing, opens the door, steps over nursie, turns to me and says, – ‘that is your problem Captain’90, make sure she gets home’. Turns out they were staying in the same apartment complex and we must have mentioned which apartment we were staying in. Doh!

I ended up having to carry her two floors down and across to the other side of the complex and into one of the nurse’s rooms. The party was still going on and so I stayed for a few beers. Would have been rude not to.

The next time I see the flirty nurse, she’s on the Late Late Show. She had just won one of those blind wedding things and is in the audience being interviewed by Pat the Plank. The GF points her out to me and says, – ‘Look, there’s that mermaid you caught in Puerto del Carmen!’.

Thanks all

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