Why not look into tailor made travel arrangements next time you’re thinking of going abroad? Rather than going on the run of the mill package holiday excursions that just show you a few points of interest around the town where your hotel is located how about a little bit of adventure?
We’ve all been on holidays where we intended to get out into the mountains, into the forests and plains, to the historic old town and the museums and galleries and then just ended up spending ten nights drunk and ten days hungover, sprawled out on a sunlounger on the beach. Well, we all have when we were much younger anyway.
These days, if I want to tan while drunk there’s a twenty four hour tanning salon opposite at least two rowdy pubs not ten minutes drive from me so I have the covered now. When I go abroad now I want to learn, to discover and possibly have a little bit of an adventure. I’m more interested in the history and culture of a place these days than how cheap the beer is and how expensive the clubs are.
So I was looking into some holiday companies, ones that offer tours like the Japanese blossom tour and sightseeing vacations in South America. I realised there are tours that can take you anywhere you can imagine. Limiting yourself to one particular town for the duration is kinda daft when you think about it. Like a gap year student I realised that the final destination isn’t the point, it’s the journey.
Zen? Possibly, but what’s the point of going somewhere if you don’t enjoy the journey? You find yourself in a resort hotel that could have come off of a production line then come home again browner, poorer and in no way otherwise fulfilled.
I used to enjoy that kind of holiday but now I’m older, wiser, less fit and I don’t look so good in Speedos any more! So now I’ll take a sedate trip to the grape growing regions of France, buy a few bottles on the way out and rip it up when we get back to the hotel. I may be getting on but I’m on holiday after all!
These vacations might end up being a bit more costly than ten days in Benidorm but the relaxation, the ambiance and the experience certainly make it worth while.
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