Why not investigate tailor made travelarrangements next time you’re considering going abroad? Instead of going on ordinary and predictable package holidays with 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?
Everyone’s been on luxury holidays where we meant to get out into the hills, into the forests and over the plains, into the historic old towns, museums and galleries and then just wound up spending ten nights drunk and ten days hungover, pancaked on a lounger by the sea. Well, we all did that when we were much younger anyway.
These days, if I want to get a tan while I’m also drunk there’s a 24 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 away now I want to learn new things, to discover and possibly have a 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 reading about some travel companies, ones that offer things to do like the Japanese blossom tour and sightseeing tailor made cruises South America. I realised there are tours that can take you anywhere you can imagine. Restricting yourself to one individual town for the whole holiday 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 love that kind of vacation but now I’m older, wiser, out of shape 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 might be getting on a bit but I’m on holiday after all!
These holidays might end up being a bit more expensive than ten days in Benidorm but the relaxation, the ambiance and the experience certainly make it worth while.
