To be annoyed that he's obsessed with walking everywhere?

I’m all for walking rather than getting the bus normally, but not with heavy bags. If he insisted on walking, he should have carried them.

What I like to think I’d have done is called a cab and ridden it in solitary splendour, leaving him with all the bags.

I live a 30-35min from our city centre and I always walk it. By time I go to a bus stop, wait for bus, bus to then drive into town and stopping every 2 mins it takes almost as long and I've paid for it. Plus - walking is better for you!

I'd always walk if it's less than 30 minutes and I would share his annoyance if someone was trying to insist we wait and pay for a bus that would likely take longer.

Ultimately it's recommended people walk at least 10,000 steps a day. But it's scary just how many people aren't used to doing that. If you're already comfortably exceeding 10,000 steps a day without doing the walks he's insisting on then you have a case for the bus. If you're not though and a 30 minute walk feels unreasonable to you then tbh it suggests you could do with being more active.

I wouldn't get the bus if it was only a 30 minute walk unless the weather was terrible

I've not got a bus or train since i was at school (24 years!) and if on holiday without a car i'd walk 30-60mins rather than get a bus, heavy bags or not.

Its totally alien to me that people have the time to walk places and not drive, so i just realised i'm not really best placed to comment!

Depends how much energy you have, and how much you’ll need for the rest of the day.

I once had someone walk THREE HOURS for a date with me... and he walked home.

I knew in that moment that we were seriously incompatible 😁

OP, a stroll home on holiday is lovely. Having to walk everywhere if you just want to go into town is bloody annoying and he sounds like he places way too much importance on the idea of walking.

Why get a bus if it's only 30 mins walk. You spend longer waiting for the bus. Easy walk unless it's up a steep hill. Yabu here I'm afraid

He sounds like an awful bully.
Why are you tolerating this?
You are only going out and he treats you like this.
Your bar is very low.
He will only get worse.
He sounds like an awful nag.

I would definitely walk if it is only 30 minutes, unless I am in a huge rush. Anything under an hour is walkable, as far as I am concerned

Yes but the OP is comparing walking 30mins or taking the bus. In almost all situations, it would be actually be quicker, for reliable to walk that distance than to wait for a bus which could take an indeterminate amount of time, and then sit/stand on a bus potentially getting stuck in traffic. It's not really time saving.
Plus, walking IS good exercise, and it's good for your mental health, getting the bus is not!

A 30 minute walk? That's what...2 miles, if that? And you have to take a bus to travel that distance, rather than walk? Wow.

Walking is free, you get fresh air and it's good for you. Buses you have to pay for, generally turn up late if at all, and you have to sit next to people who spread their germs to everyone in the vicinity. Or you get sat next to a screaming kid.

I know what I'd rather choose.

We do on holiday, worst time was on Rome, 30 min walk from the station to our accommodation, dragging a wheely suitcase over those awful cobbles.

Still we didnt die!

The key is to get luggage appropriate to your needs, backpack and a wheeled suitcase

However OP still hasnt clarifed how she had heavy bags and he didnt and what happened to the bags on the way back?

Tbh you don’t sound well matched. You don’t want to walk and he does. That’s quite a big deal IMO simply because it shows you’re two quite different people.

I don't get how someone this thoughtless can be described as 'lovely'

Have you had a proper conversation about this?

Would he listen to your views?

How long have you been together?

Carrying luggage?

With bags I'd get the bus, unless they were rucksacks which were comfortable to walk with.

I think it depends on the route too. It's about a half hour walk from my house into the middle of the village but that route is over fields. Lovely in the summer, not so much when it is wet and muddy and dark.

It's not about walking benefits versus laziness it's about communication, respect, resolution, consideration.

This.

I don't think it's unreasonable to stay somewhere that's less than a 30 mins walk away from the town/shops. However, expecting you to walk while carting heavy bags around is unreasonable and I'd have told my DH to do one. My DH can be a bit tight with money, so he prefers to walk if we can - if it's peeing it down with rain or I've got a heavy bag, I'll happily tell him ok you walk by yourself!

Why should you walk for half an hour if you'd rather take the bus. I wouldn't.

Bastard. Just walk away.

...er...no...hang on.

It is LTB worthy because he has contempt for you. He is resentful of you, wants someone more active. Punishes you by sulking, disrespect, rolls eyes at you doesn't carry bags anymore. He doesn't like you.
It would have been fine if he were kind and flexible about it, offered to carry the bags or explained he wanted to walk a lot on the trip. Dump him because you're being blind by the red flags.

But did they not return then?

What happened to the backs on the way back?

My dad was like this. A tight, miserable man who liked to remain in control whilst getting the health benefits of walking. 🙄 we spent a weekend when I was a teenager walking round London.

Edited for double post 🙄