To think that most people who say they love “travel” just like posting about it?

I love travelling. I don't post about it.

I love feeling excited at the airport, like a little kid!

I love seeing new places, eating new food, meeting new people, seeing new animals and wildlife, seeing new buildings, experiencing different cultures.

I love not being here! Not having to worry about work, life, schools, emails...

I love watching the sunset while hugging my husband and drinking something tasty

I love watching my children see and experience things they never have before!

I love seeing the sky from a different place, feeling the sun or the snow or whatever on my face

I love walking along paths I've only read about

I love seeing places I've only seen on TV or in pictures.

I love the feeling of anxiety or fear or excitement that comes when the unexpected happens

I love tying to decipher new words and figure out train times, opening hours etc.. when the words are written in a whole new language I can't understand

I love seeing manga, cherry blossom, lions, temples, pyramids, churches, twisty roads, mountains, lakes of different colours, turtles, stars in the outback, roads that go on for miles with twists or turns, motels, tents, teepees, russian trains, Siberia, Korean food ...... etc.. etc... etc...

How anyone could not love travelling is beyond me! If I could travel forever, wth my DH and children and money was no object, I totally would. Why wouldn't you?!!

I love to travel been all over the world but i dont post nothing on SM because i dont have SM.
They are my good times no need to tell the world about it.

Some of my friends who love to travel post all the details on Facebook. But as they’re my friends I’m interested in their photos and observations.

I think this post says far more about your friends and the people you choose to associate with on social media than it does about modern day travel habits.

I love holiday prep, being at the airport/ train station,/ packing the car. Love an airport or service station - so many people watching opportunities! Love the journey.

Posting selfies on SM is so bloody tacky dahlings. Everyone is doing it so it's not unique anymore. As pp said, every available "sight and site" is overrun with selfie sticks and loopy grins with usually a big sun cap/hat hiding the bloody thing anyway!

No pics from me, apart from sunsets and that kind of thing. I did take one fabulous picture (not with me in it) of the interior of the Mezquita in Cordoba (see how I name dropped that one lol), and to this day it gives me great pleasure to look at the amazing colours and the pillars that just seem to go on for miles in an optical illusion.

Anyway, whatever way you do it, enjoy it your way.

OP have you been on the juice this evening!!??
Back in the day ,before social media ,people sent postcards ,it really isn’t that hard to work out that people have always shared their travel experiences with friends and family 🤦‍♀️

Same…love travel, no social media…🤷‍♀️

No, that’s ridiculous. Everyone I know who loves to travel doesn’t post on social media at all.

Quite! I don’t use FB.insta/x/tiktok/snapchat

I love travelling to learn about culture and history.

I know what you mean. There are people who quietly enjoy travel and then people who just want to go to a destination to take a selfie and to say (as loudly as possible) they have been there.

It is a bit of a problem in some places now as people queue to take a selfie at beauty spots so they can plaster it over SM and encourage more people to go to that same beauty spot to queue up and so on and so on. SM has changed travel a lot I think and not always for the better

Just walked through my door having had a week travelling around Tuscany...I bloody love to travel!

What kind of new fuckwittery is this? We can't even say that we like to travel now?!

I don't take selfies and I don't ever post on social media. I do love to travel and to learn about other cultures.

Exactly. THEIR choice. Nothing to do with you. You don't have to look at their photos. You are coming across as very jealous.

Of course - its not so surprising- holidays have alwsys been a status thing - it says I have time and money - and not so much about the going but to say you have been. I love planning holidays - its almost as good as actually going. In the 50s people boasted about their new fridges - now its experiences.

I don't have Instagram and don't have Facebook so where would I be posting about it?

I've certainly never spent a holiday in a resort (well, my parents took me to Florida when I was seven, but that's all).

I would say that the time I was walking past a small holding in rural Croatia and got invited to lunch counts as "immersing myself".

And my Dh's grandparents did the same.

Mine too!

My grandparents loved to travel. They would give slide shows of their travels on their return! 😁

I like travelling, but I only post pictures to friends, people I know in real life. Nothing to Insta or FB.

So what if people broadcast every moment of it? It's nothing to do with you! Just unfriend them if it's so triggering for you. 🙄

Rude thread. I agree you sound jealous. Get over yourself!

This. Jealous much OP?