Do you have a travel "home from home" or do you go somewhere different every time?

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This is partly wishful thinking, as we don't travel nearly as much as we did pre-kids. But I feel wistful about the idea of visiting another place repeatedly so that it feels like a second home.

I once knew a British bloke who spent about four months per year in the same town in India (I think this was for work), and the rest in the UK, so he really got to know the town and the locals. I've also heard of people who visit the same village in Italy every year, or the same village in Cornwall. If you do that, how does it work for you? Do you feel as though you almost get to live two lives, or do you just feel like a tourist who has the convenience of knowing where everything is in your holiday area?

I also knew of a family who made a rule to never to repeat a holiday and to go somewhere different every time, and that's pretty much how our holidays have been. But I'm wondering if we're missing out by not making any deeper connections with another place and its people.

I'm finding it interesting how varied the answers are. Some of the homes from home are very different from others. If we were the sort of people who could afford three holidays per year, we might make one of them a home from home. Alas, I didn't have the sense to marry Mark Clattenburg, so the idea of owning two holiday flats in different countries will remain a dream!

We have both - a hotel in Malta we go to every other year, a ski resort in Austria we go to every year, go to Berlin fairly often as have friends there, and a UK seaside town we go to for day trips and occasional weekends.

Then we try to go somewhere new every other year (when we aren’t in Malta). In the last couple of years: city breaks in Madrid, Rome, Stockholm, various UK seaside or city breaks, week in Toronto. Planning Japan in a couple of years.

I like travelling to new places, DH and DS like comfortable places they have been to before. So we alternate (they don’t mind new places but really love going back to places they know).

We are lucky enough to have a holiday home in the same country we live and go there for weekends and christmas etc but for anything outside the country we go somewhere different each time. I prefer city breaks rather than two weeks by a pool somewhere but I have friends who go to the same place year in year out and enjoy that too.