if you are going away to one place for a month, you are going on holiday

[OrmIrian]

not 'going travelling'. Yes? It might be travelling, as in going from one place to another but it isn't 'going travelling'.

Sorry. Eavesdropping on conversation across the office.

I am a little bored. Also envious. As I would like to go away for a month

But a month still isn't 'going travelling'.

do they have a rucksack, lost planet book, not booked a package holiday, and plan to stay away from tourists eat where the locals eat then they are a traveller :) wonder if they have read Are You Experienced, it a very funny book about travellers should tell them about it

Well, if you were going to, say, India and were travelling large parts of the country over a month you might refer to it as travelling? But I think you're right - being away for a month is a holiday.

I beleive she is going to India. To stay with people she knows.

My cousin went to India overland back in the early 70s - now that was 'going travelling'! She brought back a real Afghan coat

I think if it's not a package holiday, you are making your own plans to get there, and visiting more than one place/destination then it's travelling.

If it's flying London to Goa to stay with Maureen and Bob who have a place there for the winter then it's a holiday.

Orm, do you not worry that some IT geek will know what sites you visit/type?

i'm at home working but never go near mumsnet whilst in work... am i weird

oh and YANBU

travelling means travelling not staying in one spot :)

Lord! If they were bothered about it they'd have had me shot by now I reckon....

lol

i must man up in the new year and log on :)

YANBU....it drives me mad too.

People who insist that they are 'going travelling' for three weeks rather than 'having a holiday' are basically saying: 'I am too good for the mundane activity of 'holiday'. When I travel the globe, I do it because I am a free spirit, a citizen of the world, off to experience other cultures and broaden my already-considerable knowledge of humanity. I rough it, I see the REAL India/Thailand/Vietnam, I experience things that would blow your tiny mind. And I don't do it to unwind or relax, I do it because of a deep, unquenchable yearning to wander the globe, like some mystical nomadic explorer. Enjoy Benidorm, suckers, YOU COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND'.

Anyway I am an IT Geek! (of sorts)

Quite tigermoll!

People who describe going on holiday as travelling are the same people who "source" things at the supermarket.

PMSL at tigermoll as I have friends just like that.

op you're just jealous

and so am I

lucky git

YANBU

And while we're on the subject of holidays, it really pisses me off when people say "Oh, we're going to the Canary Islands this year".

Yes but could you narrow it down a fucking bit?

Tenerife?
Fuerteventura?
Gran Canaria?
Lanzarote?
La Palma?
La Gomera?
El Hierro?
La Graciosa?
Alegranza?

Where the fuck are you going?

And breeeeathe

When does it become "traveling"?

We went "traveling" for almost a year but had holidays within that trip, the first month of our trip was a holiday, west coast of America mainly stayed in motels with a little bit of camping and eating out in restaurants.

Went to Kenya and Tanzania for 3 weeks a few years ago it was our annual holiday but it was also traveling because we were moving about and it was mainly camping.

Spelt "travelling" wrong to many times for it to be a typo. I'll shoot myself now.

Ha! This is funny. I've thought this too.
The new one that bugs me is when people are on "annual leave"
Eh?

Jasper - I suppose people might not be going away so they use the term annual leave so you know that they are at home potting plants or whatever it is that people do.

It's travelling in the same country if you're moving around a lot independently - just about. It's still a bit of a twattish word though!

jasper - 'annual leave' translates as 'I'm not working so bugger off and leave me alone!'. Or it does in my dictionary. Otherwise I get endless calls and emails regardless of whether I'm at home or in Outer Mongolia!

I'm on leave at the moment but I'm an expat so it is expected. Not local leave but leave, you understand. There is no travelling involved. I've been in my current location for 10 days and we'll be decamping to another location shortly. It's all leave.

WorraLiberty -but the Canary Islands sounds so much more exotic than Lanzagrotty Lanzarote.

Even better, how about "I'm going to a little place I know just off the African coast"

I've had a similar experience, I met up with some school friends a few years ago and mentioned that I hadn't really done a lot since school. 'oh, but you went travelling!' one of them exclaimed, whilst the rest all nodded in agreement. Er, no, I went to new Zealand for 3 weeks for a holiday, we mostly stayed with dh's grandparents, drove round in a hire car and there wasn't a rucksack in sight!
I would agree that annual leave just refers to people taking leave from work but staying at home

To be honest, I class all 'travelling' as holidays.

I had this argument with my best friend. About 4 months after getting back from travelling she said she wanted/needed a holiday. I suggested she had just had an eight month holiday, which she was most annoyed at.

When I pressed her for the difference she was a bit stuck.

When I pressed her for the difference she was a bit stuck.

Well, you can sometimes tell the difference by if it was ok to fly there - taking a shorthaul flight in order to go on a cheap package holiday is, natch, utterly indefensible and an example of planet-exploitation by selfish greedy carbon-hogs. Whereas, taking a longhaul flight to go travelling advances the sum of human knowledge and is satisfying a deep-held wanderlust in the bosom of said traveller, and so is totally fine.

I'm heading to Australia for 5 weeks on my own with a rucksack and will be staying largely in hostels, in a week. I don't really count it as travelling if it's under 3 months but this time does feel travelling-esque.