To think travelling is overrated

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In recent years, the many I met on travels or friends travel to stunt on social media, not necessarily to discover other cultures (often secretly wonder how much you can discover in 2 weeks).

Travelling is not for everybody, I find it stressful and heightens my anxiety.

I am a seasoned traveller but AIBU to think it is overhyped and misplaced snobbery for people to assume if you aren't a globe trotter you are close-minded or have no means.

@SunscreenCentral

For there’s no feeling better than the day I wake up knowing I’m off to another country.

What I cannot abide though, is the fucking packing. ☹️
And even worse, unpacking 😭 (even though I’m usually bring back clean clothes)

I truly detest it.

I love everything about travelling from the minute the flights are booked. We would then rough out the route we wanted to take and start to make bookings en route, even packing and airports I love. As we tended to travel from our little local airport rather than Heathrow or Gatwick we didn't even have massive queues to cope with.

@beyondtheshoe

NovemberR I had the same kind of childhood! I love travelling.

I did find that settling in international schools with other travellers and expats was easier than being thrown among people who had known each other since birth.

But I have kept many very close friends from most places, more than people who have stuck to the same school all their life.

Your post is so true, we spent a lot of time moving around with the Forces and there does seem to be a difference between people who moved a lot and those who stayed put, don't know why. Most of our close friends are people who have had similar experiences.

I love travelling especially to Canada, we have been four times.

The people are so friendly.

We hired a camper van and have been to Vancouver and the Rockies twice. Unforgettable.

I also loved Slovenia.

There are so many other places I would like to visit, and I would go back to Canada again!

It's not for everybody, two of my friends have never left this country.

@Sparklingbrook

Can you imagine if you could see the world and yet return to your own bed each night. That would be amazing.

First night away on holiday I can never sleep. It gets better as the week or weeks go on but I love my own bed and home comforts.

This. So this.

My own pillows every night.

I would love to be able to apparate. No packing as I have everything I need every time I spin in a circle. No stressing about forgetting something I need when packing. No stressing about food for ds as I can always apparate home and whip him up some pasta. No airports or planes or coaches or trains or waiting.

And every night I go home to my own bed.

But I still get to go on holiday! Perfect.

[quote Agitsanaamchange]@Bluntness100 I have been to over 100 countries(combination of work/holidays or rather personal trips) including studies in 2 outside home country, worked in 4 others, this in over a period of 20 years.

Just to clarify further, I also worked at some point for a country's tourism authority for 5 years determining the strategic direction, I understand different types of holiday makers.[/quote]
Why? If you find it stressful, anxiety inducing, over hyped, and not for you, why are you travelling so much?

Eh? What a load of tosh. If you find it stressful, don't do it.
And I too have never met anyone with those assumptions.

I adore it. Went travelling for a year pre uni, and still go for lots of city breaks, which I adore.

I am a seasoned traveller but AIBU to think it is overhyped and misplaced snobbery for people to assume if you aren't a globe trotter you are close-minded or have no means.

This is inreresting and YANBU. I think there can be an element of pretentiousness about travelling and really, people are often going to look at how others live, often in poorer parts of the world, whilst either staying in a nice hotel somewhere or 'slumming it' for a bit, then going home to their nice houses with an increased ego.youre also not BU about the chaotic nature of some travel - if that's not for you, that's just not for you.

But, that's not everyone. Curiosity and an interest in other places and people is a wonderful thing and the world would be a worse place if people simply weren't interested. Travel is, enriching and does broadens minds - unless the person is more focused on ego and the mileage they can claim off the back of their stories

Who is even travelling during a global pandemic, and where are they going?

Work. I have two trips planned in April and one in May so far, might be two.

I love travelling so much, I’m enjoying it even with masks and tests and what not 😅 Ok, I’ll be happy when we can stop doing all of that but 10h flights with a mask are actually not bad, if that allows me to get somewhere different.

This thread shows how different we all are. I personally can’t wait to sleep somewhere that’s not my own bed! That’s what enriches us, people with different opinions to our own.

I love travelling. I'd rather spend my money on travelling and holidays than anything else. I love every second of it from the moment I leave my front door.

My sister is happy with a fortnight's package holiday to Spain or Turkey once a year.

Different strokes for different folks. We all like different things.

I've missed travelling more than anything else during this pandemic, although I did manage a week in Greece last summer. Fingers crossed for this year.

I did a lot of traveling when I was in my twenties and it was all such an exciting experience to be out there on my own discovering new stuff. It also put me in difficult situations sometimes where i had to find solutions to problems. It has given me a lot of life experience that is useful to me today. That part is not overrated.
I used to look down on people who did the "fly and flop". Then I had a kid...
So now a holiday isn't about discovering new stuff. It isn't about social media either. Its about going somewhere new without housework or cooking and having a chance to change scenery and reset the brain. It is about going somewhere with the specific purpose of spending time as a family, no distractions. Going abroad is usually the cheapest (and warmest) way to do this.

[quote Agitsanaamchange]@DrSbaitso

Travel has existed as a passion long before social media and I clearly said in recent years[/quote]
When something has been a passion among humankind for a long, long, long time, the reason for it doesn't change in the ten years or so that social media has been popular.

When something has been a passion among humankind for a long, long, long time, the reason for it doesn't change in the ten years or so that social media has been popular.

This. I firmly believe it's genetic. Someone has to have a push to see what's over the next hill. But you also need people to tend the fire. Both essential for humanity.

Can you imagine if you could see the world and yet return to your own bed each night. That would be amazing.

I've started "going" on some 'Virtual Tours' over the Winter.
I mean, obviously not the same, but it has been really interesting having a tour guide take me round Florence and Rome and New Zealand etc etc.

I love travelling, everything about it. I love the planning and the packing and the airport and the flight. I especially love hotels. Travelling without DC all I really really need to remember is my wallet, phone, passport, contact lenses and any medication. Anything else can be worked around or replaced.

Because I'm so passionate about it I'd say I do struggle to compute why people wouldn't want to experience new places and meet new people (in the same way I imagine passionate golfers for example can't understand why I find it so deeply tedious) but the level-headed part of me knows it's not for everyone, and life would be boring if we were all the same.