My nephew and I are the same age (much older sister, his dad!), he’s a couple of months older than me. We’re both late 20s.
He recently took all of his annual leave at once (about 5 weeks iirc) to travel around Europe. He basically spent five weeks on the beach. I genuinely love it for him.
I have the same amount of leave but due to organisation rules can’t take it as one huge chunk without written permission, and it has to be a good reason. So instead I’m using it up in dribs and drabs to travel, some weeks away, some long weekends, a couple of midweek trips. They’re largely to the same sorts of places as my nephew.
My entire family thinks his trip was brilliant. They gush over it, talk about how wonderful it is to travel and how enriching it is.
Whenever I talk about my trips I get laughed at, “oh another holiday?” is thrown at me and I’m really tired of it. I don’t think the travel is any less meaningful because I’m doing it in short periods of time. If anything I try to do as much as possible in those times so that I make the most of the time away.
AIBU to be really fucking fed up? I’m tempted to not even tell them about my plans anymore because it really annoys me to hear the plans I’m excited for being torn to shreds because apparently they’re not long enough trips.