Travelling - Anyone Else Not Like it?

chops018 · 02-06-2015 1:22pm #1

As per the title does anyone else out there not particulary like travelling?

Some people travel to other countries to unwind.... I'm the opposite, I just get stressed. I'd prefer to spend my time off relaxing at home.

I'm relatively young and I've been on a couple of holidays, and a few breaks away, nothing long term although I had the oppurtunity to do the J1 at the end of college I didn't bother.

I'd like to see some countries but personally I don't find it worth the stress as I said I end up not enjoying the time in the other country due to thinking about flying home, what will happen if etc.

The only break I enjoyed was to Manchester but it was a short weekend away to see a concert and a premiership game.

I don't like going on a sun holiday for the sake of it just to get pissed somewhere with a nicer beach, probably costing near €4,000 when all is said and done.

Anyone else feel the same? (I know the majority will probably disagree)

snubbleste · 02-06-2015 1:22pm

Depends if you are a traveller or not.

walkingshadow · 02-06-2015 1:23pm

Try visiting Islamic State. I found it to be a perfect place to relax and unwind.

aaronjumper · 02-06-2015 1:26pm

I like seeing new places but I hate travelling too. If I could just teleport wherever I wanted, cut out all the hassle, wouldn't even have to pack.
Or put up with airport gob****es. Life would be good.

anncoates · 02-06-2015 1:33pm

I really like traveling but it's a leisure pastime. I'm not tortured by the thought of places I haven't seen yet. To be honest, I find the more fervent niche travel types a bit morto: the types that give soulful rhapsodies about escaping from Ireland etc. For some reason, I equate it with being very young. Each to their own, though.

syklops · 02-06-2015 1:37pm

chops018 wrote: »

I don't like going on a sun holiday for the sake of it just to get pissed somewhere with a nicer beach, probably costing near €4,000 when all is said and done.

You're doing it wrong.

ancapailldorcha · 02-06-2015 1:42pm

chops018 wrote: »

The only break I enjoyed was to Manchester but it was a short weekend away to see a concert and a premiership game.

I don't like going on a sun holiday for the sake of it just to get pissed somewhere with a nicer beach, probably costing near €4,000 when all is said and done.

Anyone else feel the same? (I know the majority will probably disagree)

Why not just look into places an travel to those you think you'd enjoy? Any amount of time in a place like Magaluf would constitute my idea of hell.

Pyr0 · 02-06-2015 1:43pm

chops018 wrote: »

I don't like going on a sun holiday for the sake of it just to get pissed somewhere with a nicer beach, probably costing near €4,000 when all is said and done.

Jaysus!! 4000 euro on a holiday? Monte Carlo, 5 star holiday?!

You could get a nice weekend stay or a 4 day break in a city for under 800 euro, that'd be a decent hotel + flights and spending money. That could be made 300 euro cheaper if you go for hostel options.

_Kaiser_ · 02-06-2015 1:44pm

I haven't been out of this country in (brace yourselves!) 15 years! :eek:

and then it was for a training course in the UK for a few weeks.

It's not that I don't WANT to travel, I just never seem to have the right combination of time and money when I might want to go somewhere.. and when I do have spare cash there's usually something more tangible that I would rather spend it on.

I'm also the type of person that wouldn't go travelling alone and most of my mates are long since settled down so the idea of a lads holiday never really happened.

Ah well.. maybe someday!

Besides, at this stage I am probably better staying put anyway.. watching me wandering around Dublin Airport looking lost and confused would probably make me the suspicious type under the post-911 security rules and who needs a full cavity search before you spend a few hours strapped into an airplane!

Emsloe · 02-06-2015 1:47pm

I used to enjoy it more back in the days when it was a more relaxed affair. Now having to arrive a bajillion hours before the flight and every other misery that goes with that makes me shudder. Nothing enjoyable about it these days until you're in the sky.

darkpagandeath · 02-06-2015 1:48pm

What makes travelling annoying is Other people..

aaronjumper · 02-06-2015 1:51pm

Emsloe wrote: »

I used to enjoy it more back in the days when it was a more relaxed affair. Now having to arrive a bajillion hours before the flight and every other misery that goes with that makes me shudder. Nothing enjoyable about it these days until you're in the sky.

Unless you book with Ryanair and have to listen to them try and sell you stuff until you land. Other flights it's like "Would you like something off the trolley?"
Ryanair "Would you like something off the trolley, maybe some Ryanair lotto tickets, enter the raffle etc. waffle waffle waffle".

Though that was a few years ago, maybe they've gotten better or worse since then.

darkpagandeath · 02-06-2015 1:53pm

aaronjumper wrote: »

Unless you book with Ryanair and have to listen to them try and sell you stuff until you land. Other flights it's like "Would you like something off the trolley?"
Ryanair "Would you like something off the trolley, maybe some Ryanair lotto tickets, enter the raffle etc. waffle waffle waffle".

Though that was a few years ago, maybe they've gotten better or worse since then.

Don't forget it's an unprecedented event a plane landing safely and has to be celebrated.

chops018 · 02-06-2015 1:54pm

syklops wrote: »

You're doing it wrong.

Pyr0 wrote: »

Jaysus!! 4000 euro on a holiday? Monte Carlo, 5 star holiday?!

You could get a nice weekend stay or a 4 day break in a city for under 800 euro, that'd be a decent hotel + flights and spending money. That could be made 300 euro cheaper if you go for hostel options.

Ok maybe I overestimated a bit.

But still, it's an expensive affair if you're not really into it.

I wouldn't be a huge fan of flying either (not necessarily the flying that bothers me but more so the lack of control in the air and then the build up to the flight), which does play on my mind when I'm away.

The worrying about things like wallet, cards, cash etc.

I'd love if there was a proper bridge connected to Britain and you could just hop in the car and see placed like Paris etc. for a couple of weeks and come and go as you please.

syklops · 02-06-2015 1:54pm

Well that didnt take very long to turn into a ryanair bashing thread.

Emsloe · 02-06-2015 1:55pm

aaronjumper wrote: »

Unless you book with Ryanair.....

Haven't flown with them in years since they left me stranded abroad with a cancelled flight and a gaggle of third party ground staff who couldn't help because they weren't actually employed by Ryanair. Or so they said. Best decision I've ever made.

aaronjumper · 02-06-2015 1:55pm

syklops wrote: »

Well that didnt take very long to turn into a ryanair bashing thread.

Well it would be weird to bash a company I haven't flown with wouldn't it?

syklops · 02-06-2015 1:57pm

chops018 wrote: »

Ok maybe I overestimated a bit.

But still, it's an expensive affair if you're not really into it.

I wouldn't be a huge fan of flying either (not necessarily the flying that bothers me but more so the lack of control in the air and then the build up to the flight), which does play on my mind when I'm away.

The worrying about things like wallet, cards, cash etc.

I'd love if there was a proper bridge connected to Britain and you could just hop in the car and see placed like Paris etc. for a couple of weeks and come and go as you please.

Why dont you get the ferry? You can come and go as you please.

Do you not worry about your wallet at home?

irish_goat · 02-06-2015 1:58pm

chops018 wrote: »

I'd love if there was a proper bridge connected to Britain and you could just hop in the car and see placed like Paris etc. for a couple of weeks and come and go as you please.

Paris is in France...

chops018 · 02-06-2015 2:00pm

irish_goat wrote: »

Paris is in France...

Britain is connected to France via the channel tunnel.

Any more Geography lessons?

darkpagandeath · 02-06-2015 2:01pm

irish_goat wrote: »

Paris is in France...

Would be in relation to driving the whole way.

keithclancy · 02-06-2015 2:01pm

I only get pissed off with travelling when I try to do it too cheaply.

e.g. thinking .. oh that flights much cheaper ... then I get totally annoyed with myself having to get up at 5 am to go to the airport.

nocoverart · 02-06-2015 2:03pm

There's Two seasons of a great Travel Show on Netflix called 'Departures' OP, you'll never have to travel again. Them guys have you covered from the comfort of your own house.

Son Of A Vidic · 02-06-2015 2:05pm

Done my share of travelling so I'm couldn't careless if I never did again. Backlogged airport terminals with their ott security checks, only compounds how I feel.

jimgoose · 02-06-2015 2:12pm

I did a fair bit of travelling in my hair-oil days - some business, some pleasure and some both - but for me the air-travel end of it isn't as much fun as it used to be. Too many smelly, braying proles are at it these days, and these minimum-wage oiks in uniforms who want to take my toothpaste off me and insert it in my bottom are rather tiresome. These days I much prefer the occasional jaunt to the Continong in the car or on a bike.

irish_goat · 02-06-2015 2:28pm

chops018 wrote: »

Britain is connected to France via the channel tunnel.

Any more Geography lessons?

If you're driving from Ireland to southern England and then getting a train to France why not just get the ferry from Ireland?

UpCork · 02-06-2015 3:28pm

I love seeing new places and I don't mind travelling on trains or planes, it's just the hassle of getting on these modes of transport that do my nut in.

the evasion_kid · 02-06-2015 4:09pm

UpCork wrote: »

I love seeing new places and I don't mind travelling on trains or planes, it's just the hassle of getting on these modes of transport that do my nut in.

You should try hopping on moving freight trains,quite a rush but equally as dangerous,I took an awful face plant one night when I tripped over a railway tie,plus the added buzz of trying not to be seen or caught.

Travelling - Anyone Else Not Like it?

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