Travelling

Shrobbs

I've heard it said from numerous people that if you want to go travelling then you need to do it after college before you settle down. I don't see why you need to go travelling then, you could go travelling after the kids have left the nest later in life. Plus you would probably be more financially equipt to see more places.

pickarooney

exactly. why do something tomorrow when you can just do it in thirty years time instead?

Oryx

I only looked to see what tracelling was.

When your kids grow up they will sponge off you till they are 30, and/or have kids themselves and pawn them off on you. Go now.

SV

What's the point in that? Go when young and full of life..nah wait till you're old instead cos you might be more financially stable. Silly

whatdoicare

Its gonna look very weird to be in a back packers with a load of twenty year olds when you're in your fifties!

Balmed Out

I like a bit of travelling but cant stand those self righteous ejits who think that they have through travelling evolved into some sort of super human who is superior in all ways to those who have not.

Sunnyisland

After hours don't like travellers...

Merkin

Balmed Out wrote: »

I like a bit of travelling but cant stand those self righteous ejits who think that they have through travelling evolved into some sort of super human who is superior in all ways to those who have not.

The ones who congregate to the one part of Sydney and only ever mix with other Irish people? They're insufferable.

Shrobbs

pickarooney wrote: »

exactly. why do something tomorrow when you can just do it in thirty years time instead?

Or you could be changing nappies at 40 instead having that all well behind you. There are positives and negatives to both, but too many people think you can only go travelling when young.

Shrobbs

whatdoicare wrote: »

Its gonna look very weird to be in a back packers with a load of twenty year olds when you're in your fifties!

Who says you have to back pack with 20 year olds, travel with your husband or wife, like many do.

Cienciano

The best option is to not have kids and travel whenever the hell you want.

hardCopy

If you travel now and spend the next thirty years saving, then you could maybe travel twice.

longshanks

There aren't really any age restrictions. Just travel when you want. You'll appreciate different things at different ages.
Just don't come home wearing beads and talking spirituality shite, 'cos I'll hunt you down and kill you.

Frank Black

Shrobbs wrote: »

I don't see why you need to go travelling then, you could go travelling after the kids have left the nest later in life.

Or, you know, do both.

Kidchameleon

Wait till your kids are in late teens and travel with them

Meangadh

As someone who's only done a little travelling, I'm sorry I didn't do more when I finished college. Between money, less people to travel with (married, babies, work etc), my own work responsibilities, paying a mortgage and all that jazz- I can't see a time when I will be able to afford a big holiday for a very long time (I mean like 20 years!) and I can't imagine being as energetic about traipsing around with a backpack in random places when I'm in my fifties.

Go when you're young and you've no responsibilities. Besides, you'd never know what the hell life could throw at you so you could be sorry that you put off seeing the world.

Shrobbs

Meangadh wrote: »

As someone who's only done a little travelling, I'm sorry I didn't do more when I finished college. Between money, less people to travel with (married, babies, work etc), my own work responsibilities, paying a mortgage and all that jazz- I can't see a time when I will be able to afford a big holiday for a very long time (I mean like 20 years!) and I can't imagine being as energetic about traipsing around with a backpack in random places when I'm in my fifties.

Go when you're young and you've no responsibilities. Besides, you'd never know what the hell life could throw at you so you could be sorry that you put off seeing the world.

You don't have to traipse around with a backpack.

In the last 5 years my aunt and uncle in their late fifties, have been to Alaska, Australia, Egypt, Morocco, several places in America and Canada and a couple others I can't remember.

In the last year my mother has been on two cruises getting to see a dozen or so cites around Europe and Africa.

SV

Shrobbs wrote: »

You don't have to traipse around with a backpack.

In the last 5 years my aunt and uncle in their late fifties, have been to Alaska, Australia, Egypt, Morocco, several places in America and Canada and a couple others I can't remember.

In the last year my mother has been on two cruises getting to see a dozen or so cites around Europe and Africa.

And you can probably bet that they wish they had done it years ago.

gramar

Shrobbs wrote: »

Who says you have to back pack with 20 year olds, travel with your husband or wife, like many do.

...and if he or she is 20 then all the better!

o1s1n

SV wrote: »

And you can probably bet that they wish they had done it years ago.

My parents have been doing the exact same thing via cruises for the last few years and they couldn't be happier. I really don't see where age comes into it.

Shrobbs

SV wrote: »

And you can probably bet that they wish they had done it years ago.

Well then they wouldn't have been able to retire early and be still young enough to see their grand children grow up.

SV

o1s1n wrote: »

My parents have been doing the exact same thing via cruises for the last few years and they couldn't be happier. I really don't see where age comes into it.

Probably something to do with experiencing life before it's nearly spent.

SV

Shrobbs wrote: »

Well then they wouldn't have been able to retire early and be still young enough to see their grand children grow up.

Well that's an entirely different argument

Shrobbs

SV wrote: »

Probably something to do with experiencing life before it's nearly spent.

What difference does it make if your life is "nearly spent". So you are older, so what, you are alive now and able to enjoy the world right now.

Amirani

Why wait til after college? I visited 25 countries across 4 continents before leaving college. Fair better way to spend money than getting hammered in Coppers 3 nights a week.

Shrobbs

SV wrote: »

Well that's an entirely different argument

All I'm saying is there advantages and disadvantages to both alternatives and saying everyone should travel when they are young isn't necessarily true.

o1s1n

SV wrote: »

Probably something to do with experiencing life before it's nearly spent.

My parents are in their late 40s. If their life is 'nearly spent' then we must have reverted to a life expectancy from the middle ages.

SV

o1s1n wrote: »

My parents are in their late 40s. If their life is 'nearly spent' then we must have reverted to a life expectancy from the middle ages.

If they're in their late 40s and have the freedom to travel then they're extremely lucky and in the minority.

SV

Shrobbs wrote: »

All I'm saying is there advantages and disadvantages to both alternatives and saying everyone should travel when they are young isn't necessarily true.

No but for the majority of people it is true and makes far more sense than risking it on a whim that you'll be able to when you're older

o1s1n

SV wrote: »

If they're in their late 40s and have the freedom to travel then they're extremely lucky and in the minority.

Did I say they weren't?

You stated that people who travel when they're older would 'probably have wished they'd done it years ago' - I was addressing that, not whether they were lucky or not.

SV

o1s1n wrote: »

Did I say they weren't?

You stated that people who travel when they're older would 'probably have wished they'd done it years ago' - I was addressing that, not whether they were lucky or not.

Oh for gods sake. Yeah, good man.

o1s1n

SV wrote: »

Oh for gods sake. Yeah, good man.

Hah! My apologies for trying to counter your point, I thought this was a discussion forum - must have been wrong so.

I just really dislike assumptions. You're assuming that everyone who travels when they're older wish they'd done it when they were younger. When this is obviously not the case in many instances.

I didn't do the whole backpacking straight out of college thing myself, but I do make a point of traveling as much as I can and don't have any regrets to not doing it when I was younger.

SV

o1s1n wrote: »

Hah! My apologies for trying to counter your point, I thought this was a discussion forum - must have been wrong so.

I just really dislike assumptions. You're assuming that everyone who travels when they're older wish they'd done it when they were younger. When this is obviously not the case in many instances.

I didn't do the whole backpacking straight out of college thing myself, but I do make a point of traveling as much as I can and don't have any regrets to not doing it when I was younger.

Hence the word probably and not the word definitely.

Daveysil15

Why does it have to be one or the other? You could live at home with the folks and save enough money to do lots of travelling during your 20's and 30's.

thesimpsons

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Why does it have to be one or the other? You could live at home with the folks and save enough money to do lots of travelling during your 20's and 30's.

not if your parents have sold the house and are off travelling you can't :P

Mint Aero

Why do people want to backpack and stay in hostels so much I much prefer a nice hotel and weekend breaks.

SV

Mint Aero wrote: »

Why do people want to backpack and stay in hostels so much I much prefer a nice hotel and weekend breaks.

Cos it's cheaper and you get to see more?
for the price of a hotel and a weekend break you could last 2 weeks backpacking.

tobsey

My daughter was born when me and the mrs were 20 so that threw any plans of traveling after college out the window. We're now 28 and are expecting our third (and hopefully last! ) child next year. We hope to get them through college and then get an awful lot of stamps in our passports in our 50s, hopefully more comfortably than we would have managed it a few years ago.

Duck's hoop

Why or indeed when, did going on holidays become 'going travelling'.

'I'm taking a year out to go travelling'.

You're going on holidays for a year, say it straight.

SV

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Why or indeed when, did going on holidays become 'going travelling'.

'I'm taking a year out to go travelling'.

You're going on holidays for a year, say it straight.

A holiday is spent in one place.
Travelling is going to different places.

People who go to Oz for a year are on a working holiday.

El Horseboxo

Without boasting I fúcked my way around the world for 2 years. Women from every race and a multitude of countries. Something I'd never experience if I'd wait till the kids are grown up. Getting travelling out of the way when young and single is a great prelude to settling down.

Shrobbs

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Without boasting I fúcked my way around the world for 2 years. Women from every race and a multitude of countries. Something I'd never experience if I'd wait till the kids are grown up. Getting travelling out of the way when young and single is a great prelude to settling down.

Well if your argument is that you should fukc lots of people when you're younger then I'd agree, but this is about travelling.

Duck's hoop

SV wrote: »

A holiday is spent in one place.
Travelling is going to different places.

People who go to Oz for a year are on a working holiday.

Thanks for sorting that out for me. But just for further clarification, by 'place' do you mean town, region, country or continent?

Does travel within the same country elevate a mundane holiday to the cooler 'travelling' status?


Then there's the unavoidable fact that you need to travel to get anywhere. And back.

I think 'travelling' is done by wooden bangle and bead wearing, flip flopping, cool people with backpacks.

Others go on holidays.

SV

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Thanks for sorting that out for me. But just for further clarification, by 'place' do you mean town, region, country or continent?

Does travel within the same country elevate a mundane holiday to the cooler 'travelling' status?


Then there's the unavoidable fact that you need to travel to get anywhere. And back.

I think 'travelling' is done by wooden bangle and bead wearing, flip flopping, cool people with backpacks.

Others go on holidays.

It means different countries or different regions of the same country where the culture is vastly different.
Don't make such sap posts.

Andrewf20

Travel young if you can - disposable income and decent health are no guarantees in your 50s. Also motivation is a big thing, it may be here today but not in 30 years.

MadsL

There's a big difference between backpacking and staying in hostels and actually living and working in different countries. Living and working in a country gives you far better exposure to its culture. Living and working also means you don't have to stop 'travelling'. I'm on my fourth country now, it will not be the last.

FizzleSticks

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shane9689

tobsey wrote: »

My daughter was born when me and the mrs were 20 so that threw any plans of traveling after college out the window. We're now 28 and are expecting our third (and hopefully last! ) child next year. We hope to get them through college and then get an awful lot of stamps in our passports in our 50s, hopefully more comfortably than we would have managed it a few years ago.

you called always do what the wild thornberries did and drag the kids along...god i miss that show...

Duck's hoop

SV wrote: »

It means different countries or different regions of the same country where the culture is vastly different.
Don't make such sap posts.

Good man. I can tell by your stupendous air of superiority you yourself are a well travelled individual. Well played.

R019912

The problem with travel is that it's very addictive. I just spent 6 weeks solo in South East Asia, and now I just want to get the hell out of Ireland as soon as possible. I'm a recent graduate but I don't even wanna use my degree. Would rather go teach for a year or two in South Korea and see what happens from there.

Mint Aero

SV wrote: »

Cos it's cheaper and you get to see more?
for the price of a hotel and a weekend break you could last 2 weeks backpacking.

Ah yeah if money is the issue and you want to be there for 2 weeks. Personally I think 2 nights is long enough in any one spot. Then head home for the tae