Travelling

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 01-01-2017 11:52PM

I like going new places but hate the travelling part

anewme · 01-01-2017 11:53PM

One guy asked me "do you like balls"?

excuse me?

I went back and said (insert dodgy Dublin accent here) get ta fck, ya dirty bast***

Turned out he was asking me if i went to a lot of black tie balls as my photos were dressed up(obviously looking my best!).

Still laugh at that one.

westcoast66 · 02-01-2017 12:36AM

When I was in my 20s, I had quite a specialised job and ended up working in about 40 countries worldwide. The odd time I came across an Irish 'tourist' and it really was comical how disconnected they were from the reality of life in the country they were visiting. Doing planned activities and getting drunk in tourist bars were about the height of it. I wouldn't consider these people as travelled as they have no idea of the real culture of a place.

tomwaterford · 02-01-2017 12:42AM

westcoast66 wrote: »

When I was in my 20s, I had quite a specialised job and ended up working in about 40 countries worldwide. The odd time I came across an Irish 'tourist' and it really was comical how disconnected they were from the reality of life in the country they were visiting. Doing planned activities and getting drunk in tourist bars were about the height of it. I wouldn't consider these people as travelled as they have no idea of the real culture of a place.

Sure what harm if their enjoying themselves and not hassling anyone??

Dr Crayfish · 02-01-2017 12:47AM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Sure what harm if their enjoying themselves and not hassling anyone??

And providing jobs for the locals. And why is the word tourist in quotes?

neonsofa · 02-01-2017 12:49AM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Sure what harm if their enjoying themselves and not hassling anyone??

Exactly!

This is what I don't understand, why does it bother people so much that others aren't being "cultured" enough on their holidays. So what if they want to go to an Irish bar and talk to other Irish people, and then get a curry chips on the way home or whatever else it is that they're not "supposed" to do.
They are enjoying the holiday that they want and I don't see why people get so get up about it.

osarusan · 02-01-2017 12:51AM

neonsofa wrote: »

Exactly!

This is what I don't understand, why does it bother people so much that others aren't being "cultured" enough on their holidays. So what if they want to go to an Irish bar and talk to other Irish people, and then get a curry chips on the way home or whatever else it is that they're not "supposed" to do.
They are enjoying the holiday that they want and I don't see why people get so get up about it.

As long as they don't go home waffling about how they went off the beaten path and got away from the tourists to see the 'real' place.

KilOit · 02-01-2017 12:52AM

westcoast66 wrote: »

When I was in my 20s, I had quite a specialised job and ended up working in about 40 countries worldwide. The odd time I came across an Irish 'tourist' and it really was comical how disconnected they were from the reality of life in the country they were visiting. Doing planned activities and getting drunk in tourist bars were about the height of it. I wouldn't consider these people as travelled as they have no idea of the real culture of a place.

Hate the travellers that work and do the whole volunteer thing. They volunteer to stay in a hostel and line the pockets of the owner. They act like they've seen it all yet they spend no money, do no activities and barely leave the confines of their hostel WiFi
The word volunteer shouldn't be used when helping no one but yourself and some lazy hostel owner who's taking advantage of lay abouts instead of hiring from the local community

neonsofa · 02-01-2017 12:52AM

osarusan wrote: »

As long as they don't go home waffling about how they went off the beaten path and got away from the tourists to see the 'real' place.

Tbh regardless of whether the person genuinely did or didn't do that I'd think they're a tool if they came home and waffled on like that.

sashafierce · 02-01-2017 07:47AM

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02-01-2017 09:19AM

I don't even know why I open threads like these.. Such hatred towards people for no reason.

If you get upset that someone lists "travelling" as a passion, you're just a miserable person.
If you can't accept that people define "travelling" as different to a holiday, you're just ignoring the differences for why people do that.
If you hold it against someone for trying to have a "real experience", then you're an idiot.

I don't go "travelling" anymore but when I go on holidays, I still take that approach. A start date, no return flight because I don't know where I'll be, and a plan that will work itself out along the way.
According to this thread, I'm a prick for doing that during my two/three week holidays and how dare I talk about what I went.. I'd have to be a self-centered ăsshole to make conversation about things I've done instead of things Ronaldo has done.

RobertKK · 02-01-2017 12:04PM

If you go on holidays but travel around as in you go on a tour whether self organised or part of a larger group, surely one has gone travelling on holidays?

btw I had to send a person a photo of myself, I usually avoid photos, but the most recent photo was one of me on top of a mountain and it was the only photo that I found tolerable of myself as I really dislike being in photos and video...I have none online, but I don't care if others do, it is nice seeing where they have been and where they have travelled to.
I try and keep it quiet now, after I told a neighbour and when I came back from holidays, everyone I met who knew me seemed to know and that included people miles away.
I think some people get too worked up or too interested in what others are doing.
If they like travelling or going on holidays, good for them, it is doing other people no harm.

sashafierce · 02-01-2017 12:27PM

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Agricola · 02-01-2017 12:37PM

RobertKK wrote: »

If you go on holidays but travel around as in you go on a tour whether self organised or part of a larger group, surely one has gone travelling on holidays?

Definitely. That's the distinction I'd make. If you go to lay on a beach for a fortnight and never leave the resort, that isn't travelling that's a sun holiday.

A few years back I did a week in Turkey, usual tourist traps visited in Istanbul, then got a train down to Izmir for a look at Ephesus and Pamukkale.

I wasn't backpacking, or slumming it in hostels. We stayed in cheap hotels and had chips on more than one occasion! It was definitely low on the "authentic experiences" count. But it was still travelling.
Compare that to a relative of mine who has been to Kusadasi several years on the trot and didn't actually know the wealth of interesting things to see a few short miles from where she was staying. Seems insane to me, but to each their own.

893bet · 02-01-2017 12:52PM

People talking about getting cultured while travelling are usually those who have never bothered visiting their local free cultural attractions.

Grayson · 02-01-2017 12:57PM

Agricola wrote: »

Definitely. That's the distinction I'd make. If you go to lay on a beach for a fortnight and never leave the resort, that isn't travelling that's a sun holiday.

A few years back I did a week in Turkey, usual tourist traps visited in Istanbul, then got a train down to Izmir for a look at Ephesus and Pamukkale.

I wasn't backpacking, or slumming it in hostels. We stayed in cheap hotels and had chips on more than one occasion! It was definitely low on the "authentic experiences" count. But it was still travelling.
Compare that to a relative of mine who has been to Kusadasi several years on the trot and didn't actually know the wealth of interesting things to see a few short miles from where she was staying. Seems insane to me, but to each their own.

That's what I was thinking. I know someone who goes to the same resort in the canaries every year. They're definitely a tourist. Fair enough they like the comfort of going back to the same place every year but it's not like there's a new experience. It's just relaxing somewhere sunny and like I said, some people enjoy that.

On the other side of things I backpacked through south america. There's plenty of hostels and stuff in most places. However there's a chain of them called Loki's that's in Cuzco, La Paz and (I think) Lima. I went to visit a friend in one. They all have bars in them. People travel from one to the other and hardly leave them. They just go on an extended pissup. Sure it's fun but it's at the low end of a cultural experience.

I went to SE Asia last year and found the whole area is almost exactly like that. In South America it wasn't hard to travel but it wasn't easy either. In SE Asia it's one big party line. In the biggest cities in South America (with the exception of Cuzco) there's plenty of hostels etc scattered around the place. In Bangkok it's an area bigger than templebar that's dominated by them. People travel from one backpacking centre to another and the entire experience is slightly more cultural than a pissup in Magaluf.

It's possible to travel thousands of miles, visit 20 locations and be on nothing more than an extended pub crawl.

CelticRambler · 02-01-2017 01:03PM

Interests: travelling

Looking for: men ... near me.

:rolleyes:

Rumpy Pumpy · 02-01-2017 01:08PM

Travelling is great. It's a great way to spend your time and money and it's an interest that people can be passionate about. I'd be more likely to contact someone on a dating site if they expressed an interest in it.

It's certainly more interesting than never ending online cynicism. Which isn't interesting or endearing at all.

Dr Crayfish · 02-01-2017 01:12PM

Grayson wrote: »

That's what I was thinking. I know someone who goes to the same resort in the canaries every year. They're definitely a tourist. Fair enough they like the comfort of going back to the same place every year but it's not like there's a new experience. It's just relaxing somewhere sunny and like I said, some people enjoy that.

On the other side of things I backpacked through south america. There's plenty of hostels and stuff in most places. However there's a chain of them called Loki's that's in Cuzco, La Paz and (I think) Lima. I went to visit a friend in one. They all have bars in them. People travel from one to the other and hardly leave them. They just go on an extended pissup. Sure it's fun but it's at the low end of a cultural experience.

I went to SE Asia last year and found the whole area is almost exactly like that. In South America it wasn't hard to travel but it wasn't easy either. In SE Asia it's one big party line. In the biggest cities in South America (with the exception of Cuzco) there's plenty of hostels etc scattered around the place. In Bangkok it's an area bigger than templebar that's dominated by them. People travel from one backpacking centre to another and the entire experience is slightly more cultural than a pissup in Magaluf.

It's possible to travel thousands of miles, visit 20 locations and be on nothing more than an extended pub crawl.

You were on holiday in cheap hotels off the beaten track. It doesn't make you any more interesting than people in resorts. Next time I see a tourist outside a B and B I'm Blancharstown I might go over and pat him on the back for not being in Temple Bar.

duffman13 · 02-01-2017 01:13PM

893bet wrote: »

People talking about getting cultured while travelling are usually those who have never bothered visiting their local free cultural attractions.

Your spot on, it can take a long time for people to realise what's on there own doorstep and id include myself in that.

Travelling can be a year around the world or a weekend in a city, it depends on what you want from it. Id agree with others that going to Spain for 2 weeks and never leaving the resort is not travelling but a sun holiday. If you go away for a weekend/week/month/year and actually explore a city or a country in more detail than a beach or a bar then your travelling. I find it hard to see the enjoyment of sitting in the same Bar for two weeks of a holiday but each to there own and some people love it.

duffman13 · 02-01-2017 01:17PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

You were on holiday in cheap hotels off the beaten track. It doesn't make you any more interesting than people in resorts. Next time I see a tourist outside a B and B I'm Blancharstown I might go over and pat him on the back for not being in Temple Bar.

I don't know where he said he was anymore interesting than people who stayed in resorts. What I would say is he has probably seen far more interesting things and places than the same person sat in a resort.

No one is wrong in how they decide to spend there free time so I wouldn't judge either one.

Graces7 · 02-01-2017 01:59PM

RobertKK wrote: »

If you go on holidays but travel around as in you go on a tour whether self organised or part of a larger group, surely one has gone travelling on holidays?

btw I had to send a person a photo of myself, I usually avoid photos, but the most recent photo was one of me on top of a mountain and it was the only photo that I found tolerable of myself as I really dislike being in photos and video...I have none online, but I don't care if others do, it is nice seeing where they have been and where they have travelled to.
I try and keep it quiet now, after I told a neighbour and when I came back from holidays, everyone I met who knew me seemed to know and that included people miles away.
I think some people get too worked up or too interested in what others are doing.
If they like travelling or going on holidays, good for them, it is doing other people no harm.

I am not up to taking holidays .

And am content with my "bedside travelling" on youtube There are some wonderful programmes. Watched one on strange towers in Nepal.

As you say if you enjoy it, great.. And let us face it here in Ireland. If folk did not travel to us...the country would fold .

For me Ireland is enough..I see such beauty every time I even go shopping and soon a whole new county to explore

Dr Crayfish · 02-01-2017 02:11PM

The world would probably be better off if we "travelled" less and stopped wrecking untouched areas with development.

MarkY91 · 02-01-2017 08:35PM

Someone going to Magaluf every year isn't travelling.

Someone going to places like Thailand and going from place to place possibly country to country is travelling.

So what if someone wants to show their family and friends on social media how good a time they had travelling? They obviously saved all year to do that as opposed to a package deal to santa ponsa eating McDonald's.

I'm going travelling this year. I'm finally done with package deals to Ayia napa, Magaluf etc.

lisasimpson · 02-01-2017 10:03PM

Next time you come across a traveller ask to see their travel map on trip advisor.
I would consider myself a traveller but am guilty of by passing experiences on my doorstep

Dr Crayfish · 02-01-2017 10:19PM

lisasimpson wrote: »

I would consider myself a traveller

Keep that to yourself when you're booking christenings etc

Pac1Man · 02-01-2017 10:23PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Keep that to yourself when you're booking christenings etc

It's Lisa Simpson. If she can bang out the Careless Whisper solo on that sax, she's welcome to bring the whole family, along with their long list of enemies.

lisasimpson · 02-01-2017 10:30PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Keep that to yourself when you're booking christenings etc

Lol must change that to a well travelled person

FizzleSticks · 02-01-2017 10:48PM

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Dr Crayfish · 02-01-2017 10:52PM

When it comes to "getting cultured" I just smear myself in yoghurt

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