Travelling

o1s1n · 23-12-2013 11:29AM

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 · 23-12-2013 11:33AM

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 · 24-12-2013 01:49PM

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 · 24-12-2013 01:54PM

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 · 24-12-2013 01:54PM

Why do people want to backpack and stay in hostels so much

I much prefer a nice hotel and weekend breaks.

SV · 24-12-2013 01:56PM

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 · 24-12-2013 01:58PM

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 · 24-12-2013 02:13PM

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 · 24-12-2013 02:45PM

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 · 24-12-2013 02:55PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:19PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:19PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:21PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:31PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:37PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:43PM

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shane9689 · 24-12-2013 03:45PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:54PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:54PM

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 · 24-12-2013 03:56PM

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

Daveysil15 · 24-12-2013 05:40PM

R019912 wrote: »

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.

I usually feel that way as soon as I get home and that's when I actually start planning my next holiday. Eventually I just get back into the same routine though and don't think about travelling much then.

Laranian · 02-04-2015 11:47AM

Shrobbs! I personally love to travel. It's like my passion to explore new and amazing kind of stuff. It just always amazed me whenever I travel to some of my favorite places. I can never live without travelling, as never wanted to be like that.

whisky_galore · 02-04-2015 11:52AM

Mint Aero wrote: »

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

Better craic, meeting new people, parties etc.
One thing I don't get it is couples that do hostels and just remain lovely-dovey and surgically attached to each other the whole time...smacks of the guy being too cheap to use a hotel room. Even worse are the idiots 'getting it on' in dorm rooms. :rolleyes:

dont bother · 02-04-2015 11:55AM

Diego Simeone wrote: »

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.

at last - have i found another reasonable human in this country?!

good on ye - the perfect way to spend your time and money. NOT getting hammered in barn dance kips every weekend..

i've been travelling all my life too - go abroad at least 4 or 5 times a year, far flung places, as well as europe. i'd never waste my time in ireland.

people who dont have an interest in travel are very weird

token101 · 02-04-2015 12:25PM

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.

Bugs the **** of me. I loved when I did a bit travelling. It's cool to see historical places & interesting things but this idea that it automatically "broadens the mind" is so overplayed that it's become ****ing nonsensical. It's as though spending a month going to full moon parties in Thailand somehow makes you a more rounded and educated human being.

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