Pictures in this post are from Mallorca where we just went last month.
My family took me all over the Europe when I was a kid and we did one long distance trip to the US too and I loved every moment. When I was a teenager we started to go to beach vacations only with my mum, which was also lovely, we would just lay in the beach all day. I especially love Thailand. When I started to have jobs and my own money, I started to travel with my friends and sometimes even alone in: USA, Japan, all over Europe. I would sleep at hostels and meet new cool friends who would go out to party with us. I can not lie that is the coolest thing from my youth! I have tried hitchhiking and couchsurfing too which were awesome experiences.
Then I got a boyfriend, so naturally I started to travel with him. But we are older now so we only sleep at hotels and don't meet anyone new while travelling. So basically you would think that having your own room and privacy would make travelling a lot nicer! Yes, it is a lot more comfy, but the experience it self is boring, especially now that I do not want to lay in the sun all day and make my skin old af in exchange for 2 weeks tan. So basically beach vacations are pointless now, yes I love to swim in warm water, but that's it.
City vacations are even worse. Walk walk walk walk walk walk walk! Look at a landmark for 2 minutes, take a picture of it, which you already knew how it looks like. Tourists everywhere. What else can we do? Oh, shopping? But I hate spending money and I don't need new stuff. I buy new stuff only when my old stuff is broken. Restaurants are nice, but pricey.
Conclusion: if you wanna have fun when you travel, go to hostels and socialize. The cheaper you travel the more fun you will have! Party with new people. Go hike in the countryside and rural areas to avoid all the typical tourist spots and see different kind of nature. But sometimes this is easier said than done! The most fun I had was when I went alone and was forced to socialize.
But the worst part is the actual travelling and planning it. I don't live near any airport so I have to plan everything very precisely and check that every transport vehicle matches each other and is also affordable. Waiting for the train or bus which takes you to the airport. Then going to the airport and dragging your big bag around. And so on, you know how it works. It's of course easier if you live in the same city as the airport. And if your destination is also in the same city as it's airport.
I am an expat, so I need to go to my homecountry a few times a year. I used to be super excited everytime I'm going there, because hey it's my homecountry! And everyone speaks my language, the amazing nature, all my friends and family are there and I love the crazy wide selection of grocery store products. But I am going there next week and I am not excited at all. It's such a hassle to get there and am I gonna enjoy my stay to the fullest to go through all that trouble? Recent visits haven't been so fulfilling to be honest. I have also noticed that most of my friends have moved on with their lives and don't care if they don't see me during my visits. But thats a whole other issue I could write a whole post about.
Here is my whole trip plan:
Take a bus from home to the train station. Take 2 different trains towards Copenhagen, then change to a bus until I'm finally at CPH airport. It takes 3.5 hours because they have some road work during the summer. But hey tickets cost only 99kr. I am extremely nervous that one of those trains is late, because danish trains are VERY often late. That means I can miss my flight. Well then there's the 1,5h flight to Helsinki. One way ticket cost only 25eur! I was very lucky with the prices, but you have to understand that I have been searching for those tickets for many weeks until I found cheap ones. When I'm in Helsinki in the evening my friend will pick me up. I sleep at her place and spend the next day with her. The day after that I take a 5h bus ride to east Finland with onnibus, which cost only 6eur. Yes another extremely cheap ticket, because I happened to buy it when they had some discount thing going on. I spend a week in Joensuu with my parents and possibly my bro. I love the nature in there so much, this is what I'm looking forward to the most, I just hope there's nice weather. Then I take a bus back to Helsinki (6e) and sleep at my friend's place again. The next day is Weekend Festival yaas! We were there last year too and it was the best day of the year. The day after that I have a flight back to Denmark and the same shit with trains and buses (same prices too).
Why can't anyone invent a teleport?!?!?
Bye.
