What do you do on your Holidays/Vacation?

After our daughter goes back home , and work, we'l pack the campervan and head off for some trips round Scotland and N.England. We had planned a trip to Porto and the Duoro valley, but it's not the easiest place to get to from Scotland.

I'm starting to think about where to go in December for the Christmas markets. Hamburg is most likely, but much too early to make firm plans.
 

After a childhood as an Army brat, relocating every three years between the US and Europe, and travelling during my own career, I am sort of puckered out from traveling. I used to enjoy the occasional road trip to Santa Fe, but now driving really hurts my back.

So, I'll sit on my patio, in a nice anti-gravity chair under the ceiling fan, sip a beverage and listen to music. Sort of a staycation!
 

Bretrick said:
Do you laze around the pool?
Catch up on the latest blockbusters?
Try something you never done before?
Visit everywhere that is possible whilst there?
I go camping for a week, sometimes ten days in the wilderness where there are no people.
Rarely, I might go across country to a big city and live the high life for one or two weeks.
Though that option is expensive and does not really offer value for money.
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What we DO depends upon where we GO.

We have found that we love to be around water of any sort!
 
It all depends on where I go. I am not much of a scenic traveler. I have traveled extensively with my job so I have seen a lot. I like golfing, so if I can get to include that into any vacations that’s always a reason why I should go. When my wife was alive, she loved going out on the water. We owned a 37 foot Sundancer and kept it in St. Petersburg, Florida. We would spend most of the day and an overnight onboard. Only once did we stay out for 2 nights.
 
DH & I have an RV that we use several times a year for traveling within a few hundred miles of home, sometimes farther. We often go to beaches and walk the shoreline for hours to commune with the ocean.

I've done some overseas traveling, but 10 plus hours on a plane has become so punishing that I have no burning desire to revisit the experience. Our future travel will likely be limited to this continent, including Canada, the Caribbean and Hawaii. Perhaps a cross country train trip. Trains are wonderfully relaxing if you can pop the extra $ for a sleeper car.
 
We cruise often. It doesn't even matter that it's the same itinerary, we just enjoy it. We love being on the beach.
My hubby has difficulty walking now but a few years back, we would find random waterfalls in parks and hike to it.
 
Pixelfun said:
We cruise often. It doesn't even matter that it's the same itinerary, we just enjoy it. We love being on the beach.
My hubby has difficulty walking now but a few years back, we would find random waterfalls in parks and hike to it.
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I love cruising but I seem to have a tendency to easily catch Covid (had it twice in 2024), and have known so many people who've gotten Covid on cruises, including recently, so DH & I are shying away from them. :cry:

Glad you're able to enjoy cruising. Like you, the ports are less important to me than being on the ocean and sitting on the shore watching the waves come in.
 

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