Holidays into the unknown ;)

If I decide where we are going, it’s because I have googled and/or been recommended, or it’s on my bucket list.

It is fun to go somewhere, somebody else has done the research on. As long as I know what to pack, I treat it as an adventure…

I absolutely love planning the travel! I can spend hours on Google maps checking out the area around where we will stay, looking at restaurants, museums and other attractions.

It amazes me a bit to hear about people like Grammaretto wrote about. I think those are the type of people that complain they can't understand the money, or that they can't get 'decent' food like at home.

By the way, If It's Tuesday, This Must be Belgium was a 1969 comedy based on a tour guide taking a group of Americans on a guided European tour. I think it's quite amusing, if I remember correctly.

Grammaretto

Goodness me! I am surprised. I love maps and I love planning where I am going. I love to research the places, find out about the language, culture and history.
It really makes for a much richer experience. To just land somewhere which could be anywhere is a waste in my opinion.

I'm the same. I like to plan everything down to the last detail and I do a lot of research before I book anything.

Grammaretto

Goodness me! I am surprised. I love maps and I love planning where I am going. I love to research the places, find out about the language, culture and history.
It really makes for a much richer experience. To just land somewhere which could be anywhere is a waste in my opinion.

Absolutely agree with this. What’s the point of going anywhere if you don’t know anything about it.

Completely agree Grammaretto. I always do a lot of research of the local area and beyond, transport links etc before even booking. Whereas DH usually asks the day before where we're off to.

When I was a teenager I worked with middle aged woman who told me she was going on holiday, and named the place.
I’d never heard of it, and asked her where it was.
She replied
“ I don’t know, but it takes 4 hours to get there”
She didn’t have the foggiest idea where she was going 😵‍💫

We used to travel using "The Rough Guide to" books as reference.

Goodness me! I am surprised. I love maps and I love planning where I am going. I love to research the places, find out about the language, culture and history.
It really makes for a much richer experience. To just land somewhere which could be anywhere is a waste in my opinion.

Well yes, if you're going online to google transport or nearbuy restaurants (maybe others don't do this?) I would think you could do a quick Google maps search on whereabouts you are - you could be 10 miles from the Alhambra or Florence etc & not visit because you were in ignorance - but it depends what you want form a holiday, & also I guess, she may be travelling with others who are very clued up about the region.

I have a relative who is guity as charged as well.
She says, "well the pilot knows where he is going, so that is good enough for me".

Guilty as charged.

I am going away with youngest son and family winter of 2027, no idea where other than it’s near the arctic circle (could be within it) and going to be cold.