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I travel for different reasons, to different places.
Beach "fly and flop" holidays, for relaxation.
City Breaks to discover new towns and cities.
Long haul to explore really different countries and cultures.

To experience different cultures and people, my holiday to New Zealand was the most amazing trip I have ever been on.

I travel to go back to places where childhood memories were made, or a place where it's a special memory for my husband and I.

I love to cruise, this gives me the chance to wake up in a different country everyday, which means I can experience different cultures and cuisines, I think I have earned these treats and really look forward to them.

I really don't enjoy the journey get quite travel sick, even in my greater years, but I do get pleasure form the destination. My last trip was to see where my great-great grandfather was born in the hills of Tuscany, it was very moving to feel you where stepping in your ancestors footsteps

I used to travel for adventure and tourism but now just travel to visit grandchildren

I love to meet different peoples and their culture.

I Travel for different reasons, sometimes just to get some warm sunshine after a few months of the Highland winter, other times to experience a different culture or city atmosphere.

I travel with my belly dance group in order to experience good company, another culture and have a chance to speak another language. I return home refreshed and invigorated with some lovely photos as memories.

To see other parts of the World and cultures as well as to relax and spend time with my family.

I travel to get to where I want to go.. No other reason

I love to travel to explore different places and to spend quality time with my family

For many years as our children grew we could only afford camping holidays in Wales, but we have some wonderful happy family memories of those holidays. Today both our children are married to people from other countries, we are fortunate to be able to visit them in their homes and experience life in a way you would not see on holiday. To date we have spent time in Spain, UAE, Canada and the latest the beautiful area of New England, staying in Conneticut, USA.

I have not travelled for a long time due to illness but now my
granddaughter has her first passport I cannot wait to show her the world

I love to find the unexpected! That pretty much sums it up. I often aim for something but then it always seems to be the thing/place I chance upon, stumble across , see when en route . I love the surprise of it and a kind of enchantment.

When I was younger, we never went far, up the coast, so when I was older and could save I wanted to go to places that the culture was really different. We went to The Gambia, and we took pencils and rulers and things for the school, we also had a boat ride out to a tiny village, I have not got the photos to hand now, but Everyone had to pay to go in this village, the village head sat in a chair, and you had to put this money in her hand think it was about £10 each, and the shock horror when I went into one of the homes, and in grandmas room was a bed with palm leaves for a mattress, a few leaves on the floor, for a carpetand all her possesions a sewing machine, no cupboards or wardrobes for clothes nothing, then I went to the kitchen, a little fire in the middle of the floor with a couple of chickens running round, a woman was washing rice in a bowl of filthy water, her hands were so dirty, so I looked for a cooker or oven, plates, there was nothing. The shower was makeshift and there was no towels on the line drying,but a yellow old oil container with another part that they filled with cold water to wash your hair with No soap and when I showed friends, of pictures they all said, the same thing about the shock horror on my face. on the line drying, there were clothes on the washing lines but not very clean. No electric in the village at all, and then I thought where does all that money go trips every day from holiday makes for 2 weeks, then another place was chosen to visit for 2 weeks.. It was the same with the school, many people took pencils crayons and things to the school and again money donations were asked for as you went in, but still the children had no pencils and crayons Where did it all go . When I returned home, it was still troubling me, so I did some collections from my friends and family bought, pencils, sharpeners, rulers, crayons, balloons, and sent them every week for 6 weeks, and I thought I have done my bit. It was very similar in Marracheh we were took round the old side, no sanitation, no money or food, it was awful then the holiday side which is booming with holiday makers, you try and take a photo in the square, you have the men coming up to you telling you that you had to pay to take a photo. This is why I like to visit the different places to see how the half live, we are so well off in this country compared to other countries.

I like to experience different cultures and also to see beautiful places here and abroad.. Don’t like flying much so usually sail from U.K. these days and take family when I can.

there is so much history in this country that I have only read about so I go to places like Rievaulx Abbey to see and experience for myself

I've never been abroad as yet, which people always seem to find strange. I am too busy exploring this country first!.

I love to see places I haven’t been to before and try local food. I also have friends and family who live all over the world so I like to visit them too. I have recently been to Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand!

I like to see different places, experience local food cooked by locals and attempt to speak their language.

We have attempted new recipes after visiting different places and tried to recreate the food at home from time to time. So it enriches our otherwise normal lives and diets too.

I love travelling to new countries to experience the culture, see new sights and taste new things.

I am not a traveller but will travel to see family. I don't like flying so prefer to drive. As it will take me 24 hours to recover from a journey I would never go on a package holiday.

To see how others live, see their country and eat their own food. As long as we are fit and able, we will travel, maybe not too far and maybe not for too long each time.

Because there so much more to this planet than the small area which I spend 99.9999% of my time in, and I want to appreciate the world beauty and wonderment