Paris, Venice, Disneyland are not enjoyable destinations anymore. They’re packed with people blocking the way to take a stupid picture for social media. It’s so narcissistic, you’re not there to admire the art in museums or the architecture but to take a picture of yourself next to it
The worst part? That other non mainstream locations are also getting packed with people every year because of these people sharing it on social media. Slovenia, a country that’s supposed to have modest tourism is now full of people that are making the bus services crash because they’re not prepared for this amount of tourists
You’d think the heat waves in Europe would hinder tourism but for some reason there’s still even more people coming every year. I swear that if I hear another German tourist speak with that goofly deep voice of theirs I’m going to crash out.
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You’re not stuck in traffic. You are traffic.
My uncle was caught trafficking.
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I was gonna jump in here to defend halloween but then I realized you mean the European definition of “holiday” as vacation and not a…what do you even call yearly occasions like christmas and halloween and may day and such, if not “holidays”?
Omg I wasn’t aware that Americans say it differently. I would call those “festivities”
It’s funny how it changes at different times in your life. We have an all-inclusive holiday with my wife, sprogs and extended family booked in Lanzarote this October.
Exactly the kind of thing I’d have thought of as a living hell when I was a young man, backpacking solo through SE Asia.
But honestly I’m looking forward to it having done my first package holiday a few years back. Decent and varied food, booze and sun by the beach with plenty of activities for the Little People, leaving me to read by the pool. Bliss.
Did it change, or do you realize that backpacking through SE asia with responsibilities would kinda suck compared to doing it without responsibilities? And that an all expenses paid vacation when you have responsibilities is really nice, but limiting if you have no responsibilities…
I think you’re absolutely right, but I think the point still stands that it depends broadly on what stage you’re at in life. I can certainly envisage a time when I’m older (touch wood), where I’d want a different type of vacation from either of the ones I mentioned.
This is one of the reason while I now take vacations in June or September.
You can go to paris without hanging out at the Seine all day
If Brits call vacations holidays, what do they call holiday days?
Festivities
Annual leave
Australians call both holidays, but it hardly comes up, if we’re talking about a named holiday like Easter or Christmas. It’s only like this when someone is talking about one of the two categories ambiguously that it would be nice to have two words
Even if you choose to do homecation, if is fucking crowded. We had a German invader in our fridge, for god’s sake, this one had a high shrilly kind of voice, but we could see he was German because of the lederhosen and the wurstnkrapfenschalad, or whatever these naz1s eat. Next vacation, my hubby and I will go to the dentist for a week to get our teeth cleaned, although a friend of us was vacationing at the urologist , hoping for some quality time, and a cruise ship full of Japanese climbed in through the window, Jesus Christ, they ran out of ice cream pronto within minutes.
I have a hard time being too mad about pictures unless the people are being obnoxious about it. Some obliviousness is expected from captivated and enamored tourists. The ones that can’t just take a normal picture and move on suck though.
You’d think the heat waves in Europe would hinder tourism
Hopefully.
Vacations are a status symbol for some people.
