Routines and boundaries can be healthy things. But, just occasionally, it can be a good thing to violate them. This applies in particular to the ways in which we go on holiday.
If you find yourself booking the same kinds of trips, again and again, then it might be time to do things a little differently. But exactly which kinds of trips might you consider? Let’s look at a few worthwhile candidates.
Try a Holiday Built Around Adventure
Certain kinds of trips are put together with adventure in mind. It might be that a certain kind of activity is central to the experience, or even a whole range of different activities. You might think of an expedition through an unfamiliar wilderness, which demands that travellers walk for miles, cook food, and pitch tents.
Into this category we might place the ski trip. If you’ve never gone skiing before, then booking the first trip might seem a little daunting. But, provided that you pick out the right resort, the results are often more than worthwhile. Ski holidays provide physical exercise, natural beauty, and amazing culture in abundance. And the first trip will often set you up with a lifelong habit.
Travel Somewhere You Know Very Little About
If you only book holidays in places that you know everything about, then you might find that you’re taken by surprise only very rarely, and that those surprises stem from things going wrong.
When you book a ticket to a part of the world you know nothing about, and you leave your itinerary relatively open, you might find that you’re surprised more or less constantly, and that the surprises stem from the environment itself.
This needn’t mean packing your bags and heading for an obscure corner of the remote East; even smaller cities and out-of-the-way parts of Europe might provide a winning blend of the novel and familiar. Rather than booking your tenth trip to Rome, why not consider Tuscany, Florence, or Naples?
Take a Trip on Your Own
Travel solo, and you grant yourself much greater freedom to dictate your own pace, and to pursue your own interests. For a person who is used to travelling in groups, these freedoms might be highly liberating. You might find that you can fit an amazing amount into a given day, when you don’t have to accommodate the needs of other people.
Say Yes to Something You Would Normally Skip
Being able to say ‘no’ is often enormously liberating. But sometimes, we can fall into a pattern of saying ‘no’ that prevents us from finding fulfilment, and that sees us miss out on experiences that would surely be life-enriching. These might include picking up a new skill, trying a new food, or hiking to a viewpoint.
When you learn to say ‘yes’, in other words, your holiday experience can end up very different, even when the destination is the same.
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