Vacation

Honesty is a Blessing Part 2

Honesty amongst friends is a beautiful thing. It brings wit and humour even in dark situations. If you don’t have friends, you can do this with you need to surround yourself with some.

A friend was going to holiday in Japan with her husband, but it was possible the relationship would end before this event. I asked what might happen if the relationship exploded before the planned holiday? Quickly suggesting another friend and I would go with if she needed the company. There was no mention to Pony Up some finances, but I like to imagine its implied. Alas, the relationship survived as you would hope so.

A catch up with my plus one, that the friend was on the arranged vacation and plus one stated “It should have been us!”

Oh My God! And I laughed.

I don’t even have a passport right now as I let it lapse back in ’04 and clearly the right people went on that holiday, but it could have been us.

Home

Oh! Going to write about something a bit different today, despite the backlog, I’ve got to catch up on.

Was having a conversation with my Lady Girl-Friday earlier. She’s one of my carers that is often mistaken as my daughter.

We were discussing travel and the mentality of when you travel. I should point out she has travelled to New Zealand on a typical ‘young-person’ travel holiday and then with her Oma (Dutch for Grandmother) to Holland for a slightly longer period of time.

My only real overseas holiday dates back to (wait for it) 1994, with my first serious boyfriend (I will circle back to this later) Needless to say, I don’t mention him in current time so, plot-spoiler, it didn’t end well. Most of the three months, I went to the UK for a visit with a whole week in Europe (two days in Paris, two days in Rome and two days in Florence).

So, it’s safe to say our experiences were very different. However, I made the point that when you travel, it’s great to be somewhere different, see different things, places, cultures, languages and the food. Oh my God the food.

But, if you are in one place for a few weeks, you will likely go out and find a café. You will also keep going back to that café because you can quickly get to be known as a regular. If you are trying to not spend too much money, it’s not a huge expense, it gets you out of the ‘house’. I spent my first month staying in a place about an hour from London while the boyfriend waited for his ‘interest payment’ to come through so he had his spending money. So, even on a holiday, we crave a place that makes us feel like home.