Four in ten people in France cannot afford to leave their homes to go on vacation, a new study has found, an inequality that has persisted at the same level for the past 40 years. With poverty levels…
Read the article and started wondering what the definition of ‘going on Holiday’ is 🤔. There’s a bit in the article that mentions that 80% of Danes leave their country for holiday and that France takes that as their goal.
Personally, I find that admirable but far from optimal. There are a lot of ways to holiday, especially in Northwest Europe.
For example:
For lack of money, I started hiking from home to where I would like to be (and back of course). Slept in a cheap tent on budget campings, in budget hotels, low-cost b&b, etc. along the way. Went to supermarkets during the day to just get regular food. (read about easy recipes that make nice food with basic ingredients; even without cooking)
Even four days of that felt more like 8 days and gave more of an actual holiday-feeling than taking a trip to a far-away location. Very personal feeling of course. And it’s good to realize that there will always be some uncomfortable experiences during such a trip.
My point: there are more ways of going on holiday than taking a plane to a far-away location. And there are more options than staying in hotels or resorts.
Still: it sucks that there is such a big difference between incomes and that society is such that single-traveling women don’t have any guarantee of not being harassed.
Read the article and started wondering what the definition of ‘going on Holiday’ is 🤔. There’s a bit in the article that mentions that 80% of Danes leave their country for holiday and that France takes that as their goal. Personally, I find that admirable but far from optimal. There are a lot of ways to holiday, especially in Northwest Europe.
For example: For lack of money, I started hiking from home to where I would like to be (and back of course). Slept in a cheap tent on budget campings, in budget hotels, low-cost b&b, etc. along the way. Went to supermarkets during the day to just get regular food. (read about easy recipes that make nice food with basic ingredients; even without cooking) Even four days of that felt more like 8 days and gave more of an actual holiday-feeling than taking a trip to a far-away location. Very personal feeling of course. And it’s good to realize that there will always be some uncomfortable experiences during such a trip.
My point: there are more ways of going on holiday than taking a plane to a far-away location. And there are more options than staying in hotels or resorts.
Still: it sucks that there is such a big difference between incomes and that society is such that single-traveling women don’t have any guarantee of not being harassed.