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The Start of the Holiday

13/01/2026

Think back on your most memorable road trip.

I don’t take road trips for one simple reason. Being in a car is never an enjoyable part of the holiday particularly given the extreme congestion and increasingly aggressive behaviour of other road users. However, it’s not just cars. My family will treat travel to a destination as part of the holiday, whether that be by train or plane. For me, it’s a necessary evil. The holiday never starts until I get to the destination, and not fully until I get to where I am staying. I dislike travelling to and from a destination because I see it as completely wasted time.

Airport terminals, quite apart from the concerning double meaning (!) are awful places. People are generally eating and drinking to stave off boredom, the shops are over priced and lacking in quality for the most part. I just look to get through the process because it’s never enjoyable for me.

So, you can keep car drives, plane flights or train rides. If I could invent one thing it would be a teleporter that would get me to my destination immediately so I could avoid the tiring and tiresome process of travelling to somewhere I would like to go.


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3 Comments
  1. alifetimesloveofmusic's avatar

    Myself, my brother Dean and a couple of friends deciding to drive down to Newquay for an August bank holiday weekend, with no accomodation booked, just on the spur of the moment! We did manage to get a couple of rooms and had a great time. I love travelling by train or plane and watching the landscape go by. My wife has the same feeling about travel as you and often wonders aloud why we haven’t got “beam me up Scotty” technology yet!

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  2. Markmywords's avatar
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    Sometimes the journey is part of the experience. I’m thinking coastal and country roads where the scenery is nice, rather than going up the M1. And what about going on the sea – surely that’s got something going for it! Of course, the glory days of plane travel are long gone, but being on a train in a different country can be lovely, provided it’s not through an urban environment.

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