Summer Holiday

[poliphilo]

We've booked a holiday. We're going by coach to Northern Spain to look at the Picassos.

Then the brochure arrived. All the people in all the publicity shots are grey. There's not a single, young, fit, happening twenty-year old. Everyone- but everyone- is over 50.

Young people do not travel by coach to Northern Spain to look at the Picassos.

I should have guessed as much. But I didn't. My very ignorance betrays how out of touch I am.

We have booked ourselves onto a package holiday for senior citizens.

(Long pause for reflection.)

Oh...........

Comments

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Sort of thing that could happen to anyone, really!

(I don't quite understand why coach-travel is supposed to be the preferred mode of transport for senior citizens in the first place, as my abhorrance of coach-travelling is more based on the complete lack of comfort, the tediousness of the motorways and whatnot, than on its image.)

Picassos in Northern Spain sounds very good, though...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I hate flying. It hurts my ears. Airports are ghastly.

I took a couple of coach holidays in the early 90s when I was still young(ish). The first was to Czechoslovakia (as it then was) the second was to Switzerland. I like the leisureliness. I like looking out the window and watching the scenery scroll by.

I'm excited at the prospect of driving through the Pyrenees.

And this is going to be a super luxury coach with bags of leg-room.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I think I might actually prefer trains; they are more comfortable than busses, you don't get the hazzle of airports, and the view is normally better than on a motorway...

Especially French trains (including the EuroStar); whizzing away at 200mph is really rather nice, especially as they have full service on the first class. (Remembering the days of working in the travel trade and being able to whisk boyfriend and self off to Paris on EuroStar first class, staying in a 4* hotel for the weekend, all for less than the price of a B&B trip to B'mouth... -Of course it would be rather pricey to go for a weekend in B'mouth now, given that I live in CPH, and anyway I don't have a boyfriend, so I'm probably better off without the travel trade!)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like trains.

I like trains on principle, but the British rail network is a bit dodgy at present. It's one of the things of which we should be thoroughly ashamed- as a nation- that we let our wonderful railways get so run down.

I haven't travelled on a French train since c.1970. :)

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Oh, but the TGVs are wonderfull!

-And yes... English trains... They're so... quaint! (=shoddy)