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

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

The worst part about flying is the airport. And the sitting doing nothing for seven hours.

I think that airports have improved.

I also don't think I could sit and do nothing for 7 hours, but I listen to books-on-mp3, I knit, I read, I talk to people, I write. It's a great time without interruption. That being said, most of my trips have been less than 5 hours in recent years...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've got to admit it's a long time since I was last in an airport.

On most of the long flights I've taken I had small children with me. This has certainly coloured my view.

I guess if I were doing it now I'd take along a very fat novel.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Small children color everyone's view.:)

I guess the key for me is not to think of it as an interruption in my arriving at my destination--that only leads to impatience. I try to think of it as an experience in its own right. I do also try to get up and walk around every two hours or so. And I take aspirin. (This is a hint from my sister the paramedic--to stave off traveler's thrombosis.)