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...

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

A scenic train ride through the Pyrenees, and then to Spain to see Picassos--it sounds like a wonderful trip!

When are you going? During the holidays?

You never know: among those old folks might be people you will like very much. After all, they already have something in common with you both: they like Picasso.

Kate and I keep talking about flying to Scotland next year or so, but I keep pushing it back. I find the idea of flying high in the air and then over the ocean just horrifying.

My daughter thinks I should take some pills, get on board, and wake up in Scotland.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the laugh.:)

However you get there, the Picassos will be sublime.

I remember going to the Picasso museum in Paris, and being astonished at the furniture and other "decorative arts". Do they have that in Spain as well (she asked ignorantly)?

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

Aw, there have to be some younger folks there too! I wouldn't worry about it...You're 4 years younger than my dad, and I never think of him as being old. It's just a state of mind, I guess. Either way, I'm sure it would be wonderful to see the Picasso's up close and in person :)