Advantages of traveling after 30
As you reach old age, that happy time when you can go through the streets hitting people with a cane, by now you have already started not to bite your tongue with the edges or to really appreciate things like long after-dinner meals, staying home on a Saturday and, oh yes the silence . On your list of vacation priorities, the latex mattress and a pillow that is not a sausage, have climbed positions. Besides, you find it so delightful to stay alone for a while as it tortures the partner who tells you about his life and that of all his friends. You've changed and it's not so bad. You dress better, you know what you want and you know where you are going, probably because you are beginning to know very well where you come from..
1. A COMFORTABLE BED CHANGES YOUR DAY If you get a good bed, you increase your chances of being happy right from breakfast. Also those of going back to the hotel before. Sleeping on a bench in a Cadiz park or on a foam mattress in an infested Indian hostel is practically off the menu. You've gotten so homey about it that you almost put your checkered sneakers in your suitcase. . You avoid with sick caution the hotels that have glowing reviews on the internet with sms language: they won't be your age or the receptionist there.
two. THE COMPANY IS NO LONGER THE SAME Your girlfriend is the number one option and your friends without a partner something that stays for special occasions, such as bachelor parties or the excursion to eat steaks in Astigarraga. Enjoy the advantages: you go to bed at a decent hour almost every day, you don't come back from trips with dark circles of "I need a vacation from vacation" and sex does not require prior ginkana from bar to bar.
Don Draper on vacation with his number 1 choice?
3. LUNCH IS THE BEST TIME OF THE DAY
The preparations that you used to dedicate before to getting flights or infernal combinations of buses with which you saved five euros are now used to search social networks for restaurants of the “eat well” genre not far from the hotel. Your eating habits have changed and sandwiches and pizza are becoming an emergency resource instead of the basis of your holiday food.
Eat Pray Love
Four. THE DRINK, IN SHORT SIPS You don't play drinking games anymore, you just drink. Yes indeed, you do it one day out of three , just enough to link hangovers that you didn't have before.
5. THE RIGHT PHOTOS Before, they were artistic shots with your camera, all the filters at the same time on your mobile and crazy Sherlockholmian inquiries to get some Wi-Fi and upload everything quickly to Instagram. Now they start to be a few well-measured shots , with the right girl and in front of the right monument. An average of three photos a day, less as an artist than as a documentary filmmaker.
6. POST ONE COMMENT A DAY
And it's a joke. You no longer share your minute-by-minute thoughts on your Facebook wall. In general, in life, you are shallower and less intense and appearances are several notches below “what's for dinner tonight” on your list of concerns. And that's a break.
You don't have to go that far
7. YOU CHOOSE YOUR DESTINATION WISELY
The place you go on vacation is no longer recommended by a friend, it is recommended by a magazine. Not only do you not go where everyone else goes, but you conscientiously avoid those noisy drunk destinations full of thugs with, ahem, ten years younger than you.
8. YOU HAVE ENTERED TRAVEL MATURITY
You protest more in the places, with an official form if necessary, but you worry much less.
9. SKILLS
Your years as an independent traveler have made you know how to do things. practical things for travel, things like saying good morning in 10 languages , change a flat tire and say “yes, honey”.
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