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Holidays - familiar or new places?

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honeyrose Wed 15-Jul-26 00:37:13

It’s a bit of a first world problem this, but does anyone else feel torn between going back to the same, familiar, well-loved places on holiday or trying somewhere new each time? We have about 2 holidays a year, maybe one of them abroad and one in this country. We’re retired and don’t have pots of money, but do like to travel on package holidays to Europe mostly (for our abroad holiday). We’re now finding it difficult to decide whether to try a new place or somewhere we really loved, as that’s the safe, comfortable option which we know we’ll enjoy. Obviously we all have a finite time on this earth and we’ll never see all of it, not even a tiny bit of it. I’m finding I can’t quite understand why people go back several times to the same place when there is so much world to discover. Then again, there is a certain satisfaction in doing that. Decisions, decisions!

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Madgran77 Wed 15-Jul-26 06:42:53

We used to always go to different places but ghese days are happy returning to well loved and lovely places

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Allsorts Wed 15-Jul-26 07:27:38

I used to never retun to the same place, now if oi find a place I love I do.

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fancythat Wed 15-Jul-26 07:33:07

I have probably only been abroad 10 times in my life. 4 times to France[just worked out that way], so I would go new for me[I may be going to the carribean next].
So I dont really have the op problem.

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MartavTaurus Wed 15-Jul-26 07:35:24

There's security in familiarity, and we always return to the same place abroad every summer. It gets a bit boring telling people where we're going, but it's our special place and always will be!

I do understand what you're saying though, the clock is ticking to see other interesting places too. We're lucky in that we are able to do this as well in spring and autumn, so we achieve a compromise.

My last visit on earth, if I could choose, would be back to our number one place so I guess that answers the question. - though hopefully I'm nowhere near that yet!!

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Marmin Wed 15-Jul-26 07:41:37

We do both. One familiar and one new. We are currently planning a week in Zadar (Croatia), particularly drawn by the sea organ installation.

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FriedGreenTomatoes2 Wed 15-Jul-26 07:46:12

A bit of both would suit me best. I’m looking at perhaps a couple of city breaks next year with a friend, so maybe 5 nights to get a flavour of places. So far, apart from Florida and Spain, I’ve only done Belfast, Dublin, Paris and Berlin with my late husband. I’ve never been to Portugal so Lisbon (or wherever) might be might be our first booking.

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