You know the ones and we’re all guilty, they fly in for a few days then fly home and talk forever about when they ‘did’ Rome or Mauritius. Or the cruise ships that once stayed several days in port but these days only give passengers 6 or 8 hours to see a city in its entirety.
Oh dear as I write this Woody has just stripped naked and dunked himself in the river! Thinks he’s 17 not 71. Now where was I? Yes, 6 hours in port “Oh yes, we did Barcelona, Kyoto or Vancouver.”
The antithesis of this is to hitch up and slowly work your way across the country camping on beaches, sitting beside rivers and propping in small towns getting to know the locals over a beer or a coffee and learning that they once worked hauling gravel where you are now camped or that their cat likes a scratch behind the ear or their dog answers to ‘puss puss’. Now that’s travel.
itchingforhitching 
Know exactly what you mean. Always have to bite my tongue when I hear ‘ we did Rome’ or ‘we’ve done France’ ! Very very irritating. we’re slow travellers ourselves and we’ve never ‘done’ anywhere.
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Like anyone with work commitments I was certainly guilty. Now, with no time constraints it is truly priceless to travel sloooowly.
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We always tell people that we prefer to meet local people and discover local secrets rather than do the ‘must-see’ tourist hot-spots.
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I agree, it doesn’t matter how long you stay there’s always something changing and more to see. Much more sense to say you’ve been there that gives people a chance to share their experiences if they have too.
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Ah, we can never see it all.
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So true.
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Nice!
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So true! I’m constantly realizing there’s things next to Home I’ve not seen yet
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So much still to see and so little time left can be a reason for the quick visit, but I much prefer the slow and steady method of travel.
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Ha ha. I like Woody’s style!
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At least he was wearing his Crocs!
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So well said, every country has countless different qualities impossible to finish a country or even city in a shirt amount of time
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We’re born and bred Melbourne folk and whenever we’re home we spend our Sundays exploring the city, yet still we can’t say we know it well enough.
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