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Mainstream holidays are not enjoyable
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You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic.
My uncle was caught trafficking.
I was gonna jump in here to defend halloween but then I realized you mean the European definition of "holiday" as vacation and not a....what do you even call yearly occasions like christmas and halloween and may day and such, if not "holidays"?
Omg I wasn't aware that Americans say it differently. I would call those "festivities"
You can go to paris without hanging out at the Seine all day
It's funny how it changes at different times in your life. We have an all-inclusive holiday with my wife, sprogs and extended family booked in Lanzarote this October.
Exactly the kind of thing I'd have thought of as a living hell when I was a young man, backpacking solo through SE Asia.
But honestly I'm looking forward to it having done my first package holiday a few years back. Decent and varied food, booze and sun by the beach with plenty of activities for the Little People, leaving me to read by the pool. Bliss.
Did it change, or do you realize that backpacking through SE asia with responsibilities would kinda suck compared to doing it without responsibilities? And that an all expenses paid vacation when you have responsibilities is really nice, but limiting if you have no responsibilities...
I think you're absolutely right, but I think the point still stands that it depends broadly on what stage you're at in life. I can certainly envisage a time when I'm older (touch wood), where I'd want a different type of vacation from either of the ones I mentioned.
This is one of the reason while I now take vacations in June or September.
If Brits call vacations holidays, what do they call holiday days?
Festivities
Australians call both holidays, but it hardly comes up, if we're talking about a named holiday like Easter or Christmas. It's only like this when someone is talking about one of the two categories ambiguously that it would be nice to have two words
Annual leave
I have a hard time being too mad about pictures unless the people are being obnoxious about it. Some obliviousness is expected from captivated and enamored tourists. The ones that can't just take a normal picture and move on suck though.
Even if you choose to do homecation, if is fucking crowded. We had a German invader in our fridge, for god’s sake, this one had a high shrilly kind of voice, but we could see he was German because of the lederhosen and the wurstnkrapfenschalad, or whatever these naz1s eat. Next vacation, my hubby and I will go to the dentist for a week to get our teeth cleaned, although a friend of us was vacationing at the urologist , hoping for some quality time, and a cruise ship full of Japanese climbed in through the window, Jesus Christ, they ran out of ice cream pronto within minutes.
You'd think the heat waves in Europe would hinder tourism
Hopefully.
Vacations are a status symbol for some people.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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