Article: Once-In-A-Lifetime or Feels Like Home: How Do You Holiday?

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The Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Photo: Adobe Stock. Are you slowly working your way through a travel bucket list of once-in-a-lifetime destinations? Or do

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[Quickstatus]

i think for most Australians its not a holiday unless long periods of travel are involved. Many dont feel they have "gone away" if the travel is only short.

 

[foften]

Went to Hong Kong and probably won’t be back. Paris keeps luring me back. I’m not a beach person but went to Mauritius and absolutely loved it. Never been tempted to do Bali. The times we travelled in the US I tried to include New Orleans in our itinerary. Switzerland is worth repeat visits.

Norway I will go back to because I want to do the 1km zipline. I was too late in the season to do it. People really should do the mail boat on the coastline. Just fabulous.

I love architecture, art good, food and natural beauty. I’m really not interested in influencer bling.

 

[Mattg]

I agree that there's a fundamental difference between places you go to see, versus places you go to be.

Sometimes, a place that you intended to go to only once to see the sights can also become a repeat destination. Kazakhstan is very much in this category for me. I went in with zero expectations and thought it would be a once-in-a-lifetime thing, but was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed being there. Have since been back many times, and will continue to do so.

 

[RooFlyer]

At 66, there are still too many places in the world for me to see to keep going back to a place. I'm never one to sit on a beach or just 'chill' in a village somewhere in Europe. Very rare that I will spend more than 3 nights in any one place on a trip.

I visit a fantastic place, swear I'll go back but by the time I get home, some other shiny new destination has caught my attention. That said, just once have I immediately returned to somewhere - Moscow and St Petersburg (in nicer times). St Petersburg my favourite city in the world.

I mean I do go back to a country, but for very different experiences within it - like India and France.

 

[jase05]

Still far too many places to visit but we still have our regulars that seem to get a good run and that is helped by us often taking the slow route to our destination as we generally always try to tack on at least a week at one of our stopover ports which is often in Asia or the ME.
The ME is one place especially that we have fallen in love with and although it’s often the UAE or Qatar we visit it has given us plenty of opportunities to visit Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman multiple times too

 

[mrsterryn]

Cause travel insurance is a major problem for us, our places are quite restricted
However do have to say we loved UK and hope to have one last hurrah
@RooFlyer Russia was a destination we had booked for 2020

 

[Bindibuys]

@RooFlyer Russia was a destination we had booked for 2020

Ditto.
Right now I can not think of a specific place I want to go back too. Hong Kong and Singapore just become part of the "transit" cities, but usually get a day or 2 visit en route to somewhere else.
I would revisit Charles Bridge in Prague - if I was "near-by".
Don't ask me why, but I was near in tears walking across the bridge, with the feeling of "you have come back"
Weird, did I help build it in a previous life?