Re:Slow Travel
by marcus_holmes on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:10AM
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> it would be much cool to have 5-6 weeks holidays instead of 3
I get 30 days paid holiday per year. I could take all my holiday in one lump and spend 6 weeks travelling there and back. But I'd massively prefer to have more, shorter, holidays and not spend half my precious holiday time travelling.
And, obviously, I'm lucky. I work for a German company. When I worked in Australia the standard was 20 days, which makes a 10-day travelling time completely unworkable.
There are advantages to killing off bulk tourism, I'll agree. But I also don't think we want to go back to a world where only the idle rich get to travel.
No, but I'd like to go towards a world where most people can and want to slow-travel (with more holidays, better train networks or electric planes doing 2h max flights)
Re:Slow Travel
by josephcsible on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:04AM
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> > That wasn't incorrect.
> You just have different opinions.
That's my point. Others' opinions aren't incorrect just because they differ from your own.
> That wasn't incorrect. I'd rather put up with some jet lag than for all of my travel to take several times as long.
You just have different opinions. OP is claiming that, for them, taking half a week to travel 10.000kms is OK, should be the default and the rest of our lifestyle should accommodate that. And I tend to agree with them: it would be much cool to have 5-6 weeks holidays instead of 3 and spend 7/10 days to go and come back, which will be an enjoyable part of the holidays as well.