I love travelling, I absolutely love it. Out of anywhere America would be somewhere that I have a great time visiting and have a keen interest in exploring further.
Cities are also places that i'm keen on exploring. Now what is the issue with all of this?
I don't particularly have any friends or anyone, irrespective of that whom is interested in travelling Long Haul or to cities. My family primarily goes to Europe on holidays (I have been to Spain seven times and Portugal three, think of all the other countries we could've visited on those extra trips).
Additionally my father has no interest in going to cities. He has an over the top, alarmist view of cities, he thinks they're dangerous, full of drugs etc. (I have been to New York twice and London many, many times - i'm certainly fine with visiting cities. ) He would tell me when I lived in England for University 'I don't like you living in England, it's a very dangerous place, I am always worrying about something happening to you there' and would 'warn me' every-time I visited London. As you can see he/they often have alarmist views about places they have never set foot in.
The other issue is that my father is a homebody, he does not like travelling far from (boring) Northern Ireland, so most of the time with travelling it's just me and my mother. Though my mother doesn't travel often as my father expects her to stay at home with him, often kicking up a fuss when she dares to leave Northern Ireland.
My primary goal and aim with a full time salaried job, after savings would be to go on at least three holidays a year, with at least one long haul trip.
Now, I don't really have anyone to go to those countries with. My last two long haul trips where with my mother and I whom I had to nag incessantly to go with.
So, that's not something that happens often either.
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Something else irked me today though. My mother and I had planned to take the train to Lisbon today. She told me we were going for certain on 'Monday' (today).
What happened? At midnight my mother sent me a text, pulling out due to the 'fear' of something happening and the Language Barrier.
Here I was going to bed at 10pm for a 5am rise with all my money allocated and various locations planned out that we were going to visit.
My father? No, he refused to go in the first place. He also refused to drive to Lisbon despite myself paying for the car hire. He also refused to allow me to drive the car to Lisbon. (He doesn't compromise very often, so we mostly have to do what he wants, which is usually a very meek, no risk thing such as visiting an old museum, returning home before nightfall.)
So, tomorrow i'm stuck in this apartment in the Algarve. Somewhere, where there's not MUCH to do aside from visiting old villages.
I do appreciate my parents taking me on this holiday, BUT, I am a tad annoyed at their unnecessary fear of travelling too far beyond home or to anywhere that is TOO different from home.
I am very disappointed that I am not going to visit Lisbon tomorrow. I was really looking forward to this, I am very annoyed at my mother for pulling out at the last moment.
Her excuse is pathetic and I have a feeling she has taken advice from my father or he told her not to go. (I am seriously considering going myself, but am a little worried).
Cities are also places that i'm keen on exploring. Now what is the issue with all of this?
I don't particularly have any friends or anyone, irrespective of that whom is interested in travelling Long Haul or to cities. My family primarily goes to Europe on holidays (I have been to Spain seven times and Portugal three, think of all the other countries we could've visited on those extra trips).
Additionally my father has no interest in going to cities. He has an over the top, alarmist view of cities, he thinks they're dangerous, full of drugs etc. (I have been to New York twice and London many, many times - i'm certainly fine with visiting cities. ) He would tell me when I lived in England for University 'I don't like you living in England, it's a very dangerous place, I am always worrying about something happening to you there' and would 'warn me' every-time I visited London. As you can see he/they often have alarmist views about places they have never set foot in.
The other issue is that my father is a homebody, he does not like travelling far from (boring) Northern Ireland, so most of the time with travelling it's just me and my mother. Though my mother doesn't travel often as my father expects her to stay at home with him, often kicking up a fuss when she dares to leave Northern Ireland.
My primary goal and aim with a full time salaried job, after savings would be to go on at least three holidays a year, with at least one long haul trip.
Now, I don't really have anyone to go to those countries with. My last two long haul trips where with my mother and I whom I had to nag incessantly to go with.
So, that's not something that happens often either.
___________________________________________
Something else irked me today though. My mother and I had planned to take the train to Lisbon today. She told me we were going for certain on 'Monday' (today).
What happened? At midnight my mother sent me a text, pulling out due to the 'fear' of something happening and the Language Barrier.
Here I was going to bed at 10pm for a 5am rise with all my money allocated and various locations planned out that we were going to visit.
My father? No, he refused to go in the first place. He also refused to drive to Lisbon despite myself paying for the car hire. He also refused to allow me to drive the car to Lisbon. (He doesn't compromise very often, so we mostly have to do what he wants, which is usually a very meek, no risk thing such as visiting an old museum, returning home before nightfall.)
So, tomorrow i'm stuck in this apartment in the Algarve. Somewhere, where there's not MUCH to do aside from visiting old villages.
I do appreciate my parents taking me on this holiday, BUT, I am a tad annoyed at their unnecessary fear of travelling too far beyond home or to anywhere that is TOO different from home.
I am very disappointed that I am not going to visit Lisbon tomorrow. I was really looking forward to this, I am very annoyed at my mother for pulling out at the last moment.
Her excuse is pathetic and I have a feeling she has taken advice from my father or he told her not to go. (I am seriously considering going myself, but am a little worried).
