Travel And Leisure

After finishing college, I decided to go with some friends of mine back packing across Europe and like all recent graduates of my generation, we were willing to stay at the inexpensive youth hostels, eat meagerly to support our tabs for drinking down beers, and at times, sleep at the train stations as needs be. It was a wonderful experience doing this in your early twenty’s and something that I will cherish through out my life. As a family man, with three kids and an adventurous wife who loves to travel more than I do, we decided to take on a European vacation last summer. Starting off our travels in Paris reaching to parts of Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Italy and eventually heading off to the United Kingdom where we would spend ten days with a childhood friend of mine and his family on their holiday. Of course it seemed difficult to do the backpacking experience with my family so we decided to opt for a more leisurely mode. We checked into family type hotels that were not that hard to find, especially with the internet. Then, we would rent vans if possible, and do our own tours. We had to contend with maps, and sometimes different road signs that may or may have not been present in the map. Conversing with locals, especially in France, Italy and Germany presented to be a worthwhile challenge with the end result being the quick guide step to sign language or sign signals, if that is indeed a correct term. And at the end of day, we would end up back in the hotel room, exhausted and tired, but laughing about our interesting experiences of the day. All in all, that part of the trip was a learning experience of traveling with the family and not necessarily a leisurely vacation

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