Anybody else here never been abroad?

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not ever wanting to go abroad is like never visiting the nearest town to you. Don't be surprised if people treat you with pity.

For the record, I have rarely been on package holidays, rather we always go to interesting places like Germany and so on (I have only been to Spain the once, Madrid actually and I'd love to see the rest of the country!!).
Oh, and everyone keeps talking of flying. But.... There.... ARE ...... Other....... Ways!!! If it is Europe you want to go to, then there isn't much excuse with ferries, trains, automobiles..... Bikes!!

That said, wanting to go abroad just to sit on a beach for 2 weeks is just as bizarre to me, I need to be actually doing something!!

 

[perplexed]

I know a bloke who lives on a really grotty street. He refuses to go abroad (and he's not short of funds) on the grounds that he 'might not like it'.

Despite living in a hole which makes the one in Calcutta look like it just needs some pretty curtains to brighten it up...

 

[DooDah]

For me anywhere north of Birmingham is abroad as I can't understand a word the natives say

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

For me anywhere north of Birmingham is abroad as I can't understand a word the natives say

Pardon?

 

[hoopdriver]

I'm a little shocked by this: abroad is 23 miles from the Kent coast. There really is no excuse.

Why not? If one is happy here and feels no urge to go elsewhere, why go? No one needs an excuse to go or stay.

 

[hoopdriver]

On the subject of staying in Britain and supposedly missing out on a grander world, a few years ago I did a rather circuitous LEJOG ride which took in a lot of countryside. I have also ridden a rather circuitous London to Istanbul, which took in a lot of countries. I would honestly have to say that I experienced a greater sense of variety and travel, in the magic, exploring, exciting sense, on my LEJOG ride than I did on the ride to Istanbul. Maybe its all the narrow leafy lanes, but the miles seemed more interesting here.

I say this as someone who has seen a lot of the world, something over a hundred countries and all seven continents. There is an awful lot in
Britain to feed your imagination, especially if you are travelling by bicycle.

 

[MetalPig]

I'm in my early 40s and have been out of England twice, day trip to Rhyl and a weekend in Edinburgh!
Just applied for my first passport though, and planning a train holiday through the Alps for my first jaunt

 

[nickyboy]

I was wondering how long it would take for this thread to get onto why some folk like to go overseas and some folk don't.

To my mind, there are two types of people when it comes to travelling;

The first type, when they have an opportunity to try something different, that they have never seen or experienced before look upon this as a chance to expand their horizons

The second type, when given the same opportunity shy away from it on the basis that they have never done it before

The world is full of wonderful cultures, foods, architectures, civilisations that are quite different from our own. The fact they are different is a blessing to me, an anathema to others

 

[simon the viking]

We have never been big travellers abroad I've been to Europe a few times and the Wife went to America for a few weeks before she met me and I took her to Paris for her birthday one year .....
But now we feel we can't really be bothered (or be able to afford it easily) we spent our honeymoon in the Lake District..... and last weekend we drove 10 minutes from our house to Carvers rocks near Derby and walked for hours in beautiful countryside..... Millions of tourists come to Britain..... So why do most British people think Britain is S**t for Holidays
I could take you to places in The Lake District that you could almost mistake for the Rockies..... Absolutely stunning scenery......

Edit: I used to work Air-side at an Airport and all people travelling abroad, going on hols.... did nothing to light my travelling wanderlust if anything it made me think what a faff.... all this rushing around etc.....

 

[tyred]

I have a few friends in Germany that I hope to visit, perhaps next year but I have to say I have very little real desire to travel. There is so much of my own country yet to see and I enjoy pottering about on small roads on my bike.

 

[Over The Hill]

I am 53 and went to Birmingham for the first time last year. I don't it was worth the wait.

We have a huge amount in the UK to see and many people have not been anywhere in UK apart from where they live and Cornwall on holiday.

I am not really sure if a package trip somewhere really counts as some people don't seem to set foot out of the hotel.

I studied German at school for two years and still can get by in it (well I can understand Das Boot) but I have never been to Germany.

 

[MarkF]

Salford flats on mainland Espana' to me that place.

Never been - never will.

Not posh - not stuck up - does anyone else find scenes of Benidorm kind of (lossed for the description) - oh yes - Oppressive ?

Stuck up! I cycled through it in 2011, the Vuelta a Espana departed there, it was a huge surprise to me, sparklingly clean with gorgeous beaches and conspicuous municipal cleaning staff. I can name far dirtier and tackier resorts. I liked the views from the hills, the town is an amazing sight, certainly not oppressive, and the small old part could be anywhere in Spain.

It's a funny place and it provides a lot of pleasure to older folk from all over Europe, it also provides much needed stable employment, I don't see it's popularity or image changing anytime soon.

 

[MarkF]

Despite living only 40 miles away, in Leeds [until 1977], I've only been to Manchester twice.

I've been twice, had my car stolen the first time and my motorbike the second.

 

[Cyclopathic]

??

You seem to have got the wrong end of the stick here.... It should be FLYING that you have been put off of, not travelling!!



We used to have alternating holidays so we'd go abroad one year, holiday here the next.

Much as I love this country, to me never being abroad just smacks of a complete lack of imagination, sorry.

Whoa there sunshine, that's a bit judgemental isn't it. And to say sorry at the end is just taking the piss. Not so sorry that you didn't publish your opinion and for that reason I do not accept your apology.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Not ever wanting to go abroad is like never visiting the nearest town to you. Don't be surprised if people treat you with pity and think of you as possibly inbred.

For the record, I have rarely been on package holidays, rather we always go to interesting places like Germany and so on (I have only been to Spain the once, Madrid actually and I'd love to see the rest of the country!!).
Oh, and everyone keeps talking of flying. But.... There.... ARE ...... Other....... Ways!!! If it is Europe you want to go to, then there isn't much excuse with ferries, trains, automobiles..... Bikes!!

That said, wanting to go abroad just to sit on a beach for 2 weeks is just as bizarre to me, I need to be actually doing something!!

Have I upset you in some way perhaps? If not then what's with all the insults? If only I were as suave and sophisticated as you then I might be able to understand what it is I've done that could possibly have upset you so much as to start being rude.