Vacation Ideas

 

Archive for December, 2009


Packing for Vacation: One Big Bag or Many Small Ones?

Packing for vacation depends a lot on where you’re going and on how much you are going to stay there. One week beach or fishing vacations don’t require as much gear as longer cultural vacations. On the beach or at fishing, all you need is to just have something to wear, but when going to big cities, in museums or attending concerts or theater plays, you need to carry with you proper outfits for those occasions. You’ll want to take with you your best Coach bags, or at least one of them, your Born Miriam boots and many other items such as jewelry and clothing accessories. All these can add a lot to your luggage, so there’s a question that raises in this case: would it be better to have one huge luggage containing everything, or two smaller suitcases would help you get organized a bit better, allowing you to group your items depending on some personal criteria?

This is a personal choice, but keep in mind that if you travel by car and have to stop over night on the road, you might better have a small case prepared with all required things for spending that night, with spare socks, with spare clothing and with personal hygiene items. This can be a tote bag, you don’t have to put all these into those big duffel bags. This way, it would be easier for you to unpack only the needed things, while the others will be left alone in the bigger luggage bag.

What do you think? How’s best for you?

The Cheapest Vacation Idea Ever: Stay Home and Play Sudoku

When you have a limited budget, cheap vacations are cool. At least this is what you think in the beginning, when you book your vacation and can’t wait to go there and have a great time with very little money. What you don’t know is that if you go cheap you may not have such a good time, because of various inconveniences, from dirty rooms to awful service, up to not finding a room in the hotel you paid for.

This is a fact that could give you some food for thoughts. If you can’t afford a normal, average vacation, not a luxury one, why then would you go at all? Why not just stay home and enjoy some leisure time together with your beloved ones? You can play web sudoku all day long, you can solve puzzles, you can read those books you’ve been keen on buying over the past ten years but never found time to read… You see how many things you can do without having to leave home?

Although this is the cheapest vacation, it’s going to be great, if you know how to mix activities so you don’t get bored. You kno9w, too much Sudoku puzzle solving can give you headaches.