Familiar

 

Yesterday I came back from a long weekend in Lyon. It was my third visit in 9 years, this time together with Highflyer, who I gifted this trip to last Christmas. And yes, I stayed at the same hotel again, too. Some people find it a waste of time to re-visit places abroad, even if you liked them in the first place and prefer "collecting" as many new cities as they can while they can. Myself, I truly LOVE coming back to familiar places and will in fact be back in Nice this summer, where I have been more than ten times already. Oh, and we're planning to go back to the same Croatian seaside town for the fourth summer in a row. Even if you have been somewhere before, there's always something new to discover...and if the new thing isn't quite up to par, you have a great excuse to complain and compare it to the "good old times at least ;-)

I particularly enjoy showing places I love to people I love and am hoping to take Highflyer to Sydney one day. This is not to say that I don't like exploring the New as well, I prefer a mix: comfortable "autopilot vacations" alternating with discovering new destinations.