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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine is planned out. What i personally hate on vacation is making decisions. What should we do today, when do we need to leave that spot, what are some options for supper, etc etc etc.

Yes, sometimes my plan for supper is "walk to main street square nd find a spot there" but what I want to avoid is searching on Google recommendations for spots.

I've also found that the hour by hour plannign helps ME because otherwise i underestimate how long the transition time stuff will take. Blocking it all out to "paper" makes sure that we have time to do what we want. We also though take more of a "sampling" approach to site-seeing where I'll allot a few hours to a thing vs "stay until we are sick of it". [/quote]

How do you cope when it pours with rain on your scheduled beach day or your kid starts throwing up on a certain restaurant day? What kind of destinations are you visiting?[/quote]

DP.  How do you not know what you're doing? I Jean on holiday 1/2 way around the world how do you approach daily activities? Do you just have a bunch of things on a list you want to do and hope to find time for them? I'm totally opposite of your perspective sorry!

To answer your question I always leave 1-2 days free.  Shopping, relaxing, etc. I can always take that as the rain day for something if needed and swap it out.

Otherwise, how do you actually decide what to do???[/quote]

I spent 4 months Eurailing around Europe not knowing where I'd be staying and it worked out. I met people along the way and altered my schedule sometimes to travel or stay with them. That was pre-internet and I had my trusty Let's Go Europe and chose activities from that or from suggestions from locals. I did things I could never have planned for.

I was in England a couple of weeks ago. We had a fine time. Visited well known sites and also happened upon other places we'd never heard of before by accident. We booked centrally located accommodation and could go in whatever direction we wanted. We had a couple of guidebooks downloaded to get an idea of the region. We took restaurant suggestions from the hotel owner. We did lots of walks and bird watching, and went to pubs and historical sites. We sat on a beach of stones and stared out at the ships. When we'd had enough for the day we returned to the b&b for rest and reading.

To answer your question, we don't try to do everything. Just as I can't read every book in the library and can't watch every TV series on every streaming service, I realize I can't see every church, museum, beach, mountain, palace etc in the world, so I choose a few things and am happy with that. I guess we're older, and it's not our first or hopefully last time visiting these places.

Likewise here in DC, we go down to a museum, see an exhibition or two and go home, happy with that experience without having to visit every Smithsonian. I do see tourist families being herded around every museum and monument as if they'll never have another chance to see them again. The kids don't always seem thrilled.

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