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Nathalie De Grandmont, Boost March 2010
March 20, 2010
The tours are attracting more and more young couples and groups of friends of all ages. Here is everything you need to know before booking your ticket.

What are the benefits of tours?

Group tours allow mainly to have a good overview of a destination in a safe environment where all the logistics are taken care of. It also saves time (before and during the trip) and money because, in general, all components (transportation, lodging, tours) are less expensive than individual.



For cons, the new semi-supervised circuits are a little more expensive because the groups are so big and they then receive less than the volume effect.



Moreover, whether one is in a circuit with or semi-supervised, you avoid many problems in organization, the stress of driving in unfamiliar cities, searching his hotel, to engage his guide local, etc., which allows you to concentrate on the visits themselves. It also benefits from the presence of guides and local guides, who can ask all the questions.



Finally, group trips also offer some the opportunity to make many friends, including the Europeans, who are often paired Quebecers in systems in Africa and Asia, among others.



And what are the disadvantages of tours?

Schedules are often restrictive, forbidding us to stay longer in places that we like, for example.



Established for the majority, the programs also frustrating sometimes people a little more active (not a lot of walking!) Or those who need more time to relax.



It can also be frustrating to always eat in restaurants or hotels groups: sometimes too touristy, too noisy and rarely more typical. At times, the constant presence of the group can become an irritant.

Inconveniences of air travel

Inconveniences of air travel

That's it, the holidays have arrived and to win the destination of your dreams, you have to fly. Be aware though that an air flight exposes a few physical constraints and can be the cause of minor health problems that must be known.


Ready to ship? Doctissimo offers a final check-up before takeoff.

First, get ready!

You're afraid of flying? Try to calm down. Despite the risks inherent in moves, the aircraft remains in effect currently the safest mode of transport. If you're really too stressed, talk to your doctor. It will help you overcome your fears.

Fly If you smoke a lot and dreading the long flight non-smoking mail it is better perhaps take home some chewing gum to reduce nicotine cravings. Even put a patch before the flight. Because we saw heavy smokers become so anxious and irritable during the journey they came to attack the crew!

Two altitude effects: a decrease in pressure and a decrease in oxygen

You're on board, have crossed security systems. The plane took off on time. Whew! But some elements are useful to recall that your trip does not impact on your health.

For example, the barometric pressure at the edge of a flight is lower than that found on land and corresponds to a majority of the aircraft at an altitude of 1500 m 2 500 of the above Wed This does pose any problem. However, if you are a diver, it is best to observe a period of a minimum between your sport and air travel day to avoid decompression sickness.

Due to the drop in pressure, the oxygen content is slightly lower than on the ground. In the vast majority of individuals, it is of no consequence. But it can hamper carrying a heart disease or severe respiratory illness, which should therefore discuss their travel plans with their doctor prior to displacement. Eventually, they will also benefit from additional oxygen.

Beware ears!

Another effect of altitude and barometric depression is that it increases the volume of gas. At the time of the rise of the aircraft, the air that is contained in the sinuses and middle ear behind the eardrum expands and exits through the tubes connected to the nose. During the descent of the aircraft, on the contrary, it tends to penetrate into these cavities through these tubes. To tolerate these changes, it is essential that good air circulation.

To prevent damage to the eardrum, it is advisable to yawn or chew and give candy to children during takeoff and landing. Better to also avoid air travel when you have a cold, an ear infection or sinusitis because the air can not then move freely inside the cavities of the face, which increases the risk of being a victim of a very painful barotrauma.

travling

It is no longer a mystery, with the name of our blog Personal Travel in pairs, you will all understand that we travel together! After crossing South America, we now walk everywhere in Europe on business and our future adventure gently prepares Asia. This means that the first experience was not discouraged, on the contrary! We already had the virus before traveling to meet us and it has only grow and turn it into a terrible desire to discover the world together. Yet our travels couple are sometimes far from a honeymoon in extension. We have to say things as they are: two travel can also have its share of disadvantages. But let's start with the best before you off right away, you, behind your screen that plan maybe chuck everything and go with your expensive (e) and tend to the other side of the world ...

advantages
MUTUAL SUPPORT

If you rarely left alone constantly when traveling alone - unless it is voluntary - the couple travel imposes itself a presence at his side every day. This presence is an undeniable advantage in times of hardship. Someone who will cheer you up and support you, even physically, is important when traveling long. When that one person knows you and knows you just calm down in a few words, you reassure a kiss, to encourage you to move forward when you think you are out of strength or make you laugh when you have a little bit of blues, then you will know immediately that you have done well to leave at two.

Credit: John O'Sullivan / Creative Commons
Credit: John O'Sullivan / Creative Commons

SHARING DAILY

A trip is a unique experience that you will tell one million times to friends and family when you return. But before sharing, we must live these adventures! And when we climbed a peak once thought insurmountable, when we crossed miles on foot with twelve pounds on your back, or just when one is faced with a wonderful sunset, we want to share right now this moment with someone hot and not to tell him in three months when the decline has blurred the magic and excitement. We just want to take her hand and say that we are lucky to be there, happy and proud to have done this together.

A TEST

If daily life at home is going well, life journey is a real test. Some couples can not resist them. But no, do not leave yet! Certainly this advantage can also be a disadvantage. But finding another trip will reveal all its faults, no filter, no way out other than to resolve communication problems and will even confront you with your own shortcomings. In the end, this adventure as you live on the other side of the world will let you know if it is likely to last you return. In short, to paraphrase Xavier in The Russian Dolls "is starting off with someone we can know if we are close."

A FORCE FOR THE FUTURE

Once past that test, your adventure is complete, your relationship will only be stronger. Because to quote another cliché "what does not kill you makes you stronger." Obviously, you will not be vaccinated against the petty arguments but everyday problems you seem to be only trifles face that you lived together in some more difficult situations, and you can overcome them with much greater ease and especially serenity. Your complicity is also grown and you will just want to leave together!

Credit: Ellen Kaufman / Creative Commons
Credit: Ellen Kaufman / Creative Commons

disadvantages
HYGIENE AND PRIVACY FOR ALL

One drawback which comes into play if you decide to go backpacking, couch surfing, hostel and camping mode. If you go to the hotel every night, which is more luxurious, I wish you good instead of bubble baths and free parts of legs in the air around the world. With a little less comfort, your sex life will not however be as prosperous and at home. After a trek of three days without a shower and sleep 4 hours in the nose, you may not want to provide your body with your other half will have. The journey thus strength to love each other despite the fatigue, sweating, without artifice. A love for real then.

DUTY TO MAKE CONCESSIONS

Sometimes you will need to follow each other in adventures that do not like you at first. If it is culture and you bun, if you are more mountains and sea him, we must learn to compose your trip together so that everyone can find happiness without anyone feels aggrieved. One drawback that is not an entirely because the key to life together, traveling as elsewhere, lies in accepting the other as it is to listen and understand their desires with the sacrifices that this can sometimes involved.

The OMNIPRESENCE THE OTHER

If feel supported and share everything with his half are advantages, its presence at your side at all times can also be a drawback. It is also necessary to keep your marriage survive your trip, you give you moments to you. A little massage while Madame went shopping, a cinema comedy -Romantic while Mr. attends his soccer game in the stands ... If for some that fall within the concession, for others, it will avoid the contrary in do, two disadvantages avoided one go!

some disappointments

Travel may be indicative of certain defects in the other that you had not discovered before, the situation of daily unsuita- there. Latent racism, a bad habit to be carried away by events, a special way to get excited at the slightest blow ... the list of defects that can occur while traveling is long on everyone. Perhaps the question itself does not yet know! Again, everything is a matter of concession and travel two will test the strength of your relationship.

Here you are now warned that the adventure couple offers: its share of surprises, discoveries, unforgettable memories, and sometimes small mishaps, but nothing that can not be overcome by talking a bit and taking self. So, ready to go on a trip together?

This is a travel ....

This is a travel ....
Gives us the opportunity to sail in our hearts through travel in nature and in the eyes of others.
The other becomes a mirror to us, and we are a mirror of the last ...
Each sees himself and his troubles and worries over the mirrors that of the non-Aasnaha travel.
The more each of us mirror cleaner and more purity whenever the last surface sees himself as the more obvious.
They said they traveled in seven travel benefits, but they did not say that traveling makes a person sees himself through a mirror.
The reality in which they live without much human to travel, obscures the fact self even think for a person that no illnesses or troubles without realizing that it might be the whole of the disease, and all the trouble, especially when it is shallow and superficial knowledge of thought.
In Travel: comes the critical problems of weakness and ignorance to cast projections on the mirror, which is accompanied by or difficulties which to travel, without the opportunity to take advantage of the fact that the same vision in order to convey the reality of fatigue to a future of hope.
This is the travel ...
Stations of the same and the mind .. Either plump self tired of swimming knowledge granted by traveling through the viewer sees and hears and feels her rights traveler to pose in the end the outcome of the ideas reflected in front of him through the mirror which it is associated, either through a travel companion, or a friend of chance, or the masses passers-by, and the features of the streets, and the greenest mountains and the blue of the sky and the waves of the sea. And either resting the mind on the balcony of a hotel room or on a hill overlooking the view remote practiced meditation which unleash the imagination in order to see Malairah residing in a place back in it that does not think, because it has become part of the rigidity of the place and out of the limits of time until the horses for that object rigid that the world they are considered the entire ordering and Attaba Btabaúah.
And human Traveler: Needs in traveling to the intermediate times of random noise in order to throw repression imposed by the rigidity of reality, a noise comes out of self tired of inertia, even though despoiled the ability to enjoy some beautiful travel times as the price that must be paid by the traveler of silence.
The greatest benefits of travel Almsavraly he knows himself, and especially that the traveler take away from the reality of the human ability to identify self, but he gets Balfjaah and to recognize when the pain of tired and exhausted and aware of the levels of fatigue and pain.
If traveling entertainers requirement per year is necessary, it's tired really sacred in order to get to know themselves before they melt amid the reality of not fluent in self-discovery and re-spirit to it, as far as deepens the frustration it and force it to subdue consider her eyes towards the land agent see the moon shines in the sky does not allude roams hope on the horizon.
In Travel traveled many benefits, the most important: you yourselves and sales on which I traveled far from you, to come back to you via mirrors all its imperfections and sufferings for you you are the doctors, you treat yourselves whatever you want with your hands.
Some countries Traveler travels to mind (envelope) removing the packaging that surrounds his mind and give him the opportunity to travel freely his mind. Once the traveler returns to the place that has clouded his mind until it is re-packaging of his mind again.
Some countries Traveler travels to mind free from all restrictions Vtaidh to where he came from a closed mind because of the factor packaging.
The greatest countries: it is the place where your mind stripped of all his thinking is hampering free.
The worst and most dangerous of all: that place that once step into the land of its airport until you feel that it may rule on your mind to death, and whenever crossed the column of those queues repeated, whenever you feel you escape from detention again and again, not because you carry in your bags drugs or explosives, but for the intervention of the place you mind (non-coated) after that dared to throw the old cover. This feeling of fear and disgust to his re-Traveler Packing first before traveling, a condition that ensures the safety of his body in exchange for pledging his mind for packaging until another date with travel!
The traveler can choose his place cautiously and intelligently. If the brains of people with (coated) should go to a place frees minds of packaging.
If it is minded (liberal of limitations and concerns) should go to a place more liberal agent is encapsulated liberal mind.
If the re-packaging of his mind in the permanent place of residence, should go to a place restores life to his mind. If the packaging has been in his mind to travel anywhere, same thing quickly to the place that gives him freedom.
How much I respect the airport employee who owns the sense of smell very upscale do not look for a bottle of aromatic has characterized the sense of Shamma high-end between the fragrance and the drug, and Ahtqralamozv which does not have the value of the book is not respected, which makes it clutters my books like a bag of explosives Looking amid its pages for a bomb the size of a character or word.
Airport employee no matter what kind of work: a true mirror of reality to which it belongs, and was not aware of that fact has died much about knowing what not reveal travelers to the country of that employee, when they return to their home countries to say something different from Matcolh features imposed silence and satisfaction fake!

Why have we taken the habit of traveling in our societies?

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Jean-Didier Urbain, "Tell me how you travel, I will tell you who you are"

Jean-Didier Urbain, a sociologist and anthropologist, has been working for many years on tourists and their behavior.

Why have we taken the habit of traveling in our societies?

First men traveled for survival, for food purposes (hunting and gathering with the seasons and the regions), safety (escape wars, epidemics and other natural disasters) and professional (pastoral nomadic or migrant merchant economic). Why, once removed from the necessities of life, have they continued to travel? That is the question.

And today, what are our motivations to travel during our vacation?
You could say that we're just doing it for fun. But this answer is not enough. First we love traveling because we désinhibent: away from home is thought to escape a time of moral rules of society. Hence the common but just as "the journey transforms the person!" Then get away from his residence idea is also out of his shell, exposing themselves to the unknown and meet the other . It then meets the "stranger", literally that which is strange, different from me. And that I appear as strange too! I love this ironic remark Georges Perec noting that we always say that Columbus discovered the Indians but we forget that the Indians have also discovered Columbus.

So there is a danger in the form of travel?
This is actually a self-endangerment. When traveling, it is like a worm naked strayed into unknown territory. But this experience is mostly a way to better understand the world and learn the relativity of things. So I think it is important to travel as soon as possible, and as often as possible. For seniors, the journey can become a real makeover! It allows them to stay in touch with the changing world and avoids the danger posed by their withdrawal and the congealing of the mind.

You explain changes in our travel practices by comparing the evolution of the ethnologist trade. What for?
The anthropologist was at first very distant subjects he observed. Secondly it is up, up to settle among them. Finally, he was no longer content to watch but began to participate in the life of these companies to better understand them. This is what is called the "participant observation". Similarly, the tourist does not want only to be surprised when his tour but wants to fill a real role! This allows him to approach closer to the reality of the places and people. One of the conditions of a voyage of discovery 100% successful today.


How do you choose your destination?
Once we opted for a place rather than another as he proposed attractions, monuments, its landscape, its material heritage, past and natural. Now we demand more. We want a destination of history is a carrier, romance or drama. It's not for nothing that the regions are fighting for TV serials episodes or movie will be shot! This will transform a space into a place, as it acquires a narrative dimension to the traveling public. Some guides fully play that card. One can, for example, to visit Venice in the footsteps of Corto Maltese. A completely imaginary character of Hugo Pratt!

The representations we have a destination therefore play an important role in our final choice?
You do not choose a place, but the image one is done! Destinations without strong symbols are therefore very difficult to exist. Historic cities like Paris, Rome and Venice have no problem ... This is harder however to new destinations. Angoulême example was not related to any particular image. The problem has been solved since takes place every year a festival of comics.


The destinations for tourists therefore evolve over time ...
Some places were once very attractive and are no longer today. Therefore, as the singing Gilbert Becaud, would we see on Sunday airplanes Orly while this idea seems completely absurd today? Or on the contrary, the favelas (note: Brazilian slums) are now tourist spots when we had become accustomed to carefully avoid? Desires change and as objects of desire ...

You clearly made ​​the distinction between vacation and travel ...
These terms are often used synonymously. Yet it may well have leave and do not leave home! Similarly, it has become customary to describe as a "tourist" anyone who is outside her home. This is not correct! This word has a specific value, which means "one who makes a turn." So it means a mobile person.


A holiday at the beach, this is not tourism?
Someone who goes to the sea is not a tourist. This is a person who raises the buttocks in the sand. Seaside tourism, this would mean moving from beach to beach! But for all these vacationers are not uninteresting to study. Their behavior is also very symbolic. They breed on the beach an ideal domestic universe, turning his back on the world everyday.

Video: Beach witnessed a company with Jean-Didier Urbain (Source: Youtube).


Despite the economic crisis, people continue to travel. Is this a sign that move has become a necessity in our society?
There are still twenty to thirty years, when households had money problems, the first post that was deleted was the trip. Today, it is preferred cutting corners on food, clothing or appliances. The practice of travel has become a cultural standard. When the crisis began there seven to eight years, many French have worked on their reserves and therefore do not change their behavior. Only now, the recession perduring, some households are forced to also reduce their travel budget.

Does this mean that the number of departures is down?
We perceive today a true "guerrilla recreation." Faced with the crisis, it is organized! So it does not pass through the usual channels of trade, that is to say, the travel agencies, but reserve their holidays online. There are also rental swaps as exchanges of apartments or houses. Or the principles of sharing: traveling in groups of 8 to 10 people and costs are shared. Sometimes families also decide to go along with the grandparents so that they finance part of the trip or stay.


Going on a trip every year is still perceived as a kind of obligation today?
It is a marker of exclusion only when one is unable to travel due to insufficient funding. Otherwise the holidays away from home are no longer seen as an obligation. For some it is even a way to stand out from the others: when everyone leaves, I stay. The height of snobbery! Today, the frequency of travel does not necessarily ostentatious value related to an economic determination. A worker from urban and often travel a frame residing in rural areas. Also appearing more sophisticated practices: people increasingly prefer to make only big trip every 3-4 years rather than every year from destinations cheap.

Internet, using tools such as "Google street view" allows you to explore the world in pictures from home. Why do we travel always the same?
Even with webcams that broadcast live pictures we never end up facing each other as possible by moving physically. At no time virtual trip can therefore replace the actual experience. New technologies have the opposite today tend to become less interesting excursions. Formerly travel, it was happiness to disappear. But now, thanks to mobile phones and all their new features, we remain constantly connected, even on the other side of the world. The break is therefore never complete. And we do not have that same pleasure to reappear among us at the end of our adventure.

So would you recommend to turn off his cell phone while throughout his journey?
Personally, I've grown accustomed to. Today, travelers are "cybertouristes" boarding with them amount of electronics. Nothing but our cell phones allow us to call, check our emails, take pictures ... and leave us the possibility to get lost using GPS. The pleasure of the city, yet it is possible to get lost! Today need more contact with the natives to ask directions. This is a bubble that is closing in on us ...

What will your next trip?
At the end of the semester, I will go to my house in Burgundy. I'm going to write, it is therefore not a real holiday ... Otherwise I'm used to give me every summer in Corsica. I work there a hobby that allows me to find the "zen" is the spearfishing. Because in the words of Theodore Monod explorer ". Past head under the water, it is immediately another world" For me the journey begins here range f

i think the travel

I think that traveling allows an open mind. It is important to discover new people, new cultures, denouvelles languages, new customs, it makes ripen, and allows for better adaptation to certain life situations. When traveling ABROAD we go to countries that do not work like us and when we go in a poorer country that makes us realize how lucky we ade live in a modern country, where we do lacks nothing. This also shows that our differences are secondary quepour essentially humans have a similar perception of life, experience the same joys and the same penalties. In addition, travel enrichitl'être human, and when he returns from a trip, he looks different than when left world. Voyager allows you to be more tolerant, to have a better vision of the world and realize that we are not alone in the world and there are a lot of things to discover. Danscertains countries, girls are not allowed to go to school, children are forced to work to support the family and therefore not a true neconnaissent childhood. In a country like ours it is impossible to imagine that. Finally, I think traveling is essentielpour discover oneself, grow well, do not be selfish, do not stay in a bubble, traveling definitely makes an open mind.

travel is very nice

There are so many reasons to travel. Of course, I'm not talking about homes in entertainment center, tower operator, in a rented house at the seaside or even a visit to cousin went to Quebec; but a journey, a journey that takes us to the end of the world at the end of ourselves, pushing our limits a little more with every kilometer. All of us in its own right, there are as many as there are travelers. But every traveler who meets the gaze of another, understands.

He understands that life's ups and downs, its days of rain and sunshine, his days of bread and feast days of his sentence and his life with joy. He understands that no matter why this soul decided to travel, it is here, at this place and it's time to shake hands and get to know each other, and share a bit of yourself, as share a bit of it. For this is one reason for this trip, to meet others, open, discover. You quickly learn that you have to fight for so many things in life, the traveler decides him to make a truce, in preparing his bag and he puts it on his back, thinking, "here it is, my flag off white. "This traveler, though it remains discreet, always has an eye brotherly eye when it crosses all white flag. He smiled inside and feels in a world that opens. Not from above, not laws and technocratisés, not administrations scrambling mind minds but at the bottom, where the vote abolition of prejudice, where the boundaries fall, races the social ranks and which uses this magic tool, the first created by men, before writing, before the economy even before the discovery of fire: communication.

Back to the roots, so perhaps a return to a life of wandering, with no future when the past is in the past. Let his mind wander, is to give a chance to dream without forcing them to give our thoughts a realistic twist. Indeed, the right to dream, the right to engage in the unreal, the right to be unreal, in a world that is too. We have the right to dream unattainable things as we are aware that this is only a dream. Why dream achievable things? To give the desire? Or rather, because we think it is impossible? When we say: "A valiant heart, nothing is impossible," the traveler knows the truth.

All happen if we are given the means. Providing the means? For the trip, this means first of all give up comfort. An effort? Not a chance. If no comfort retains the traveler, then it is more likely to move, to visit, to share this discomfort. It sounds hard to believe but someone who shares his lack of comfort with you is more touching than someone who robs you of too much comfort. Discomfort loosens tongues, brings good humor and sometimes even humor.

Laughter is important to a traveler. The Chinese say: "Laugh three times a day makes unnecessary medicine." And you have to heal when traveling because the body is strained. The heart also. When laughter is an international language that conveys love, friendship, desire to approach strangers for an hour, a week or a night, then this laughter becomes the companion of the traveler. It's easy to laugh with strangers, give something of ourselves, because we know that it will not last. The barriers fall and it becomes itself.

Hard to be yourself in a formatted by stereotypes world. So we quietly contains and stores in the ranks. But the traveler does not know that feeling because its purpose is not to please but to live. While traveling, it's a little run, a little rebel to be. We discover through others and situations that we live, we discover flaws and qualities that we do not know each other and if we had put away, like everyone else. It's also an escape everyday life, a life of medium neighborhood that can predict the future, because every day alike. Traveling is afford not to know ...

I do not travel to find a stable life, we travel because we did not find it, no wonder travel, no travel out from the crowd, we travel not to go. I do not travel, we advance ...

Why travel? Because this is the future of humanity. Discover from those we do not know, afford to learn, to be open. It's not easy as some may imagine, but it is our choice and even if sometimes the heart is bleeding, it is to remind the traveler how his life is good.

A traveler ...