5 Things to Go with the Perfect Holiday

I remember one time someone asked me what makes a good holiday. So here we go!

Good weather

It can be quite disturbing to take your umbrella or wear your raincoat especially if you want to travel light; it could even ruin your day if you (or your camera) get showered by rain! Besides bad weather takes no good pictures… so better keep sunshine in your prayers!

Good travel buddies

Again this is crucial because I’m sure you must have been stuck at the airport or even worse (the plane!) for a few hours with washroom the only place to visit, so a few chit chats might be the only solution to get you out of boredom. Plus you don’t want to spend the whole day going somewhere you don’t want to go or getting ready to go at 6 in the morning when you only need a relaxing day by the pool. So I advise you either go with your travel buddy or don’t go at all!

Perfect outfit

ok! ok! I know that holidays are supposed to be relaxing hence taking a break from the fashion whirlwind… but do you want to look like crap in your vacation photos? NO, right? Start packing then, stick to a simple palette (like VOGUE said) so you can wear everything with anything!

Good food and wine

What’s the point of eating crap when you’re having the perfect holiday? You can say you’ve been to La Tour Eiffel, but so what I’ve seen it all in the postcards! But what can you say about the taste of that rare steak and that stack of pancakes with homemade ice-cream from Stockholm? (ok…have to admit La Tour Eiffel is still better in “person”, but you know what I’m saying =p)

See? You can never know how good that pancakes and ice-cream are unless you try for yourself!

Friendly locals

It’s definitely a pro when local say “beware of your camera!” or using all the sign language they could possibly use to show you the way than to giving you the “eye-rolling” when you’re already trying to understand “who-knows-what-they’re-saying” menu.

So what makes your perfect holiday?!

The relationship issue

When you read my blog, you might think I am a rich girl with no real job so then I can travel wherever and does not need to pay rent. But believe it or not, there’s no truth in the previous sentence what so ever.

I was on Similan Island and I met this Parisienne family whom has a very cute garçon named Ariel.

I always like French people so I tried to talk to the dad (well the mom is Italian and I don’t speak Italian)… then I knew from the dad that French people get lots of holidays! So they will go travel every time they have a holiday… sometimes they go to visit the grandparents in Italy so that Ariel will spend more time with the grandparents whom he does not live with.

This family gets me to think a lot about relationships. I never spent “family time” with my parents when I was small except when they got home from work really late, we would have dinner together and that’s it. Then again most Hong Kong people work long hours to earn a living for the family especially those who have kids, because they all want to provide a better living for them. The down side is the working parents do not spent much time with the kids, nor the rest of the family. Let alone spending quality time with them since they are so tired during the week and would like to rest more on weekends if they are the lucky ones who don’t need to go back to the office.

So the only thing I still remember from high school economics, “highest value option forgone”, can finally applied.

And it becomes my formula: Money forgone Time, Time = Relationships, so Money forgone Relationships.

Em… but I am more of a relationship person… so my formula is actually reverse… Relationships forgone Money… hence the NO money. SO here I am, if you know what I mean. haha! goodbye for now idealists! Talk more next time!