How to travel as a family How to travel with the older generation and not go crazy? Maximum proximity of accommodation to the airport

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You are on a trip with your family.
Write a postcard to a friend (about 80 words). Describe:
- where did you stay
- what is the pronoun
– weather
- What do you do
Use the postcard from exercise E as a template.
Dear Angela,
How are you? Here we are at my aunt and uncle's country cottage and I'm having a wonderful time! The cottage is one hundred years old. It has only one floor and two bedrooms, but it's very beautiful. It's hot and the sun is shining here. Every day we go for a long walk in the morning, then my aunt cooks a delicious lunch. She's a very good cook! In the afternoon I always put on my shorts and a T-shirt and sunbathe in the beautiful garden.
Tomorrow, there will be a festival in the nearby town. During the festival everyone dresses upin costumes and dances in the streets. I'll tell you about it next week.

Travel style

Before the trip, it would be good to discuss what you expect from it, and end it with a consensus. What will be the goal: the final point on the map or the time spent together? What do you want: to spend your leisure time in a secular way in museum outings and promenades, to arrange with a tent and stew, or to break into a glamorous bar-crawling with your granny? Everything needs to be thought through. Starting from the intensity of the upcoming voyage (the number of movements, excursions, activities, etc.) to the interests of travelers and their budget: even a backpacker will have to reconcile with a shopaholic. The guideline for the right choice is ancient wisdom: look for the golden mean in everything.

Ksenia Tarasevich:“Mom is like a kitten sometimes. She delivers any of my activity. For example, I will say: “Ma, we are driving on a blablacar with some Ukrainians, we have to wait for them under the bridge,” and she will agree. We sometimes slept together at the station, it was ok. She considers me her travel guru, so she obeys and embarks on adventures.”

Desires and opportunities of travelers

If grandfather once climbed a tree with you for pears, it is not a fact that he is able to repeat this trick today. When planning a trip with parents or their parents, take into account any restrictions that health or age has awarded them. It matters when (especially if someone needs specialized medical care). And no less - when building a route: if there are restrictions, it is better to choose the tactics of "small dashes" and stop regularly to rest. In addition, older (not even much!) Relatives can be exhausted by the road more than you. And a night on the bus will be a candidate for the tenth circle of hell, not prescribed by Dante. Filter the choice of activities with physical limits: do not try to drag it to a parent with arthritis. In such a trip, it is especially important to think over comfortable stopping places. Beds should be comfortable, apartments (both apartments and hostels) with an elevator so that returning there does not become a challenge for you.

As for desires, be sure to remember or find out what they dream about. Suddenly, the time will come to get to the cherished place or event.

Arina Klimovich:“When we went to Barcelona in August with a girlfriend, we didn’t notice the lack of air conditioning, we also had enough fans. On a trip with my family there and in the same season, this became one of the main problems that seriously overshadowed the rest.

Angelina Gerus:“When traveling, both solo and with someone, I used to travel as much as possible on foot: the usual distance is 20-25 km per day in order to get to know the area better. When in Rome she tried to pull off this scheme with her mother, by the evening it was effective to raise her only with the words with which the Lord called to Abraham: an endless amount of “Get up and go!”. True, anesthesia for her tired legs in Italy was quickly found - local wine. Another tourist skill that we did not share is night bus travel. I myself endure them quite tolerably, I can completely fit on one seat, but for my mother such an overnight stay means that the next day her legal capacity will be at zero: therefore, with transport, the issue is always resolved in agony.

Don't overload with novelty

Something easy and understandable for you may well plunge the eldest family member into a righteous frenzy. Even if it is a passport control procedure at the border or. Be prepared to give short and simple explanations when they are really needed. On the road, become a facilitator for loved ones.

Joint planning

The journey begins long before the moment when everyone is loaded onto the transport. The start of new experiences is the creation of a plan in which future fellow travelers are collectively involved. The profit will be both the time spent in joint attempts and the result itself: a program that will accurately take into account the maximum of possible wishes.

Elizabeth Volchek:“Before the trip to Greece, my grandmother and I clearly discussed how each of us sees this vacation. We agreed in advance what excursions we take, how we spend the evenings when we rest from each other. This made the task very easy and allowed me to enjoy the journey to the fullest.”

Timofey Podvitsky:“In my case, my father immediately said:“ You plan everything and are responsible for the organization, and I rest! But when you travel with loved ones, you know what they like. That is, even without his comments, I knew that, for example, the Van Gogh Museum would be interesting to him.

Schedule and gravity

On a family trip, the schedule should not be taken as an indisputable truth, but rather as a recommendation for action. It's not a bad idea to create a "skeleton": for example, a list of places you want to bypass for a particular day. Or something else that your team can work with easily. Starting from such a framework, feel free to add time for improvisation and spontaneous adventures, since flexibility along the way is also an important and useful thing.

Schedule "windows" for respite and idleness in the schedule - to digest the impressions and recharge before continuing the family tour.

Activities that everyone enjoys

When choosing activities, make sure that, firstly, all travelers can participate equally. It's pointless to plan when someone has sore ankles. Secondly, take into account the interests of everyone, whether it's auteur cinema or passion for martial arts. Thirdly, keep a balance: if the trip plan strives to get mixed up or a freak show that you desperately want to see, and the parent is likely to be baptized and lament there, specifically plan something that he or she will especially like.

On a family trip, it is better to give preference to interactive activities: their goal, like the journey itself, will be to interact with each other.

If an enviably large team is put forward on the road, there is a reason to sometimes break into groups: arrange entertainment for children separately or, for example, divide into groups according to speed in a long excursion or a huge museum. Rigidly reject everything that will be inaccessible to someone for "technical" reasons (see the paragraph on opportunities). If you dream of climbing Etna, but your mother would like to chill under the vineyard - get it, sign it and enjoy your family trip. Plan your ascent for next time.

Elizabeth Volchek:“Spending a month in another country with my family wasn’t that hard, but it turned out that finding ways to spend time that are perfect for everyone turned out to be an almost impossible task. Always had to make concessions. In our family, a tactic has been developed that for one day the father and mother choose the place and activity, and the next day - for me and my sister. Of course, we listened to each other's wishes, although there were days when we spent time separately. But it only worked for us.”

Solo in space and time

Point one: share space. Just because you're traveling as a family, you don't have to stay at arm's length all the time. In order not to get bored with each other, it is better to book separate rooms (or rooms) or even apartments in different hotels (buildings) within walking distance from each other. That's close enough to quickly pack up and charge into battle, and close enough to remove the threat that looms over the comfort of personal space.

Point two: Everyone needs time for themselves. Even if you think it's not. For meditation, putting your thoughts in order, a cup of coffee, the gym, work or scrolling Instagram feed. The recommendations are the same, but if it didn’t work out with separate housing, at least add half an hour or an hour alone to your daily plan (we hope your family will overcome the language barrier during this time!).

Denis Savchenko:“If in Turkey your parents ask you: “When will there be grandchildren? You are already 25!”, answer: “Then, when I go to Turkey with a girl, and not with my parents,” a classmate escorted me on vacation with my parents with such parting words. The first few days passed in a pessimistic mood. My parents left Ukraine for the first time since the late “scoop”, so I became both a guide and an interpreter for them (with “landan-iz-kepitolovsky” English), and a son who had seen the civilization of foreign countries. I became a part of their “all inclusive”, although for me the stories about the “breakaway in Turkey” have become legends. At first, the evenings ended with the fact that at 12 o'clock at night I was sitting in a room with my parents in an absolutely sober state. True, then I noticed a couple of girls, who also looked slightly crippled from vacation with their parents. I made acquaintances with the “victims of the regime” while my parents were swimming. Evenings ceased to be languid. Then a couple of times my mother, of course, tried to find out about the girls, but I philologically subtly let her know that these were nothing more than holiday romances.

Angelina Gerus:“Personal time cannot be superfluous. On a trip with my mother, there was a snag: she does not speak English. It didn’t become a disaster, but it was decided about the gift for her birthday: let her learn the language, for 24/7 for the sake of both of us, I won’t agree anymore!

Buffer: meeting someone else

A family trip is a challenge both for the amount of topics that can be discussed with parents and grandparents and the amount of time that can be spent together. When you remember your first milk tooth, graduation, first love and problems at work, perhaps the limit will be exhausted. It's time to release an additional resource into the arena - fresh blood. Call a father’s friend for dinner, transferring to him the powers of a speaker and entertainer, or, for example, book a group tour (ideally, if there is one age category), where relatives can meet someone else, giving free rein to their interesting stories.

Elizabeth Volchek:“The family has many friends in Baku who, when they heard about our arrival, decided to hold huge dinner parties. Therefore, every evening, by invitation, we went to different houses, where we were treated to local dishes, told about traditions, and where we just had a good time. It was the best option to communicate also with other people and not get tired of each other. Yes, and show yourself as an exemplary family, which was especially liked by my father as its head!

Distributed budget

Amulet from unpleasant surprises - an early conversation about financial help. Who pays for the trip: you, your parents or every man for himself? How will you pay for lunch: by throwing off or by separate bills? If you want to give family members a gift that they are unlikely to agree to, modern procedures for buying and booking tickets and apartments do not necessarily require personal involvement. Agree on how to distribute costs on the spot - this will prevent fuss.

Ksenia Tarasevich:“My parents always paid for me. It's awesome! If next time I decide to go somewhere with my parents, it will be only because I will be completely broke, and they will say: “We have saved up here for New Zealand, we want you to go with us.”

Moral readiness and compromises

Anything can happen: your father picks on strangers with inappropriate small-talks, your mother is constantly reaching out to straighten your scarf or try something from your plate. What irritates in relatives will definitely reach its climax in the journey. Calm down or not, your overshoots will piss them off no less. A certain discomfort will reveal itself sooner or later, but in order to reduce the risks and try to prevent this, you can determine the rules of the game in advance. For example, choose a person responsible for one or another part of the trip, agree on personal boundaries. And keep yourself in control, even when everything is seething inside. As for compromises, they start when the idea of ​​a trip is born, get stronger at the planning stage, and wait to flourish along the way.

Katerina Kasyan:“When the journey begins with my parents, a document is somehow tacitly signed that I am again their unintelligent“ suzik-muzyk ”, whose right of choice on the journey comes down to“ poke a finger on the ice cream that you want. Well and then all questions are solved similarly.

So it was when we went to Croatia, our family plus an aunt from Switzerland with her daughter. At the border, it turned out that three of us could not enter Croatia, namely me, dad and brother, because we had a visa for a single entry. If they had let us into the country, then the same trio would not have let us back out. We were advised to go to the Croatian embassy in Ljubljana. Dad was very nervous, so he drove so hard that even I, who was not rocked, got seasick.

When traveling with your family, you do not stand on ceremony with each other, no one strongly adapts to anyone, just as you lived on the mainland - and on a journey.

Create a tradition of nostalgia and question

Such a journey is a generator of memories for the future. But one more of his options lies in the resurrection of the well-forgotten old. The family trip itself can be built around a place that is important to your parents or grandparents. Such pilgrimages sometimes become regular, turning from chance into tradition. For example, every year to rush with tents to the village where your great-grandmother grew up - why not? Here you get an audio guide in the form of representatives of your own family. The more questions you ask them, the better. And if you get hold of information about how they themselves spent time here before, you can even dare to reconstruct.

Another piece of wood in the fire of nostalgia is to make it a habit to take pictures with the same heroes and in the same places where they were taken a long time ago.

Julia Stepanova:“We go to Crimea almost every year, so we have a lot of traditions associated with this place. At the entrance to the valley, where we always rest, there is a mountain against which we take a photo every year. Next time I go home, I want to collect photos from each year and make a collage or something like that. We eat there in the same places, drink the same favorite wine and try to stay in the same place too. There are favorite beaches, certain locations that we do not change, and it's always cool.

Mother - son, father - daughter and bridal suite

Are you traveling with a parent of the opposite sex, and during the walk you are afraid of sidelong glances? Looking so good that you get offered champagne, musicians, and a bridal suite every now and then? If this is a problem, before the trip, use your collective mind to create and practice short explanatory phrases and rules of behavior "in the light." But, again, only if it bothers you.

Don't put off the idea

Traveling with parents and grandparents is unlikely to be as fun as with friends, as free as a solo trip, or as reverent as a romantic trip. And, although the presence of torment and suffering is indisputable, upon returning you are left with an experience unlike any other and a pumped relationship with your family. Therefore, the “for” points, in order to move the trip with parents to the top of plans, add up to an infinitely open list.

Elizabeth Volchek:“Somehow, my grandmother and sister and I bought tickets for six months, but during these six months, because of the trip, we managed to quarrel so much that we didn’t want to fly anywhere. And we decided to go to Baku for a month with the whole friendly family - father, mother, sister and I - a week before departure. My father called, urgently called me to a family meeting, outlined the essence, I immediately agreed, and the very next day we were packing our bags. It turned out very spontaneously and cool that everyone at the same time caught fire with this idea!

Seize your success with a new journey

Cool trips with parents or grandparents, although they have a decently long aftertaste, are addictive. With faith that it will get better, choose where you go next.

Katerina Kasyan:“Family vacation is when everyone is together. We get up together, breakfast together, lunch and dinner together, together there, together here, budding is not welcome. Every time I promise myself that on a family trip no more. But then it is forgotten, disappears, and it seems: “Come on, it will be cool, we are a family!”. And now you’re already driving in a wheelbarrow, God knows what days, and dad once again asks: “Who is hungry, who is for a stop?”. This sharp look at the younger brother, they say, just try to squeak! He cringes all over, looks with frightened eyes and very risky, says "I!". In general, when traveling with parents, it is important to include a special mode "I'm traveling with my parents", otherwise it's difficult.

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San Sebastian, Spain, 2013. Trip by husband and his parents.

1. Less spontaneity, more planning

My relatives are not very easy to climb, so I plan trips with them very carefully, literally by the day, trying to exclude unnecessary movements, choose only those places that will definitely interest them, the time of the year when the weather is as comfortable as possible, in a word, I try to think through everything details.

It is worth immediately abandoning the idea that you will see everything that you have planned in the company of your parents: most likely, as my experience shows, you will see less than if you went alone. No need to try to see everything at once - choose events and places that will be of interest to all participants of the trip, competently organize their inspection, make a travel plan. For example, when my dad and I were in Istanbul last year, preparing for the trip, I chose to visit only places that were interesting to him, made a list of them, checked the distance of these locations from each other, prepared reference materials, agreed with a guide with whom we looked at part of what was planned. Being with my husband's parents in Madrid, we took a guide to the Prado Museum, saw the main works and got a general idea of ​​​​the museum and its collection, without even trying to see everything on our own.

2. Only direct flights or very convenient connections

Both my husband's parents and dad will have to get to any point of our vacation through Moscow, so I try to avoid transfers on the Moscow-destination airport section. For older people like my dad (he's 80), the fewer takeoffs and landings, the better. Everyone gets tired of a long road, and if you, the travel organizer, are filled with anticipation of meeting a new place, then it’s not a fact that your parents will feel the same way, sitting at the airport during a five-hour connection. I try to avoid early morning and late evening flights, the optimal time is from about 13:00 to 17:00.

Tel Aviv, Israel, 2012. Trip with dad.

3. Maximum proximity of the place of residence to the airport

I try to choose places to stay that are easy to get to from the airport, trying to keep travel time as short as possible. Every time I try to order an individual transfer or take a taxi, so as not to look for a hotel or apartment with a suitcase and bags. If the hotel or apartment is located close to the airport, for example in a major city, then I will take a taxi. If you travel more than an hour to your place of residence, for example, to some resort place, then, as practice shows, it is much more convenient and cheaper to ask the host to organize a transfer and a meeting at the airport with a sign with your name. Not in all countries, taxi drivers are eager to take you even 70-80 km or have a different, higher price tag.

4. More attention to the hotel or apartment

With adults and not very easy-going people, you will have to spend more time in a hotel or apartment than when traveling, for example, with your husband or girlfriends. My dad, for example, has a clear daily routine, including daytime sleep, so I will be forced to spend 100% of this time in the apartment with him. Therefore, I try to choose the most comfortable accommodation options that have value in themselves - a veranda or terrace, an on-site swimming pool, a beautiful balcony, a comfortable living room, so that I myself would be pleased to be in the apartment and not regret the time spent indoors. When traveling with my husband's parents, I choose spacious apartments or villas where you can spend time together, because the main purpose of the trip is communication.

The apartment or house itself should be spacious, allowing both privacy and gathering, with good domestic amenities and a sufficient number of bathrooms. If living in an apartment with your husband or girlfriend, you can still get by with one bathroom and one bedroom, then when traveling with my dad, I always choose apartments with 2 bedrooms and two bathrooms, so that everyone has maximum autonomy. The same rule applies to traveling with my husband's parents: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a large living room - this is our minimum, otherwise you can get tired of each other very quickly. You should carefully choose places and resorts or cities for recreation - the place should be quiet, without noisy youth companies.

Barcelona, ​​Spain, 2012. Trip with mother-in-law.

5. Reducing walking distances

This is especially true for trips with dad - he is an elderly person, it is difficult for him to walk a lot, so I carefully check how far to go to the beach, if there are any slides on the way, I pay attention to the relief and features of the city where we are going. Therefore, for example, I abandoned the idea of ​​​​going to Venice with him: you have to walk everywhere, there are a lot of steps, there is no way to take a taxi, and so on. If we are looking at a city, then I would prefer to take a guide with a car to make the tour more comfortable, or, for example, use the hop on hop off bus, water tram, in a word, choose a city tour option that requires less traffic.

6. Increased time to explore cities

If the trip involves visiting cities, then I put more time into it than I need if I am traveling alone or with my husband. In adults and, especially, the elderly, the speed of examination is usually lower than that of younger people, they need more time, including for training, they are able to walk less, they get tired faster.

Cirali, Türkiye, 2013. Trip with dad.

7. Choice of directions 2 in 1

For young people, changing a couple of cities for a vacation is a simple matter, for many older people it is already either difficult or uninteresting. Therefore, when planning a vacation with my parents, I try to choose universal destinations, cities where, for example, there is a beach, shops, and attractions. The beach is a universal entertainment for all my relatives, so it is on a beach holiday that I most often get out with them. A good idea is thermal spas with a measured daily routine and a mild climate.

8. Careful organization of leisure

Books, guides, movies on the iPad, Russian news feeds - you yourself know the interests of your parents and will be able to choose entertainment to their liking. In the case of my relatives, the Afisha guidebooks, which I read aloud to them on the beach, historical books about the places where we relax, for dad, for example, before each vacation I upload more films to the iPad so that he has something to do, go with a bang in the evening, for my mother-in-law, I take something from Russian book novelties. The better you organize your leisure time for your family, the better the impression of the rest will be for you and for them.

Kalkan, Türkiye, 2014. Traveling with my husband and his parents.

9. Emphasis on cultural events

In order not to get tired of constant communication with each other, you need to fill the trip with activities that do not require your dialogue with your family. These can be walks or trips with a guide who speaks a language your relatives understand, sporting events (football, tennis, whatever they love), theater or theatrical performances, modern and classical concerts. This will give you the opportunity to take a break from communicating with each other and give topics for general conversation. Believe me, you will get so tired of working as a guide and translator that you yourself will be glad to be able to shut up and listen to someone else.

10. Careful selection of restaurants

Adults tend to be less open to new things, holding on tight to their habits and beliefs. Many have stomach problems, diet or other restrictions. Try to study the cuisine of the place where you are going in advance in order to have a rough idea of ​​​​how you will feed your beloved relatives. Be prepared that they may not like the new cuisine and not share your enthusiasm for those dishes that seem very tasty to you. Pay attention to the opening hours of restaurants - not all countries have the opportunity to fully eat between lunch and dinner, for example.

Kyiv, Ukraine, 2012. Traveling with my husband and his parents.

11. Explain each step

You probably travel more than your family, have seen more and managed to acquire your own travel rituals. Your relatives sincerely may not understand why you need to, for example, ride a fiacre, visit observation decks, take a guide, have breakfast outside the apartment, get to certain places at exactly the allotted time, use hop on hop off buses, and so on. Many do not understand how much they will benefit from following your advice. Try to explain everything so that in their eyes your common leisure looks as thoughtful and logical as in yours, so that they understand why this or that action is performed and what it will bring them. This is reassuring for many. Calm relatives - your calm nerves.

12. Don't expect admiration or approval, and don't do anything you don't like.

Many relatives grumble just out of habit. Some show with their whole appearance that they were fine at home and there was no need to fly so far. Some say that everything is supposedly good, but last time it was better. Some ask questions with such a face that they want to urgently buy a return ticket. In short, be prepared for the fact that the family can react very reservedly to everything that happens around. Don't expect praise and approval! And never arrange trips that are not recreational for you. You are the same tourist as your relatives, and not a free guide, translator, driver, shopping consultant and maid. And it is rest, not "thank you" and the stormy delight of the family that are the purpose of your trip.

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The most important thing in any trip is its safety, especially when it comes to distant countries. By following just a few simple rules, you can fully enjoy your vacation without worrying about the safety of your belongings and your own health.

website offers you some tips to help make your trip unforgettable. In a good way.

Rule number 1. Try not to use bank cards to pay

Rule #2: Register with your country office

Rule number 3. Insure your property

You do not want or cannot part with your expensive laptop and take a picture every second with an expensive camera or phone? Keep in mind that burglars may also like them, and a hotel safe does not always guarantee the safety of property. Therefore, before you go on a trip, insure your equipment: if it is stolen or you drown it in the ocean, the insurance company will refund you the cost.

Rule #4

If you are not sure about the safety of the safe located in your room, deposit your valuables in the hotel safe. However, a precaution will not hurt here either: ask the manager for a receipt for the receipt of valuables and do not forget to ask about compensation for damage in case of loss of things.

Rule #5

Write down in your phone the numbers of your relatives and the consulate or embassy of your country, as well as your email address (create a separate box that will not be used for anything else) in the language of the country where you are. Moreover, you can put a screenshot of the screen as a screen saver so that the numbers can be seen even when the phone is locked.

Rule number 6. Do not drink alcohol in unfamiliar company

The prospect of getting to know the locals more closely over a glass of something intoxicating looks, of course, tempting. However, an evening in an unfamiliar company can end far from being languid: the “best” thing that can happen to you is the loss of money or other material values.

Rule #7: Eat where the locals eat

If you are afraid of poisoning, pay attention to street stalls or cafes where many locals gather. In addition, if we are talking about Asia, where they simply love spicy food, ask for a dish “not spicy”, that is, not spicy, so you will save yourself from indigestion.

But vegetables and fruits, even bought in a supermarket, be sure to wash them, and not with running water, but with distilled water. If you are still afraid to eat them, remove the peel.

Rule #8

Forewarned is forearmed. Before you go to any country, even the safest, it would be useful to ask the locals about where it is better not to go even during the day. However, travel forums can also be useful for those who like non-standard routes, which only natives are aware of.

Rule #9

Pickpockets are very observant people and in any crowd they can always make out a foreign tourist. Of course, it is impossible to completely protect yourself from pickpocketing, but a little disguise as a local resident will significantly reduce the risk of being left without money and valuables. For example, in Europe people dress more modestly than in the US: Europeans wear shorts less often than Americans.

It will also be useful to familiarize yourself with the recommendations for choosing clothes for a particular country, so as not to accidentally violate someone's customs or, even worse, laws.