Travel is described as dead: either good or nothing, avoiding the unpleasant moments that often happen. In the light of recent events, our expectations from the upcoming trips are a priori overestimated. Our imagination, sitting within 4 walls, twisted the expectation to the maximum. And here reality can come, the one that amuses memes in the photo.
Fellow travelers
Your best friends can be disgusting travel companions, remember that. You spend evenings together, have dinner in a cafe, go to concerts, but more often than not you do not know each other in everyday life. It often happens that it will be more comfortable to travel with friends and close friends - everyone, out of politeness and tact, helps each other, and then it just becomes a habit.
Advice: It is often better to go alone than with friends. If we went and didn’t like something, then it’s best to say it directly and immediately. Your emotions will go on the journey, and not on gnashing your teeth about your friends. If you have nowhere to go, then disperse for a few hours, do what only you like - this will definitely help to recuperate.
High expectations
In Japan, there is such a thing as the Parisian syndrome. For the Japanese, Paris is a sacred city, which they dream to get from their youth. The French and France are examples of aesthetics, beauty, style, and grace. This is superimposed on the Japanese attitude towards customers, endless politeness, and lack of theft. The difference between expectation and reality brings more than ten Japanese people to a psychiatrist every year. Two-thirds bounce back, but the rest are diagnosed with psychosis. Therefore, listening to the exciting stories of friends that you should definitely visit this point on the map because this is the most delightful place on Earth, remember about the Japanese syndrome. Agree, there is a certain amount of bragging in such stories.
Tip: Analyze your own interests and those things that are unpleasant for you (for example, intrusive local and bargaining in the markets). And do not expect something supernatural from any place on earth, do not dream day and night, as you see Paris or New York - you risk being disappointed.
Food
Think back to yourself if you have a diary where you enter all your meals at all points of the trip. There is no such diary? Probably because it's absurd. There is TripAdvisor. Reviews are usually written only for bad establishments or services, but the writing of good ones is most often postponed or not written at all. Sticking to tactics, going where there are a lot of locals, doesn't always work either. For example, you can run into a local delicacy that is not something to eat, even scary to smell.
Tips: Before you travel, be sure to look for local blogs on the topic. There are many of them even in Russian. They will also help you to know the local cuisine in advance and not rush into an unexpected delicacy. The bonus will be that you understand the range of prices and in advance make a map of dinners in a particular region.
Chatting with strangers in hostels, hotels
Enthusiastic eyes and a desire to communicate most often betray single travelers. Everyone on the way is a friend and free ears. And for you? Endless "wow", "oh may bastard", "unbelievable", and a forced smile. Meeting a really interesting interlocutor is an impossible mission. And small talk from the series "where were you, and where I was" draw out strength and emotions.
Tip: There is nothing wrong with appearing "grampy rush" to your interlocutor. Do not hesitate to interrupt uninteresting communication! Your emotions should go on a journey, not on uninteresting people.
Impression
We go on a journey to constantly receive emotions. Each morning should begin with a busting of yesterday's events, the day should be eventful. Preferably in an authentic place (not for tourists!), Preferably with authentic locals. The need to receive emotions leads to the fact that you may not be moved by those places or events that you have been waiting for. On a trip, after all, you can't go home, relax for a day or sit and watch a movie in your usual home environment - you need to explore cities, consume cultural goods, study sights, and everyday life. And for this, at some point, the strength and desire simply cease to be enough
Tip: Do not plan a trip to a large number of cities: you will get tired of emotions after two or three and you simply cannot appreciate the beauty and spirit of everyone else. If the route is nevertheless planned for several cities, then try to go out into nature at least once, rent a house somewhere in the wilderness, take a walk by the lake or in the forest. It recharges great, and the next day you are ready for museums, galleries, cafes, and bars again.
While traveling, you encounter concentrated problems from everyday life: you step into a puddle and get caught in the rain, you may not make it to the museum or get a ticket for a ticketless ride, quarrel with a friend, or lose your bank card. You are also tired or sick. All this happens to everyone. People get tired of traveling, they just don't talk about it. Therefore, do not worry if the trip left you with unpleasant emotions: it is important to understand why it happened and understand what caused it. This will help in choosing the next destination and travel companions.
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