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When we’ve planned a trip away, we spend weeks looking forward to that fun in the sun while we stock up on tiny bottles of shampoo and a new-season bikini. We even spend our last pre-vacation days at work in a fog of excitement, imagining all of the life-changing experiences we’re going to have while we’re away. Yet, most often within a few hours of getting back into the daily grind after our trips, we can start to feel as though they never even happened.
Call it post- vacation blues if you want, but the fast-fading nature of time away can be pretty devastating. Luckily, it doesn’t need to be like that, especially not if you think about different ways to keep those memories alive. To help you achieve that goal and keep your post-vacation buzz strong for that bit longer, we’re going to consider what exactly goes into ensuring a vacation that (sort of) lasts a lifetime.
Step 1: Capture the best memories
While most of us make a half-hearted effort to take vacation pictures here and there, few of us truly perfect this focus either because we don’t have room to pack a camera, or because we don’t have the storage on our phones to last us the entire time. In reality, though, nothing beats keeping vacation memories alive than having pictures you can return to time and again, or even post on your Instagram. Plus, capturing these memories needn’t be the complicated process that you assume it to be.
Phone photos are especially great as cloud storage makes sure that you never lose those all-important snaps. Downloading an app like Gemini photos before you head off can even make it easier to sort through duplicates/blurry pictures to clear storage at the end of each vacation day! Even if you fancy a more traditional route, most airports still sell disposables that you could slip in your hand luggage and then use to furnish either a photo album or those photo frames that have been sitting around empty at home for so long! Either way, you can bet your vacation won’t fade half as easily when you have evidence of it staring you in the face!
Step 2: Take time to learn the language
Vacations might not last forever, but knowledge typically does, meaning that feeling the long-lasting benefits of a vacation could also come down to simply learning the language while you’re away. Whether you pack a language dictionary or download an app, making specific efforts to speak in local dialects can especially see you developing a skill that you take with you for the rest of your life, and that you always attribute to this trip that might otherwise fade from memory.
Perhaps even more long-lasting in the language stakes is the fact that learning languages while you travel is a great way to meet new friends and acquaintances. These can last long after your trip is over, leading to a vacation memory that can keep on growing with long-distance communications or even future trips/visits together. And, the entire time, you’ll reminisce fondly over the vacation that made it all possible.
Step 3: Look for places to return to
While some travelers would rather see new sights than return to the same places, finding locations worth heading back to can be another great way to carry your trip across a lifetime. If that sounds appealing to you, then taking the time to find great hotels that you can’t get enough of, or even just views that you’d love in your life forever, can therefore work wonders for the long-lasting benefits, and thus memorable potential, of any trip that you take.
Get this right by truly settling on locations that make your heart sing, and you may even find that one trip leads to an overseas move that changes your life for good. It doesn’t get better than this for creating memories that are guaranteed to last, and every single day, you’ll likely be reminded of the once-in-a-lifetime vacation that made it possible. You might even furnish your new apartment with a canvas print of those pictures you took in the first place!
The fading feeling of a trip in the past can worsen those post-vacation blues and highlight the need to head away again before you can realistically afford it. Avoid that fate by considering these fantastic ways to ensure that your vacation buzz, and the strength of those memories, stick with you for that little bit longer.
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