Traveling inspire, traveling invigorating. Traveling also reveals your biggest quirks, insecurity and ticks, often before the plane seat belt panel is even deactivated.
Whether it's a vacation bag with a new lover or an old friend, do not leave a lack of communication bothering your big trip. Before completing your safety belt – on a plane, a train, a car or otherwise – with someone with whom you have not traveled before, make sure to discuss all these types of uncomfortable and completely necessary subjects.
Good trip, Friends!
1. Money, money, money.
It's embarrassing, but you must both talk about it. Before reservation of a single piece or activity, withdraw to the Nitty Gritty as to the quantity that you are ready to spend for flights, hotels, food and so on.
The compromise is essential, but – excuse me while I put my hat from financial advisor – do not blow your contribution will go for the year by gushing for the four seasons everywhere. Be frank on your budget with your travel partner: “I really don't want to spend more _____ on _____.” Opt for the airbnb which is in your price range but in the neighborhood it wants. Refund quickly. Know that you may spend more on certain things that are not a necessity for you, but that your travel partner is probably doing the same. In reason, let go. You are on vacation, after all!
It helps to determine certain scenarios in a preventive way. Are you going to divide the tab in two if you ordered the steak and it ordered a salad? Are you going to spend the afternoon at the museum ($ 18 / ticket) or the beach (free)? Are you going to take the metro or a taxi?
2. Leave me alone, are you going?
A little of myself is an absolute necessity, so find ways to sneak every day without giving the impression that you abandon your travel bud. Go for a morning walk while they are driving again. Take a walk on the floor of a shop while they are at the bottom. Accept to separate from a few hours and meet to discuss your solo adventures during dinner.
3. Good appetite.
“Are you hungry? What do you want to eat? Does this place look good? Do you have a glass of wine?
Eating for three meals a day during travel can become exhausting And Dear, especially if you try to marry someone else's tastes and food needs with yours. You may want to dive into a plate of oysters; They could go directly to golden arches for MCSomething.
If you rent a place with a kitchen, plan to go Dutch on the grocery store. Buy enough to cover breakfast and noon grigs so that you can start your mornings slowly and discuss the route of the day together. Whatever you do, whatever you eat, just be sure to talk about your eating habits before taking off – Stop in the immigration line in an airport around the world is not the time to announce that you are now vegan.
4. Airport label.
How do you arrive at the airport – convince your friend who owes you a favor to take a look or spend too much on an Uber? Do you arrive at the airport from boarding or do you like to be hours earlier? Do you want to sit together on the plane? Do flights make you anxious? Do you want to drink 15 Bloody Marys in the Delta Sky Club? Do you usually sleep during flights? Do you have a match plan for Jetlag?
Discuss, discuss, discuss.
5. Let's talk about sex, baby.
Are you going to have it? One with each other? Once, I thought I was going on a platonic trip with a Platonic friend who thought the opposite. Not cool. This made the rest of the trip clumsy and, for a while, it made our friendship clumsy.
If you travel with a new partner and have already done the right action, congratulations! Holiday sex is the sexiest sex. If you travel with a single girlfriend, have a frank conversation on what will happen if one of you meets a dreamy Parisian bartender. Fortunately, will she take care for an hour for you and Whatsname and this bottle of wine that he introduced as a smuggling under his coat can have your apartment in the studio? Or will it not approve to you and not summarize you for the rest of the trip?
You don't need me to remind you that friendship is first. Every day, I thank the gods of the sexy man I met this Moroccan football player in a shopping center in Montreal in 2012, but if my travel boyfriend did not approve that I made an impromptu appointment with him, the stories were not worth the lost friendship.
6. Beer, wine, all good.
One of my favorite memories of ever is when a girlfriend and I have become appropriately in Rioja in Seville, Spain and that we are lying at our hotel, slamming almost the four ankles of the winding and paved streets. We drank, we laughed, we hit the hay with headache. If we had not been on the same length of letting go above this dinner, how much you want to bet the scene – American noisy tripping in the street, laughs at herself and her country – would not have been so charming for one of us. I don't want to keep an adult human; I don't want an adult human to keep me.
Drink if you wish, not if you don't. But be aware of the way your travel partner feels and how you will both come home healthy and satisfied.
7. Repetition time.
Rituals at bedtime can be a sacred thing. Personally, I need a long, calm and introverted wind turbine before relaxing. A book, a newspaper and eight hours of sleep are for me. While you may want to stand up until 5:00 am, your travel boyfriend might want to get up at 5:00 am on the same wavelength.
In addition, there is no good time to discover that someone snores. Bring ear caps in case.
Easy, right? Now go. Go see the world.
And remember, you can always just travel alone Also.
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Megan is a writer, publisher, etc. – ER who thinks about life, design and trips for Domino, Lonny, Hunker and more. Its rules of life include, but without limiting itself: the zipper when fusion, cash advice and contribute to your IRA. Be a boyfriend and subscribe to his newsletter Night vision or follow it Instagram.
