Travel Breaks I Can Do Without

When I say that I’m retired, people often respond by asking where I’m planning to go on my travels. Frankly, I’m not a great traveller. For the most part, give me the garden, a good book and a glass of wine and I’m in heaven.

 

Today, Gavan Naden in the Guardian has put together ten further reasons why I have no desire to go dashing off on travel breaks, his list of ten breaks that most people could do without.

 

I see that one of the breaks is based in the land of my birth: A Two Day Celebration of Animals at the BrightLife Centre in the Isle of Man. Reading the synopsis of this is enough to make me despair for the future of the human race. Yes, I know that there are people doo-lalley enough to believe in this crap, but it really makes me fear for the waste of brains that is going on. The Centre appears to be a hotbed of hocus-pocus and pseudoscience. I see one of the other courses is an "Angel Experience Day" – the synopsis of this makes for depressing reading for anyone with a smattering of rationality as well. At least I suppose I can be thankful that this day, unlike a similar course offered in South Africa does not appear to have a "Fun exercises with the Angels" segment.

 

Given the choice between a stay at the BrightLife Centre and Bog-snorkelling in Wales, I think I would almost choose the bog-snorkelling. It may be crap I would be swimming in, but at least it’s good honest crap with no pretensions to being other than what it is.