I just came back from two weeks in Romania completely exhausted. First few days in Bucharest, Constanta and Brasov were great, I travelled a lot on foot from place to place and seen a lot of shit, but after a few days it started to get a bit boring and depressing. The original itinerary was for around three weeks but I came back after only two without seeing everything I originally planned to, though I covered most of it.So I'm thinking the ideal time is between 7 to 10 days.
>>2827011>So I'm thinking the ideal time is between 7 to 10 days.If you aren't getting a full months holiday you might want to not even bother and stay in the US
>>2827014Nah the US is the worst for travel. It would be better to stay home.
There’s no ideal length for a trip. For every person who insists that less than a month is worthless there’s someone who only likes weekend getaways.But in my case, it’s going to depend on how long it takes to get there and how much ground I intend to cover after I land. I prefer shorter, more frequent trips in general, and I usually don’t like to move around much after I arrive. So I can be very satisfied with a trip that’s only a week long, or less in some cases (done a lot of weekend/3 day jaunts over the years, which I love as long as the travel time is <3hrs), if I am mostly staying put. I can comfortably spend time in two places/towns/cities/regions with ten days, and might add a third destination if I’ve got a full two weeks away.I get sick of living out of a bag within about three weeks. The longest single trip I’ve ever taken was about two months long and unusually geographically far-ranging for me (a total of seven countries on three continents, with multiple long-haul flights, and multiple domestic destinations in some of the countries), and while I’m glad I did it, I was more than ready to go home by the end of it.If the flight to get somewhere is longer than 8 hours, I usually want to stay more than a week. But I’ve made exceptions.
>>2827260>theres no ideal lengthYeah this anon summed it up well. Its really just breaks down to a personal preference.The part thats tough for me is that my energy and mood for travel can chance very quickly. Meaning that like you, I plan a 3 week trip but 10 days in im all nutted out and ready to go home. Thats when changable airfare is handy.I used to always just buy one-way tickets but nowadays I usually enjoy having a return date planned because it makes it easier to live it up while I can
>>2827011depends on what you're going for.if you're a tickbox sightseeing fag who must see 'everything', then that's only sustainable for 3-4 days, imo.I much prefer larping as a local and taking my time; soaking up the atmosphere of a place. For that, 3-4 weeks seems to work.If I'm on an 'adventure' hopping place to place, and carving out a route from a-b, then 2-3 weeks.
>>2827011What was the general itinerary in Romania? Did you have other cities lined up too?
About 4-5 years.
>>2827508Bucharest 4 days Constanta 1 day Brasov and The Prahova Valley (Sinaia, Bran, Campina, Rasnov) 2 days Sighisoara 1 day -> Cluj Napoca 1 day -> The Carpathian Mountains 2 days -> Sibiu (and Hunedoara) 3 days. Wanted to see Iasi, Suceava, Alba Iulia, Oradea, Arad, Timisoara and Craiova as well, but meh, it's a big country and that's just the way things go. Will do another trip one day.
>>2827510>4-5 yearsNot sure if you’re being totally sincere or just joking, but this is obviously an option, as is the perpetually nomadic/always traveling lifestyle. While I’ve never personally felt quite rootless enough to want to keep moving forever, I’ve spent two extended periods (3.5 years when I was young, 6.5 years much later, when I wasn’t anymore) as a full-time expat. In both cases, I was able to enjoy a semi-permanent home base from which I took short local/regional trips as often as I could.I’m really grateful to have been able to do that, but I would never suggest that it is an ideal—expatriate life can be immensely rewarding, but it can just as easily be socially and emotionally damaging. I’ve known dozens of serial expats who have chosen to be bounced all over the world for decades, their entire adult lives, usually by their ostensibly impressive multinational corporate careers, and a lot of them end up really weird, neurotic, unhappy people. And it can be particularly taxing for people who have or want families (although it doesn’t have to be, and certainly isn’t always). Lots of divorces and children who grow up resentful.
>>2827011I got tired of Europe at the two week point as well.
Green is train and blue is busThis was a two week trip
Americans might assume the last map is a highway map of Poland. It's not. It's a passenger railroad map.
