>going on holiday to Paris and London during Christmas break from work>felt worry and dread last night>felt dread before taxi took me to airport>now on my way there and strongly feel like going straight back home and doing nothing Is this normal? I'm travelling alone as an ugly male and I'm just going to walk around and look at old stuff.I've already paid for everything.
You might as well get your money's worth and stay
>>2849668>Is this normal?yes. it's quite common to feel this kind of reluctance when setting out on a journey. it usually goes away a bit once you get on the plane. i find having a rough schedule in mind that reminds you of why you wanted to go to those cities in the first place can help (although over-planning things also has its own risks). also remember that you don't actually need to do anything you don't want to, it's ok to just stay in your hotel room and spend the whole day wanking if you feel like it, although even the filthy streets of london feel kind of different at this time of year so you would be missing out a bit>I'm just going to walk around and look at old stuff.that's cool anon but make sure you double check the opening hours and so on, some places have seasonal hours or close down completely at this time of year
>>2849668No it's not normal. Nigga you paid, just go. >traveling aloneI hope you're staying in a hostel
>>2849668Yeah actually this is normal, it's called getting cold feet. I almost did this on my last international trip the night before, I said, why am I doing this? Guess what, when I came back home after the trip I said, I am glad I did that.
>>2849668>do something exciting >feel anxious Sounds pretty normal to me
OP here. I ended up going and I'm here and it's going fine so far.
>>2849963based /trv/er. Trip report thread?
>>2849963Post itinerary and to-do list
>>2849668>>2849963It's normal and you're a normal person. Couples as a social structure are failing in the west and going abroad with a woman is a torture anyways. Solo traveling is what's normal in 2025.Avoid the Champs Elysées and the Eiffel Tower on New Years Eve, it gets violent evey other year.Keep us updated.
>>2850055>Solo traveling is what's normal in 2025.yeah if you're a dysfunctional mouthbreatherdon't try to normalise your lonely existence. for most of humanity travelling with our partners is the normi had to count 11 empty boxes to post this. what the fuck is going on with the world
>>2850058>About ~46% of U.S. adults are unmarried (“single” in the broad sense).This includes people who have never married, are divorced, or widowed >Around ~30% of U.S. adults are truly single (not married, not cohabiting, and not in a committed relationship).So fuck off cuck, with your dumb bitch. Bringing your whore pig gf for a travel is like bringing your own food to a restaurant.
>>2850064>U.S. adultsnobody cares>fuck off cuck>dumb bitch.>whore pig gfcertainly can't see any reason why you're single anon. you sound like quite a catch
>>2850065>you sound like quite a catchthanks i take it as a compliment.
Glad to see /trv/ being nice for a change
>>2849981I posted about my previous trip here https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2818975 and this is the second time I've been to Paris as an adult, so I have no expectations or pressure to do anything for this trip.I went walking during both days, including in the evening.I went to the Louvre for over 3 hours and it was enjoyable even though I went a few months ago. I saw large parts that I totally missed last time.I haven't eaten anything for over two days, since I was at the airport. I have only had a Starbucks coffee, Coke Zero, bubblegum, and a zero calorie Monster (don't normally drink that but wanted to see what it was like). I will eat tomorrow, probably fast food and some of the new sweets I saw at the supermarket.During my last trip I put off having any French food at French cafes or restaurants until the final day. I liked it but my huge aversion to independent cafes and restaurants is still here. I see them packed with normies and I can't bear the thought of eating there and being looked down upon by the normie customers and employees.Everywhere is crowded because it's the holidays. The weather is normal and fine. I think I'll go to some tourist attractions tomorrow because walking around is becoming a bit played out.
>>2850081>During my last trip I put off having any French food at French cafes or restaurants until the final day. I liked it but my huge aversion to independent cafes and restaurants is still here.You can at last get sandwiches at the bakeries.Otherwise yeah, french food is pretty much sit-down restaurants but there's levels to it, there's 2 categories:>restaurant gastronomique (up to Michelin stars restaurants) and anything tradtionnal or mom&pop restaurants.You're expected to be 2 or more, those restaurants are seen having a good time with other people>Bistrot, restaurant routier (for the working class during the week), restaurant universitaire, fastfood jointsThese you can go alone, especially Bistrots with seatings like picrel. No one will look at you twice if you go there alone (sit on the banquette, not on the opposite chair, obviously)
>>2850081>>2850092Also on Bistrots (just google map bistrot) a lot of them look traditional but are actually chains, so don't feel stuck like you're going to a mom and pop restaurant.Bistrots are the ancestors of fast food joints, the name bistrot comes from the russian word "быcтpo" meaning fast.
>>2850081You also have buffet restaurants like Flunch (there's not many in Paris because it's a snobbish city), one in Montmarte and one in Beaubourg. It won't be high cuisine but it's better than not eating.
>>2849668>I'm just going to walk around and look at old stuff.Well this isn't something you are obliged to do at all. What are your interests?
OP here. I went to 3 tourist attractions today, including the Musee d'Orsay, which was packed with wall to wall le art hoes. I'm not knowledgeable about art but that museum definitely has a lot of extremely impressive work and is worth visiting. I also visited a castle, which was enjoyable.I ate yesterday and today, though only Starbucks, McDonalds, and Burger King. I was going to go to a small independent coffee shop but it was so small that sitting there would have felt embarrassing and contrived. My skin crawls when going to any non-chain store and thinking of how much the people who work there and the customers would look down on me and see me as an ugly loser.In my previous holiday, which was my first for many years, I was so overcome with feelings of pointlessness and worry about how nothing was really happening during the trip in terms of feeling connected with the environment. This time is different and I am very easily floating in the existential and meaning void.
>>2850660jesus anon you sound like a fucking mess
I went walking around today along a canal and through a few parks and a graveyard. Christmas Day is barely different from a regular day, except all museums are closed.I am in Burger King right now. I couldn't bear going into a French cafe or brasserie or boulangerie because of proximity to normies or being judged for what or how I order by employees
>>2850872Christmas is not the best time to solo travel.Solo travelers should only travel off season.Keep on pushing, maybe you'll end up being a normal person (probably not, but what's the alternative anyways). Did you try getting drunk a few days and see what happens?
>>2850912No. I had a red velvet latte and had my first bit of junk food for over a week. Not out of cravings but more out of wanting to try French sweets (which taste the same as British ones). I think their is Ozempic in the air supply here because I haven't felt cravings or hunger since I landed here.
Just head over to Corcoran's and have a few beer with the lads and play some pool or darts.It's that simple.
>>2850872You'll get much more judgement going to a burger king or mcd than eating at a random restaurant desu
It's my final hour in Paris before going to the airport. No French food or drink eaten. Just American fast food and coffee. I can't bear the image of myself going into some French store and ordering something. It's like imagining myself going into a dance class or something. Being ugly is a second to second embarrassment.The architecture in the middle of the city, from the Arc de Triomphe down, I think, Avenue de Foch, is very good and mogs other cities.
>>2851085>No French food or drink eaten. Just American fast food and coffee.Dude I think you genuinely need therapy. Nobody in France gives a fuck that you don't speak French, if they do they're probably just RN rejects.
>>2849668>goes to Paris>gets Paris Syndromehow could this happen drill seargent?
>>2854122anon did you really have to bring this stupid fucking thread back from the dead>Nobody in France gives a fuck that you don't speak Frenchyou have clearly never experienced waiters in paris. they have a level of cuntiness than even the cunts on here can only ever aspire to
>>2851085This is what autism looks like
>>2850872I think you need to realize that no one on earth could possibly give a fuck about you at all. You are likely the least memorable person anyone has ever seen, I would be blown away if any of these people you are so worried about are even thinking about you by the time they turn to a coworker to facilitate your order.
>>2854128Dude I know many restaurant people from Paris, they really don't fucking care as long as you're not a dick. Sure you'll get the occasional eye-rolling prick who's lamenting over serving someone who doesn't speak or read French but its nowhere as common as it was 20 years ago.
