Holidays and Travelling

Travelling is very important and very common. People all around the world travel from various reasons: one of them is tourism – especially during the summer holidays. Another reason is that people want to see world‘s famous and interesting places. Some people travel for a business or for political, cultural reasons or scientfic purposes. Many people travel because it is exciting, they can see new places, meet new people and friends, eat unusual meals or to get know an exciting experiences.

In the other way travelling has also disadvantages. We can meet bad people, we can get lost in foreign country and city, be murdered or our money or laguggage may be stolen or the travelling can be for some people expensive.

There are many kinds of travelling:
Young people do hitchhiking or just hiking. Some prefer travelling by car,by ship, by air, train or by bus.These two are most frequent means of public transport, which is cheaper but also less comfortable. Someone prefer travelling on a motorcycle or riding a bike. Some people prefer romantic kinds of traveling like on a yacht, balloning, canoeing and so on.
When someone want go abroad he must get necessary documents like passport and if is there need also visa, money in currency of the country he goes to or credit card and also assurance. If someone travelling by train (fast, express) he needs tickets – single or return, season ticket. And if he fly he need fly tickets. He should speak some foreign language to make himself understood. Most people all around the world speak English or German.
But travelling doesn’t mean only going abroad. Many people stay at home and see interesting places of their country.

Travelling takes up more time in our lives than most of us can imagine. An everyday form of travelling may be shopping, commuting to school or job, visiting friends. In town when someone hasn’t own means of transport rely on the public transportion service like trams, buses or underground.
In our country there many state or private travel agencies. Trough this agencies people have their trips, tickets an accomomdation reserved. We can aranged a lot of kinds of trips: cultural trips for sightseeing or knowing the country, recreation stays in the mountains or at the seaside.
For travelling we can use a lot of kinds of luggage: a knapsacks for longer journey like sport trip, we can fix a tent and sleeping bag to it. We use a rucksack when we going for a walk or to school. We use a suitcase when we go by air or coach and we don’t need to carry it often.
 
In our country are many short holidays during the school year: autumn holidays which last only few days; christmas holidays which last for 11 eleven days in which people celebrate christmas and new year, on these holidays i am usually with my family for few days, we visit my grandparents and the other relation and than a i am with my friends and we prepare for New Year‘s Eve; spring holidays last one week, on these holidays  we usually go in Austria in Alps to sky; easter holidays last only few days, people draw on eggs and prepare themselves for eastern customs;and the longest summer holidays, which last for two months. My last summer holidays a spent first three weeks in England in Brighton. It was the international language course and i was one of the odlest people there. We lived in families with other students of this course and attended school. In afternoon or morning (it was up our activity leader) we had free time. We also made some trips in the other cities like Hastings, Canterbury or Isle of Wight. In free time we could do some acitvity, ehich prepared our activity leader – like bowling, laser games, barbecue, sporting etc. or we could do something on our own.

When i came back i was in Prague till the last week in holiday In these ten days i was with my boyfriend. We visited some exhibitions, we saw some films in cinema and because it was very hot weather we swam a lot. Than i worked in my mother’s law office for three weeks. In the last week of my holidays i was with my family in Rome. It was really terrible trip. When we came there first of all a false taxi-driver stole my grandparent’s bag with their passports, money, mobile phone, medicne, glasses. So we spend our first evening at police office. Next day my grandparents went to ambassy and everything was allright, they became new passports. But in Rome there are many thieves so man has to be very carefull. Every day someone tried to mainly in underground stole us something. Except this it was very nice. I saw many very important sights of Rome and I liked it.