10 days exactly. And then I am going for the long awaited vacation. Yeeee!!
The ‘it will come.. it will come..’ wait is the best part. It has all the excitement and expectations, and the pleasure of waiting adds the cherry on the top. Counting days in sweet anticipation. And then it happens. All the fun and excitement makes it pass with the wink of the eye. And soon it becomes a lovely memory.
And I have 10 more days to count before I go for the holiday..
I love to travel. And a new city is beckoning me..
And for me, the pre- and post-travel phases are no less fun than the journey itself. Deciding where to go, when to go, and then waiting for the day when I will pack my bags and venture to explore a new place; all these are a part of the pleasure that traveling brings.
How I waited for those family vacations when I was little! Parents would discuss and decide for the place. I barely had any role to play in this discussion. Going somewhere during the long school vacations was all I wanted. And if it was mountains, it was the best! Months before the vacation, I would eagerly ask if we were going somewhere for the vacation. Every time my face shone with a broad smile after I was told the name of the place. And next followed all those questions enquiring the little details. Where is this place, mountains or sea? When are we going? For how long are we going? What all places are we going to see? Are we going with train? How long is the journey to the place? And many more.. Furnished with all these details, the next day I would proudly announce and brag about our awaited vacation in school. I was not required to bother with the intricacies of the journey. Counting days in anticipation and excitement was all I did.
Then in those years of growing up, I slowly started taking part in the discussion. I would suggest regarding probable places to go. Read and ask in more details about the places we were intending to visit. Maybe would read about an interesting place and suggest about going there. I would read more about the sightseeing and enquire in more details the travel plan. However, in the end, parents were still the main deciding head behind the travel plans. My contribution was more suggestion than decision. And in all these little contributions, the counting of days remained. I planned for the vacation and waited for it.
And then last summer, for the first time I fully planned my own vacation. Duties at school and work had not allowed us to think about vacation before, and we had no real plans. Somehow it just decided to go for a vacation sometime in August. It was already July when we started planning. We wished to go to the Slovenian mountains; and for the other part of the vacation, I really wished to go to Rome. And when it was made final and the vacation proponed a bit, we were only left with less than 2 weeks to arrange everything. The Slovenian part of the vacation was sort of already decided and planned, just the dates were fixed. However, travel to Rome required a planning from the scratch. As Blaž looked for accommodation, transport and insurance; I was busy making the sightseeing itinerary. Browsing through the internet and travel book, I came up with an initial plan. Each day was packed with visiting churches, piazzas, museums and walks. And next came pre-booking the passes for the most visited places online. Busy days passed browsing the internet. And before we knew, the vacation already started. There was no counting days for it!! The excitement was much more. It was after all my first vacation on my own. But somewhere I missed waiting for it in all the rush.
And now, yet again summer has come. And this time it is all sort of planned already. Of course again the last week is going to be busy as always with hundreds of small errands to be done. I have to go through the sightseeing plans in more details and read about the places more. Maybe I will have some more suggestions and wishes. There are bags to pack and documents to arrange. And there is always something to be done at work. So, days are going to be busy. But, amidst all these busy days, I will be counting. A counting that had started long back when this travel plan was just an idea. A counting that is adding more fun to everything and increasing the excitement and expectations. A counting that adds an extra flavor to the already perfect vacation.
I am eagerly waiting and counting.
10 more days to go….
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