FRANCELY SPEAKING
When I Travel to France…
… I choose to skip Paris
Travel is not about planning every time, but it is always about the execution; this is something I have become aware of after having travelled for well over two decades, and visited 70-odd countries, many hundred cities and a lot of the countryside.
On multiple occasions during a given year, the compulsory leaves beg to be utilized. They dreamed of new destinations. For someone who loves to travel — albeit not the touristy kind — it is usually the elaborate journeys that I cherish the most.
There are times when I indulge in some planning, keeping the crowd factor in mind. Otherwise, I simply set off to a new destination sans any plan. Truth be told, it is possibly the best way to surprise oneself. Besides, I believe you should always travel whenever possible. You can never say when things come to a standstill and plans go for a toss.
For instance, the year 2020 began on a beautiful note. On the New Year, I left Seville for Malaga. The plan was fairly simple — to explore Costa del Sol (Coast of the Sun) in the New Year. While Malaga was without doubt going to be the base, high on the agenda was to travel to smaller places in the region like Estepona, Fuengirola, Marbella… all the way to the border town of La Linea and then, to…
