All your friends are posting photos from the sea, as if they had conspired together, and you still have a lot of work to do before your vacation? It’s an unpleasant situation, but it can be fixed. We’ll tell you how to create a vacation mood without leaving your hometown.
1. Have breakfast at a cafe
When traveling, even a regular breakfast turns into a pleasant event. You sit in a cozy coffee shop and enjoy strong coffee and a warm bun. Or you can’t decide what to choose from the abundance of dishes at the buffet: pancakes with syrup, an omelet with vegetables, or granola with fruit.
Why not have a relaxed, leisurely breakfast in the city? Head to the nearest cafe or cook a holiday-inspired dish yourself. It’s not that difficult to do. For example, you can buy orange juice and frozen croissants that you bake in the morning.
2. Go to the beach
For many, the ideal vacation picture is lying on a sun lounger with a cocktail in hand and listening to the surf. This can be done in your hometown without leaving anywhere.
Go to the beach or to a suburban holiday home – there you can pay for a day membership and relax all day in a beautiful and well-kept area. Or explore the open-air city pools, where you can also play the role of a vacationer. Just don’t forget a wide-brimmed hat and sunscreen .
3. Stay overnight at a hotel
This option is heavy artillery, more significant expenses will be required. But you will wake up on snow-white sheets, take a shower with gel from a cute jar with the hotel logo, wrap yourself in a fluffy robe and order breakfast directly to your room. Vacation mood is guaranteed.
4. Spend the whole day outdoors
When traveling, the days are incredibly busy: sightseeing in the morning, a museum and lunch in a cafe in the middle of the day, and walks along noisy tourist streets in the evening. As a result, there are a ton of impressions left, and there is no time to scroll through the feed on social networks.
You can repeat such a day in your hometown. Choose a sunny day off and spend it as if you were on vacation: take a walk, have a bite to eat in a cafe, go to an art gallery or look into cute shops with souvenirs and other pleasant little things.
5. Explore a new place
When going on holiday to another city or country, we try to prepare in advance. We make a list of interesting sights, study history and culture.
There are probably places in your hometown that you have never been to. For example, a small museum, a remote area, hiking trails in a nearby forest park. Choose an interesting destination and go there “as a tourist.” This will help create a vacation mood.
6. Do some outdoor sports
Cycling , paddle boarding, yoga in the park, beach volleyball, mini golf, badminton or the trendy padel – there are many options for enjoyable activities in the warm season.
You can try something on your own. And to master new and difficult sports like longboarding or rock climbing, it is better to contact a trainer. This way you will master everything faster and without injuries.
7. Try a national dish of another country
Every trip is always a bit of gastrotourism . How can you not try real pizza in Italy, echpochmak in Kazan or seafood in Vladivostok? The good news is that many unusual dishes can be tried at home.
Look for national cafes in your city or cook something simple yourself. Thus, you can go on a real gastronomic journey thanks to the recipe book by Irina Chadeeva ” Culinary Geography “.
8. Buy a vacation scent
Remember the feeling when after a long winter you smear your usual sunscreen on your body for the first time, and this smell in a matter of minutes takes you to the sea, to a vacation? This is how fragrances . Our brain reliably associates them with certain memories.
This property can be used consciously. For example, take perfume or body mist on vacation that you usually don’t use. In the future, this smell will be associated with travel and will evoke pleasant emotions. And if you haven’t yet managed to acquire a fragrance with a vacation mood, then just try some summer smell – grass, sea and ripe fruits.
9. Take more photos
On vacation, you want to take pictures of everything – a beautiful breakfast, a funny seagull on the embankment, and yourself in a new outfit. This way, we seem to preserve pleasant moments so that we can return to them again later.
But you can do this on weekdays too. Photos will motivate you to pay attention to the bright moments. And to remember to take pictures, you can start a personal blog. You don’t have to have hundreds of subscribers — even a microblog for yourself and your closest friends will do.
10. Plan the perfect vacation
Yes, you are not on vacation right now. But you will be someday, right? Why not dream about vacation in advance?
Where would you like to spend these days? You can choose a hotel, find cheaper tickets , think about your wardrobe. You will kill two birds with one stone: immerse yourself in a pleasant holiday atmosphere right now and prepare for your future trip.