Tour operators, travel gurus, bloggers (present company excluded), airlines, sealines, adventure providers, you name it, they have it covered. ‘It’ being the holiday of a lifetime.
Media moguls are having a ball. A holiday abroad no longer a luxury. It’s a right. Something you demand, for fear of missing out. Not living a life. Long gone are the days when it had to be scrimped and saved for. Now there are so many ‘must sees’ it can be bewildering, even when touring one single country.
Touring as we are, we can’t escape the wily web of touristic enticements. Not that we want to. The world is our oyster. There to experience. Some of the ‘must sees’ are our retirement’s raison d’être. Like a couple of rampant butterflies, we’re happiest when we’re flitting from flower to flower.
Today we flit the 240K over to Borgund. Alight on its 800 years old Stave Church. We’ve seen a couple already, but this one is hugely different. Looks as if it wouldn’t be out of place in the far east.
Its 1868 replacement hardly used today, through lack of a local population.
