Spouse not wanting to travel?

[Jakob]

People who love travel prefer a solution where their partner wants to travel just as much but that's neither realistic or fair. There needs to be a reasonable compromise, although that can be hard when one person wants to go for 2 weeks and the other wants to go for 2 or 3 months.

Look at it from her perspective for a while...what would it take for you to want to travel less?

Yes, you have a good point. I’m thinking of travel that would have intermittent family/friends pit stops. To bring home away from home...

 

[Finance Dave]

From looking at pictures of Europe it seems like it is much more crowded than in the past. We always went in the off season also. We were in Italy in 2003, 2007 and Poland in 2009 and 2015. Especially Italy seems more crowded but maybe because airfares have become so reasonable.

IMO the crowded places are NOT the places to go. For example, when we spent 2 weeks in Germany a few years ago we stayed in Triberg, Frieberg, Rottenburg on der Tauber, and Fussen. All great cities with very little traffic. Yes, we had to fly into Munich and spent a day there...but that was it.