Missing Traveling? 7 Tips To Try Until You Can Get Back On The Road (Or Train Or Plane)

It's a difficult time to be a traveller. Though our primary goal of being safe at home during the Coronavirus lockdown is fulfilled, the pangs to hit the road and roam free do not subside easily. Possibly termed the nomads of the modern era, travellers are fuelled by the desire to visit a location they've researched on the internet, see the sunset from another view point, experiment with a unique cuisine in a different continent and experience new horizons. They live and breathe the discovery of fresh destinations. The COVID-19 lockdown has affected them rather greatly as staying put in the same place for too long is akin to stagnancy. If you're a die-hard traveller through and through, you'll know this all too well. The restlessness of being cooped up at home for too long, the frustration at your summer holiday plans being cancelled and dissatisfaction from wanderlust laying unfulfilled are very real.

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7 Travel Tips To Follow When You Can't Step Out Of The House

In the midst of a global pandemic for the safety of yourself and everyone around you, there is no option to visit any new places, physically at least. But no one said anything about mentally, right? Here's what you can do to keep that zest to roam within you burning bright even when you cannot physically travel currently.

1. Turn Digital To Physical

You've definitely got hard disks worth of photos from your trips across the world safely stored on your camera and phone. Use editing apps and a printer to print physical copies of your favourite photos. Add them to your home decor with fairy lights, in an album or in photo frames to take a nostalgia trip every time you see them. You may not be able to create new travel memories right now but recollecting the ones gone by can be quite the enjoyable blast from the past.

2. Practise Your Travel Hobby

Did you learn about marble sculpture when you visited Rome? Or was it straw weaving that you tried your hand at in Bali? Maybe you learned how to bake bread in your native village? Travel always teaches us something by way of an interest or skill, which can be enlightening. Jog your memory to trace back what it is and with the time you have on hand, use the resources of the internet to brush up on or perfect your travel-backed hobby.

3. Watch TV And Read Books

Fortunately, you can still travel with your imagination when you watch TV shows, movies and read books. There's no visa and passport needed there at least. Movies and shows based in different parts of the world will be a welcome addition to take your mental state to another land. Books too can have a similar effect and take your mind on a trip even though you're only in between pages.

4. Cook From Your Travel

No matter where you go, foreign foods are the highlight of every vacation you set out on. Whether it's pastrami sandwiches from America, chilly crab from Singapore, schnitzel from Germany or pizzas from Napoli, taking inspiration from your travel diet and bringing it into your kitchen can be joyous and reminiscent of your trips. 

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5. Educate Yourself

Love for travel doesn't always have to be physical. Learning about different cultures from around the world, the rituals they follow, the food they eat and the places they visit are available over the internet though documentaries and travel blogs. All you need to do is get clicking to make a head start there.

6. Share Your Experiences

Post your travel pictures and memories on social media to relive them. Not only will it get the comments rolling in, other travel fiends can feel at home with your pictures from around the world too.

7. Plan Your Next Trip

They say the best time to plan a vacation is when you return from one. It's never really too early to start making an agenda. You may not know when your next trip is but it's never to soon to start planning your itinerary, don't you think?

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