Hobbies

I don't know if this counts as a hobby.

Travelling on coach holidays and exploring new places, this fits in with my photography hobby.

At one time I was terrified to travel on these type of trips.   I didn't know how to behave in hotels or how to cope with travelling with complete strangers or how I would cope with  my lack of foreign languages

Then I did thirteen trips in one year.  And I realised that this could be considered obsessive behaviour.

My trips in 2015 were.

• Scotland.  4 days
• South Devon   5 days
• Ireland   4 days
• North Devon. 4 days
• Cornwall.  5 days
• Midlands. 4 days
• Kent.  5 days
• Belgium  5. days
• Belgium again 7 days
• Germany 5 days
• Italy 7 days
• Holland 5 days
• Scotland again 5 days.

I got to see a lot of countryside, different cities, met many interesting people.  Enough hotel experience for a lifetime.  Went by Eurostar twice.  Ferries 12 times.

It's a nice hobby but expensive.

Which places did you feel most welcome? Received most Open mindedness? 

If you say Kent, I'll be surprised.  It's a very strange place.  People are generally quite insular and not very friendly.  Maybe that's why it kind of suits me - not that I'm insular in other ways.  Judging by some of the attitudes I've heard on the streets and read in the local papers over the years, people are pretty reactionary.

Where did you visit in South Devon?  I used to live near Totnes.

I used to live in Devon too, and Cornwall 

I used to live in Devon too, and Cornwall