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Activity Holidays, the Future Is Here

ByThe Skeptical Traveler

Unfortunately, only the thought of going to a place where most of the time I would go to a beach bores me to tears. Not even the fact that I could use hotel points makes it better. So I have made a decision to learn something during my vacation even if it might cost more. I have been doing some research (nice term for using Google) and there seems to be a plethora of sites for activity holidays (I would have been very surprised not to).

Some of these sites that I have come across:

www.travel-quest.co.uk
“Travel-quest is a human edited specialist travel directory, each entry is checked and reviewed by an experienced editor. We list adventure and activity holidays, vacations, trips, tours, residential courses and weekends away in the UK, throughout Europe, in the USA, North America and world-wide – try us for sports, action, culture, crafts, relaxation …”

Cricket, cliff jumping, archery, beer, ballet, embroidery, astronomy, ghost, etc. there seems to be something for everyone. The image shows a webpage from a travel directory website. The page is titled "travel-quest: SPECIALIST TRAVEL LISTINGS" and features various sections and links related to different types of holidays and travel activities. On the left side, there is a yellow box with text describing the website's purpose and a list of travel categories such as "Activity/Adventure Holidays," "Special Holiday Categories," and "Holiday Offers & Specials." The main content area includes links to specific types of holidays like "Ball/Racquet Sports," "Cycling," "Equestrian/Horse," "Fishing/Angling," and more. There is also a search box on the right side for users to search the site. The top of the page has a banner with the website's logo and a promotional image.

www.facilitutors.com
“… I had the idea of Facilitutors – the education destination, which offers very reasonably priced advertising to venue owners, tutors and course providers and is a one stop shop for anyone looking for a course or a venue in France.  If you can’t find what you’re looking for, I will do my best to find it for you, for free.”

One of the activities ‘pig keeping’ is not for me but ‘Savons-Fabrication’(soap making) could come in handy if the economy goes into recession or my job is off-shored. Alt text: A screenshot of a website named "French Tutors" that offers online courses and resources in French. The top section includes a login option, a search bar to find courses by subject, type, and area, and links to register for free newsletters, follow on social media, and access a blog. Below the header, there are various images related to French culture, such as a French flag, a croissant, and a book.A dropdown menu is displayed on a webpage, showing a list of various courses. The highlighted course in the dropdown menu is "Savona - Fabrication." Other courses listed include "Music - Rock Academy Beau," "Musical Theatre Summer Can," "Orthographe et Grammaire," "Painting," "Painting - en Plein Air," "Painting - Watercolour," "Patchwork," "Photography," "Physics," "Piano," "Pig Keeping," "Poetry Writing," "Sculpture," "Sewing," "Soap making," "Song-Writing," "Spinning," "Teaching English as a Foreign," "Textile Art," "Théâtre," "Tir à l'Arc," "Transformational Retreats," "Tri," "Weekend of culture, language," "Wine Appreciation," "Wood turning," "Yoga," and "Yoga/Ayurveda." The background of the webpage is partially visible, showing some text and an image.

www.my-language-travel.com
You can learn a language and not only, and here is the beauty of it, combine it with an activity. For example I saw a course Spanish + Yoga in Ecuador, and not expensive but Yo puedo hablar espanol so I would like to learn French + Fitness/Bodybuilding. I would take a 2/3 weeks intensive course just to help me to get by in French and look like Jason Statham at the end :). Double – win. A muscular man with a shaved head is standing in shallow water at the beach. He is shirtless and wearing dark swim trunks. The background shows the ocean with gentle waves.

However, I could not find this combination so I might settle for French + Golf (I have never played golf before so this would be an opportunity to kill 2 birds with one stone = learn 2 things during the short vacation we usually have in North-America in comparison with Europe, but better to have a job and a short vacation rather than no job at all.The image is a screenshot of a website called "Mylanguagetravel.com." The website appears to be focused on language school reviews and resources for students. The top section of the website has a purple header with the website name and a tagline that reads, "Language school reviews by the students, for the students." There are navigation tabs labeled "Language Course Finder," "Study Abroad Resources," "Language Schools," "Language Reviews/Opinions," and "Links." On the left side, there is a search box titled "Find my language course" with dropdown menus for selecting a language, country, city, and school, along with a search button. Below the search box, it mentions "136 schools!" The main section of the page has a heading that says, "Search, Compare and Choose!" followed by a description of the website's purpose. There are also options to select different languages to learn, represented by flags and language names: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish.

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