The flights I booked two days
ago are unlike any I’ve booked before. Because I have booked a city
break but I have no idea where we’re going.
My boyfriends birthday is in
November and once my own birthday is done with I start thinking about
his. What on earth to get him? After a decade together I can no longer
surprise him, and there’s only so many times you
can buy someone a signed book or print. So I started looking at trips.
My first instinct was the Bubble Domes in Fermanagh, but as we live
right down south of the country and his birthday is in November I
figured it was too unpredictable and too awkward to
get to. Spending money to sleep in a bubble in an Irish winter seemed
like a possible waste. It rains here more often than not, and as much
enjoyment as I get out of watching the rain drip down the side of a
window, I don’t think it’s exactly a birthday treat.
So I remembered a website I had come across last year, srprs.me,
that offers to take the stress out of planning your trip. You tell them
when you want to go and how many people are travelling, and they do the
rest. You
don’t find out your destination until you are In! The! Airport!
A friend of mine laughed when I
told her I had booked it, saying she thinks I won’t be able for it, that
she can’t see me relinquishing control over the hotel and flights and,
more importantly, the end destination. But
I think that’s exactly why it will be a good thing. He and I travel a
lot but its usually to the same few places, visiting family and friends,
or going to shows and gigs. And I do the majority of the planning. This
will be somewhere completely new and just
for us. And with none of the stress that goes into the planning.
This will be a different kind of stress. Wish me luck!
