Try out an exciting adventure holiday

If you are fed up of lounging on a beach or spending all day drinking, eating and then watching the same old entertainment at the bar, then maybe you should consider doing something different for your holiday this year and try out an exciting adventure holiday.

Adventure holidays are probably not for everyone, that has to be said, but if you are fed up with the same old routine but still want to get away and enjoy a holiday, then an adventure holiday could be perfect for you, giving you the chance to leave your home country and go and explore somewhere new and at the same time try lots of exciting and adventurous activities out.
If you are not sure about whether you are going to enjoy an adventure holiday, then you could try starting with something a bit less adventurous and maybe going on a small hike combined with a bit of a break afterwards. Or, you can get straight into it and really go all out, as there are loads of things that you can really sink your teeth into when it comes to getting a bit of adventure into your life.

It is true that most people tend to go on adventure holidays when they are younger, mainly because you do not have the worries of kids or other things that might make you change your outlook on life, and some adventure holidays can also place quite a physical demand on your body, which might not be ideal if you’re a bit older.

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Experienced your first travel holiday

Once you have the travel bug then it can be very hard to shift, with the last adventure not seeming like it was enough and making the new adventure needing to be even better.
The world has now become such a small place that you can pretty much travel anywhere you want to, with aeroplanes, trains and boats connecting small countries to large countries and continents to other continents.
Once you have experienced your first travel holiday or trip, you will quickly need to find something else, because the exhilaration and excitement you get from doing something a bit different and from really trying some new can be amazing and is often something that we will want to keep doing again and again, but each time, doing something more exciting.

From trekking in the mountains of Nepal through to bungee jumping and sky diving in Australia, an adventure holiday can often be exactly what you want it to be, with many different elements and things that you can put together to make it really, really fun. There is often no limit when it comes to adventure travel, because as long as you are happy to try it, then you can do it, as there are now many companies who specialise in adventure travel and can tailor packages just for you.

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Welcome to the world of adventure travel

Camping with a difference? A European break but combined with a Beer Festival? Bungee jumping from a bridge as part of a tour to Germany?

Welcome to the world of adventure travel , where going away for a few days is simply not enough.

For many of us, we have done all of the usual holidays and have had our weeks by the pool and the urge to do something different strikes us because we no longer want to relax, we want to do something exciting!

There comes a time in everyone’s life that we just wake up and feel that the time is right to break from the norm and go and see the world through different eyes, doing something different and more exciting than we would normally do.

Adventure travel allows us to go and see the world but at the same time do something different, rather than just sitting by the pool or lazing on the beach. Although it is undoubtedly not everybody’s cup of tea, when we reach a stage in life that we are bored and maybe a bit down in the dumps, going travelling and doing something exciting can really make us happy and full of enthusiasm again.
For further details about Royal Ascot and Oktoberfest please visit the website.

Sound like something that would really float your boat

When we look at adventure travel and doing new and exciting things, nothing could probably be more exciting than travelling over to Spain and being chased by a dozen or so bulls.

If this sounds like your worst nightmare then adventure travel is probably not for you, but if it does sound like something that would really float your boat then maybe you should consider booking up with an adventure travel company and taking part in the annual running of the bulls in Sanfermines or one of the many Spanish or
Portuguese towns that hold similar events.

These type of events attract thousands of people, with many coming along to view the bravery of the people that actually take part in the event, which consistently attracts many brave young people that want to take part.

Travelling across to witness the event is something that you will remember for the rest of your life, because it is normally part of the festivals that each town holds, which means you will have an amazing time and see some fantastic things.
For further details about Royal Ascot, adventure travel and Oktoberfest please visit the website.

Adventure travel is something that most of us think about at some stage of our lives

Adventure travel is something that most of us think about at some stage of our lives, maybe it is when we are younger and want to do something exciting or when we enter our retirement years and wonder if there is something we should be doing in case we have missed out.

No matter what time of life you are at, adding a bit of spice to your travel and going and doing something totally different and exciting can offer an ultimate experience, which means that not only do we get to see new parts of the world, but that we can also do it in style, doing things that we would never have considered previously.

The world is now so much more of an accessible place, with air travel cheaper than ever making it far easier to get to the far side of the world if we wanted to begin our adventure there.

From trekking up a mountain through to bungee jumping during a beer festival, adventure travel allows us to really experience travel but through a different light, offering new and exciting elements to our journey to shores far, far away.
For further details about Royal Ascot and Oktoberfest please visit the website.

Tomatina will always be trying to get clean afterwards

Soon the big day arrived, and I turned up at the Ibis hotel in Valencia to meet my tour group. The first thing we did was visit a wine and water festival in a town nearby and I was really surprised by what an amazing night I had. Our tour leaders told us the cultural, family driven nature of this event, and we spent time enjoying a lovely atmosphere in the town centre with the locals. Then after a firework display, we headed to the local bull ring where there were live bands and much singing and dancing until the early hours. This was an authentically Spanish experience, and a real bonus considering I really only was here for the tomato fight.

The following day was amazing fun! From 9am we were in Bunol waiting for La Tomatina to start. I watched people trying to climb to the top of a greasy pole to get a ham which was attached to the top, and then enjoyed they total mayhem of the tomato fight. My lasting memory of La Tomatina will always be trying to get clean afterwards. Never in my life before have I found it acceptable to wash in a river, and then walk around town asking locals to hose me down with a garden water hose. And I guess in a nutshell that’s why these festivals are so popular. You find yourself doing things you would never normally do, you drop your guard, and suddenly you enjoy the camaraderie of washing yourself in a river with hundreds of other people all trying to get tomato off their bodies. You also experience a different culture and the sunshine defiantly helps!


Also Pillow Tours were amazing, well organised and gave great information about how to make the most of the events. I strongly recommend going with a group, as I made loads of friends and sharing an experience like La Tomatina with other people makes it even more fun. All in all I had a fantastic experience, and was finally able to join in with conversations about European festivals, and will even be booking a tour to Oktoberfest later in the year.

For further details about running with the bulls, Ladies Day Ascot
and Pamplona please visit the website.

One of these famous festivals to see what all the fuss

As a young Australian living in London, I hear a lot about Europe’s amazing summer festivals. Almost every week during the summer my friends are heading off on tours like Pamplona for the Running of the Bulls or Oktoberfest for the Munich Beer Festival. It seems these festivals have become a right of passage for young backpackers living in London, with people treating you like a social outcast if you have not visited at least one of these “must do” events.

With this in mind, I decided to try one of these famous festivals to see what all the fuss was about. I did not fancy running down a narrow street being chased by six or seven 1 tonne bulls at Pamplona , and I am more of a wine girl so drinking litre stein’s of beer at Oktoberfest also did not really appeal. That left the last of the “big three events”, the world’s largest food fight called La Tomatina in Spain. I liked this idea a lot, an organised food fight in sunny Spain, and I even like tomatoes so it seemed the best option for me. After doing some research I decided to book a tour with Pillow Adventure Travel Company, who also included a trip to a local wine and water festival the night before La Tomatina.


Once the tour and my flight was booked, I decided to do a little research on the history of La Tomatina, and quickly realised there was no history. It seemed the event started around the 1940’s but nobody really knew why. Some stories claim locals threw tomatoes at an unpopular politician during a speech. Other accounts claim people threw tomatoes at a bad musician during a performance, and a truck carrying tomatoes was involved in an accident and its load was spilt over the road. The event really started to get popular in the 1980s, and now attracts up to 40,000 people a year to a tiny town called Bunol, which normally has a population of 9,000 people.


For further details about running with the bulls and Ladies Day Ascot
Please visit the website.