We Go Truck Camping in Northern Europe - TCM
Jane and I traveled last Fall to the Netherlands and rented a Tonke, known in Europe as a "demountable". The coach can be removed from the Mercedes Sprinter exactly as our American truck campers. W...
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It is different.
Most of European countries will give 4-5 weeks vacations to long-term workers.
Paris is known to become partly dead city in the middle of the summer, when most of the residents head to beach resorts.
When I was growing up in communistic Poland, I was able to accumulate vacations coming from paid vacations and credits I got for education.
Finally when I took vacation, it made 45 work days, or over 2 months out of the office. Colleagues had to cover.
In US in today's economy lot of companies send the workers on unpaid vacations when the orders slow down.
Lot of my California friends have no problem to add non-paid to paid vacations and go to Europe for a month.
Per my family experience, traveling is really expanding one's thinking borders. Seeing how things can be done totally different than what we got used to can really change not only how you vacation, but how you do your job as well.
And again, with some knowledge you can vacation in Europe cheaper than in US.
This might be another shock for some >>>> tickets from NY to London are way cheaper than from NY to San Francisco.
Even Paris and Rome can come cheaper most of the time.
Most of European countries will give 4-5 weeks vacations to long-term workers.
Paris is known to become partly dead city in the middle of the summer, when most of the residents head to beach resorts.
When I was growing up in communistic Poland, I was able to accumulate vacations coming from paid vacations and credits I got for education.
Finally when I took vacation, it made 45 work days, or over 2 months out of the office. Colleagues had to cover.
In US in today's economy lot of companies send the workers on unpaid vacations when the orders slow down.
Lot of my California friends have no problem to add non-paid to paid vacations and go to Europe for a month.
Per my family experience, traveling is really expanding one's thinking borders. Seeing how things can be done totally different than what we got used to can really change not only how you vacation, but how you do your job as well.
And again, with some knowledge you can vacation in Europe cheaper than in US.
This might be another shock for some >>>> tickets from NY to London are way cheaper than from NY to San Francisco.
Even Paris and Rome can come cheaper most of the time.
