What are the first trips you remember? Don't just think about travelling abroad now - local trips are also trips! Do you remember travelling with your family or do you remember travelling with your school or football team? When you are young, the world is undiscovered and nothing is as exciting as it was then! Maybe it's not just the destination itself that is interesting during the first journeys. Perhaps the excitement is just as much about leaving home or doing something fun with friends.
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ShareSchool trips to Ven and Liseberg
I remember little trips we made at school, even though it's a long time ago now. I lived in Skåne at the time, and I remember, for example, when we went to the island of Ven, off the west coast of Skåne. There we visited the observatory of the Danish scientist Tycho Brahe. A few weeks ago, I actually benefited from the knowledge gained from that trip - it helped me solve a question in Trivial Pursuit!
I also remember when I got to go to Liseberg on a corner, when my friend's swimming club was going there. I had never been to such a large amusement park before ...
Travelling is learning
When I think back on all the travelling I've done during my life, both to destinations near and far, I think that's when I learned the most - about everything from geography to getting along with others! In Sweden, most people actually have the opportunity to get away on some small trip sometimes, at least if you are prepared to work a little for it!
Do you know any children or young people who want to go on a trip, perhaps with their class or team? One way to earn extra money for the trip is to sell delicacies through The king of delicacies, with whom we are writing this post. A class trip can be a way to get those first travel experiences! I've travelled a lot myself, but I still find myself learning something new every day I'm on the road...
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Johnny i Skåne says:
Now I do not know when you were on the friend but it is Swedish since quite a few years. Thanks for a nice blog.
17 February 2015 - 13:38
Ama de casa says:
The first trip I remember fragments of was when we (with my mum, dad and older brother) lived in Los Cristianos in Tenerife for three months. It was 1965 and I was five years old.
Then I also remember when we went to New York and the Bahamas in 1967. The buildings were huge. They still are, but I remember that before I had thought that the six-storey tower blocks in Skellefteå were very tall. They "shrank" somewhat you could say ...
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17 February 2015 - 13:40
admin says:
Johnny in Skåne, of course you are right! Thank you very much, the error has been corrected. Total confusion here... Glad you like our blog!
Ama de casa, haha, the houses get bigger when you are small... everything is relative!
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17 February 2015 - 13:44
Åsa says:
I remember my students' exchange trip to a small town in western Spain. How nervous they were when we rolled into town and they knew they would be distributed to families on the first evening. Several cried! Then when it was time to say goodbye ten days later, everyone cried, but because they were so sad to be separated from newfound friends. Some of them kept in touch and travelled back. One of them fell in love with a Spaniard, but it ended before she could even develop the photos from the trip. This was before smartphones, Facebook and Instagram, in another world in other words). It was great to be able to share this memory with them, or at least partly. I got to hear much later about things they had invented during the trip when we teachers were elsewhere... I wish I could have made such a trip when I was their age. We were actually in Finland for a week with the class....
17 February 2015 - 14:51
Annika says:
How wonderful you have it. Such nice pictures from yesterday.
Yes, I remember most all the early trips to Finland, and my grandmother and grandfather that we visited. THAT was the best thing we knew.
Yes, that is probably the best thing we know even today because we have our summer cottage in Ostrobothnia. Then I remember all the spring trips we made with my family and friends to my parents (and us children), to Kolmården, to Vättern, to various small rental cottages around central Sweden. Wonderful memories.
The school trip for us went to Norway, to Trysil. In sixth grade we were in Linköping (oh the joy, haha), and then camp school in Malmköping. Fniss!!! Exciting worse back then 🙂
17 February 2015 - 16:57
Ditte says:
It's great to hear about how your interest in travelling started and then continued. Great!
I started travelling early and since my mother was Norwegian, my first trip was to Norway, already as a baby. Sports trips to Denmark, training camps with Solna IF around Sweden, Liseberg; fantastic! Was there as a seven-year-old and then holidayed in Strömstad. Mountain trips with Friluftsfrämjandet, class trips as a student and later as a teacher with students.
Mallorca as a 10-year-old in 1960, Beirut soon after, Cyprus where I lived for a few months and so it has continued. Travelling is a way of life and I enjoy it.
(Nowadays most class trips are probably gone because pupils are not allowed to pay for anything themselves. The school has to pay for everything. But camp schools can still exist, if the school pays. It's a bit sad, isn't it...)
17 February 2015 - 17:53
BP says:
Of course I remember my trips! The first one I remember as the coolest was the trip to Paris. I was 13 years old and travelling alone. I was an exchange student there for a year. Really cool!
Then I remember the sports trips with the school that started when I was 15.
Oh I always buy something from colleagues who post shopping lists for their children's school trips! A matter of course!
17 February 2015 - 18:05
admin says:
Åsa, what a great memory it must be for the students! Excitement and nervousness and lots of emotions!
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Annika, it's fun to reminisce! And fascinating that some trips, which may not seem so exotic, were extremely exciting then! Have heard a lot of nice things about Ostrobothnia, but have not been there.
Ditte, you certainly have a lot of travel experience! And travelling started early! Do you perhaps get even more attached to travelling if you start at a young age...? Interesting what you write about class trips being gone...? I don't really know how it works... but I do recognise the discussion about students not being allowed to pay. Is it easier to get away as an organisation then perhaps?
BP, are you kidding? 13 years old? That sounds crazy young!!! I went as an exchange student when I was 16-17 years old (to Iceland), but I didn't realise you could do it so early...? And by the way, you write about school trips, so it must work!? (Thinking about what Ditte wrote about how difficult it is to organise that kind of trip today).
17 February 2015 - 19:18
Anna i Qatar says:
Beautiful Ven! Best summer destination!
Regards
Elsinorean
17 February 2015 - 19:43
Rkuth i Virginia says:
My first trips were by train to Stockholm (from Ludvika).
Twice a year we visited Aunt Hanna in Stureby.
The Katarina lift and Gröna Lund plus the ferry there were highlights.
In 6th grade we made a school trip to Uppsala. Exciting to stay in a hotel or maybe it was "Room for Travellers". The only other school trip was to Sälen during an Easter holiday.
My first trip abroad was to Norway in 1951, when my sister and I gave Mum a tour of the Sognefjord as a present for her 60th birthday. In October that year I travelled with the Swedish-American Line to the USA. Landed in New York the day before Halloween, and the rest, as they say, is history.
18 February 2015 - 1:08
admin says:
Anna in Qatar,
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Ruth in Virginia, oh how interesting to hear about your travels! What was it that made you go to the US and what was it that made you stay?
18 February 2015 - 10:18
Johanna i Skåne says:
Oh, I was talking to some of the swim club about that Liseberg trip last week! It's been many years since the club has been to Liseberg, but it may soon be time for similar trips again. We talked about it because we want to strengthen the club feeling and also so that the younger swimmers can get away on an adventure. In recent years, the older swimmers have been to camps in both Thailand and China after working to raise money in various ways. They mention the trips as real highlights, even if the cultural elements that the leaders have included in the programme may have seemed half fun when they were there, but all the more fun in retrospect, "wow, we were really there and there" 🙂.
18 February 2015 - 16:03
admin says:
Johanna, how nice that you thought of that particular trip! Cool that they got away to destinations like Thailand and China! It must be a fantastic thing to do together, and what experiences and memories!
18 February 2015 - 19:25
Anna, New York – My Bite of the Big Apple says:
Great to read about everyone's early travel memories! My earliest and strongest memories are probably when the family travelled by car to visit grandparents in Sweden. It was so wonderful to spend time with them, exciting to sleep over, etc.
My first trip abroad was to Romania (!). I was only ten years old and the impressions of the country's poverty were extremely strong.
19 February 2015 - 14:18
admin says:
Anna, how exciting that your first trip abroad was to Romania! Things like poverty can make quite an impression when you're younger. I also remember quite strongly the first times we travelled in countries where people are really poor.
19 February 2015 - 19:27