Tourism, holidays, transport

• purposes of travelling

People travel in oder to reach places that are close or far away. Travel for fun or from necessity. Travelling takes up more time in our lives than most of us imagine. Form of travelling may be going shopping, commuting to school, to work or visiting friends. People and good can be transported by land, by air or by water.

The water transport doesn’t need big costs. That is why rivers, seas and ocenas are filled with new cargo and passenger vessels. You can use ferries ocean liners and other steamboats to carry our to the place of destination. The advantage is that you can take as much luggage as one likes. However, most people are afraid of sea-sick.

Unlike sea travel, going by air consumes huge sums of money, but is the fastest way of travelling. An air ticket ensures us a comfortable seat on the plane. You have to go trough the passport control and security check, where they check your luggage a then wait in the departure lunch until the plane is ready for take-off. For private use helicopters are usually bought.

Land offers the greatest variety of means of transport. There are motor road, vehicles and bicycles on the one hand and rail an the other. The motorcycles and cars are the most popular as personal vehicles. There are also other means of transport – buses and trolleybuses and rail vehicles – trams and underground.

Cars and motorbikes are expensive to purchase and the next sum of money is spent for petrol. But cars have many advantages. We can take us almost anywhere at any time. Modern cars are very smart, there are soft seats, air-conditioning, air back, autoradio etc. People who own driving licence are able to drive a car. In Czech republic is rules that cars are be driven on right side of the road. This isn’t true in Great Britain and New Zealand there people drive on the left.

The most frequent public means of transport are buses and trains. Public transport is cheaper, but also less comfortable. When you go by train (or fast train or express) you must buy ticket (single or return, fist or second class) in the ticket office, what is situated in a big hall with other stores and fast food. From this hall one goes trough the underpassage directly onto the right platform. From the platform we get on the train and look for a free seat in the compartment. When we are seated and the train stars, we can spend the time talking with passengers, observe the landscape out of the window etc. The disadvantages is that trains are expensive and sometimes crowded and delayed. Trains cannot take you from door to door.

In big cities underground have been built in order to relieve the trams and buses. It is the fastest means of urban transportation. Many workers and pupils depend on the underground every morning.

Your favourite form of transport

Maybe it is unusually, but among my favourite form of transport belongs to ride on bicycle. One of many advantages is that I couldn’t adapt any time table. I can choose myself route my journey namely anytime and anywhere. I can invite more or less gratis near surroundings. When it is possible I try to choose some of forest’s road. This is better because you needn’t look after cars and other transport means because forest’s road isn’t so frequented.

But also this kind of transport have some disadvantages. The main what doesn’t succumb our will is weather. On a rainy or cool days you couldn’t use a bicycle but something another.  If I acquire the driving licence I’ll able to drive a car.

Your best or worst travelling experience

Among my the worst travelling experience belongs to experience with bus transports. I remembered that I wait on the bus stop for the bus and no bus arrived. This is very difficult situation. You need get to your destination and rely on the bus, what didn’t come. In the better cause bus arrive and because of all seats are occupy you can’t get in. And in the best cause you can get in but press with other people narrow lane between two of seats. During my using the bus transport I met many bus driver and most of them is very kind.

Kind of Holiday

Lots of people like to travel through Europe or America or if they are rich round the world. The found new places, new culture, meet new people.

A lot of people travel for their holiday for example to the sea or to the mountains.

Some people travel abroad to learn new language or to earn some extra money for example AU-PAIR.

We have two possibilities when we going abroad. We can go with travel agency or we can go alone. That is mean arrange our own holiday.