Is this true?
Quoted in the i newspaper today from Post Office Travel. "More than one in four over 55s are more adventurous in their holiday plans than when they were younger."
Are you over 55 and more adventurous now? 
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I suppose if you follow the logic as people get older and their children have grown up they have a bit more cash so I suppose can afford to be a bit more adventurous? I wonder if they are getting their stats from their insurance sales? If so that could be
a bit misleading depending on the age profile of their customers?David
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I agree with David. When children have 'flown the nest', you probably have more disposable income and the time to do things. If you regard more adventurous as meaning more 'physical' type of activities, I would tend to disagree - well, speaking from my
own experience. ...
David
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With the children we always played safe although before we got married I did have some adventures. We toured in a double decker bus like Cliff Richards in Summer Holiday as the most adventurous.
Last year for our main holiday and fourtieth anniversary we ditched the caravan for a European adventure. The holiday was Eurostar to Paris, sleeper train to Verona with three days at Lake Garda. We the went first class train to Venice with a cruise round
Greece and back, three days in Venice, the sleeper train to Paris, two days there and Eurostar to London and first class on Virgin trains home.A fantastic adventure especially the Italian sleeper train but the papers point was proven by the fact that despite a lot of a lot of lugging luggage the vast majority on the holiday were pensioners with many over seventy.
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I would like to do a bit more but we still don't get time for lengthy holidays. I am envious of your trip Wildwood.
It was something completely different and a great holiday. It did teach us that provided you are reasonably fit it is never too late to do something new.
The sleeper between Paris and Venice is certainly an adventure and something you need to see to believe.
Having retired we still need to avoid babysitting duties but did find a gap that worked.
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Speaking for myself now in my 71st year - I would say I am being more adventurous than before time became less of an issue. Gotta get out there and do it while I can! Although I am aware of somethings I don't wish to tackle now.
Write your comments here...If you can't do it while you're here ,you won't do it at all !! This life IS NOT a practice run,,it's the real thing !! ?? GO for it "" I am !!
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I do fit the survey results albeit probably not for the reasons suggested above. After a series of personal events in my late 40's culminating in an interesting/challenging 50th birthday year i finally signed upto the view life isn't a rehearsal so at the
age of 51 went abroad for the very first time in my life and haven't looked back since!0 -
In my twenties I thought nothing of getting a plane ticket to somewhere lovely and back packing my way to somewhere else, no accommodation booked, no interior travel pre-arranged... Greek Island hopping was particularly memorable. I wouldn't dream of doing
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Surely this is due now to the world being a smaller place in terms of travel. With the internet and cheap flights people can now go where the want as opposed to where a travel agent does packages to. Older people as well as younger are taking advantage
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It depends how you define 'adventurous'. We are able to more readily visit more remote places than hitherto but with advancing age, we are probably more inclined to wish to do it in some degree of comfort. Hitch hiking with a sleeping bag across Greece might
seem fun in your twenties. A trip to Macchu Pichu now seems more attractive in an air-conditioned coach. Last year's exotic is this year's ordinary.0
having the money to do things can hold you back but once the mortgage
-- too long ago 
