Solo traveller Rosita Boland has been exploring the world since she was 19, but she never takes a camera with her when she goes on holiday. As new research finds 39% of millennials are overwhelmed by the amount of photos on their phones, here’s why you should consider imposing a camera ban on your next holiday.The answer is really simple: pure curiosity. I love seeing new places, having new experiences and meeting new people.
Then, even when cameras went digital and taking pictures cost nothing, it became a conscious choice. I didn’t want the stress of choosing what to photograph. I didn’t want to travel with anything valuable. I didn’t want to edit my experiences while I was still having them. Mostly, though, I just wanted to experience the moment.
For me, the more I travelled, the more I learned about what I loved best. One of them is feeling truly far away. I always want to try and be fully present in the place. While- what journalist doesn’t? - I never post anything on any social media platforms when I’m travelling. My complete lack of interest in taking pictures, let alone posting them to social media, is also probably because when I started doing long-haul travel, more than 30 years ago, social media didn’t exist. Nor did the internet – or not to us ordinary members of the public, anyway. Iinstead. It seems fantastically archaic, but one of the great joys of being away for months was periodically going to American Express offices to collect the mail that was kept there for me.
You’d have to be living in a cave not to be aware of the phenomena that is Instagram, and people sharing images of them living their best lives, often in exotic places. Like I said, I’ve never viewed travel as a competition. Because it really isn’t. A hundred people could go to the same place, and each of them would have their own unique experience there, because we are all different.
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