Hey Hip Kids!
Delight your friends! Confound your enemies! Sound utterly insufferable! Use these super-neato-keen travel phrases and everyone will know that you're a worldly and urbane man and/or woman of the Jet Set!
(no bees were harmed in the making of these phrases)
-- Mike Beebe
JOMO travel
This seems counter to using Tik Tok as your travel planning tool. ;-}
We have a term we use: “Urban Hiking.” It is the pursuit of scenic walks in or near cities. In London, Hampstead Heath or Richmond Park, are examples.
I only recently learned the British expression
cash on your hip
instead of the normal English phrase
pocket money
or spending money
for the surplus that is burning a hole in your pocket as you flaneurate around town.
Readies in the bin (an expression I learned from days in Notting Hill Gate 60 years ago).
A line from "Rene" - a tune by the Small Faces from Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.
Interesting article and interesting new terms. Thanks for keeping us in the know Mike.
Let's make up our own phrases!
I'll start with Cobble-Wobble: Getting smashed on local beer, then prying up paving stones for souvenirs.
-- Mike Beebe
Twit Face
I use this to describe idiots.
But for traveling:
Coddiwomple
How about SMO, when something you’d looked forward to, like a Sicilyfest in London earlier this month, turns into a big disappointment (exceedingly loud, booming music that detracted from the food and culture setting, making it impossible to talk with any vendors and attendees), that’s a Should’ve Missed Out.
We have a term we use: “Urban Hiking.” It is the pursuit of scenic walks in or near cities. In London, Hampstead Heath or Richmond Park, are examples.
This captures perfectly the activity that my wife and I enjoy every vacation, nearly every day. London and Edinburgh are especially good cities in which to urban hike. Valencia is another, with the fabulous Turia Park. Thanks for the comment!
Cyn, every year the Coachella music festival is, for us, a GMO: Glad we Missed Out.
