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When I first arrived in Salzburg in October of 2008 I was miserable. I left shorts and t-shirt weather and for the first time in 12 years was required to wear a peacoat. I remember thinking “but its only October, doesn’t it start to get cold after Thanksgiving?” I grew up watching all these Lifetime movies of girls wearing lovely fall coats, walking in fields of red and yellow fallen leaves, and there I was bundled up, misguided, never exposing more than a centimeter of skin.

It is a truth universally acknowledged… that vacations are way better than staycations. Or not.

Admittedly, just as everybody else would if asked to decide which is better, vacation or staycation, I’d say “vacation”. At first. Because generally speaking, I really do prefer vacations to staycations. Just because I’m interested in getting to know new customs, new people, new cultures. There are instances, however, when all I crave for is a staycation – just staying at home and doing everything my heart desires. Right now, I’ve reached a point when a vacation seems like so much stress that I’ve made up my mind to take a staycation this summer – at least in July.