The best staycation ideas for a world trip

The best staycation ideas for a world trip, from cooking to artistic expressions. One of the best things about traveling is that you expose all your senses to new experiences. On a world trip you taste new flavors, you can smell special scents, you hear strange sounds, you see craft that you don't know at home and you feel connected with strangers who become fellow sufferers of your journey.

All things you can try during your staycation without leaving your home.

Then buckle up and get on board in this new way of travelling “STAYCATION”.

6 Staycation ideas to experience a world trip at home

1. Staycation cooking world dishes

The world is so rich in flavors, from the spicy curries from Thailand to the high culinary sophistication from Japan 🇯🇵.

Fortunately, we can get all these flavors at home here in the Netherlands. It takes some preparation, but you too can spoil your taste pupils worldly.

As an idea, you can put together a world menu with dishes from the countries you would like to visit or have been to. Then you look for the ingredients.

In Rotterdam you have Amazing Oriental where you can find really exotic things. The AH and the Jumbo now also have many ingredients from abroad.

When you've got all the ingredients at home, voeg je alleen nog een paar lepels aandacht en een snufje liefde toe aan het bereiden van je maaltijd, dat zal je echt gaan proeven.

Believe me, nothing is better than a homemade meal. Experience it yourself!

2. Learning a foreign language

Did you know that people who speak multiple languages ​​have a lower risk of Alzheimer's?

Okay this shouldn't be your motivation to learn a new language, but i would consider it. Learning a new language is a fun and didactic way to immerse yourself culturally in the country you would like to visit.

You can with the app duolingo start and later improve your speaking skills with the help of a “native speaker” via app italki. Leer je Spaans? dan kan ik je met mijn conversatielessen verder helpen.

3. Learning a traditional craft

Craft is something that is fortunately not completely lost. Almost every country has something artisanal. For example, look at the beautiful weaving techniques of the indigenous peoples of South America or the woodworking from Asia or the painting of the Aboriginal people from Australia, just to name a few examples. The world is rich in knowledge and skills that we can try to internalize or at least attempt.

Leave perfection for what it is, boring and monotonous and just start your work of art with its own character.

4. Making a staycation multicultural playlist

Music has the magic to connect all the people in the world. And thanks to Spotify, we have access to all kinds of music from Argentine tangos to Afro-Colombian Champeta. You just have to find out what kind of rhythms you want to dance to. Who knows, after this quarantine you can dance the stars of heaven. Curious about my musical playlist?

5. Traveling through the world of paragraphs

We can travel the world from 80 exchange days for a staycation by 80 books.

Books show you all the corners of the world, en het mooiste ervan is dat je geen toeristen met een selfie sticks zal tegen komen.

Below I give you some recommendations of my favorite books, but above all make your own favorite book list based on what you like and the kind of books you like to read.

These books form my literary world trip:

Love in Cholera One Hundred Years of Solitude van Gabriel Garcia Marquez Colombia 🇨🇴

The memories of Cleopatra Egypt 🇪🇬

Geisha, a life & The memoirs of a Geisha Japan 🇯🇵

Turing’s delirium Bolivia 🇧🇴

The lost executioner & First they killed my father Cambodia

The brigde on the river kwai Thailand 🇹🇭

Parfume river nights Vietnam 🇻🇳

Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 South Korea 🇰🇷

Into the wild Alaska 🇺🇸

Eat, Pray, Love Italy

The King in Exile Myanmar 🇲🇲

Me before you France

The pilgrimage Paulo Coelho Spanje 🇪🇸

The diary of Anna Frank Netherlands 🇳🇱

5. Organize a house party

On a world trip you will never feel alone and usually you are not, no matter how remote you are. Of course you also want to experience this feeling at home so invite all your friends from all corners of the world and organize a party together (virtual) via app houseparty. Do like the Aussies do and organize a BBQ or a night of karaoke like the Japanese.

I once said that traveling the world is not a question of money but of priorities, but now I say that traveling the world is not a question of money or distance but of creativity :).

Which countries will you visit during your staycation?

Have a nice trip xoxo Diana