You work up the courage to say ‘croissant’ with the appropriate accent while your Irish friends and family mince about in your head. Photograph: iStock
If you’re lucky enough to get one, a holiday abroad isn’t something to look forward to simply because it’s time off, when we get to set aside the obligations of everyday life and just be somewhere else for a while.
The physical space it creates brings perspective. Extracting yourself from your environment generates a sort of space for playfulness and imagination that our habitual devotion to routine and sameness can make very difficult. When we go to the same places, see the same people and do the same things, it gets harder to imagine the ways our life could be different. Sometimes physically stepping away is necessary for the head to follow suit.
So yes, a break is a good thing in its own right,
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