i recently went on my first 2 week holiday in years (san francisco), normaly i go some where for only 1 week.
Maybe as im not used to it but i found it was such a different expireience, firstly i found that you do really get to feel the ups and downs of a place and that it isnt always as simple as a 1 week stay.
In the past me and my brother have always taken a 1 week trip or a long weekend somewhere.
Firstly we learnt that for the first week we tended to spend way to much cash and where really extravagant, we found by the begining of the second week it was time to slow down a touch or we would run out of cash.
Also we found that although we were having a great time that certain little things were begining to annoy us (the simple things in life you just cant do in the uk) such as one of the particulry unhelpfull members of staff on the front desk of the hotel, the hassle of going 2 blocks down the road through a "seedy part of town" to get to a safer area.
We had a great time and we do feel we got the full expieriance but we also feel that there is a sort of honeymoon feeling for the first week or so and then reality sets in?
Were we being niave or is it normal to find this?
What do you think/found in the past?