What kind of traveler are What kind of traveler are you?you?

What kind of traveler are What kind of traveler are you?you?

Imagine you have booked a two-Imagine you have booked a two-week week

package tour, staying in a foreign package tour, staying in a foreign seaside resort. Please read seaside resort. Please read

the questions and write the questions and write your answers on your answers on

a piece of a piece of paper. paper.

1. There is no sign of your luggage when your arrive at you destination in the middle of the night. Do you ...

A) think what a terrible start to the holiday and decide to stay at the airport until it turns up?

B) take a telephone number and ring back in the morning?

C) do nothing and wait for the courier to sort things out?

D) grab a taxi and tell the driver to take you to the nearest all-night discotheque?

2. At the hotel, you are shown a room which has neither the balcony nor the sea view which you‘ve asked for and paid for. Do you ...

A) take what you‘re offered for the moment, but determine to get what you want in the morning?

B) refuse to accept the room and camp in the lounge?

C) smile and turn up the volume on your personal stereo (you knew things would go wrong)?

D) take the room, certain you‘ll be able to swap it later?

3. The restaurant at your hotel turns out to be ridiculously expensive. Do you ...

A) eat without worrying because, after all, you are on holiday?

B) pay up, but moan continuosly?

C) decide to go on a diet for the duration of the holiday?

D) find a cheaper restaurant a couple of street away?

4. The weather is awful. Do you ...

A) see if there‘s any chance of an earlier flight home?

B) stay in your room and listen to music on your personal stereo?

C) organise trips to museums and art galleries until it gets better?

D) make for the beach anyway? (You once read an article that said the sun can tan you even through thick clouds.)

5. Doing the accounts at the end of the day, you realise that you handed over a 200 instead of a 20 denomination note as a tip for lunch. Do you ...

A) go back to the restaurant, certain they‘ll give you a refund once you explain what‘s happened?

B) curse all foreigners and never leave another tip all holiday?

C) shrug your shoulders and write it off to experience?

D) have an enormous meal at an expensive restaurant to show that you won‘t let your holiday be spoilt by a little thing like money.

6. Having tried all the restaurant, you are forced to acknowledge that the local cuisine is appalling. Do you ...

A) feel thankful that at least the fruit and salads are delicious, and resolve to stick them?

B) complain bitterly, and eat lots of ice-cream and sweets between meals – even though neither is particularly appetising?

C) give up on the local cuisine and go on a crash diet?

D) reckon you‘ve just been unlucky so far, and give the restaurants another try?

7. You go on a whole-day coach trip with regular stops for drinks, meals and sightseeing. The rest of the party dons‘t looks like the sort of people you‘d mixes with at home. Do you ...

A) talk only to your holiday companion and feel glad you both brought books?

B) better regret your mistake and spend the day in a bad mood?

C) single out anyone who looks in the least bit `your type` and see if you can start a conversation?

D) Make yourself the life and soul of the party?

8. When you go away on holiday, do you ...

A) hardly think about what‘s going on at home from the moment you arrive until the moment you return?

B) know there‘s absolutely no point in worrying about the things at home because there‘s nothing you can do about them?

C) wake up most mornings worrying about how on earth they are managing at home without you?

D) send postcards to a few close friends during the secong week?

ResultsCheck your results by following these instructions.

For question 1, note down the letter Z if you choose A, W if you choose B, X if you choose C, Y if you choose D.

2. A W

3. A X

4. A Z

5. A X

6. A W

7. A Y

8. A Y

B Z

B Z

B Y

B Z

B Z

B Z

B X

C Y

C Y

C W

C W

C Y

C W

C Z

D X

D W

D X

D Y

D X

D X

D W

Though we may display elements of more than one type of behaviour, each of us has a

particular tendency.

W – If you choose a large number of W options, it shows you are a Good Holiday Person – flexible, adaptable and capable of coping in awkward situations, everyone‘s ideal companion.

X reveals a Blind Optimist. If you‘re lucky, your blindness to reality may work for you, but you tend to be a trifing holiday companion.

Y indicates a Selfish Pleasure Seeker – determined to carry on with what you want to do, no matter what‘s happening around you. While you are capable of having a good time on even the most disastrous holiday, you do not contribute to anyone else‘s enjoyment.

Z predominate, you are a Self-destructive Grumbler – seeing trouble where none exists, and cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Subscribe to: Feed-Your-HeadSubscribe to: Feed-Your-Head

laila_nephretiri@web.de