


{"id":3775,"date":"2016-11-28T06:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T11:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.insightvacations.com\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2024-04-05T13:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:08:55","slug":"insights-frequent-traveler-lesley-spence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/insights-frequent-traveler-lesley-spence\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights from Frequent Traveler Lesley Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retired primary school principal from the UK, one of the many benefits Lesley enjoys is the ability to travel to Europe in the off-season, or to far-flung destinations when they are being \u2018co-operative\u2019 weather-wise. An intrepid traveler ever since university when, burdened with giant rucksacks, she\u2019d catch overnight trains, Lesley quickly found that \u201cthe joys of backpacking were not for me\u201d, she jokes. Since then, Lesley has visited a grand total of seven continents, making her a fountain of knowledge when it comes to travel tips and advice. We sat down with Lesley to ask her all about her favorite Insight Vacations journeys, as well as her most treasured travel experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/colours2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/colours2.jpg\" alt=\"frequent traveler\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/colours2.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/colours2-200x167.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/colours2-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/colours2-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/colours2-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/colours2-600x502.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"IVcaption\">Iceland \u00a9 Lesley Spence\/Insight Vacations<\/p>\n<h3>What were your first impressions of Iceland on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/uk\/tours\/scenic-iceland-and-the-northern-lights-winter-2016-2017?utm_campaign=hg2&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=blog&#038;utm_content=frequent-traveler-lesley-spence&#038;c3ch=blog&#038;c3nid=blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natural Wonders of Iceland trip<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI had researched Iceland, including reading fellow Insight guest Chech\u2019s wonderful review on the Forum, so the price of things was not a surprise though the steady stream of people pushing trolleys laden with alcohol out of the supermarket adjacent to the airport entrance was. Even with the research I wasn\u2019t totally prepared for the variety of the landscape \u2013 waterfalls, geysers, lava fields, glaciers and volcanoes \u2013 nor indeed its size and small population. My highlight was getting up close to puffins, (live puffins I hasten add, as they can be found on the menu). A close second was visiting the site of Iceland\u2019s first parliament which just happens to be on the fault line where tectonic plates are drifting apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A movie\u2019s being made on your travels\u2026 who do you want to play yourself?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe only actress who could possibly play me is Meryl Streep. The physical similarity is startling but the fact that she can \u2018do\u2019 accents is extremely important as mine is difficult to do properly. She is also quite the traveler \u2013 check out The River Wild, Out of Africa and A Cry in the Dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vaporetto-on-grand-canal-credi2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vaporetto-on-grand-canal-credi2.jpg\" alt=\"frequent traveler\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vaporetto-on-grand-canal-credi2.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vaporetto-on-grand-canal-credi2-200x167.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vaporetto-on-grand-canal-credi2-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vaporetto-on-grand-canal-credi2-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vaporetto-on-grand-canal-credi2-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vaporetto-on-grand-canal-credi2-600x502.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"IVcaption\">Vaporetto on Grand Canal \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/photo\/vaporetto-at-grand-canal-gm584581694-100106983?st=_p_vaporetto%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Givaga\/iStock<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Which part of the world is your favorite and why?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOne of my favorite places is Venice. I\u2019ve been three times \u2013 once it was the destination of a student overnight train trip and twice with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/uk\/tours\/best-of-italy-end-naples-winter-2016-2017?utm_campaign=hg2&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=blog&#038;utm_content=frequent-traveler-lesley-spence&#038;c3ch=blog&#038;c3nid=blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insight Vacations<\/a>. There\u2019s always something interesting to see. I am that person who loves visiting churches and palaces, as well as anywhere there\u2019s an espresso to be found. I enjoy hopping on and off the vaporetto too. It continues to surprise me that, despite huge visitor numbers, there are parts of Venice that one can still sit at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>What are the three things you\u2019d never travel without?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t travel without a camera; a sense of humor; and a good guide book. The camera provides a record of what I\u2019ve seen, even though I\u2019m not always sure what or where it is. Humor is a comfort, a shield and occasionally a weapon to be deployed when necessary. Although Tour Directors are generally very informative they cannot be all things to all travelers so I like doing research, allowing me to decide what I really want to see in my free time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travel-pack-credit-istock-kibo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travel-pack-credit-istock-kibo2.jpg\" alt=\"frequent traveler\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travel-pack-credit-istock-kibo2.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travel-pack-credit-istock-kibo2-200x167.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travel-pack-credit-istock-kibo2-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travel-pack-credit-istock-kibo2-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travel-pack-credit-istock-kibo2-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travel-pack-credit-istock-kibo2-600x502.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"IVcaption\">Travel Pack \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/photo\/travel-pack-gm491130740-75589205?st=_p_travel%20gear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kiboka\/iStock<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Which Insight Vacations trip has been the most memorable and why?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI think the most moving trip was the three night \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/uk\/tours\/world-war-1-battlefields-summer-2017?utm_campaign=hg2&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=blog&#038;utm_content=frequent-traveler-lesley-spence&#038;c3ch=blog&#038;c3nid=blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Battlefields<\/a>\u2019 trip in 2015. It was a small group led excellently by Brad, with a couple of visiting experts to guide us through the intricacies of a very complicated area. As we drove through northern France and southern Belgium it seemed that every field had a memorial to the dead of the First World War. Although one can read about the battles and look at maps it\u2019s only when one is there that the true enormity of what happened becomes clearer. It was a sobering trip but one I\u2019m so glad I took.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>What are the main reasons you choose Insight Vacations?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe itineraries, fellow travelers and professional Tour Directors, the vast majority of whom have been outstanding or very good. In addition, of course, comfortable hotels (central and without cupboards masquerading as single rooms much rarer than in the past in Europe), a maximum of forty guests on the very comfortable coach (for many reasons including the shorter queues for the \u2018facilities\u2019) and decent meals are also high on my list of necessary items.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/an-unknown-australian-soldier2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/an-unknown-australian-soldier2.jpg\" alt=\"frequent traveler\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/an-unknown-australian-soldier2.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/an-unknown-australian-soldier2-200x167.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/an-unknown-australian-soldier2-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/an-unknown-australian-soldier2-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/an-unknown-australian-soldier2-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/an-unknown-australian-soldier2-600x502.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"IVcaption\">Unknown Australian Soldier \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/photo\/an-unknown-australian-soldier-of-the-great-world-war-one-gm505918797-44652482?st=_p_flanders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Havana1234\/iStock<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What foreign phrases do you love to use when abroad?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI try to be able to say \u2018please\u2019, \u2018thank you\u2019, \u2018hello\u2019 and \u2018goodbye\u2019 in the language of the country in which I\u2019m traveling. If nothing else, it provides the locals with a smile either of wonderment, puzzlement or exasperation. However, my favorite is the Arabic \u2018Malesh\u2019 which I believe means either \u2018Sorry\u2019 or \u2018Never mind\u2019 &#8211; useful on so many occasions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If any of the locations mentioned in this article have piqued your interest, why not visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/us\/destinations?utm_campaign=hg2&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=blog&#038;utm_content=frequent-traveler-lesley-spence&#038;c3ch=blog&#038;c3nid=blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destinations page<\/a> to find out more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired primary school principal from the UK, one of the many benefits Lesley enjoys is the ability to travel to Europe in the off-season, or to far-flung destinations when they are being \u2018co-operative\u2019 weather-wise. An intrepid traveler ever since university when, burdened with giant rucksacks, she\u2019d catch overnight trains, Lesley quickly found that \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1166,1826],"tags":[863,293,65,75,391,271,107,111,862,864,209,261,226,510],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-experts-insiders","tag-backpacking","tag-battlefields","tag-destinations","tag-europe","tag-iceland","tag-insight-moments","tag-insight-vacations","tag-italy","tag-meryl-street","tag-puffins","tag-travel","tag-travel-trends","tag-venice","tag-world-war-one"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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