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This month we are in fact looking at words related to <strong>holidays<\/strong> (British English),<strong> vacations<\/strong> (American English) <strong>breaks<\/strong> and <strong>getaways.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So what kind of holiday do you prefer? An <strong>activity holiday,<\/strong> where you spend your time doing a particular activity such as walking, canoeing, rock-climbing, painting, or cooking, or an <strong>adventure holiday<\/strong>, a type of holiday in which you do new and exciting things, like a trek or a safari?<\/p>\n<p>Or are you more of a <strong>package deal<\/strong> person, and prefer an <strong>all-in holiday,<\/strong> where everything\u2019s arranged\u00a0by a travel company\u00a0for a fixed price, including the cost\u00a0of the hotel\u00a0and transport, and sometimes meals and entertainment?<a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/benefitsofpackageholiday-allinclusiveresort.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4130 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/benefitsofpackageholiday-allinclusiveresort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/benefitsofpackageholiday-allinclusiveresort.jpg 700w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/benefitsofpackageholiday-allinclusiveresort-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nowadays a lot of <strong>holiday-makers<\/strong> prefer the flexibility of arranging your holiday yourself, taking advantage of the <strong>low-cost flights <\/strong>of<strong> budget <\/strong>or<strong> no frills airlines, <\/strong>and then booking the<strong> hotel, self-catering apartment <\/strong>or <strong>holiday villa <\/strong>separately. An<span style=\"color: #000000;\">other option could be a<strong> house swap<\/strong> where two families exchange houses for a holiday, and have you<\/span> heard about <strong>couch surfing,<\/strong> where you can sleep on someone\u2019s sofa for free?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019re more into<strong> life outdoors <\/strong>and prefer to go<strong> camping. <\/strong>Some people are not so keen to sleep in a<strong> tent <\/strong>but nowadays you don\u2019t have <strong>to rough it<\/strong> if you don\u2019t want to: we now have <strong>glamping<\/strong>, which puts the glamour in camping. For example, instead of a tent, you can rent a <strong>yurt<\/strong>, where you will be able to rest in quite some comfort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inside-yurt11.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4124 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inside-yurt11-300x203.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inside-yurt11-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inside-yurt11.jpeg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes time restrictions mean that your break has to be short, and we talk about <strong>mini-breaks<\/strong> and even <strong>daycations<\/strong> if you only have a day to enjoy. And you don\u2019t even have to go away at all \u2013 stay at home and have a <strong>staycation. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently on Twitter, the actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry, questioned the use of the word <strong>leave<\/strong> when used referring to a<strong> holiday <\/strong>(or<strong> hols\u00a0<\/strong>as he puts it).<a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sin-titulo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4129 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sin-titulo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sin-titulo.jpg 564w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sin-titulo-300x58.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would say that<strong> leave <\/strong>or <strong>leave of absence <\/strong>is normally used to refer to time off work (or from the military) that is not strictly speaking a holiday; in this context we talk about <strong>maternity, paternity, sick<\/strong> and<strong> compassionate leave. <\/strong>However, it\u2019s interesting to note from the responses to Stephen\u2019s tweet, that many people use <strong>leave<\/strong>, especially <strong>annual leave,<\/strong> to refer to their holiday time \u2013 and some people use it only if they are staying at home. It\u2019s always interesting to see that native speakers can disagree about their own language use!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Vacaciones! Estamos seguros de que es una de tus palabras favoritas. Si quieres seguir aprendiendo vocabulario relacionado con las vacaciones \u00a1no puedes perderte nuestro blog!&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publica",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}