Travel

Most people who are working hard to earn money for themselves and their family look forward to their next holiday, be it a summer holiday abroad or a camping holiday in the United Kingdom. People will travel all over the country and the world to take their holiday for some many times a year and for others as an annual treat. However the two terms ‘travel’ and ‘holiday’ can also mean something separately.

People can travel and not holiday, in fact ‘travelling’, where (usually) gap year student embark on a travel of the world is usually held as distinct from a ‘holiday’. At the same time a ‘holiday’ can sometimes involve no travelling – for example national holidays such as Christmas. This latter meaning has more in common with where the term comes from as the word ‘holiday’ literally translates as ‘Holy Day’ (from the Bible when Moses commanded the Israeli Children to keep seven annual Holy Days).

With the many ways of interpreting the words ‘travelling’ and ‘holidays’ there are also many other words people use to describe the same things. In the US and countries such as France, they use the word Vacation in the same way that holiday is used in the UK, though it has its origins with the British law courts.