There’s no better travel partner than, well, your partner. Someone to take care of all the documents while you check out? A gossip buddy, a perpetual plus one? Yes please. But it’s not always smooth sailing; a couples holiday can make you or break you.
For some, the feeling of being together 24/7, relying on one another and facing challenging foreign situations can strengthen them as a couple. For others, a baecation can cause trouble, as, like we say, you’re in such close proximity with that person for a sustained period of time. In the case of Gemma Nice, who worked as a veterinary nurse before she changed careers into being a yoga and relationship coach, a big trip in 2006 helped save her marriage, which was crumbling due to work stress.
‘One day, I came home and told my partner that we needed a long holiday,’ the 41-year-old from Brighton told Metro.co.uk.
‘After a little persuasion (it didn’t take much), we booked a seven-month backpacking trip and left our lives behind to find some semblance of happiness. ‘Those months were truly amazing. The first three months we visited South Africa and China, which gave me the opportunity to go on safari and camp out under the stars, and I remember in just the first couple of days looking up at the sky in the middle of the night during a storm and a sense of peace washing over me – as though all the stress had completely lifted from my shoulders.
’ It was in Thailand that Gemma discovered her love of yoga, which sh.