{"id":5207,"date":"2022-08-06T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/2022\/08\/06\/how-losing-touch-with-your-friends-makes-you-a-better-traveller\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:46:38","slug":"how-losing-touch-with-your-friends-makes-you-a-better-traveller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/2022\/08\/06\/how-losing-touch-with-your-friends-makes-you-a-better-traveller\/","title":{"rendered":"How Losing Touch With Your Friends Makes You A Better Traveller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you say a more serious \u201ccya\u201d to your friends, you may have a more profound travel experience. <\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, losing touch with your friends was an inevitable part of travelling. Now you can send your best mate hourly updates from the Amalfi coast, make your friends jealous with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmarge.com\/worlds-most-dangerous-holidays\">Trolltunga<\/a> pic and Facetime your partner \u2013 all in the same day.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tHowever, this might not be as great as it seems: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/personal-best\/pillar\/wellbeing\/the-benefits-of-a-digital-detox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthfitnessrevolution.com\/top-10-health-benefits-digital-detox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a> shows the benefits of disconnecting \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loveexploring.com\/guides\/70679\/digital-detox-holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">especially when travelling<\/a> \u2013 and numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/theplanetd.com\/unplugging-cuba-disconnect-next-trip\/\">professional backpackers<\/a> have found \u2018losing touch\u2019 can be a feature \u2013 not a bug \u2013 of long term travel.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dmarge.com\/losing-friends-travelling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you say a more serious \u201ccya\u201d to your friends, you may have a more profound travel experience. Twenty years ago, losing touch with your friends was an inevitable part of travelling. Now you can send your best mate hourly updates from the Amalfi coast, make your friends jealous with a Trolltunga pic and Facetime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}