Our Favourite Lately: Kinfolk Magazine on Travelling Duos

If a few simple rules aren’t taken into account, romantic getaways for two can easily turn into real-time repeats of The Shining. Here’s your quick-fire guide to traveling with your significant other without breaking up.

1. A successful non-throat-throttling holiday starts before you even lock the back door. Pack and prepare everything well ahead of time to ensure that passports are secured and Wellies have been located, otherwise you might not make it to the end of the block without strangling each other.

2. Complimentary bottles of hotel wine can do wonders for jet lag but not your nasal passages. If you find yourself constantly waking to ceaseless snoring, build a pillow fort barrier around your ears instead of attacking your snotty partner—this will only lead to resentment and a room fluffy with goose down.

3. Even if you normally bunk with your special someone nightly back home, one of the key advantages of hotel-size king mattresses is being able to starfish your limbs in every direction. To be the nice one, suck it up, roll to the edge and allow your partner that small joy.

4. Organize your morning bathroom schedule the night before to avoid cold showers and cold shoulders. Everyone needs their morning alone time. Think of your trip as pizza dough: It’s best to leave it to rise alone, as otherwise you’ll be left feeling dissatisfied and oddly hungry.

5. Never, ever fight about directions, unless that direction is about to send you careening off a rocky cliff face. You can always turn around, have a cup of roadside tea and retrace your steps or—God forbid—ask for directions.

6. Find the importance of alone time. Not only do you want an escape from the banality of regular life, but also possibly from each other. Even if it’s just a morning constitutional around the motel parking lot or offering to fetch bitter coffees, spend a little time solo every day.

7. Holidays are meant for getting out of your humdrum routine and experiencing something new, and that doesn’t mean falling into your same coupley habits in a different city. If you find yourself repeating your old ways of bedside Twin Peaks marathons, then nudge each other until you’re outside of your collective comfort zones.

8. Learn how to compromise on the little things by meeting in the middle: So they want the cheese platter and you’re keen on the lemon cake? Settle on the cheesecake (or just get both—you’re on holiday, after all).

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