Ironic perhaps that this world unravels

In line with humanity's extended travels.

Better perhaps to stay at home

And resist the urge to "up and roam".

The television - now twenty four hours global

Brings the world to us and it seems ignoble...

Ungrateful even to pack up and go

To places our TV screens will show;

Why add a carbon footprint to all the rest

For distant places often disappointing at best?

For destinations - that when we get there -

Makes us wish instead for some place where

We could find tea-bags and beans on toast,

Sausage, egg and chips that we like most.

So excuse me if I beg your pardon

And take my holidays in my own garden

Where all I enjoy is close at hand

And foreign travel isn't planned!

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