I just seen the inter rail pass is like £199 for 5 days, assuming I can go all over Italy? 
Looks to be about £165 on Eurail for 4 days travel.
Day 1 - Milan (no pass needed here)
Day 2 - Verona/Venezia
Day 3 - Firenze
Day 4 - Vatican
Day 5 - Naples
Kinda thing, only briefly looking.
I’d be shattered but it’s all part of the fun.
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I was just looking at some map, Rome would definitely be on there!
Probably better for me to do the bottom half of the country touring as that’s where majority is?
To do Vatican you have to do Rome really 
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I really enjoyed the Vatican. I’m an atheist but that really didn’t impact the experience. The Vatican just had a really appealing feel to the place. I loved every moment there.
Rome… less so. I just didn’t enjoy the city. I couldn’t explain why.
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Depends where I’m going. Last time I was heading for Hawaii and on a different trip to New Zealand, I wouldn’t have asked but in both cases was traveling through other countries where I was asking about. Turns out that you needed typhoid for New Zealand which our New Zealand cousin who is a nurse was less than impressed about that recommendation!
Some places it’s obvious that you need something so I ask e.g. India, far east, Africa.
If you do need that I’ve never once got told or checked when I’ve been…
I’ve been to these countries extensively over the past decade and I’ve never once had a vaccination. You’ll be fine.
But don’t sue me if you get typhoid 
And the countries I’m talking about that I can only say I’ve been personally:
Japan
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
Singapore
Indonesia
South Korea
Malaysia
Philippines
Depends, if I’m trekking for days in the wilderness (which I have done in some places), I care more. If I’m only going to cities and big tourist destinations they are not really relevant unless mandatory.
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Four nights wild camping on Dartmoor went well. Some spectacular night skies.
Also side note the nightmode on iPhone has gotten insane. Even in the pitch black it picks the colour out on the moors in the distance.
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The advice does vary depending on where in a country you’re going and how long you’re staying. We’re going to Australia in a bit and it’s saying Japanese Encephalitis if you’re going to rural areas (which we’ve done before but never got that vaccine). Also rabies if you’re staying a long time, which I’ve done and the OH has seeing as she’s from Australia, but neither of us have got that either.
Having just returned from our annual family holiday and wishing next year would come sooner. I was curious as to how many holidays people take abroad per year?
I’m not sure why, but we’ve always stuck with just 1 per year. Is this normal?
We’ve generally done an annual family ‘big’ one (12-14 night ‘beach’ holiday or a 10-12 night cruise) followed by one or two 2-night seasonal UK city-breaks and several UK only-camping-but-mysteriously-expensive tent trips.
The family one is a bit different this year - we’re off to New York next week for a major reminisce. Our 25th Wedding Anniversary plus MrsW’s birthday. Dragging the teenagers along to see all the sights, aka: where we lived & partied 20+ years ago in Manhattan (2000-2006, including getting married on the 102nd floor of the Empire State in May 2000) so it’s a big trip for the FamW this one.
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We’re a couple with no kids. We do fewer overseas trips than we used to (in the era of really cheap flights) and we’re also older (51 and 60). We tend to plan well ahead for a mix of short UK breaks and slightly longer overseas ones. So far this year 3 days in London for my big birthday with 3 shows, and 10 days in Porto. Coming up, 5 days in Scotland, 3 days in Stratford upon Avon, a week driving in Northern France including a visit to the Standing With Giants installation at the British Normandy Memorial. We’d normally have more booked but frail elderly parents are taking up a lot of weekends. I also do day trips to London every 4 to 6 weeks as I’m part time now. For next year we have a long weekend in London for valentines, and have just started booking accommodation for a 4 week road trip to Stockholm and back with 9 stops.
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Childless couple. We tend to go on 4 or 5 overseas holidays. One 2 week break alone and then smaller one week or long weekend breaks with friends.
We appreciate we are lucky to be able to do this but want to see as much of the world as possible while we still can and have the disposable income.
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This was my initial thought. Perhaps a nice staycation is needed mid-year, but then I looked and as you mentioned, I could go abroad for less 
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I generally do either a mixture of medium sized holidays (up to one week) or in some years one big holiday (two weeks) and some smaller ones (long weekends).
Abroad or the UK really just depends on what we fancy, apart from a ‘big trip’ would likely be abroad.
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Last year I roughly did:
8 long weekend trips
3 one week trip
2 two weeks trips
1 four+ week trip
I do feel very lucky and blessed I get to holiday as much as I do.
Normally 2, try for 3. We’re now down to couple holidays since the younger one became older and does their own thing.
Writing this on a plane to Santorini 
, we’ve also got Canada this year for a big birthday 
and the boss tells me we’re going to Tenerife 
also.
Feel very fortunate to be able to do this, it’s getting increasing expensive and I feel it’s only going to go one way so getting as many in as we can while that’s possible.
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I’ve never really looked at it.
In 2023 I was abroad pretty much once a month (26 flights) and trips up to my parents in Newcastle were probably 2 in the year.
In 2024 I was abroad slightly less (23 flights) but it was also including a trip to New Zealand for a wedding/to see my other half’s family so it was perhaps slightly less. Plus the usual 2/3 trips to Newcastle.
This year… well I’ve only done 10 flights but one of them was only to Manchester which was a weekend away I suppose. I’ve only got 3 trips to Europe planned for the rest of the year too, with a bigger trip to Canada planned for the new year.
Plus, of course, the Newcastle trips.