Where You Should Go For Your Next Short Break Based On Your Current Mood

We all love a short break. A mini refresh. But a weekend away just isn’t a weekend away unless you tailor it to the tone and mood of your weeks leading up to it. An angry person doesn’t need the same getaway as one who is celebrating. A city can feel stuffy if you’re not in the right headspace, and wide open spaces can seem lonely if you need company.

So, to make the most of your short breaks, take a few hints from these suggestions based purely on fitting the mood.

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Tips On How To Make The Most Of Your Short Breaks

Your Work Sucks But You Can’t Quit Yet

Your co-workers are getting on your last nerve, your boss is a douche, and you’re just really done with the whole week. Sure, if these things are constantly happening it’s probably a sign you should start looking for a new job. But if it’s just an off week, you need a short break.

Specifically, you need to trot off to Darwin. Yep, I’m certain of this. Why? Because it’s the most city-ish place you can be that still seems pretty outback-y. And you need to be outback-y because that is where you will find yourself again. Maybe you’ll find yourself out fishing, or relaxing on the beach, or bush-walking your way inland in one of many national parks. The journey is up to you, but the place is Darwin.

You Absolutely Deserve To Celebrate Yourself

Wine. You must be near wine immediately if not sooner, but in a grown-up sophisticated way, you know? Because you’re absolutely killing it in life and you don’t want to ruin it by being sloppy. Get yourself to Adelaide. The famous Barossa Valley is only an hour away, so you can book yourself a wine tour that will pick you up an drop you off and go raise a glass to your success. But with the etra advantage that you can get your choice of food delivered to your hotel when drunk-you returns.

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You’re So Relaxed It Makes Other People Want To Barf

A bustling city just will not feel your vibe, you calm hippie you. ‘Chill’ is a mood in which you need small town, leave your watch at home feels, surrounded by stunning oceans views and that sweet healing smell of the salty waves.

Time to head over to Albany. A place with so many white sandy beaches that short breaks simply cannot accommodate the time to lie on them all. Feel free to go completely over the top and also hire a VW van, this is a judgment-free zone.

You Are Newly Single And Deciding Whether To Mingle

Ok, this is a state of mind that requires two options, depending on how recent the break-up was and whether you’re in messy party I-don’t-even-miss-them-look-how-fab-I-am mode, or if you’re still sad and wondering if you’ve both made a horrible, horrible mistake.

So first, to ease your sad soul and surround yourself with the only company that will never let you down, you need Traralgon in Victoria. Because you need to be close enough to the penguins of Phillip Island to feast your eyes on the cute and adorable little birdies, while far enough away that you’re not stuck on an island in a sad mood and you can still go wander into the rainforest to let your feelings out with no-one around.

But if you’ve moved on to the whole ‘the world has missed my fine arse for far too long’ thing, you need a city. A place with bright lights and stages to dance upon and random people to be your best friend for the night. But you also need it to be far enough away that you won’t awkwardly run into any flings or single-use friends when you’re back to your normal, stable self. Say g’day to Queenstown, the city with the highest concentration of nightlife venues in all of New Zealand.

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You’re Literally Bouncing Off The Walls

If like me, your city and country halves are constantly at odds, you’ll know that as much as you love the city sometimes you just need to get away. Just like living in the country isn’t an option because you’re itching for the big smoke in a couple of months. How to fix this? Short breaks. Obviously, the answer for an antsy city-dweller is New Zealand. Specifically, you need New Plymouth. This is because you need the incredible beauty and fresh air this country has to offer. It has mountains, it has hiking trails, it has the coastline and it has restaurants to stuff your mouth after a day of working out your energy.

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