There is only one thing better than travelling to a foreign destination on holiday and that is moving there. There are some people who have really landed with their butts in the butter and have the finances to be able to have one home in the UK and another in some wonderful foreign location.
For example a family might have a house in London, and they stay there during the summer months enjoying the somewhat muted sunshine of the Northern Hemisphere, and then they spend the next six months enjoying the wonderful summer heat and days that seem to go on forever, in the Southern Hemisphere.
The possibility of moving house to France for example is something that would send shivers even up the most seasoned traveller's spine. The idea of moving to a foreign place, even more so than just visiting is the stuff of romantic dreams.
When Keats became ill and moved to Rome to live next to the Spanish Steps, it was the journey that was terribly romantic but also the possibility of living in a place that was at once strange and inviting. This is the romantic feeling that we all get when we travel.
The only difference is that if you move to a place then that feeling of strangeness and foreignness will fade after a while. And you will become a local, but of course this also has its romantic appeal.
