Just for fun, here's a short quiz you and your potential travel buddy can take to see if your flexibility level needs adjustment. Answer the following questions, choosing one comment that most suits your temperament from categories (a) to (e). Don't dwell on the replies, rely on the heart and respond quickly:
(1) Which of the following scenarios sets your imagination astir?
(a) Soft lighting, champagne popping, and a sultry voice singing the blues.
(b) A sweeping mountain panorama and the swoosh of skis on fresh powder.
(c) Raindrops tapping on the roof, whistling wind, and you indoors sipping hot, spiced wine by a crackling fire.
(d) The sun rising over a misty lake and a loon's haunting call.
(e) A canoe sluicing through white-water rapids.
(2) A good fairy grants you a dinner for two. Would you rather:
(a) Fly to Paris to dine at Maxim's.
(b) Board a luxury yacht. Dinner is anything your heart desires, served under sails and stars.
(c) Be transported by time machine to Windsor Castle. Queen Elizabeth I (it is 1595) invites you to sup and view a new play – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
(d) Abracadabra! Go to Africa! Dine in your luxury tree-top lodge, with a view of elephant and giraffe browsing by an adjacent water hole.
(e) Hop a helicopter and fly to a chalet perched on a rocky mountain ledge. Below, in an Alpine meadow, a symphony orchestra plays Beethoven as you dine.
(3) Which of the following quotes reflects your character?
(a) "See one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all." – Socrates.
(b) "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter; sermons and soda water the day after." – Lord Byron.
(c) "The voyage of love is all the sweeter for an outside stateroom and a seat at the captain's table." – Henry S Haskins.
(d) "Love lives in cottages as well as in castles." – Proverb.
(e) "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." – H L Mencken.
(4) You win a holiday of your choice: Would you select:
(a) Carnival Week in Rio De Janeiro.
(b) A week at any Club Med around the world.
(c) A Classical tour of Greece.
(d) Deep-sea fishing off the coast of Costa Rica.
(e) Trekking in the Indian Himalaya.
(5) For you, communing with nature is:
(a) Feeding squirrels in the park.
(b) Raising wind in a set of sails
(c) Losing your thoughts in the sound of tumbling surf.
(d) Eye-to-eye contact with a wilderness creature.
(e) Utter silence.