- My wife and I are going to go flashpacking across Europe after I retire.
Flashpacking
blending and clipping flash+backpacking; verb
backpacking with electronics/luxuries
Etymology : A blend of flash (representative of electronics) and a clipping of backpacking, flashpacking has been used to describe the travels of relatively wealthy people who want to have an authentic travel experience, but do not want to spend time in dirty hostels.
Source : Nomadic Matt article (2/4/10)
Last modified: 25 November 2013