Who started vacations?

I'm headed to Curacao for a week and so I decided to do some research on the history of vacation in the United States. Who was the brilliant person who came up with this concept of sunshine and laziness. Their isn't really an answer to this. The idea evolved over time and highly religious early america had a love hate relationship with the idea. Originally vacation meant the time where teachers and students were not at school. AKA vacating the school. People would take this time to do other things, often work. By the mid 1800's people start noticing that stress is doing bad things to business men. Doctors start proscribing vacations for peoples health, only people with money can really do this though. With the dawn of the automobile and trains people start thinking about taking farther trips for themselves. Trains companies realize that they can get more business by building hotels at one end of their line. Some religious people are still worried about the idleness of vacation at this time and so some christian groups run hotels offering far fewer temptations, no smoking or drinking and so on. As transportation improved and infrastructure arose vacationing evolved into what it is today.

Your turn to hold down the castle, I mean fort

La Crete Fort was built by the English on Jersey an island off the coast of France to try and keep Napoleon from invading. Ironically it still ended up with a french name meaning "the ridge". During World War II the area was captured by the Nazi's and used for military operations. Now a days the fort is used to defend peoples privacy, on vacation. If you want to go live in a fort, or a castle which this basically looks like, this is your spot. You can stay here for seven days in peak season for only about 1600 dollars which is about half of most other comparably sized castles in the UK and on the European coast.