For those who have not had to listen to me go on and on and on about my plans for travelling here we go...I leave mid April for Fiji as part of an expedition team to work on a volunteer project in a small island community. I will be living, working, eating, playing, teaching and building around and in the community. Everything has been planned out by project leaders so I feel this will be a good way to ease me into my new found Independence! The group of volunteers I will be with I may not have met but I'm sure within time it will be like we have know each other for years. This week I am travelling up to Leeds to meet the team and have a general chitchat about the expedition, needless to say I cannot wait!
For the next leg of the journey I will be leaving Fiji to travel onwards to Australia and Sydney in particular. I will be doing this with Julia who is part of the Fiji expedition team (who I am so excited to meet for the first time on Wednesday!), and although we may not have anything organised I am sure/hopeful that everything will fall into place.....maybe....with only 20 days to explore Australia, can we do it all? of course we can!!!!
So on the 12th of July I leave the land of kangaroos and Julia as well :( and arrive in Bangkok! Where after just short of a year I will be meeting up with Oli, the bit I am most excited/nervous/happy about of the whole trip! If I thought me and Julia were a bit on the disorganised front, my plans travelling with Oli are even more so! I think we are both far to excited and distracted about finally seeing each other than making a plan or a route through Asia!!! Who knows we will probably travel along the coast of Thailand visiting as many beaches as possible then into Cambodia where Angkor Wat awaits (much to the jealousy of my dad) and maybe a kayak along the Mekong river? Then we will hop on over to Vietnam and have an adventure up towards Hanoi city which will most probably include some form of motorbike journey if I know Oli at all! Where on the 8th of August we will fly home to Bristol. After 4 months of travelling my bed will be calling and a nice hot bubble bath I imagine!
At the moment I can feel my dual personality coming across, one side where I will miss my family, friends, the comfort of my home my things around me and the sense of anxiety of what is to come, living out of a small backpack and if i am ready. Then on the other side the excitement of an an adventure: new people and friends, new cultures and customs, new homes, a break from daily hassles. Which side of my dual personality will shine over the other is yet to materialize but I know whatever I do, wherever I am, whomever I am with, I will be having the time of my life :)
For the next leg of the journey I will be leaving Fiji to travel onwards to Australia and Sydney in particular. I will be doing this with Julia who is part of the Fiji expedition team (who I am so excited to meet for the first time on Wednesday!), and although we may not have anything organised I am sure/hopeful that everything will fall into place.....maybe....with only 20 days to explore Australia, can we do it all? of course we can!!!!
So on the 12th of July I leave the land of kangaroos and Julia as well :( and arrive in Bangkok! Where after just short of a year I will be meeting up with Oli, the bit I am most excited/nervous/happy about of the whole trip! If I thought me and Julia were a bit on the disorganised front, my plans travelling with Oli are even more so! I think we are both far to excited and distracted about finally seeing each other than making a plan or a route through Asia!!! Who knows we will probably travel along the coast of Thailand visiting as many beaches as possible then into Cambodia where Angkor Wat awaits (much to the jealousy of my dad) and maybe a kayak along the Mekong river? Then we will hop on over to Vietnam and have an adventure up towards Hanoi city which will most probably include some form of motorbike journey if I know Oli at all! Where on the 8th of August we will fly home to Bristol. After 4 months of travelling my bed will be calling and a nice hot bubble bath I imagine!
At the moment I can feel my dual personality coming across, one side where I will miss my family, friends, the comfort of my home my things around me and the sense of anxiety of what is to come, living out of a small backpack and if i am ready. Then on the other side the excitement of an an adventure: new people and friends, new cultures and customs, new homes, a break from daily hassles. Which side of my dual personality will shine over the other is yet to materialize but I know whatever I do, wherever I am, whomever I am with, I will be having the time of my life :)
