I can’t put into words how much I despise Instagram now 😭 I just wanna share nice photos without shitty engagement, glitchyness and constant pressure to churn out video content
this year i’m making a pledge to buy all my christmas shopping from small, independent businesses. if you / someone you know has a store please share with me as I have no idea where to start looking ☺️
the past few days have been super stressful due to the new restrictions on Turkey, BUT i ticked off a huge bucket list item for me - seeing the balloons in Cappadocia 😍🇹🇷 one of my favourite places i’ve been - I will definitely be going back!
OK I am seriously considering booking a trip leaving on 13th…
prices are insane across Europe but I’ve found so pretty good deals for Bucharest 🇷🇴 🇷🇴 🇷🇴
should I ???
One thing I always find so interesting about travel is that people experience places completely differently to one another - one city might be loved by some and hated by others!
If you had to pick, what would be your all-time favourite city? 💭
I think mine is Budapest 🇭🇺
Seeing all my boxes ready for storage it’s really sinking in now that I’m going to officially be a digital nomad in 17 days 😬
Weirdly, I’m not actually nervous…
the face of someone who, 6 weeks ago couldn’t even run for more than 1 minute
but has just smashed out a solid 20 minute run 🙌🏼
and I could have kept going?!
honestly never thought I’d see the day where I enjoyed running, let alone, dare I say… love it?!
Omg it’s official we are about to fly to Iceland 🇮🇸✈️❄️
Didn’t want to get my hopes up with the recent news so haven’t let myself get excited… until now 🥰🥳
woooooo
One of my goals this year is to go public with my blog
Atm only twitter knows about it, I don’t share it on Instagram as I have “real life” people / work colleagues etc following
It’s always been my fear holding me back but this year I wanna say f* it and finally share it 🤪
Honestly deleting my travel Instagram was one of the best decisions I’ve made
Don’t get me wrong I love sharing travel photos, but the constant feeling of pressure to churn out content (not to mention video content) just to beat the algorithm took the joy out of it altogether
This 2 week trip has certainly made me realise a few things
- My god do I need sunshine and hot weather
- I can’t deal with dorms anymore
- I don’t enjoy moving around every couple of days
- I actually don’t enjoy drinking like I used to
- Maybe I’m getting boring?! 😂😂
I’ve got a place to live 🥳🥳🥳
And it’s in an area I hadn’t considered before, but the place and the rent were too good to turn down 😍
She’s a Neutral Bay girly 🤪
This year I kept a note of my travels so this is my mini “wrapped”
✈️ - 27 flights (need to get this down next year)
🌏 - 10 countries (3 new, 7 re-visited)
Top 3:
🇸🇮 - Slovenia
🇱🇰 - Sri Lanka
🇮🇩 - Indonesia - couldn’t not include it after 4 months of mems❤️
what’s yours?
2023 is *potentially* looking like 👀
South Africa 🇿🇦
Vietnam 🇻🇳
Australia 🇦🇺
Philippines 🇵🇭
UK (Weddings) 🇬🇧
Canada 🇨🇦
Belize 🇧🇿
Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Colombia 🇨🇴
Australia 🇦🇺
This would be 6 new countries 😍
Say borders were open as usual, this is my ideal plan for 2022:
Sri Lanka - Indonesia - Vietnam - Hong Kong - Croatia - Montenegro - Portugal - UK - Spain - Mexico - Colombia - Peru - Chile - Argentina - Brazil
Posting so I can look back next year and see what I managed! ✈️
I used to be soo obsessed with ticking off new countries.
But so far this year i’ve been to 9 countries and only 2 of them have been new ones for me (Sri Lanka & Slovenia)
first ever travel mistake yesterday
booked our flight for 8th March instead of 8th Feb 😂
cue a £60 flight change fee, checking in at final call for boarding and going through security 5 minutes before take off 😅
but we made it hahahaha
Got a 2:1 overall for my degree 👩🏼🎓✨
absolutely chuffed considering I’ve completed it alongside travelling and freelancing 50 hours a week 😅😂
And my graduation ceremony is literally the day before I fly to Australia 🥰
need all the coffee I can get today 😭 time difference is hitting me hard trying to keep in touch with my clients back home meant calls at 3, 4 and 6am 😬
So today I’m having a much needed chill day! Tomorrow am heading to Bondi in the morning and Cronulla in the afternoon 🌊🇦🇺
Eeeek officially flying to Sri Lanka on 29th April!! 🐘 🇱🇰
First time visiting and have wanted to for sooo long.
Pleaaaaase hit me with your recommendations / blog posts / everything !!! 💛