'The Longest Way Round, Is The Shortest Way Home' - Ulysses by James Joyce
By road, air, or sea...
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Travel
2017
Vietnam
Malaysia
2016
New Caledonia
Vanuatu
Papua New Guinea
Australia
New Zealand
France
Netherlands
Germany
Belgium
Poland
Lithuania
China
2015
Brazil
Bolivia
Peru
Vanuatu
Papua New Guinea
New Caledonia
2014
New Zealand
Fiji
Australia
Tonga
Canada
Spain
2013
USA
Holland
2012
France
2011
Greece
2010 and earlier
Croatia
Italy
France
USA
Canada
Bosnia
Namibia
Portugal
Switzerland
When I was younger I was lucky to have parents who took me and my brother on holiday to Europe every few years, exploring beautiful cities such as Florence, Piza and Dubrovnic. We would go camping in Southern France or drive across Greek islands, staying in beautiful places with so much history... and all the ruins and old churches you could possible find.
Fast forward a few years and I find myself a University student, feeling very grown up in a city I don't know with people I don't know doing a course I know very little about. University was an exciting, terrifying, thrilling, wonderful blur of people, places and deadlines. This new found freedom, and living on the other side of the country to my family home, brought me to spending a lot of time on trains. A lot of time on trains. It must add up to weeks worth of time, spent on or waiting for trains. I learnt very quickly to control my impatience and somehow stare out of a window for 3 and a half hours and get to my destination without really noticing.
This freedom and newly learnt patience, mixed with a childhood love of exploring and meeting new people, brought me to my first trip with friends to Holland. A freezing, confusing, vibrant Dutch city, where we spent time soaking in the local culture and eating as much food as we could cram in. This experience helped me overcome (to a certain extent) my fear of flying... Leading me to apply to a summer camp in America, where I had the time of my life working with The Fresh Air Fund (a charity run organisation that gives under-priviledged, inner-city New York teenagers the opportunity to get out of the city, where they meet new people their age and try new activities).
After the best summer of my life I got the opporunity to travel through from New York City down the east coast, ending in Miami. Waking up in a new city/state every morning for a few weeks was incredible. Travelling with people I'd only met at the start of the trip, from all over the world, hearing their stories, learning their languages and about their cultures...
.... and so it's not suprising that, after graduating Uni and spending 3 months at home working in a restaurant in my local village, my life lead me to working on cruise ships in the South Pacific. 2 years, 3 ships and countless adventures, new friends and photo opportunities later, and I fell in love with a Lithuanian co-worker who changed the direction of my life in ways I could never have predicted.
From cruise ships in the South Pacific to visiting family and hitch hiking across Europe, we have finally ended up in China. With exciting plans coming up and amazing adventures awaiting us.
Here's to the highs, and lows, of an ex-cruise ship crew member surviving life on land.