A Travellers Life

Travelling is never just about where you go,

it's about the journey on the way.

That is what this blog post is about.

When we were in New Zealand our bus driver would

start the day reminding us "if you want to have a good day,

have a good day, it you want to have an amazing day, have an 

amazing day, and if you want to have the best day of your life

you go out there and make it the best day of your life"

 After travelling for 2 months, we've learnt that to have an

amazing day it's not necessarily what you do but who 

you meet and your attitude towards the day. 

 

After staying in hostels for the last month we've learnt

it's very easy to meet other travellers, you start with small talk

"where have you been? where are you travelling too?

how long have you been away?" and once

you've passed that you end up realising you've met

some of the most amazing people from countries

you've never even heard of. 

In general it's quite rare to see 3 people travelling

together, normally you travel by yourself or as a duo, but 

because of this everyone is willing to make conversation

 and before you know it you're sitting in a room with a guitar and a

 harmonica singing coldplay.

A travellers life is fascinating, people come into your life,

 you spend days with them and act like you've been

friends for life and then you go your seperate ways,

they go north, you go south and you move on to the next place.

 

If you plan to ever go travelling we strongly

recommend staying in hostels, every time you arrive

at a new hostel it's like being welcomed into a new

family, you cook together, watch TV, go on bar crawls,

even shower together (not literally).

 And trust me, your idea of a hostel will not be accurate,

you get large rooms (with a house cleaner), a chill out room,

TV room, a bar and you're surrounded by people who are all

so welcoming, the only downfall is the wifi.

Stick 100 teenagers in a house, all internet dependent,

ready to check social media every evening and all on the same

WiFi, you can imagine the chaos.

 Food.

I'm sure you can all imagine what food we've been eating, 

I think recently we've living off spaghetti hoops on toast 

or peanut butter sandwiches. I wouldn't call it 5 star meals

but occasionally we treat ourselves to a Max Brenners or a cake

from the local bakery. We say occasionally if we go longer

than 4 days without a bakery sweet treat we tend to have

withdrawal symptoms, those custard slices just call our name.

 We've been lucky enough to stay with family in parts of

New Zealand and Australia which is heaven getting a cooked

dinner every evening. (Big thanks to Anita

and her delicious dinners in NZ)

One other thing, if anyone is unsure whether or not

to go travelling, just go.

Travelling gives you the freedom to completely own your

own life, you aren’t committed or tied down to anyone

or anything and that is a feeling you will rarely feel.

We know this blog post is a bit different to what we normally

write, but you don't normally get to talk about this when you're

so busy discussing all the adventures you've been on,

and this side of travelling is all part of the adventure.

Lots of love

Megan, Robyn and Erin

xxx