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In today’s video, I’ll be sharing memories about my world-wide travels. This may turn out to be a series because I have quite a lot of pictures and experiences from Alaska to Antarctica, America to Oceania, and everything in between.
I have been travelling since I was 15 days old – so a huge gratitude to my parents for instilling the love for travel in me. Every year, they took my brother and me on holidays where we met family and friends and enriched our travel experiences.
Through my travels, I have created beautiful memories in the form of letters, poems and artworks.
My love for the ocean led me to explore the world on cruise ships where I met amazing people and formed lasting friendships. I’ve made friends galore, embraced different cultures and foods, went through markets and homes, I went to art galleries, places of worship, museums and historical sites.
I’ve stood in places where I almost felt I was in a dream, a different time and an unreal feeling – as if I was standing alone even if there were hundreds of people around me. I savour those moments! I live for those moments - That’s how travel mucks up your head, it makes you see things you haven’t seen before and feel things you haven’t felt before.
I’m no stranger to travelling alone. I can be all alone yet surrounded by amazing beauty in the form of landscapes, seascapes, people, animals, rich architecture, art museums, street singing. Freya Stark rightly once said: To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.
That is so very true… we come alone in this world, we go alone from it, so when we get a chance to travel alone, why not???
And to those waiting for someone to accompany them, or the right time, or the right place, I’d like to read Paulo Coelho’s quote: if you think ADVENTURE is dangerous, try routine – IT IS LETHAL. It is!
To those scared to travel in case they may get lost, I have a lovely quote for you by Bill Bryson: I cant think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you cant even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
I hear many people saying they’ll travel when they retire because that’s when they’ll have the money and the time to do so. I disagree with that – I’m not waiting till I retire. When I retire, who’s to guarantee that I have the money and who knows about my health – whether it will permit me to travel. I have come across a nice quote from Mark Twain who said: Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So I say, throw off your caution to the winds and go out in the wilderness, go anywhere, but get out of your comfort space.
I’ve collected souvenirs of all the places I’ve travelled to – and they are displayed all over my fridge – and mind you, there’s not one day that I don’t look at them, and whenever I do, at that moment, it never fails to bring a smile to my face.
My favourite quotes on travels:
Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustav Flaubert
Another one by Anthony Boudain:
Travel isn’t always pretty. It’s not always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Traveling – it leaves you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller…. And that what life is all about for me…. travelling, re-living memories and telling my stories.
See you in another place, another time 😊 soon
And I think to myself…. What a wonderful world!
BrenRose
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