alice

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Eeee I’m so excited. I have finally organised it! A FINAL and DEFINITE route and I have done the scary and daunting and looming task of booking stuff. I have now booked all my stuff for the trip. ALL OF IT.

Overall I’ve spent about £1500. That includes 2 x Inter-rail card and 2 months worth of hostels/hotels. Money well spent!

I’m not going to post up my itinery here cos like, no offence to you lovely reader, but what if a stalker/scary person reads this :/ unlikely but still possible some general stuff though is that I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS. Along the way I am stopping at Jutte’s, Uka’s and Terry’s, spending 5 days in Paris with my boyfriend, a long weekend in Rome with parents, and so on.

Anyway.

I’m so excited and so deadly scared at the same time. In a way I can’t believe this is real and it’s happening. In a month I’ll be on the road. TRAVEL TIME. I’m no longer scared about being by myself. It’ll do me good.

OMG this is amazing. I can’t believe I’m doing this. I’m proud of me, in a way, haha. I know I’m going to have a fantastic time. I really cant wait to get to Belgium and see Nic. I hope my Dutch will be good enough! Will be fun, we’re going to visit the Photography museum in Antwerpen too, and I will see Joris as well if he is around at this time. I’m going to visit Terry in Switzerland, and he lives quite near Zurich and stuff so that’ll make some nice trips.

Eeeeeeeexcited.

I do wish I had a companion to come with me, but at the end of the day, I’m not going to NOT go just cos I am by myself. I’m meeting up with tons (well, a couple) of people along the way. I’m going to love it.

This is what life is, right. Doing new things, excitement, passion, adventure, fun. Wow. This is all so exciting, I’m going TRAVELLING around. This is what I want with life, in years to come I’m going to look back on my gap year and think, “wow, I’m so lucky to have had this opportunity, I’m glad I didn’t waste it.” I will laugh at the way I used to hate getting up at 6am to go to work and I will smile at the way this gap year was absolutely perfect in every way. The first 6 months I spent working hard for some money, the second half of it I spent this money doing what I do best: being foreign haha. I really have had/am going to have the best of both worlds: I worked for 6 months giving me MUNNEH and maybe more importantly (!) the job and office experience which will come in handy sooo much when I am older, not to mention give me a right cracking reference on my CV, and I also get a lot of free time I can spend doing what I love and what I want to do. Phwoar, I am in NO way regretting this gap year. I LOVE IT.

It’s fun not knowing what will happen. I haven’t planned much, other than where I’ll rest my head each night. I’ve sorted out trains, well, as far as checking they’re all available and stuff, no need to book them as such. I’ll turn up at the station and go somewhere. I NEED TO BUY A BIG MAP. It’s fun being out of the safety zone. Scary, but fun!

So yes. It has been an interesting year. Weird how much I’ll miss the job. ButI’m moving out! It’s funny how one of the things I am most looking forward to is travelling on the trains. I absolutely love trains. Dunno why. But with my inter-rail card I will literally be living on a train. I will step off in one city, explore, sleep in my squishy warm sleeping bag in a basic hostel, then get on a train to somewhere else. Somewhere new. Somewhere I’ve never been before. It’s thrilling. It’s terrifying. It’s the best thing in the world.

That said, I’ve got some longgg train journeys coming up, I bet that’ll kill my love of trains after the first couple of times

If anyone fancies a weekend away this Spring/Summer, contact me and we’ll sort something out! Seriously, I will be glad to meet with you and we’ll have FUN in Berlin/Milan/Prague/ANYWHERE.

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