so,
1 day left of spain for this time in my life...
send off boxes
1 trip left with rach (so excited)
leave london,
japan,
sydney...
oh my goodness... i am really i don´t know... overwhelmed, excited, scared, looking forward to what´s in store...
i have written some thoughts down about my travels in a book for me to transfer onto my blog, and of course it is locked in my bag in a locker, so it will have to be done after. sorry.
and today... wander around barcelona for one last day, enjoying the rain (and hopefully not swimming through the streets like i did yesterday) and soaking in the city for what it is... LOVE IT (but i think you all know my thoughts about spain)
anyways, off i go i suppose.
later
lots of love and hugs
besos y abrazos...
xoxoxoxoxox
xoxoxoxoxox
xoxoxoxoxox
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
whoops
ok... so i haven´t written anything since lima...
well, i went travelling with jen in france for 1 week. a few days in paris... love that city.... a few days in limoges with clement (thanks for having us clem!!!) where jen bought me a lovely pair of porcelaine earrings... she has collected limoges porcelaine since she was 8 years old. and then onto a farm just outside toulouse where we were spoilt with fresh farm produce for eating... WOW is all i can say.
then back to london where i said bye to jen, alex, andy and mandy and then moped around the house pretending that life was not happening as i had to pack it all up and put it into boxes... now this should have been easy as i love putting things in boxes (especially people) but it was hard... cos i had to sort through 3 years of my life and decide what was worth keeping... and face a lot of stuff that i had been realising about myself over the last little while.
so... then onto spain... first stop barcelona where i could not get the smile off my face because i went in the water at the beach for i think the first time this year (thanks for taking me there José)... oh my goodness... it was so lovely. and the sun was shining... i spent a few days wandering around just enjoying the sun. and then pete (a guy from my mission team to lima) and eliot were in barca, so i spent some time with them and went out for eliot´s b´day.
then had a bit of an emotional time as i was packing up my stuff to leave José´s place to go travelling by myself for the next little while... it realy struck me how 'alone´one can feel... and i started thinking 'what am i doing with my life? i am happy here'. but i really want to go back to australia... and i do feel my time here is finished for the moment... i'm looking forward to a relaxing time in aus and then seeing what life is going to bring me. it's just going to be really hard to leave the things i have grown to love in london (and the people) behind.
anyways... that moment was gone and i was on the train to granada to see my friend Rocio. and she took me on 2 day trips out of granada and i had a lovely time catching up with her... trying to practice my poor spanish and her practicing her english. i love granada because if you drink, you get dinner for free with tapas... AMAZING!!!!
sorry, this is brief, but running out of internet time... and need to figure out what on earth i am going to do tomorrow... wanted to go to cadiz, but can´t find any accommodation... do i wing it, or go somewhere else??
from granada, an unplanned trip to ronda, cos i could, a beautiful city on a mountain with a great canyon in the middle. here i got chatting to denis, a homeless english guy and he ended up buying me a drink... haha, the things you end up doing when you travel alone.
then onto algeciras where i went to girbraltar and then today i went to morocco.. another impromtu visit... just cos i could. here i had some dude say, ahhhh... aussie... let me take you around. so i spent most of the day with a tour guide for free... i said i couldn´t pay and he said it didn´t matter and just walked with me... a bit freaky, but ended up ok!! (haha, sorry mum).
on the way back from morocco, the passport control guy was shaking his head at my passport and saying ´mucho viajes´ 'you travel much' to which i replied 'poco' 'a little'... he just laughed at me...
and so now i am in algeciras... trying to decide what to do tomorrow, and wishing i had someone to travel with... i have a good book my ex-housemate amy gave me, but there´s only so much reading one can do... so thought i would update this briefly to let you know a bit about what´'s been going on for me kinda.... sorry it´s been a while...
love to you all... just over a month til i am back in aus... and just under 2 months til kristals big day... (so cant wait!!!)
xx
xx
xxxxxxxxx
besos y abrazos
well, i went travelling with jen in france for 1 week. a few days in paris... love that city.... a few days in limoges with clement (thanks for having us clem!!!) where jen bought me a lovely pair of porcelaine earrings... she has collected limoges porcelaine since she was 8 years old. and then onto a farm just outside toulouse where we were spoilt with fresh farm produce for eating... WOW is all i can say.
then back to london where i said bye to jen, alex, andy and mandy and then moped around the house pretending that life was not happening as i had to pack it all up and put it into boxes... now this should have been easy as i love putting things in boxes (especially people) but it was hard... cos i had to sort through 3 years of my life and decide what was worth keeping... and face a lot of stuff that i had been realising about myself over the last little while.
so... then onto spain... first stop barcelona where i could not get the smile off my face because i went in the water at the beach for i think the first time this year (thanks for taking me there José)... oh my goodness... it was so lovely. and the sun was shining... i spent a few days wandering around just enjoying the sun. and then pete (a guy from my mission team to lima) and eliot were in barca, so i spent some time with them and went out for eliot´s b´day.
then had a bit of an emotional time as i was packing up my stuff to leave José´s place to go travelling by myself for the next little while... it realy struck me how 'alone´one can feel... and i started thinking 'what am i doing with my life? i am happy here'. but i really want to go back to australia... and i do feel my time here is finished for the moment... i'm looking forward to a relaxing time in aus and then seeing what life is going to bring me. it's just going to be really hard to leave the things i have grown to love in london (and the people) behind.
anyways... that moment was gone and i was on the train to granada to see my friend Rocio. and she took me on 2 day trips out of granada and i had a lovely time catching up with her... trying to practice my poor spanish and her practicing her english. i love granada because if you drink, you get dinner for free with tapas... AMAZING!!!!
sorry, this is brief, but running out of internet time... and need to figure out what on earth i am going to do tomorrow... wanted to go to cadiz, but can´t find any accommodation... do i wing it, or go somewhere else??
from granada, an unplanned trip to ronda, cos i could, a beautiful city on a mountain with a great canyon in the middle. here i got chatting to denis, a homeless english guy and he ended up buying me a drink... haha, the things you end up doing when you travel alone.
then onto algeciras where i went to girbraltar and then today i went to morocco.. another impromtu visit... just cos i could. here i had some dude say, ahhhh... aussie... let me take you around. so i spent most of the day with a tour guide for free... i said i couldn´t pay and he said it didn´t matter and just walked with me... a bit freaky, but ended up ok!! (haha, sorry mum).
on the way back from morocco, the passport control guy was shaking his head at my passport and saying ´mucho viajes´ 'you travel much' to which i replied 'poco' 'a little'... he just laughed at me...
and so now i am in algeciras... trying to decide what to do tomorrow, and wishing i had someone to travel with... i have a good book my ex-housemate amy gave me, but there´s only so much reading one can do... so thought i would update this briefly to let you know a bit about what´'s been going on for me kinda.... sorry it´s been a while...
love to you all... just over a month til i am back in aus... and just under 2 months til kristals big day... (so cant wait!!!)
xx
xx
xxxxxxxxx
besos y abrazos
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