It's official! I've booked in a trip to travel to Italy with my best friend in August.
While I'm slightly terrified of going overseas for the first time without family, I'm also incredibly excited about venturing outside of Australia for a big adventure.
I've never had the travel bug before, but since coming back from New York last year the bite has finally started to course through my veins. I've had a 9-5 job for a few years now, and while I adore what I do, it hit me one day that there has to be more to life than waking up, going to work, coming home, sleeping and repeating that process day after day.
I caught up with one of my good friends the other week and she had this amazing out look on life that gave me the wake up call I needed. Her remarkable change in the way she lives her life now really made me start to reflect on my own and what I want to do. One of the things that stood out to me was that she has started only doing the things she WANTS to do. After all, life is too short to be doing things you don't want to do.
So with that, I started writing another list....my forte it seems.... of what I want to achieve. The first on that list; travel. And possibly try to learn a bit of Italian before we go. CIAO!
It is extremely difficult, in my opinion, to find the perfect travel companion. Unless you have a partner- which scarily, everyone seems to have except me- it can seem daunting and unachievable. My best friend and I have known each other for over 15 years so I'm confident we'll be alright. If there's a search warrant out for an Aussie red head in Italy, you'll know we haven't got along!
The plan so far is to go to Florence, Cinque Terre, Venice and Rome. Being travel amateurs we didn't want to try and conquer too much in one go.
I'll be documenting my preparation and stories of my trip so make sure you keep reading!
