During my travels, I have realised that the effect of travel on your life is not about how intense or exciting a particular event or experience may appear. It is about the consistency of these experiences, however intense and life-changing they appear, the more consistently you have these experiences, the more consistently your perspective on life is changed and renewed. Every time that I pack my suitcase and I am handed over my boarding pass I know that from the moment I step off that plane at my destination that my life will evolve in some way. As I am now learning to shy away from the constant need for perfection and embrace my shortcomings I am reminded of the art of kintsugi; making art of that which is broken. In the same way, I am turning my imperfections and all of my experiences, in whatever way they may quantify to gold! In the spirit of making the most out of every day and every moment I have written down my travel bucket list for the rest of 2017:

1. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
2. Learn to surf
3. Go scuba diving
4. Go skiing in Austria
5. Learn to snowboard
6. Book a one-way ticket to somewhere
7. Travel to every continent: Asia,North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Antarctica (if I can save enough 😉 )
8. Elephant trekking in Bali
9. Hot air balloon ride at sunset
10. Go on a Kenyan safari
11. Hit up Las Vegas and go crazy for my birthday
12. Have Christmas on a beach with a BBQ
13. Go inter-railing across Europe
14. Island hop in Fiji
15. Travel and stay at someone’s house I have met whilst travelling
16. Visit all of the wonders of the world
17. Visit Cambodia
18. Visit the temples of Bali
19. Travel somewhere on an organised trip
20. Visit the Grand Canyon
21. Stay in a 5* resort somewhere classy
22. Find a completely deserted island
23. Take a 24-hour train journey
24. Spend days travelling from one place to the next without stopping…
25. Visit the Egyptian pyramids and go on a camel ride
26. Visit 12 countries in 12 months
27. Visit five countries in five weeks
28. Visit Byron bay
29. Visit the Colosseum in Rome
30. See two continents in one day in Istanbul
31. See the Northern Lights through a glass igloo in Finland, Lapland
32. Stay in Dubai and feel like a queen for a few days
33. Take an outdoor bath in Budapest
34. Go the Amazon rain forest
35. Dance my way in to a Rio carnival
36. Watch sunset in Santorini
37. Go sand-boarding
38. Stay in a log cabin in the English countryside
39. Swim with dolphins

Will be adding this last one based on suggestions from you guys!

So with this goal set, I leave you with this quote

‘The world is like a book and those who do not travel read only one page’ – ST. AUGUSTINE

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