“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money”
I have to say, that advice is quite amazing and anyone who knows me would agree that it is also advice that I'd do well to follow. The problem with me is that when I'm not at home and living out of a suitcase or whatever, I am the sort of person that always has to have a choice; make up, clothes, shoes, boots, hair products, perfumes... You name it, I have to have all of it with me at all times!
I'm off on holiday again pretty soon and I think I've already bought more than I need to pack.... On the other hand though, it is Ibiza! So I will need all manner of strange neon things as well as glittery sequin things and of course I'll need comfortable, sexy, glam.... You can see where I'm going with this... Basically, I'm a girl who needs choice!
I LOVE to travel, don't you? No matter where I'm going, I always embrace the opportunities for some thing new to engulf me. I love new cultures and different ways of life and I love experiencing uniqueness and seeing amazing new places.
There are lots of things that really stick out in my mind as amazing experiences when I've been away, but there is one in particular that has been on my mind a lot recently that I am absolutely craving to experience again - and soon if I can. We went to Goa a couple of years ago and one of the excursions we booked was an overnight stay in an elephant sanctuary with either a yoga session or early morning hike... Meeting the elephants was absolutely extraordinary! We fed them in the evening (and one of the baby one's snotted on my shoulder as I turned round to grab my camera), then the next morning they put on a show and painted, then we went swimming with them in a nearby lagoony type thing. The who experience was sensational! Another experience from the same trip was the yoga which I remember being very early in the morning after a strange nights sleep in an 1800's build elephant dung hut. We walked round the corner from the sanctuary to a beautiful open space that boasted 'Mahadeva Temple, Tambdisurla' An old 13th Century Goan temple. I'm not a religious person but there was just something about this place that drew me in and something about it touched me and has stayed with me since.. I feel like i want to go back and experience more of this 'yoga by an old temple' type thing... But where to go to next.....
I think life is short and we should all try things offered at least once... Life surprises us immensely at times when we least expect it to... Smile and embrace the opportunities!
