travel wishlist

Hello (:

Travel has been playing on my mind a lot recently. I mentioned it in a previous post how much I feel impatient and the need to go and do and see everything now. It's almost as though I feel like everything has an expiry date and it needs to be done as soon as possible. But, I know, deep down (and after a few reminders) that isn't the case and just because things aren't happening now it doesn't mean they never will. I remind myself with JK Rowling. That she didn't get Harry P published until she was in her 30's and I'm only 23, so we've got a while yet. Anyway, I'm rambling.

The purpose of this post is somewhat of a travelling wishlist, in a sense. I wanted to talk about where I want to go and why, if there is a reason, of course.

America is the obvious choice, I realise. I once had a friend who'd completely written off any and all ideas of going to America, and it really bugged me. It's difficult to write off somewhere that's so vast and so full of varying cultures, ideals and people. I think television has really influenced how I feel about going to America. As a teenager, I read all the Gossip Girl books and watched the TV programme, I think that planted the seed of going to New York. Lindsey Kelk's 'I Heart New York' reignited the NY lust when I got slightly older too, the story of Angela upping and leaving for New York made me want to do exactly the same.

America doesn't begin and end with New York. I want to do all the touristy things. Man vs Food made me want to visit Voodoo Doughnut in Portland, I want to see the Murder House from American Horror Story and the house used for Walt and Skylar's home in Breaking Bad. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Washington DC. I want to see the Harry Potter part of Universal Studios.

Slightly closer to home, there's a whole lot of Europe to see too. My European travels so far mostly consist of Spain, various Spanish islands (Ibiza, Majorca, Lanzarote, Tenerife) and Bulgaria, which in all honesty, is a drunken blur. It's very cliche and obvious but I've always wanted to go to Paris. I was seething with jealousy when my dad went a couple of years ago with work. I recently read Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins and that's fueled the Paris fire further! The thing with Paris is, it's much more achievable. As are Germany, Italy, and going back to Spain to visit Barcelona properly. I've only been there for the day on a holiday to Salou when I was thirteen.

Then of course there's Prague and Budapest. And I've never been to Greece.

Even closer to home, I've never been to Scotland. Edinburgh looks beautiful in pictures. I want to go to London and do all the tourist things. I've only ever been twice, but I haven't properly seen any of it. 

Let's not forget the other side of the world. One of my friends is moving to Australia at the end of the year, if that isn't the perfect excuse to get myself out there, I don't know what is.

The point I want to make is that at the moment my head is swimming with ideas of where to go and how to get there. Unfortunately, for most of us, jobs, crappy wage packets, and various other commitments get in the way of properly being able to see the world. I envy anyone who has the balls to get up and go, because the idea of doing that sends me into mass panic.

By the end of 2015 I can tick Amsterdam and Dublin (again) off my travel bucket list, and hopefully one other place.

Where are you hoping/going to this year?