Travel

The update is a European backpacking trip my friend and I have planned for our graduating year! We are so excited to be sharing an experience as special as this one together! My friend's name is Julia. Jules has been my closest companion since grade 4. It is safe to say we've had a unique friendship since day one, but I promise to dedicate a post to her later on! Anyways the idea was originally Julia's but it really interested me to travel around Europe as well! I grew up in Canada but was born in Turkey (Middle between Europe and Asia). 

Europe always strikes me as a very welcoming, and cultured area of the world. Traveling prevents us from being ignorant to all the types of lifestyles around the world. I think traveling will open my eyes to the real world. Life outside of pretty old Vancouver! I do not want to grow up in a perfect little bubble and then when life really hits me have no clue how to handle it. A couple of years ago if you were to ask me if I thought taking a gap year was logical I would have automatically replied "no." But the more I pondered upon it the more it began to appeal to me! Obviously I have always desired to travel but I used to think that it was better to study first get school out of the way and then go. But a series of events have changed my strict opinion completely! I imagined it like this: I would graduate and choose a university I wanted to study in. I would take a student loan and go. Study my undergrad and maybe decide what I wanted after. Then maybe begin work and then go. 

How the hell am I supposed to travel drowning in loans? I realized I would perceive it to be too difficult to do and put it off. Then god knows when I would have an opportunity to go. I would live my life always wondering what it would be like to live my dream. This is an experience I've always wanted to have and I am going to fulfil my dream. I was given one life and I do not intend on wasting it.

1. Santorini, Greece
2. Mykonos, Greece
3. Parga, Greece
4. Venice, Italy
5. Lake Garda, Italy 
6. Tuscany, Italy
7. Manorola, Italy
8. Capri, Italy
9. Naples, Italy
10. Portofino, Italy
11. Paris, France
12. Corsica, South of France
13. Zurich, Switzerland 
14. Barcelona, Spain
15. Amsterdam, Holland
16. Dublin, Ireland
17. London, England
18. Glasgow, UK
19. Valetta, Malta
20. Monte Carlo, Monaco
21. Vienna, Austria
22. Alesund, Norway
23. Oslo, Norway
24. Dubrounic, Croatia
25. The Azores, Portugal

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