Going to be a little break in the blog as I’m going home to see grandad, will be back in a couple of weeks. I’m so lucky I was somewhere with an airport, a few more stops and it would’ve taken me an extra day to get somewhere I could fly out from. A bit of time to reflect on lessons learned whilst I go back for a hiatus:

-I look young,like 24/26 young and I love it
- It’s ok for things to change route - sometimes for the better (I wouldn’t have done thresher sharks on Makapascua if I didn’t change plans)
- I really enjoy solo travel, probs more than I expected. I’ll struggle going on holidays with people again (asides from like Disney or just a beach holiday)
- It’s ok to not do everything just because it’s the thing to do there. If I don’t enjoy it (hiking) I’m not doing it
- It’s ok to miss stuff I initially planned to do - I obviously wasn’t meant to be there at that time or do it and that’s fine because a load of other cool stuff has gone on, so am I bothered? No
I’m a lot more introverted than I realised. An extroverted introvert. I love a chat and I do hold convos but it drains me so I need a lot of me time. I’m also so grateful if there’s an extrovert who can hold to convo rather than me
- unexpected things will happen but it’s all part of travel and that’s fine and needed sometimes (like having to deal with many injuries, or flying home mid trip unexpectedly)
- not everyone you meet is a cool vibe. There are a lot of dickheads or people you just don’t jel with. They do just make you appreciate the cool ones even more though when they come along.
- I want a job that allows me chunks off at a time (contracting) so I can travel and then still have the best of both by being at home the rest of the year (or ideally somewhere I can remote work so I still have flexibility whilst I’m at home
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- I do want to live abroad for a bit at some point in my life, with my hiatus home though I dunno when would be the right time. - this is still a tbc. I want to, but grandparents and Mabel.
-English teenagers are the worst kind of travellers. I hate them.
- Germans are way cooler than I expected, the Dutch are overall a bit more boring (even if they are pretty) and scandis are my people.
- I’m very Confident and content in pretty much all areas of my life, but the one thing that did get knocked on was men. They can be arseholes. Less knocked than I was the start of the trip though.