Summer Trip Travelog: How It Started

A lot of stuff can ignite the urge to travel within someone to a certain place. Maybe it's the culture, the history, the people, the nature or the food. For me, it's curiosity that drives me. I often wonder what has drawn people's attention to come and visit them and I like the adventure of finding the answer myself through my own personal exploration. Sometimes, I fell in love too.

A trip to Europe is the ultimate dream (for most people I know at least and thus, myself). Honestly, I know nothing about Europe in particular. I know that it is one of the world's continent but that's pretty much it. As you can see, I am not really fond of geography nor history...

However, my lack of general knowledge regarding it was not an obstacle. It was money and time that put a limit to my movement.

I nurtured this little dream of mine since I was in my first year of studies. I saw my seniors' photos and I thought that, one day, I would do the same thing and this year, I did it!

It had always been our (my housemate and I) plan to have a Europe trip in our third year. Therefore, I have been putting aside some of my pocket money for the last three years for it. They weren't much but enough for me not to worry about my spending for the next few months or so. This is crucial for a student like me: overspend and suffer to make ends meet after. Alhamdulillah, so far, I have been managing well.

Last January, my housemate and I booked return tickets to London and Kuala Lumpur. After the purchase, we were always counting days to that exact moment. Initially, it was just the two of us but my housemate managed to persuade a few others to join our trip and tada, we have a group of traveling buddies.

It is always an experience traveling with different groups of people. We all have different interests and stuff that we look forward to see and I like that. I get to see what excites them and enjoy them myself. Therefore, our itinerary varied greatly because some people gets excited seeing beautiful man-made buildings and some gets excited seeing the wonderful God's creation, nature.

In all honesty, for our trip, we only had a rough itinerary and most of them were planned as we go because um...we're amateur travelers. A lot of unplanned stuff happened but I love every bits of them because that's the best part: being on an adventure. :)

Here!

I am currently typing away from the comfort of my own home in Kuching! Yes, after a year, eight months and two weeks of being away, I am back!

My holiday started exactly three weeks ago but I have been spending some time traveling around to a few countries. Hehe. I will save the details about the trip for my future posts because let's face it, I have nothing better to do currently.

It's only the third day (or second) and I am still trying to adjust my body clock. I am sleepy all the time and returning home means runny nose and red eyes 24/7. I am definitely allergic to cats... but I love them. Big sobs. I am also using that as an excuse for my lack of productivity. I can't even lift my head and move my body to clean up my own stuff! Tsk tsk tsk.

My sluggishness includes catching up on TV shows and Youtube videos that I have missed while I was away traveling. Bad news: I don't think I'll ever finish any series in a jiffy like how I did in Canada because an hour video is taking more than one day to load. HELP!

Maybe it's a sign that I should not be spending so much time in this virtual world...