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. :)