Thoroughly modern millennial

Tag: travel

  • #Wanderlust | Metropolis

    metropolis-montage1 metropolis-montage*all images via Pixabay

    There’s a comfort that lies in the heart of concrete walls
    Bright lights glitter like man made stars
    A distant hum and heartbeat drums in my chest
    The city at large never felt more like a dream

    I’m wanderlustig again guys. Though I do have my one big trip already planned this year, I have a feeling it won’t be enough to sate the travel bug brewing up inside me. I’m already promising myself to commit to Edinburgh this Summer for the Fringe, but I’m also itching to go to Dublin and I may have been looking at flights to Toronto the other day. Aside from that on the lifetime city bucket list are Chicago, Hong Kong, and Singapore. All home to seemingly familiar concrete skylines but all with microcosms of culture that I’m desperate to visit.

    Ria

    *First montage from top left, clockwise: Toronto, Dublin, Edinburgh, Second montage from top left, clockwise: Chicago, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Singapore.

  • Wanderlust | Run Away With Me

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    *image via Unsplash

    Have you noticed most of the so-called great road trip movies all star men as their leads? With the exception of the frankly brilliant ‘Thelma and Louise’, the more recent ‘Wild’ and possibly Crossroads – though I question the quality of that film (despite the fact that Not A Girl (Not Yet A Woman) is an a m a z i n g song), I can’t actually think of any more.

    “…I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…”

    – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

    I am obsessed with Sylvia Plath quote. There’s a small pipe dream that makes me want to live out this fantasy of dropping everything and hitchhiking my way around the world. ‘So, why don’t you do it then, Ria?’ Well…Job? Money? Visas? Logistics? Safety? The later is my biggest pet peeve (but I’ll leave my feminist rants on that for another day).

    But there’s just something about that romanticised imagery of the long, winding and empty road. The dirt trail kicking up behind you and the sun rising over the horizon line in plain sight. Or the sprawling city of a million people and a million stories just waiting to be discovered down alleyways, tucked away in side streets or hidden in the corner of coffee shops and bodegas.
    Sometimes you wonder whether you’ll see any of that. Whether you’ll experience the same elation, the same rush they so eloquently communicated in the pages of their journals so many years ago.

    Maybe one day I’ll take a leap of faith into the unknown.

    road-trip

    *image via Unsplash

    Or maybe I’ll just settle for living vicariously through Instagram and Pinterest photos for now…or I could rewatch Thelma and Louise again.

    Ria

  • Wanderlust | British Staycations

    With Summer slowly drawing to a close I’m looking closer to home for some truly British staycation getaways in lieu of another trip to foreign shores over the coming months (and so I can save some pennies for trips abroad next year!). Thankfully Britain isn’t short of some pretty decent travel inspiration and there are plenty of options for anyone thinking of vacationing near instead of far.

    There are of course classic seaside towns on the South Coast of the country. Head West and you have the luscious rolling hills, moors and clifftops of Cornwall and Devon. Towards the East are my favourite traditional Summer escapes, Lepe Beach, old Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, and Brighton.

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