Travel Thursdays

In Paris. Before that, the whole idea used to be just a dream.

I've been awed and inspired by a friend's travel blog, The Travelling Kind and Patty Laurel's Travel Tuesday series that one day, I decided to roll up my sleeves and muster the courage to finally write about our own trips within and without Ireland. My wanderlust musings will be called Travel Thursday ala Throwback Thursday (very original, I know right?!) For some reason, I can't dig any clever and unique title in my brain so that will do for now. I am behind so many travel posts anyway so this will be a good avenue to catch up. :)

The Travel Bucket List
The travel dream in the next 5 years or so is to set foot to these 12 travel destinations in Europe and the USA but so far, our itchy feet and limited budget have gotten us only as far as Paris, France and the UK. So we will save up, dream on and write about it once we get there, one destination at a time.

The other wanderlust dream of ours is to explore all of the 32 counties of Ireland including the 6 counties of Northern Ireland.  Technically, Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom but its 6 counties are geographically attached to one gigantic land mass called, well, Ireland.  I hope that made sense. Otherwise, please have a peep at this map which explains this division better.

Our travel plan is to tick off our travel bucket list once or twice a year until we reach our dream savings (only God knows when) or until one of us becomes an Irish citizen. Visas are expensive for the two of us I'm telling you. Although we would love to satisfy our wanderlust whilst kids are not yet in the equation, R and I agreed that it's much wiser to build up a "rainy day fund" early on in our marriage than to sight-see. Sure, there are plenty of travel promos and gimmicks out there but at the end of the day, you will still need to shell out a good amount of money for you to truly enjoy traveling. We want to stay cautious in this still precarious land of Ireland, to say the least. We reckon once or twice a year wouldn't hurt our zest for travel and our desire to save. Did I tell you both of us are accountants? U-hm we kinda do the Math all the time.

Travel Thursdays

My travel posts will neither focus on how to get there nor what's the best itinerary although I may write about these in short bullet points if I find them helpful to anyone who will stumble across this humble blog of mine. One quick google search will certainly direct you to a plethora of information written best by those who know best, those who've been there and done that one time too many.

My Travel Thursday will simply be about the memories we made while traveling. It'll be about my own observation and appreciation of one's culture, who we met along the way or simply what those places made me feel. Loads of photos will be posted to make up for my constant lack of adjectives, that I can guarantee. :) Simply put, my aim is to render another voice in sharing the bliss of being out and about in this wonderful world we live in.

Lastly, I share this quote to you because this is exactly how I feel about traveling:

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky