Because of this my desire to just up and leave for a few weeks and visit someplace new has increased tenfold. Don't get me wrong, I do love my job and look forward to Uni but the idea of escaping all the responsibility for a little while isn't exactly an unpleasant thought.
Traveling has always been a big aspiration of mine. The freedom of being financially stable enough to explore the world a little is one thing that I am certainly looking forwards to about graduating from university in the future. I even have little lists in many a places written out with the cities and countries that are at the top of my travel bucket list along with the different things that I wish to do there.
Once I have finished Uni, I without a doubt want to go back to Paris. Before I visited the city I wasn't really that interested in travelling there, I guess just because I presumed it would never be as good as it is made out to be. Oh how wrong I was. The little taster I got of the beautiful city whilst on the school trip was just enough to leave me craving more. I'm not even joking when I say that I was genuinely considering going back to Paris for a few nights at the end of Summer this year just so that I could re-visit some of my favorite places and add some new ones to the mix that we unfortunately didn't get to see when we were there in March. I have accepted, however, that Paris will be a much more enjoyable experience once I have finished University and have a little more money to spend and who knows, maybe somebody to share the trip with.
Also high up on my list is Seattle. I was one of those teenagers who was completely obsessed with Twilight and ever since looking up Seattle after it was mentioned in the book or something, I have been a little (a lot) determined to visit the city. I kind of forgot about how drawn I was to the city for a few years but then after watching Greys I rediscovered my desire to visit and have unashamedly been searching for affordable flights ever since. I have each and every thing that I want to do whilst in the city planned to a T and I am unfortunately not even exaggerating. It's slightly disturbing. I can't quite explain why I'm so drawn to Seattle, I have never even had that great of a desire to visit America before so my obsession with Seattle baffles me.
When I visited Crete last year I became dead set on the fact that at some point I need to stay in Santorini. The images of sprawling towns of perfectly aged white housed with beautifully pained blue roofs overlooking the sun setting over the water has been etched into my brain ever since. I love greek food and the relaxed atmosphere that is always present there, and I'm not even going to think about the wonderful heat as I will get extremely jealous of the fact that my parents are going back in a months time and try to sneak onto the plane with them or something.
This isn't even the tip of the iceberg of places I want to visit. I also want to volunteer in South Africa after my 3rd year of uni, spend some time in Iceland and go InterRailing around Europe, in particular visiting the art museums in Italy. I just need to keep my fingers crossed that I will be lucky enough to get the opportunity to visit these beautiful places in the hopefully not so distant future.
