I thought last year was the worst productive year for me in terms of blog writing and I did plan to write more this year, but turns out PhD life and traveling doesn't leave me enough extra time to write. Funny that I'm writing after whole 8 months!!
So, good news is I'm still alive and doing fine but what happened during last 8 months? I have been travelling A LOT! Though most of the times these are weekend trips plus a day or two extra, I have to always play catch up game with work everytime I am back. Then there are friends, personal life, and so on. Looking back a year ago, I couldn't feel more grateful for where I am today. I feel really lucky to meet all the people I've met in the past year and all the traveling opportunities I had so far.
Here is the list of places I've been to this year - the year started with celebrating the New Year in Edinburgh, Scotland, and then I went to Hungary in February, back home in March, Netherlands in April, Denmark in June, Italy in September and just got back from Greece. Within the UK I've visited Isle of Wight in February and two new places in my favorite Cornwall - Perranporth in May and Falmouth in July. Falmouth was on my list for a while, so happy that I managed to visit this year. Two more countries to visit this year in November and December. So, I've been going somewhere pretty much every month and my travel stories have been piling up. I do promised myself to write everything up in separate posts because many of these trips were dream-come-true, lifetime achievement for me.
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| White washed buildings surrounded by blue ocean in Santorini |
However, I think it's time I move to a separate platform with my travel stories. I will still keep this blog and post personal stories from time to time. I kept this space mostly for myself, more as a diary rather than to share with the world (other than some learning posts). 6 years later it makes me feel nostalgic going through all the posts. But I do want to write about my travels more broadly, for bigger audience, for the less privileged, non-white, women of color who dream to travel independently. Also, I do realize that it's more difficult to browse the stories in this platform, having to go through the total list or clicking for older posts. So, I'm wrapping up this post with some of my favorite photos from recent trips before I write about them separately on a different platform.
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| The Colloseum, Rome, Italy |
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| Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Budapest, Hungary |
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| Tulip festival in Keukenhof |
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Santorini, Greece
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