The European Outlook

Interesting things seem to happen in this world...
Things occur naturally, and mostly seem to happen when you least expect it to.
You don't hear from someone in a while, and it's on your mind for a while, then one day you forget about them, and once you have; you hear from them, right away...
In some ways it is a good thing, but I never see as a bad thing. I see it as either a good way, or a good thing that has come at a wrong time to interrupt another good thing. If you know what I mean.

We'll get back to that later...

Tonight I went to see the band 'the Fray' perform at Metro City. It indeed was a great performance and I found myself singing every word to every song. Met a few people from university which made the night funner. As I watched them perform, and entertain the thousands of fans crowded into a small nightclub, I started to think as to how other fans around the globe react to them, surely each concert is different in their own way...With this in thought, that was not the main thing on my mind. What I was really thinking was about all the things they've must have seen over the time they have travelled around the world, just to perform, just to sing the same songs over and over. Started thinking about all the things they've seen, things they have discovered, tried, eaten the people they've met along the way that help them travel more and more and keep them going. As this flows through my mind, the feeling of jealousy soon follows. I want to see the world. I want to meet people in the far far corners of this globe and make friends there, and come back home and know that I've been to here and there and I know people who live here and there.

My chance to travel and explore should be taking place next year (2010) June-July.
Original plans were to visit a friend in a small area called Falmouth, in the county of Cornwall, in the UK. From my friends house, our plans were to travel around the UK as a camping trip. With a tent and bags and everything! All seemed very exciting. However, it got me thinking, considering I would be overseas for about 4, maybe 5 weeks. That the places I want to cover in the UK could be done within a week. Which meant we would have plenty of time to kick back back at my friends house in Falmouth; or. . .Explore not only the UK, but more of Europe.
Then all these places kept popping up in my head as I frantically tell all my friends about this new cunning idea, they tell me even more places to visit, more things to do.
Now with all the planning taking place and things are slowly falling into place in my planning of the trip and discussing it with my friend in the UK--My backpacking partner!
I've decided I'll be visiting places such as Bern in Switzerland, to the Greek Islands, such as Santorini, places I've wanted to go...and also pay another visit back to Salzburg in Austria, where I thoroughly remember as the most memorable moment of our Music Tour in 2006.
(Climbing the Bavarian alps and sitting on the edge/border of Austria and Germany)
Going to some of these places, I will be breaking promises that I had made with certain people, telling them that I would go with them, despite the fact that I feel extremely guilty about leaving them behind and going on without them. I have written out a list of people that wanted to go to particular places with me of where I am going, and this list will be going along with me to tell me what I need to be considering while I am over there.

Not only am I just going on a backpacking trip around Europe, because I want to or because I can. there is also a purpose behind it all.
As I'm sure you have heard at least once in your life, that when you travel...you change, and you learn different things and you come back with a whole new mindset, or new outlook on things, and learn to find yourself....
That is exactly what I intend to do...and hopefully even more...
As I go on this remarkable trip, I will be filming allot of things, places I visit, things I do, things I see, record personal videos of my progress on the trip etc etc. and when I return I will be creating a film/documentary about it all and see how it all unfolds...

Whats more great about this all is that, my friend who lives in Falmouth, has more than kindly agreed to travel along with me every step of the way...Without almost no hesitation what so ever, she openly accepted my proposal on this backpacking euro trip. Which is great! I met her in January this year (2009) on Rottnest Island, she was travelling and had just been passing by and visiting the island for the day, and I was fortunate enough to bump into her and show her around. Since then we have been in contact as she is still travelling around the world and soon to be returning back home to where she belongs. Her bright and bubbly personality would be great to have along with me on my trip to keep each other going throughout the trip.

It's still hard for me to realize that I am actually going to go on a backpacking trip through Europe. I'll be leaving Perth with nothing more than just a couple of pairs of clothes in my big backpacking bag and some extras and then buying everything I need along the way, as I go...
It'll be a new experience for me and I really can't wait for it to happen!

I am also looking forward to me, hopefully changing as I go, and as I document this trip that I'll also see a slight change of outlooks on things as I progress through it all, it will be very interesting to see when I get back how people will look at me, or how I will look at them, and how I see this world, and how different my blog posts will be once I return...

I suppose we'll just have to wait and see for now I guess...


(to be continued---)







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