THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Hello lovely people!

I am home, home being Tasmania, after two long months abroad And I can say with all the authority I have, which isn't actually that much, that Tasmania has the best water in the world (well the best water in Italy, Greece, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Israel and China since that's where I went). Cleanest, freshest, nicest tasting water, in my opinion.  So there is that.

Now before you all get ahead of me thinking I'll be doing a sort of travel journalist's article about my holiday; no.  No that is not how I will be sharing my adventure.  I will be sharing it, I promise, the whole thing.  I just need to write it all first and categorize my photos so I know when to add them and so on.  So it'll take a few weeks for the full story to come out.  But I will be posting it in chapters, of a sort.  A post, or article, for each different stage.  After a quick introduction here I'll be including a list of everywhere I went, just the countries and cities, and using ONE WORDS to show how I felt about my time in each place.  Some I enjoyed, some I refused to leave my hotel room.  Please keep in mind that I can become very overwhelmed in new circumstances and situations and that I often found myself wanting to sit in my room and read.  I actually did that quite a lot..  I think I read over twenty three books altogether while I was away.  

While many of you are probably sitting there thinking, "you went away for two months wow, you must be exhausted but now you're home and get to relax," there are others who know that when you get back from a long trip a lot of changes suddenly come at you one after another and it's almost like loosing your grip on the page and flipping a bit ahead.  A lot has happened since I left home, and now that I'm back a lot is being set in motion to happen.  

Just before I left Cookie had a job interview in a small town three hours away from our home city.  On the day we left she went over for a trial at the restaurant/hotel she applied at.  She got the job and has probably experienced this book flipping forwards feelings as within two months she's gained employment, rented her own home, bought a car and acquired  kitten.  What does this have to do with me?  Well, since she is my best friend, and since she is alone in a new small town, and since I need a job, we've decided that I'll be moving down with her.  Hopefully gaining a reception job at the hotel where she works.  I won't say too much, but the little that I have said gives you the idea.  So that's a new change heading my way!

I've also decided to put in more of an investment in my blogging and writing.  I love blogging, I do, I'm the sort of person who can talk about myself for hours and it's a great opportunity to let all that out, but I've been pretty lax on it.  First I used school as an excuse, then my upcoming holiday.  Well now there is no excuse.  I'm going to 'wake-up' my book blog and start writing proper reviews and book related posts and I'll be spending more time writing up my general musings that come together to create my mind.  

Now, as for the writing.  As with blogging I love writing.  But for the most part I procrastinate.  This, in the past, has been because my writing isn't about what I want it to be about.  It's usually been for school or some brief passing idea.  I'm still procrastinating.  BUT since now I can write about what I want to write about, and I have two solid ideas/directions I can go in, I have little reason to procrastinate.  I work better under pressure so I'm going to start creating a daily to-do list that I'll be posting the night before in a separate post that I'll update at night confirming what I did and did not do.  On that to-do list I'll include major writing accomplishments (such as Finish Chapter One, or Edit Chapter Twenty Three).  So those are two things I'm hoping to start up with.  They won't be instantaneous, especially if I'm moving in the next three months as I'll be  little busy relocating. But I'll slowly begin to include them into my day to day life. 

Now I do think I've written enough for this evening, I'll get on with the list and let you be off!

Rome: Chaos.

Florence: Michael.

Verona: Lovely.

Venice: Canals.

Katakolen: Small. 

Naeplion: Boring.

Mykonos: Shopping.

Athens: Spectacular. 

Ephesus: Elegant.

Santorini: Rushed. 

Capri: Vista. 

Paris: Piss. 

Amsterdam: Bikes. 

Zaanse Schans: Cute. 

English Canals: Beautiful. 

London: Trains. 

Jerusalem: Family.

Eilat: Nada.

Petra: Flirts.

Masada: Romans

Tiberias: No.

Haifa: Nada. 

Hong Kong: Humid. 

Italy: Gelato. 

Greece: Ocean. 

Turkey: Hassled. 

France: Alright. 

Holland: Clogs.

England: Theatre.

Israel: Alright. 

China: Yucky. 

Now, please keep in mind some of these words are in reference to the place itself, something that stood out to me, or my personal experience.  I mean no offence, and I hope you enjoy the chapters to come!  Be sure to check out my Instagram becca_theory as the next few weeks progress because I'll be posting photos onto there as I go about sorting them and writing the posts.

Live long and prosper, Godspeed.

Becca.

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