travelling
Ever since I decided to dedicate 6 complete months to the sole purpose of travelling through Asia, Australia and New Zealand more and more opinions have been thrown on me. Some of them quite puzzling due to their complete non-understanding of my intention. The reasoning was that there was no difference if one would go on vaccation for 2 or 3 weeks for several times or do those trips within half a year - as you would see the same places in a number of short-trips, just some time appart in comparison to one long journey. Other questions were directed to the choice of destinations, what was so interesting about Asia, for instance. Or, why going to Australia if everyone is going there. It is actually very simple and in the same time very complex… Fist of all, travelling provides the person with a feeling, doesn’t it? And the feeling, at least for me, becomes more intense the more different the environment I am exploring is from what I have known up to then. And what could be more different from the Western culture than Asia (or Africa, maybe South America)? And what could be more different from a Europe where after a short time of driving by car you unnoticed cross the border of a country, find yourself in another context of language, mentality, food and what-so-ever - while Australia is one country which is so wide that even after hours and hours you will still find yourself within this one cultural context? Moreover, if you are experiencing this vibrating feeling within yourself, when you start to feel free during a journey, this somehow intoxiating feeling when you soak up all those impressions while discovering how big and diverse our world is - how much more intense will this become during a time-span of 6 months or more, when you get to know your personal borders while discovering things you can not read in books or see in a TV-documentation