Finding My Fix: Chronicles of a Travel Junkie

My mum’s coworker, who it would seem is a fan of my travelblog, was apparently unhappy with the fact that I didn’t mention I was heading home to Virginia this past weekend. Well, here’s the story… I went home to VA this past weekend. I came back. The end. Exciting, eh?

In case folks are curious about how these big bad trips get planned… I cheated on this one a bit. I headed down to a travel agent a couple weeks ago. I’ve been outfitted with one eurail pass, one britrail pass, and a flight from Istanbul to London. Since then, Easyjet and Orbitz have been my new best friends, so I now have three more flights in the itinerary (for a total of about $250): Paris to Fez, Malaga to Milan and Milan to Athens. Now if this seems confusing, it should be. Here’s the itinerary for the summer.  This one’s pretty dang solid since most of those tix are non-refundable, oh, and funny side-note… the idea of travelling alone doesn’t seem to be happening more than maybe 3 weeks this entire summer:

Paris

Morocco

Malaga (for a day)

Milan to Rome to Venice and back again + a side trip to Croatia or Slovenia or somewhere else in Italy
Athens and Samos

somehow getting over to Istanbul

UK for 6 weeks

Ireland

Germany

Denmark

Sweden

back to NYC

The one thing that makes me nervous about this whole thing is, there’s a warning for women travellers not to travel alone in Turkey. Well now… I guess my options are tough it out or hope I meet other trustworthy travelers on my way to Turkey.

In 56 days, my flight takes off from JFK!

Guess what happy blogger was just accepted into the Journalism in London program… this one!  I will be studying travel writing and journalism in a post 9-11 world.  Sweet as, mate, sweet as!  You better be ready!

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