Tag Archives: things we learnt in one year of travelling

I love travel blogs, travel magazines, travel this and travel that. The idea of travel and breaking away from the chains of the desk fascinated me enough for me to quit my job and take up travel full time for a year (or maybe more, still not sure). I thought it would be cool to click beautiful sunsets on lakes and mountains, to get signature shots of me clicked in front of world famed sites flaunting now here and now there status on social sites telling people how cool Angkor Wat really is, how tasting rat meat in Laos feels and just how relaxing hanging in the hammock can feel but while I did all this, I realised five hard facts (if I may call them facts) about travelling that bloggers, travel writers and travel documentaries don’t mention: Travel fatigue – You get sick a lot when you travel continuously. I am writing this after having been popping in antibiotics like skittles for a month now and still nowhere close to recovery. If I look back at the past one year, I have been sick at least half the time. Most of the time I am exhausted, tired and fatigued. I thought it’s just me. But I have met more than few people who were just ready to get on the plane go back home after a year of travel. And by the way when I write “I”, it’s two of us anyways. Local foods misadventure– Oh! I know how we envy people travelling to different parts of the world and trying local cuisine and making documentaries about it. Phad thai with lemon and spring onions sprinkled with crushed peanuts, the wonderful red curry, the fried maggots, the frog meat. You thought you could live on coconut curries forever – …