“New York will eventually dull your sparkle and you’ll become a little bit more jaded like the rest of us…” The quote today is something that someone said to me after I had only been here for two weeks… the quote is peculiar today because today’s post is a little bit different than usual. I’m…
Tag: imperfectly-free
IF you’re pondering Pontevedra
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” – Gilda Radner On…
IF you meander to Murcia
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles” – Tim Cahill Murcia is one of the lesser known regions of Spain. So much so, more than one person I told I was going to Murcia to asked me what part of the States I was going to… they thought I had said ‘Merica!…
IF you’re travelling on a budget
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” – Anonymous Having travelled a lot over the last few weeks, it’s needless to say that I am now broke and I’m supposed to be saving! The camino was a relatively cheap break but I made up for it in Murcia! (I’ll be doing…
IF you don’t know when to go to Paris
“She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.” – Robyn Schneider As I mentioned in the last post I wrote about Paris, it has been written about to death. Every single travel, lifestyle, fashion, photography, you-name-it blogger has written about Paris. That’s not…
IF you’re perusing Puglia
“It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.” – Morgan Matson I thought, considering I’m going on my summer holidays today to Murcia in the South of Spain (keep an eye out on my snapchat for updates all about it), I would talk about some previous summer holidays I went on. Also,…
IF you’ve heard myths
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” – Robert Fulghum I have found that after many years…
IF you climb Croagh Patrick
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me” – Jim Valvano IF you know me, then you know how close I am with my Dad aaand I haven’t seen him since Christmas, so to say that I am excited that he’s coming to visit this week is…
IF you’re itching to go to Istanbul
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain After a sunny week spent in Santiago, I, for some…
IF you’re curious about Cambodia
“He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.” – William Blake Cambodia taught me more life lessons than I care to admit. So, I’ve decided to pass on some of the information I learned while I was visiting. Here are the IF 7 Top Tips to Visiting Cambodia. The one…
IF Barcelona beckons
“We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend” – Robert Louis Stevenson Last weekend, I flew from Santiago to Barcelona to visit my friends. I have visited Barcelona before when I was on a family holiday in Girona – but…
IF you pop to Porto
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J. K. Rowling My first and only camper van roadtrip (so far) was from Galicia to Porto, Portugal. Friends of mine, Eithne and Julio, in Santiago own a very impressive and compact camper van and ever since, I’ve been dreaming of roadtripping…
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