I can’t
believe it’s been over a year since my last post “time really has flown” it has
been a couple of eventful years but I will get to that in more detail later.
I realize my
last blog post ended with me meeting a strange guy at an airport and then no
further information was posted which could have been a bit worrying to the
reader. Well to update you, everything turned out just fine. My first Airbnb
was not awful but not perfect either, but my second Airbnb was wonderful, I
made some lovely Spanish friends who I have continued to stay in touch with and
I also made a return visit to the apartment. So, apart from a few little
hiccups along the way my solo traveling has been a very positive, and quite
possibly a life-changing, experience.
To date since
I decided to start my journey in August 2015; I have made 5 trips, lasting up to
3 months in length, spending 12 months in total in Spain, I have stayed in 30
Airbnb properties and volunteered 3 times. I have visited: Mallorca, Ibiza,
Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Malaga, Granada and Valencia. During my trips I
have met many wonderful people and made some very special friends.
Do I have any
regrets? Not at all, sometimes I missed home very badly in deed, on occasion I
had to accept living standards well below what I am used too. But knowing that it
was only a temporary situation helped and because of this I realized and
appreciated how much I do have in my everyday life in the UK.
What’s next?
Who really knows, I have some interesting offers but it’s a bit too early to
decide just yet as I have only been back home for a few weeks. I know I will
continue to travel and my love affair with Spain is the real deal and not just a crush.
