Living as a Traveller

I am here living in Europe.

Travelling by train in the countryside outside of Paris, France.

I write this as I sit in my warm room, drinking tea in a small suburb outside of Paris, France. The rain is gently falling outside in the garden. The village rises high to a hill with a deep dark forrest. I am living with a beautiful family, they are generous, they are kind and they live a simple but very meaningful life. In two weeks I am leaving with them to their holiday home for a month to the South of France with their four children. Aaron and I are teaching the children English. We will be photographing their children for them and building them a website so they can share the house in the south with others in the future.

For me travelling is such an important part of the Education of an individual. I want to spend my life travelling, it is all I have wanted since I was young. I have such a deep yearning to learn, university filled this need to certain depths but it does not have the same effect on me as being educated through  travel. I hope someday when I have children I can take them on adventures and educate them the same way I am being taught through travel.

The most precious part of travelling this time is that I am with Aaron. It is such a special feeling to be so intertwined within another, to share the same dreams and to adore the simple things together. To travel with Aaron is like being on my own but to feel safer and more expressive. I experienced travel on my own when I was 19, this experience was a whole different universe full of sole perspectives and actuality and I am glad I was able to do this before meeting Aaron.

After we leave Sth of France we are going to North-West of Spain before taking up residence in a lovely relatives home in a small village in England while they are away travelling Scotland. Then we are off to Crete to stay in this beautiful studio for two months:

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/280889

Aaron will spend the two months in Greece continuing to write his first novel and all I want is to explore, photograph, film, read, scuba dive and cook. The food over here is too much sometimes. The small portions of flavour I have never experienced before. The fresh fruits at the markets that have been picked the night before. The hand made glaces at the Patisseries. The cakes and pastries. It is just so wonderful to experience the different cultural elements of different countries.

At Christmas we are buying a van and this is how we want to explore the rest of Europe. A little home for us with wheels we can take anywhere. To fill with trinkets along the way and books to read. To cook hot soup for the cold nights and snuggle up under the covers overlooking rivers, oceans and Forrests. I love to meet new people and cannot wait to meet fellow camping travellers and hear their stories. There are just so many little villages all throughout Europe I want to see. First stop Scandanavia.

Buskers.

Our village

Our Village

Our Village

Aaron walking Galipette in our village

The rain had stopped.