PLANNING MY ROADTRIP TO IRELAND!!

Today I wanted to write about the planning of my road trip to Ireland. Whenever I'm traveling, one of my favorite moments is the planning!!

Looking for the places I'll discover, the many famous monuments, muséums...I'll visit, it's like I start to live again, to me traveling is how I consider my life full, complete.

When I'm at home, living the routine again, it's not life, it's an intermediary, a necessary moment so that I can start living my life again through travels.

WHEN I START:

It's not a total mess...yet, it is kind of organized, a few pencils, here and there, paper so I can write my ideas on, my laptop so I can look on websites, my phone because it is so much faster than my laptop and of course the indispensable...the guide books, my favorite is the well known, Lonely planet, mostly because of all the colors and the pictures, that makes it more fun to browse.

 "Le routard" is also one of the best, just more formal, lots of writings but less expensive than the Lonely planet.



THEN THE MESS COMES:

Right in the middle of the operation, I tend to spread, pencils are all over the place, the paper I was supposed to write my ideas on, is full of tested colors, with a few and not organized ideas, my computer is still on the same page as the beginning, my phone is switched off, only the guide books turned into something not messy, yeah, because lets face it... even in that mess I kinda know what I'm doing...I am organizing my travel Book!





 IN THE END:

So, that's how my work looks like in the end, pretty well colored and not so messy, right?
 I still am not the queen of road trip planning but I'm making my way through it, slowly but surely!!
Of course making colored papers in a guide book isn't what makes a road trip planned, there are the plane tickets to take, different hotels, inns, bed and breakfasts to compare, a car to rent etc...but admit it, the best part is to go, when you're at the airport, you're heartbeat is already racing, and when you step on the plane, you're completely relaxed because you know that you're leaving the daily life behind and that the adventure is ahead...well at least it's how I feel, maybe you're feeling the same, or maybe not.
I'm really curious to know how YOU feel when you're going abroad, so please leave a comment and tell me!

BECAUSE THIS IS AUSTRALIA

Well, Today I started to feel a little bit of NOSTALGIA concerning Australia, so here will follow some pictures that should have been on this blog at first.

Well, those who travels must know what it's like to come home after such a journey, living the daily routine, it is not an easy thing, especially when like mine, your journey has been shortened.

Well I decided to start with my trip to the Blue mountains:

 A group of Koreans had rushed in a few minutes after I took that picture, they were all over the place, taking everything in photos, and then they were gone as fast as they arrived, while my friends and I were lying down, tired of the long walk we just did.

This place is like one of the most beautiful I've visited in Aussie so far, lots of walks and discovery, I even took a "shower" if we can call it that way in a waterfall, that day was really hot and the refreshing waterfall was more than welcome.

On our way to Melbourne:

 Well this photo was taken by a river on my way to Melbourne actually, we were coming from the blue mountains with some friends, we met in the Blue mountains, the guys below, that's usually what happens in Australia, you stop in a rest area and BOOM you meet people and you start to travel together, that's what makes it so fun.

 

In that moment, boys decided to play some music but that was without including the kids that definitely wanted to play with their instruments.

 Melbourne's beautiful city

Yarram here we came:

 Those two pictures were taken in a Rainforest in Yarram, it was so unexpected because Yarram looks like a desert, I was happy to walk into a rainforest, because I was missing them, on my first journey to Australia I spend most of my time in Queensland, and when there's a lot of rainforest in Queensland.

 Yep tomato I am not afraid of you!

Then we drive on the GREAT OCEAN ROAD:

 the twelve apostles

 That's how a selfie with Emues looks like!!

The GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK:

 the Mackenzie falls

With the pictures below you'll discover that I have a thing for Climbing rocks.

The Great Animals that makes Australia what it is!!

 the Grand KOALA

The beautiful KANGAROO

The magnificent KOOKABURRA

Yeah I kinda miss Australia, and my friends over there, I have come to meet people that live there and even to see my friends from my first trip, I haven't seen them in two years, it was amazing to see them again, have some fun. I really hope to see them again and probably go back to Oz some other day but not now, I want to travel the world, visiting countries I have not yet seen.

Which country do you want to go to next? Or maybe are going to?