Champagne Travel on a Beer Budget

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I read an interview recently with the Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison in which she described her writing habits in the early days of her writing career (when she had small children). She explained that she had to get up well before dawn to write as she didn’t have a chance to write once her children were awake.

It led me to consider that when we are passionate about something, be it writing, learning a language, travel etc., we will do whatever it takes to make ‘it’ happen. Just as Toni Morrison could have thought that she simply couldn’t be a writer at that time in her life as she didn’t have the time, so we can often dismiss our dreams for similar reasons.

If it is travel that you desire, what is stopping you? Or perhaps a better questions is, how can you make it happen?

Stick some pictures on your wall of your dream journey or destination, do some research and discover just how much your trip would cost, read blogs that give you tips and tricks for travelling well regardless of budget and then go about figuring out how to make it happen! How could you spend less? Earn more? Give yourself a deadline and work to it.

And if you’re in the mood for sharing, where will your next journey take you?

Happy travels!

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