The World With Lizzy

In my previous blog post I wrote that it would probably be the last time you would hear from me before I went away on my trip. Surprise!! I wasn’t planning on posting again but I felt it was appropriate to update you all on my current feelings regarding my trip... in 2 days time. Although I write for everyone’s (hopefully) enjoyment, I’m writing, right now, specifically to first time travellers. Everything you read is from my first hand experience as a first time traveller so that those in my position in the future can find comfort reading this, knowing that it’s normal to feel all the things they’re feeling, and this post is about what all those emotions may be. Nervous. The most obvious. To my surprise I hadn’t felt nervous until about 5 days ago. I sorted all my booking documents out, bus tickets, detailed itinerary, etc, etc, and I realised how organised I’m going to have to be to pull this whole thing off successfully. Those who know me know that I’m incredibly clumsy and dits...

' South East Asia : 23 days before' was one of my first blog posts about planning my most recent adventure, mainly about packing. The prime reason I wrote it is that I'm posting things as I go along to show where I started and how I've grown, and that post depicted the initial thought process of someone who had never packed for travelling before. Although I wouldn't change the majority of it, there are 11 small changes I would make about the way I packed now based on the experience I have now having finished my travels. I've just used the original post, '23 days before', and made my little changes very obvious. Hopefully, it'll be much more helpful! 23 Days before As you have hopefully seen by the title of this blog post I leave for  Bangkok  in 23 days and I've met a healthy balance of nerves and excitement. The majority of people I've told I'm doing this trip alone have told me I'm so brave and that they would be so ter...