Friday 26 August 2011

Travelstyle!

Four cities and five weeks later we are finally back to Singapore, with no further plan to travel. Well at least for a few weeks!
Talking about plans, hubby and I both like traveling unplanned. We buy our tickets, book our hotel and off we go! For many years we bought travel guides thick like a bible to just glance at them on the plain to fall asleep. Then we stopped buying guide books! We haven't noticed any change, well except that now it takes us a bit longer to fall asleep on the plane!
Have you ever had a moment when you decoded a part of yourself to yourself?! I decoded the reason behind our travel style on the plane from Istanbul to Singapore!

For years I have agreed and smiled to the the unkind comments that we are not organised when it comes to traveling. But what does organising mean? Does it mean that you have to live and travel by your checklist?

Traveling unplanned doesn't mean that we leave it to universe to take us where it wants, I certainly do a bit of research about potential destinations, their history and some time I put an extra effort to learn a few words of their language!   
We get to our destination curious and hungry to discover. With no expectations, every thing is a good surprise and nothing can disappoint us.
One of the advantages of not having a guide book is that it forces us to talk to locals, to ask them about the attraction and history of their city, where they eat, where they shop....It makes us to get a map and create our own walking routes and yes we knock ourselves out by marching the city from up to down, east to west and we often see more than an average tourist!  In one word we refuse to live by the rules of CONFORMITY! wait I am not done yet! this led me to uncover another aspect of my life: Why we became expats. I leave this for another post!