LONDON-PARIS-BASLOW/PEAK DISTRICT-YORK-KESWICK/LAKE DISTRICT-EDINBURGH-DUBLIN-BELFAST-PENZANCE-BATH-BOURTON ON THE WATER/COTSWOLDS
I can't even begin. So many dreams, so many, are being realised via this trip with Ma and again, I never expected it. The countryside obsessed teenager/literary geek/history lover/Anglophile in me is beyond excited and, ok, here's the thing. You'd think after a few trips, I would find the opportunities to go overseas less surprising each time. The words 'one day, I'll visit ___ ' have even become a part of my everyday vernacular because having thus far travelled where I have, the options definitely feel more real and less like those cloudy castles in the distance.
However, as the years go on, last year in particular, enough continues to happen that only diminishes my ability to assume things. Life happens, health happens... simply put, I will never take for granted that these trips get to be a part of my life and when the chances arise, I will never cease to feel like the luckiest kid on the planet, particularly if we're talking about getting to finally see places I've dreamed of since I was a teenager; or that I've fallen in love with thanks to my many British literary heroes; or that I've pored over in history books and documentaries in order to have some glimpse or idea of what life was like in times past, ancient or modern.
I absolutely cannot wait.
However, as the years go on, last year in particular, enough continues to happen that only diminishes my ability to assume things. Life happens, health happens... simply put, I will never take for granted that these trips get to be a part of my life and when the chances arise, I will never cease to feel like the luckiest kid on the planet, particularly if we're talking about getting to finally see places I've dreamed of since I was a teenager; or that I've fallen in love with thanks to my many British literary heroes; or that I've pored over in history books and documentaries in order to have some glimpse or idea of what life was like in times past, ancient or modern.
I absolutely cannot wait.
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