If I had money and time I would go to…
If I had money and time I would travel around Europe
this summer with an Interrail pass. My lack of travelling is killing me and
I’ve decided that I have to recover the time I’ve lost all this years. I could
have been to lots of places, so I’ll go to lots of places in only one travel.
Backpacking with friends has to be a fantastic experience. With the years, I’ve
changed my ideas of a good trip. I used to think that I wanted to be in a great
hotel visiting one city or country, but now I’ve realized that I want
adventure, I want to meet people, I want to improvise what I do, I want to
sleep in a train station.
So, in these last months I’ve been preparing the
travel that I won’t do (because my friends don’t have money, and I don’t know
if my mother would have a heart attack just of thinking of me being alone
around Europe sleeping in hostels). With the simplest Interrail pass you can
travel around the majority of countries of Europe through ten days, in which
there are five days you can take trains. Taking benefit of the 7 p.m. rule, you
can travel one day after 7 p.m. and the next day with counting just one day of
travel in you pass, so my best friend’s and mine idea was going to Paris,
Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Bern. Just the idea of taking
the train with my bag in my back blows my mind.
But if I had more money, there are more places I would
love to go. Lately I’ve added to my list of blogs (which was only about
fashion) some great travelling blogs I’ve discovered. In Landlopers I found a
list of the blogger’s favorite places he had been in 2012 and I went completely
mad for Cape Town. It’s a place completely different from the city in which I
live. I want to see the beauty and incredible landscapes, the fantastic town
hall with the rock walls behind, the amazing beaches furthermore the diversity
of people that live there, because the country has had lots of immigration from
Malaysians to Eastern Cape people who make an incredible mix of cultures. I
would also love to bike around a township, to see the reality of lots of people
from which I should learn a lot about how to affront life. It would be really
rewarding.
On the contrary, I’d love to visit Pammukale, in
Turkey. It’s a completely different type of journey. I discovered this amazing
place in What’s Dave Doing?, another blog. The name means ‘cotton castle’ in
English. It’s a deposit of minerals with warm water which has formed natural
swimming pools with the shape of terraces and, with the lights of the sun, the
minerals make the water look as if it was of different colors. An out of this
visit would be it’s an utterly crowded place. It’s turned so much touristic
that I’ve read it’s even difficult to walk around the terraces.
Pammukale would be a summer visit, but, in winter, I’d
like to go to Iceland to see the geysers. It has to be overwhelming to see the
water going out from under the ground and getting such a tall high. Also, the
landscape, the snow and the mountains have to be fantastic for not only taking
photos, but trekking and hiking too.
Finally, I have to add a last place I’d like to be in,
even though there are a lot of them which I wouldn’t have place in this
composition for making justice to them. I’d like to walk along the Siq at
Petra, Jordan. I’ve read lots of travelers’ experiences about it. They all say
the walk is really worth it. The natural formations and the vibrant hues of the
rocks must be unforgettable. Also, without expecting it, finding in front of
you the enormous and splendorous Treasury has to be breathtaking.
Hence, by the way of conclusion, I would like to
finish by saying: world, please, wait for me. I’m saving.
Clara
Martínez Arcas
2n
Batxillerat B
