I’ve had an idea, and that it’s one that I shall pursue. The instant I’m out of my preliminary education (college), I am going to explore the world.

My parents, just before they married, travelled a section of the world, and I’m told it was one of the best experiences that they’ve ever had. Having followed the lives of a number of different people who do a lot of travelling — Louis Cole, Jack and Finn Harries — this certainly seems to be the case.

What prompted this idea was a conversation I had recently, with a lecturer at a London University. We were discussing how she had lived in a number of countries, and how it had really opened her eyes to what the world holds. I was told that this shows strongly for students too. Those who had jumped straight out of their previous educative institutions, into uni usually had less to contribute, and were far less interesting characters than those who had taken some time out to go and see the world for what it is.

I hold a particular interest in photography and videography at the moment. I love the concept of taking a moment, and materialising it into something, there to exist for as long as you let it. At the moment, I make videos of my every saturday — perhaps one day I’ll make videos every day, but for now that’s just an idea. This little gallivant that I want to take, I want to make memorable. Of course, it’ll be memorable for me regardless of whether I document what I do in a visual manner or not, but I want to remember and share the most incredible parts of it forever. I want to look back as a grandfather, and say to my grandchildren “Look at this. I went there”.

I want to be able to document the moments that make my jaw drop. I love the idea of getting up at four o’clock in the morning to watch the sun rise from it’s nighttime sit. I love the idea of not requiring a perception as to what the current time of day is. I love the idea of wondering the streets of a foreign country, wondering where I’m going to next stay, and where I’m next going to visit.

For the next three years, I’ve got a lot to get through. Having just taken my first GCSE exams — the exams that we take nearing the end of secondary school here in England— I’ve still got the entirety of college to work my way through. It’s going to be tough I expect, but come 2017, the year my gallivant begins, it’ll be worth it.