Why you can and should travel the world

Katy Howard
Nov 5 · 2 min read

I’m going to be real with you. Travelling isn’t easy. It’s more than brightly coloured instagram photos, perfect looking gelatos, endless sunny days and fantasy romances wonderful enough to entice anyone into booking a spur of the moment plane ticket. Behind the snapshots of smiling couples, sunkissed skin and kaleidoscope sunsets, travel is hard. It challenges you, pushes you to your physical, mental and emotional limits, forces you to face your inner self and deeply changes you. You will become painfully self aware; of your strengths, weaknesses and who you really are in a way that you…

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