I loved this Emily!! Took me back to my backpacking days. I got the bed bugs too, but that was in Malaysia!! I heard you saying something about Spain and Valencia. I'm moving to Valencia in August! Or that's the plan anyways. Look forward to finding out whether or not you decide to put down roots or continue on the backpacker trail!
Ahh no way! I'm a few months ahead of you on those plans — heading to Valencia in March and hoping to make it my long-term home base. We should definitely connect :)
Love the misadventures. So much more entertaining than all the hashtag blessed travel nonsense. We are nomadic and have made so many accommodation mistakes. One apartment still had grandma's ashes on the dresser and an infestation of palm worms.
This was highly entertaining and very useful for dampening my raging case of FOMA (fear of missing adventure) that has beset me after reading your previous travel logs. Thank you for the dose of reality, especially because those stories are the most fun to read anyway.
I guess many of these mishaps fall under the "we'll-laugh-about-this-one-day" category, though scalding water and bed bugs probably don't apply here. It sounds like wherever you wind up "permanently," you'll always have that adventure/wanderlust itch to scratch, likely on a regular basis. Hang on to that sense of adventure!
Everyone does love a good disaster story. Wishing the worst to our dear old landlord in Rome who screamed at us for not providing 24h notice to use the washing machine 🥲
I loved this Emily!! Took me back to my backpacking days. I got the bed bugs too, but that was in Malaysia!! I heard you saying something about Spain and Valencia. I'm moving to Valencia in August! Or that's the plan anyways. Look forward to finding out whether or not you decide to put down roots or continue on the backpacker trail!
Ahh no way! I'm a few months ahead of you on those plans — heading to Valencia in March and hoping to make it my long-term home base. We should definitely connect :)
Love the misadventures. So much more entertaining than all the hashtag blessed travel nonsense. We are nomadic and have made so many accommodation mistakes. One apartment still had grandma's ashes on the dresser and an infestation of palm worms.
Looool. Imagine renting your place out along with grandma? People are wild.
This was highly entertaining and very useful for dampening my raging case of FOMA (fear of missing adventure) that has beset me after reading your previous travel logs. Thank you for the dose of reality, especially because those stories are the most fun to read anyway.
Loved it. The thought of bed bugs makes my skin crawl. Definitely one of the worse parts of travel.
I once had to leave a hotel by the roof, that’s a fun travel story for another day!
I guess many of these mishaps fall under the "we'll-laugh-about-this-one-day" category, though scalding water and bed bugs probably don't apply here. It sounds like wherever you wind up "permanently," you'll always have that adventure/wanderlust itch to scratch, likely on a regular basis. Hang on to that sense of adventure!
Everyone does love a good disaster story. Wishing the worst to our dear old landlord in Rome who screamed at us for not providing 24h notice to use the washing machine 🥲