Whether it’s a month spent backpacking through South America or a fortnight whiled away on the beach at an all-inclusive hotel, holidays are amazing! Unfortunately, they almost always start with hurtling through the air in a giant tin can with limited legroom and questionable bathroom facilities. Today I’m sharing some of my favourite travel tips for how to survive a long flight in (relative) comfort.
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Moving to a new country is a little like riding a rollercoaster. There are highs, there are lows and sometimes it’s so intense that you feel like you want to be violently sick. I knew that there would be pros and cons of living in Kuwait, just like anywhere else, but I had no idea what those would be. Now that I’ve been on this white-knuckle ride for nine months, I want to share some of the pros and cons I’ve experienced during my time in Kuwait.
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I’d been living in the Middle East for over two months and I’d yet to see a camel. I’d long since abandoned any hopes of stumbling upon magic lamps, flying carpets, caves of wonder or any other Disney-inspired stereotypes of the Persian Gulf. But I point blank refused to leave my five day trip to Dubai without coming face to face with a camel. So I headed out on a Dubai desert safari adventure.
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I’ve made a lot of travel blunders over the years, ranging from first-time foolishness to the downright dangerous. I got myself locked in a wine cellar in Venice, picked up pneumonia in South Africa and almost died on a boat trip in Sri Lanka. But, while I’ve had my fair share of transcontinental brushes with death, my biggest travel regret is buying into animal tourism without even realising what kind of harm I was inflicting.
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Amazingly, I’ve been living in Kuwait for nine months already and now it’s almost time for me to pack up and move on. I’m happy (and massively relieved) to say that I finally know where I’m moving on to. After a lot of soul searching and a good deal of lying awake at night staring at the ceiling, I’ve decided that I’m moving to Bahrain.
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