joshtracey
"Good times"
About joshtracey
Full Member | Member since 13th May 08
Citizenship: New ZealandMarital Status: De Facto
Occupation: Travellers at present...
About joshtracey:
We are currently living in Wellington, and just about to jump over to the UK and Europe. We want to experience the true cultures of the places we plan to visit, and as much as we want to see the traveller's hot spots, we also want to delve into the unknown and see things off the beaten path.
Hobbies:Between us... art, design & photography; great coffee, food & wine; music; films; walking; relaxing with friends...
Favourite places:This will need to be updated once we've started our trip!
Activity : photos (301) forum (0) guide (0) blog (49) diary (0) trips (1)
Latest Blog Entry
The start of summer in Amsterdam
Posted by joshtracey | 10th June 2009
Sometimes it seems to be all about time and numbers. It’s almost a year since we left familiar shores to begin travelling, and a month since we returned to Amsterdam after a three-week hiatus back in New Zealand. It took two weeks for me to get over the jetlag, and when my brain finally caught up with my head, things have started returning to normal, and more excitingly – coming together for the first time…
What a strange sense of displacement to travel back to your old home without feeling settled in a new one. Everything was so achingly easy, it was hard to imagine leaving yet again… But it’s not as if we came to Amsterdam because we thought it would be a piece of taart. I can’t count the number of times that other nomadic friends have lectured us about the ‘break-in period’, and that it took them at least a year or more to ground their feet (temporarily) in Europe. As frustrating as it is to hear this as someone only halfway through the aforementioned timeframe, I’m pretty sure
Continued | Josh & Tracey's Adventures
Travel Blogs joshtracey runs
- Josh & Tracey's Adventures - The UK, Europe and....
Trips
J and T's Whirlwind European Tour (25555 kms)
26 Jun 2008 - 01 Jun 2009
Visiting: New Zealand, Singapore, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Switzerland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and Netherlands.
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