7 Foreign Words That Describe My 12 Years On the Road
<p>When I first started travelling the world at 20 years old, I found comfort in meeting people that spoke English.</p>
<p>Although everything else was foreign, there was a familiarity in being able to connect in a common language.</p>
<p>However, the more I travelled the more I longed for the unknown. So, I’d eat more local food, go to more remote places, and immerse myself in foreign cultures and languages.</p>
<p>I’m from the UK originally but I don’t come home all that often. So, when I do, I eat food from my childhood, I meet up with old friends, I listen to local musicians I haven’t heard in a long time, and I drink way too much tea.</p>
<p>I also dig through all my old travel memories that are stored in a little brown chest in my mum’s house.</p>
<p>Yesterday I took that box down, dusted it off, and started flicking through lots of handwritten notes and old photographs. Among the pile of memories was a piece of paper that had seven foreign words on it. Next to each word was a description of its meaning.</p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/mind-cafe/7-foreign-words-that-describe-my-12-years-on-the-road-75faba8de9ad"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>