Justeun - Rob

Welcome to my travel blog!

This is where you can find stories and musings from my travels!
I'm travelling around working in different places in order to learn new skills, meet lots of new people, see lots of beautiful places and have lots of great adventures!

Here's a few words about why I'm travelling...

I've wanted to travel for a long time, to learn about different cultures and places from actually being there, to work with different people in different countries and just to live as naturally and creatively as I can. University has ended and so it seems like now is the best time to start.

I guess in most cases the usual path to take out of university is the career path, however if I'm to be completely honest it's a path that just doesn't make sense to me. In fact, I don't really see it as a path at all. Careers seem more like our horribly unnatural motorways; the main aim being to get to your destination as fast as possible, overtaking all of the people who aren't quite as fast. Occasionaly you find yourself stuck, feeling like your wasting your time in the most mind numbing of queues, all the while you wait patiently for the next short break, which you know is more than likely going to look, feel and taste exactly the same as the last. All in all you end up sacrificing an enjoyable, unpredictable and picturesque journey for one of convenience, efficiency, speed and ease.

I don't much enjoy motorway driving so it's with this that I've come to think I wouldn't much enjoy a career path.

It is instead the allure of the less travelled road that I have succumb to. The road on which one can wander freely without time biting at ones heels. The road on which one can just be.

This is why I'm travelling.

Film & music...

Videos from my travels can be found on youtube www.youtube.com/theallureoftheroad

My music can be found at...
www.myspace.com/robrivieres & www.youtube.com/victorysquaremusic

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Joined on: July 3rd 2009
Last Login: December 5th 2009

Blog Entries: 8
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By Justeun
November 19th 2009

One saved pig - one dead phone! Europe » France » Midi-Pyrénées

Bruster Bob...the most adorable alpaca in the west!

Day 55 - 15/11/09 Images that won't be forgotten, That words construed in stories could not depict, That mould ones core into shapes unseen, Raising a glass over conversations of the universe, Smoke rising towards the night sky, This was no sad day, This was a respectful goodbye, An end that buried souls would envy Where the patter of feet was always unseen, The land welcomes this stranger, A deservedly slow process, A goodnight with intentions of a return, For tomorrow you will shine in the sun, For tomorrow you will line each blade of grass, For tomorrow you will be [View Full Entry]

Bruster Bob gets the hump from Tallulah...literally!

By Justeun
November 15th 2009

Four fingered mannequins, hidden lakes & a jump into cold, cold water... Europe » France » Midi-Pyrénées

Tour de Termes d'Armagnac

Day 47 - 7/11/09 Wednesday this week was my day off and as Vivian (Caroline's helpx) was leaving in two days it was decided that we would both go to Biarritz. After a 6.30 get up and 40minutes at the bus stop we somehow managed to miss the bus (I prefer think that it didn't turn up)...however I'm kind of glad we did! Plan B...road trip! We were kindly granted use of the car for the day and so we set out in search of several places including a fort , a lake and forest in Aignan and a lake in [View Full Entry]

Four fingered mannequin (or 3 fingers 1 thumb if you're being precise)!

We were not expecting to see this when we turned the corner!

By Justeun
October 30th 2009

A sad day... Europe » France

They all got on really! Scampers, Chuck and Eagle-Eye/Chick

Day 29 - 20/10/09 Last night was a very sad night. Whilst washing up after dinner Sarah called me into the lounge...on the floor in front of us was Chuck with a pool of blood around him. We could only assume that he had once again gone for a little nibble of Scamper's dinner, this time only to find himself not making it out alive...in the wrong place at the wrong time, one accident later, everything changes. I told Sarah I would take him down to the river and so I set off out in the dark. Only a few paces [View Full Entry]

By Justeun
October 30th 2009

One of these cats is flying high... Europe » France

Day 32 - 23/10/09 Yesterday was fun! Sarah's friends Mita and Peter came over in the afternoon and ended up staying for dinner. Mita and Peter are really cool :) They brought some miracle pills for Scamper's that they had got off the vet for Chica, their twelve year old dog who also has arthritus... After a coffee Sarah had to go and run the boys out somewhere so the rest of us decided to go for a walk in the woods. Upon our return to the house Mita noticed that one of the two pills brought for Scampers was missing!! [View Full Entry]

By Justeun
October 20th 2009

Picnic in the Pyrenees... Europe » France

Flying!

DAY 27 - 18/10/09 Had a fantastic weekend. Today was pretty chilled, no visitors to the farm so I dug out all of the parsnips and helped the guys with their treehouse. Yesterday, as Paul was back for the weekend, we all went out to the mountains for the day. The Pyrenees national park is just absoloutely breathtaking! On route we passed through the centre of Lourdes, which was somewhere I'd quite fancied visiting but to be honest I'm rather glad I passed through in a car rather than taking time out to visit. Considering this is supposed to be a [View Full Entry]

Who ever said blue and green should never be seen!?

By Justeun
October 19th 2009

Change... Europe » France

Playing choons in the church!

Day 25 - 16/10/09 This last week or so has been about change. Fi has left so I am now the only helper at La Maison. The dynamics have changed...not in a bad way, it's just different. So back to the start of the week. We all went to Decathalon, a massive sports shop in Tarbes to get the boys football boots. Upon reaching Tarbes we realised that the farmers were on strike and had decided that an effective method of protest would be to block all the major roundabouts with their tractors!...I must say this seems like a very good [View Full Entry]

Saint Jean Baptiste, Eclise De Mazeres (right hand side)

By Justeun
October 6th 2009

The fools knowledge of French traditions... Europe » France

The great dam of Castelnau!

Day 15 - 06/10/09 This morning I had a wander around Tarbes, as Sarah had to go and meet someone for a meeting. We dropped Simon off at the train station as today he moves on to meet his girlfriend in Spain. Only me and Fi left now and she's due to leave tomorrow...it's going to be strange with no other helpers here...but I guess the silver lining is that I get a double bed haha! After looking around Tarbes, which I must say was a little odd as there had been a powercut...all the traffic lights were down and I [View Full Entry]

The great minds behind the great dam of Castelnau!

Chuck and Chick! Fearless in front of a sleeping Tubby!

By Justeun
September 29th 2009

Panic attacks & mist over Pau...the first week of my travels Europe » France

The house

Just about to leave for the train to Bristol... 7.00pm - Panic attack 7.19pm Panic attack Not a great start to my travels in that these attacks (which I don't think I've ever really had before) were stress induced due to packing...and the lack of time I'd left myself to do it in! This is about getting away from time and it's chokehold on everything we do so I could have composed myself a little better but nevertheless it's good in that I wanted to feel something. This is going to be a dramatic change for me. It felt like I [View Full Entry]

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