For years I've listened enthralled, amazed, surprised, amused, enraputred, intrigued but with resigned envy to travellers tales from friends, family, work colleagues, aquaintances, random strangers! I've gazed longingly over photos of far flung places, peoples, landscapes, wildlife, horizons beyond my narrow little world and wished I could be there too, experiencing it for myself. But I've been a mum forever and never had the chance to spread my wings. With a daughter at university (where does the time go?) and two under 10s my chances of even a slight ruffling of feathers seemed far, far away in the dim and distant future. So I'd sigh as the last photo was put away and mentally plonk myself back into my world, leaving ideas of travelling on a dusty, high shelf labelled 'things to do in my fifties'!
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