When I arrived in Bangkok on my 21st birthday I had the aftermath of an inferiority complex dragging me down, the ghost of an ex haunting me and a failure that wasn't a failure to anyone but me crushing me. Did I expect to be happy, or at least feel okay while I was in Bangkok? No sir, absolutely not. I'd prepared myself for countless hours of crying. And the I found myself in the...
Hi, my name is Envy, and I'm insane. Okay, the official diagnosis is "inferiority complex as a result of giftedness", but to many people who know nothing about giftedness and inferiority complexes it's the same thing as being insane. I know people who'd go out and educate others on their mental situation, but I couldn't be bothered when I got my diagnosis. From April till now I've had different priorities: kicking the inferiority complex's ass....
Here's the thing about Thailand: every twenty-something who wants to show off and try to be a traveller goes there. When they come back it's all one big success story of a wonderful time with a little bit too much alcohol and a whole lot of awesome people. Here's another thing about Thailand: every traveller over thirty is also completely obsessed with the place. Nothing but great reviews from them: 'Thailand has the most amazing...
I like to pretend I'm a travel blogger sometimes. I say 'pretend' because I feel like I never manage to capture the spirit of a place in words. Maybe that's my inferiority complex talking, but I swear I never do better than 'the city was very pretty' when I sit down and try to write a post the way the big names do. So I've given up on that. Instead I take a more unconventional...
Guess what the cheapest route from Amsterdam to Bangkok is. Go on, guess. With a stop in Delhi? Nope. Via Dubai? Wrong again. Switching planes in Turkey? Not even close. Want me to tell you? Well, if you've read the title of this post you won't be surprised to hear that my super cheap flight to Thailand led me to Finland's capital Helsinki first. I know, very logical, going all the way up north to...
Guys, I'm back! 'Was she even gone?' I can hear some of you think. Well, yeah. I was gone. About a month ago I put my last blog post online and disappeared for the summer. All this time I've been thinking about a way to explain where I'd gone and what I'd been doing since that last post went up. Let me tell you this: the simple answer "I was on vacation in Southeast Asia"...
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