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Le voyage est une espèce de porte par où l’on sort de la réalité comme pour pénétrer dans une réalité inexplorée qui semble un rêve.

(Travel is some kind of gate by which one leaves reality, just as to enter an unexplored reality that seems a dream)

Guy de Maupassant

Thank you Guy! This is exactly what I meant and I must say I’m not sure if I’ll find something interesting to say after that…

Dear member of human kind,

Here you will find all kinds of thoughts related to travel in its broadest sense: practical hints to prepare a trip, but also examples illustrating how I change my own look on my daily life to travel even staying home. In the same mindset, I’ll throw here random thoughts popping up I want to share.

Thanks to the quote from Guy, this unlikely mix makes sense. Here is how I understand it…
 
Traveling is changing reality to make a dream come true. Every travel of mine comes to that in the end. I went to Malta because I wanted to leave my daily life all of a sudden. I went to Mongolia because I dreamt of infinity. I started taking singing lessons because I dreamt of mastering my voice. I contacted a shrink because of dreamt of inner peace.
 

I’m not telling here whether I found inner peace, whether I became an admired singer, nor whether I found infinity… Because at the very moment I looked at the Mongolian steppe, the reality Guy is talking about ceased to be  unexplored. When I took my very first singing lesson or ma first session with my shrink, I started integrating in my life something I never experienced before. Dream was coming true. It was slowly loosing its sweetness

But every of these moments have found me growing up, as I was walking on a path I dared to draw myself. And I didn’t stop traveling because of that. Every hill in the steppe was hiding three others, and in their shadow just as many tales I could choose to live or imagine. As many dreams lived on the fly, and the constructive awareness that I decided to make all of this possible. As many small jumps in realities unexplored so far. Similarly, each technical difficulty was an opportunity to discover my own voice and offered the dream to surpass them as an expert. Feeling progress in this expertise is amazing! And I could tell so much about possibilities offered by inner travel…
 

Isn’t it interesting to notice that one travels also when back home? The memories I have from my previous trips are not what I’ve really lived. I feel like I visited a multi-millenium island that I fully experienced, but I only stayed 4 days there and I’ve seen only a portion. The island of Templars… The island of megalithic temples… These themes create the illusion I participated to the mythic/mystical times. Beyond these flattering touristic sentences, my memories of my east-west hike across the entire island (well… 10 miles you know) are also reconstructed by my memory. But I don’t see this as a self-treachery. I just consider I keep traveling in Malta from my couch, as soon and as much as I like.

This is the message this piece of web is giving. Transforming reality. Or looking at it from another perspective. This is how I travel staying home. 

It wasn’t anything else when I visited the super-dark train station of Bruxelles-Congrès on a lunch break. I was passing by it every day taking the train. This place was creepy enough to darken a well started morning. It was thus important to me to experience this place by myself. I decided to consider myself as an explorer of a moment. I was so disappointed to see that I wasn’t lonely at all! Still, having traveled there (as Guy means it of course), I created memories of this place that transformed forever the way I look at it. I still don’t feel like I would spend hours there, but these memories are enough to keep alive the renewal experience I lived that day. They make me travel.
 

Dear member of human kind, I wish you will find here many travel opportunities, in its common sense or not. I hope you will get inspiration here, that you will dare open doors to unexplored realities. I wish you a nice travel!