MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO - TRAVEL
A mural in Santiago del Chile
Two thousand words, the editor said. That gives us about 300 words per country, so this is going to be brief – but the pictures can tell the tale. As a family we’d been talking and dreaming about backpacking around the world for years, but like most people there never seemed to be the time, or the opportunity. Work, school, paying the bills and survival took precedence. Then finally, as we sweated on the results of final primary school exams for the last of our children still in the nest, all held early in the New Year, we suddenly thought ‘if she does well, what’s the point of summer term?’ That thought was re-enforced when Nikita, our 11-year-old daughter, sailed through her exams - possibly spurred on by the thought of missing the summer term, and travelling the world instead - to be left with a choice of secondary schools to take up in September. Plus it helped that I was ‘between jobs,’ and that the heads of both her primary school and chosen secondary school gave their full support – she would learn more on her travels, they said, than seeing through her last term in primary with only the summer school play to look forward to. Train cemetery. Uyuni. Bolivia
Issue 01 December-January 2014
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