On June 13th, Melbourne woman Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered in Princes Park, Carlton. She was the 30th woman this year in Australia to have been murdered by a man. She was one of the few that did not know her attacker – which perhaps led to the increased (but justified) outrage.
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(Some of the) Things I have learnt from travelling around the world for the last two years
Two years ago, I finished my MBA, quit my job and left for a friend’s wedding in Ireland, via a month in Myanmar and a week in Sapa, Vietnam. Since then, I returned to Melbourne, found a job that allows me to travel, placed all my belongings into storage and headed off on an almost permanent journey. It has been a time of great enjoyment and freedom, but also, inevitably: loneliness, isolation and questioning. I think that my recent travels have changed me and, to an extent, changed the way that I look at life… so, I have been thinking: what are some of the things that have I learned from travelling for the last two years?
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11 Differences Between Travelling in 2007 and 2017, A List
In 2007, I became a fully initiated Australian by taking a gap year during my undergraduate degree and moving to Europe. I had $400, a credit card and the sort of confidence that you can only fake by being a middle-class 21-year-old who believes that these are the best days of her life. In 2017, I travelled the world as a digital nomad while working as Sales Director for memobottle. I had a regular income, a smartphone and a laptop and the sort of doubt you can only experience by being a thirty-something single woman who avoids logging on to social media lest another friend be celebrating an engagement, marriage or birth.Although I had travelled – solo and with partners and friends – during those 10 years, the differences between the bookends were stark. A list was in order. So here I bring you, the 11 Differences Between Travelling in 2007 and 2017, A List:
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