Almost three years if you think about it. Travelling has not been at the top of my mind in the last few years so this blog had been kind of put in standby. Not that this is an announcement that I am coming back with a steady flow of weekly posts. I just have a little bit of time tonight and I thought I owe my audience of 2 people some explanations about my life.

In the last couple of years I had 2 happenings, respectively the best and the worst thing that happened to me in my adult life. Since life is a bitch, they both happened almost at the same time.

I had a baby, which as you may guess, is categorized under the “best thing  ever happened”.

And after only 3 months, so in the middle of postpartum, I had breast cancer, which… is not fun.

Having these two things at the same time is a fucking nightmare. I don’t recommend.

Among all the shitshow that followed, the most awful stuff was: 

  1. Having to stop breastfeeding the baby in order to start the chemo
  2. Losing my 2 meters long hair AND MY EYEBROWS, becoming a little bald freak
  3. Doing chemo while waking up nauseated 10 times per night to attend a newborn, I was so tired it was surreal
  4. Having my ovaries removed, going through menopause while way too young
  5. Doing 7 fucking surgeries and still getting a bloody infection
  6. Giving up on the dream of having more children
  7. Having to protect all the little feelings of the people that are scared of cancer (which is… everyone, I guess?)

Today, I am out.

My body is doing just fine, I have brand new boobs and I am doing more sports than ever. I am genuinely amazed at how I recovered so fast.

My brain is not doing equally great, I have developed some cognitive problems and I constantly struggle with anxiety. But hopefully it will get better with the time. And with the travelling!

I can finally get back to travelling, and to talking about travelling.

It’s not that I was not thinking at all about it. It was a comforting thought in the bad moments. I was thinking about the place where I’d want to go, but most of all I was thinking about the places I had been to.  

Recently, as I began feeling a bit more like myself, I started planning stuff again, making it again my main hobby. I made a 10 years travel wishlist.

In the meanwhile, we managed to go with our baby to Thailand & Laos, New York, Switzerland, a bunch of islands in Greece. All in the moments I was doing okay.

I was looking forward travelling with my baby and it did not disappoint.

Surely, many things have changed. We travel slower, we need a lot of entertainment and even more of snacks. But my baby so far loves travelling and I am sure he will (literally) go places.