Travel Therapy Insights. Let me be your agony aunt when it comes to questions of travel.

Hi Will,
I wanted to ask you actually…I’m planning on going travelling, I want to go to Vietnam and travel a bit of Indonesia as well. Can you give me any advice on how to plan a trip and how much it will cost?
Thanks, Sophie,19, Bournemouth.

Hi Sophie,
Money first. You need £500 for the flights to and from, plus £300 for insurance and injections. Plus £200 for rucksack, medicines, guide books and any clothes you will need. That’s £1000 and your there. I reckon that you need £100 a month in 3rd world countries for accommodation, food, drink and local transport. (compares to £250-400 a week for a developed country).

As for actual travel advice, I’ve never been there so your best bet is to buy a Rough Guide or Lonely Planet book of the country and get your flights from STA travel or Gapyear.com. Have a brilliant trip, Will x

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Hi Will,
This question is a bit off topic. You see, I have been working in my dream carer for eight years now but there are so many stresses from my boss and they don’t give me the credit that I deserve. I’m thinking about giving it up to pursue something else, but not too sure what. Do you think that if I went travelling then I would come back with the answers? I thought the time away might help.
Peter, 29, England

Hi Peter,
Thanks for the question. I had a similar issue myself (Day 50 in the book). Travelling is a great way to take time for yourself to reflect back on how far you have come in life. However, when I refer to travelling I do not mean that you have to go to India and wear monks clothes for a month. All you have to do is to travel outside of your comfort zone. This way you will get a new perspective that can give you new answers to the same problem.
1. Leave your mobile at home and take public transport to another town that you rarely visit.
2. Then wander around for a couple of hours before going in to a café. With a mug of hot chocolate in your hands you should write down three times in your career when you felt truly satisfied. Times when knew that you were in the right career. Did those times come when you were working hard? When you were surrounded by people you admired? When you were learning new things?
3. The dreams that you once had, you have now achieved. Time has come to stop congratulating yourself for them.
4. The time is now for you to realise that you must move on. Only now can you create a state of excitement, surrounded by people you admire as you are learning new things.
5. Before the hot chocolate gets cold I would like you to have written down an even bigger dream, your next chapter. I hope it scares you a little and I know that if you want it enough you will achieve it.

Let me know how you get on, Will

Peter’s reply:
Just booked new year tickets to New York! Staying in a hostel, going alone… inspired by Will Baxter. Whatever will be, will b!
(Sent Via Text from Peter, 29, England)

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Note: All names are changed in the articles above, but the actual questions are real. 

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