all around anniie

Hello & welcome on my blog 🙂 My name is Anika, often called Anniie, I’m 24 years young and a proud austrian girl. I love my home country but in spring of 2015 I decided to leave everything behind me and moved to barcelona. 

Why I did that? 

Hm I was always thinking about going abroad, to travel around, to see something new etc. so actually my big big dream was always to do an all around the world trip, but I was always too afraid of it, cause it’s just such a big big thing and I didn’t had any expierences of traveling, especially alone. 

So I started first with the „smaller“ step – to move abroad for a couple of months, to see how it is in a different country, for living and working. and because my friend from school used to live and work in barcelona already, I visited her once there and fell in love with the city immediately. So after 4 days in barcelona, I knew already, this is gonna be my new home.

From April I started to make my plans & made one step after the other , to turn my dream into reality. I sold everything I could, my car, furrniture, I gave up my flat I was renting etc. It wasn’t easy at all, enough work and especially the courage to finally let go. But all was worth it. I even took my dog Amy with me for the first half year.

I lived in a little but cute apartment very close to the beach in barcelona. the first 6 months I worked in an irish bar but afterwards I just enjoyed life while travelling around spain and surrounded countries. 

Also I was always afraid of travelling ALONE. Me little young girl alone on the road. would I have fun? would I be lonely ? would I even be able to enjoy my trips? After the very first short trip on my own, I knew it already: I was very surprised about myself but I do love travelling on my own a lot ! Very happy to got over my worries, because now I know, there’s nothing to worry about 🙂 

So as I am always with myself around somewhere and as I am taking always lots of pictures cause I have noone beside me to share some moments etc., I decided to make this blog, to share it with you & maybe I can also inspire you, in case you have the same fears I used to have! 😉

I don’t write blogs like most of the people do, like about advices for others, for example „the 10 best things about bali“ or „best beaches on thailand“ whatsoever. I write more about my personal stuff, like a diary, my personal diary. I do want to write about some parts of my life because I have fun with it and I like to tell you about some experiences I am making, sharing pictures and more. So if you are interested in my posts, I would be happy if you’ll read them. If not, don’t waste your time and close the page 😉

Update:

I „moved“ back to austria in august 2016, worked 2 months to earn more money and started to work on my big big dream, the round the world trip; but only started with one continent for the beginning: 

SOUTH EAST ASIA – 3 months traveling with my backpack and myself 😀 

So I’ll keep posting blogs during the journey, about places I’ve been and experiences I made -> follow if you’re curious 🙂
 

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