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[kathryn77]

Love your ambition though As a sidenote, whereabouts in Scotland are you? I'm moving up there in a couple weeks for uni, maybe we could backpack the Highlands together? lol!

Hola - to slightly hijack this thread inappropriately, I think I may be moving up to Scotland in the next few weeks, so I may take you up on your offer... rrrroad trip

Woo hoo!! Sorry I've not replied to your fb msg Sian - it's playing up - I can't access anything at the mo except my status updates - don't know what's wrong!! Make sure you'se let me know about any road trip plans so I can come over and act as translator

Sweet! The more the merrier I'll be waaaayyy up in Aberdeen, hopefully will get a few low workload weekends to play with because I hear the nearby mountains are GORGEOUS.

okay I'll stop hijacking the topic now

That's where I went to uni!! Which one are you going to, what are you studying?! It's a fab place to be as a student!! And don't worry it's only about 2.5 hours on the train to Glasgow or Edinburgh, so handy enough

[kathryn77]

I started a new thread to save the hijacking on this one....go here to the new thread!

[sakurasan09]

Hi there,, Sorry for the delayed reply...

Well im in Perth., A few hours from Aberdeen i think,.
Its great to hear you are coming to Scotland.. you will love it. Its soo beeautiful and travelling up in the mountains sounds like heaven... Ive been to alot of places with my family but never travelled it before...And theres alot of places i would like to visit too..
Do you have any ideas to where you will be going?

xxx

[kilgiraffe]

I'll be in Aberdeen and Sianeth will be in Stirling.. but back on topic! Have you figured out where you want to go on your big trip yet?

[sianeth]

Hey Charlotte, yes I should be in Stirling in a few weeks time - google maps is telling me thats not too far from Perth actually! I'm up for going anywhere to honest, I've been to Aviemore before, that was awesome but I was only young so don't remember much of it.

Anyway, we could convene a little Scottish meeting to help discuss your trip... I will bring a world map

[sakurasan09]

Ohh really!... wow...

Umm no i actually havent as its still an idea in my head to be honest.. Ive been focusing on college at the moment.
All i know is that Asia and Japan really intrest me.. But i do want to see the world haha.. step by step..

But yea.. so how old are you? if you dont mind my asking.
Im young.. only 17 lol but by the time i want to be travelling ill be 18.. Thats my thought behind it lol..

xx
Also i can give you some tips on places to go in Scotland... I know quite a few lol.

x

[kathryn77]

Hi Charlotte,

That's cool that you might meet up with us I've no idea on anyones ages - what you'll find when you start travelling is that age doesn't matter, common interests do, in my opinion.
When I did my big trip, I made friends of all ages - it just became something I never really thought about...and that extends to this site. When you hang around the forums, you can form assumptions about peoples ages as well based on what they're talking about. (But you don't have to do that about me, I am 31, no secrets )

I do understand you may have concerns though, as you've told us you're 17, only looking into travel opportunities now etc, and you are probably thinking you "shouldn't really be meeting up with 'strangers' you meet on websites"! (As I myself would be thinking if I hadn't been on here for quite a while and got used to the "familiar names" I see around.)

Anyway, I started that new thread in the Scotland area about the meet-up, so save this one now for your travel tips, as I'm sure more people can also give you help on that too, and I don't want to distract people from that for you - maybe have a read of the other thread and feel free to chip in when you like to. You totally don't have to meet up with us if you don't want to, but we'd love to meet you if you do, and like Sian said, we can give you advice etc on your trip if you want us to.

I love Perth, it's so pretty! And if you start chipping in on the other thread, I'm now thinking of suggestions of what we can do / where we can go for the meet up, so as a fellow local, it'd be extra cool to hear from you

PS. Sian - Stirling is v. v. close to Perth!

[kilgiraffe]

Don't worry Charlotte, I'm only a year older than you! Nothing wrong with us youngin's And even better for you to be thinking of planning this so early instead of looking back when you're 50 and going "I should've..". We're all young, let's enjoy it And hey - if you're working with a uni schedule and want some company, give me a shout. I'm going to be at uni too and am ALWAYS up for random travels

Asia is a very easy area to travel around, as I said in my post there's a few well-established backpacker routes which may be best to stick to at first if you're not quite sure what you want to do. These standardly cover Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam [Laos and Cambodia too depending on how you route it], China and Japan, and whatever else you want to do! You can throw in Indonesia or South Korea or even Myanmar [maaaybe when the conflict settles down a bit though], the choices are yours

[sianeth]

Also i can give you some tips on places to go in Scotland... I know quite a few lol.

x

Brilliant, definitely in need of some that advice!

I'm 22 and just finished uni so I know what its like to think I'm still 18... But as has been said, embrace the youth... so much to see, so much to learn, its exciting to be 17 and think of all the neat stuff out there in front of you!

Asia sounds like an awesome idea - don't worry about being naive over it, I certainly was when I went there but got on just fine. The only way you learn is from experience and just throwing yourself into things and not being afraid to have a go... I reckon you'd get on just fine too

[kathryn77]

Now I feel really old What are you all like? I don't care though, I don't feel like I'm 31! Hee hee

[sianeth]

I don't feel like I'm 31!

Yeah, I don't think I actually believe you are!!

[kathryn77]

I don't feel like I'm 31!

Yeah, I don't think I actually believe you are!!

As long as you think I am younger, then that's OK with me
I thought you were older but looked young!! (i.e. your age matches your photo, but your comments seem more mature than a 22 year old - I mean that as a compliment - hope it's coming across that way )

[sianeth]

Ha, yeah thats what I meant! You can still confess to being 25 and I will still think you're wise you know

I think I'm 19 in this photo actually so thats my fault for misleading you and clinging on to my long lost youth lol...