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I’ve spent a lot of time living in different countries,

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so there isn’t one place I think of as home.

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I’ve lived in Scotland, and Poland and China.

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I love going to new places and learning about new cultures.

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Today, I’m asking people about travel.

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I love travel, it’s one of my passions.

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Well, I enjoy it a lot, I have travelled to India several times,

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I’ve lived there and I’ve lived here and I’ve been to Istanbul once,

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and I enjoyed that very much.

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I’ve done quite a bit of travelling on holidays and stuff.I think it’s good, good experience.

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You get to meet different people coming from different backgrounds,

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and I think that is really important to get an understanding.

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It’s always just nice to get out and experience different culture and different lifestyle.

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I get very excited about the thought of going to most countries, any country.

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I love to travel to different countries.

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Absolutely, I love travelling.

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I’ve been travelling for about two and a half years, solid now.

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I’ve been to Turkey, I’ve been to Egypt, I’ve been to Malta.

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Now I work as an expedition leader,

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and so I actually operate in different countries around the world,

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many places outside of the United Kingdom.

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What do you like about travelling?

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I think you mature a lot when you travel, you learn,

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just completely different experiences to what you are used to at home.

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I like the airport experience, I love that.

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I like the arrival more than the travelling.

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To see art, especially we love to see theatre in other countries.

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You see some of the most beautiful scenery around the world,

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which you wouldn’t experience in other countries.

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I just really like getting out there and experiencing a different culture,

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getting far away from, you know, what we’re used to in Australia, meeting new people.

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The anticipation of being in a new place,

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of seeing very different things, of hearing a different language,

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of eating different food, everything that travel has to offer.

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What don’t you like?

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I don’t like long flights.

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I suppose plane journeys aren’t always the most exciting of things.

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Flying, I don’t particularly like flying but it’s a necessity, when you live in Ireland, you know.

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I suppose the biggest problem I have with travelling is living out of a suitcase.

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In all honesty, I actually see the whole travel thing as an adventure in itself,

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so like when I was backpacking, when we ran out of money

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or we were in a dangerous situation,

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I actually quite enjoyed that.

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I spend a lot of time outside the United Kingdom,

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and the disadvantage of that is that you tend to miss family and friends,

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I miss out on normal things in life so I’ve been outside of the United Kingdom for two-thirds of the year,

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I’d say that’s the main disadvantage.

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The hardest thing for me is that I am handicapped

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and so sometimes getting around especially very old cities is very difficult.

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My wife is usually late for getting to the airport.

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It wasn’t until I got married, that I actually started missing flights.