Hello everyone! Today, I am really excited!
Some of you already know about my passion to travel the world. Actually a year ago about now I left Europe and I started traveling the world. I have visited some of the countries of South America and Oceania.
Today, I decided to present you the interview I have recently made with a traveler. Fabien travelled around the world for a whole year and he accepted to share his experience. In this interview, he provides some advice about how to organize a world around trip and he explains how this trip around the world changed his life!
…one of my biggest challenges now is just to keep in mind all the learning of this experience and make it work for my entire life and not just for one year of life.
Enjoy the video!
Here after the main points of that interview. I wrote them down for you because I would love to help keep the key points of this conversation.
Tell us a little bit more about your world around trip
I left for a year in April 2011 and I went to Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, North America, Cook Island, New Zealand, which was my favorite, and then I went all the way up from Australia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand and I finished my trip in Nepal, a big nice trek.
How to choose the destinations of a world around trip?
It is pretty easy. You just think about the countries you want to visit and put then you them on the map. Mostly what I decided is to follow the sun, follow the nice weather. We spent some time in South America, it was cold but the sky was blue. For Asia, we tried to be there the best period of the year. First, decide where to go depending on our dream, put them on a map and see how to organize it depending on the weather.
What was the world around trip budget and can you share some tips about how you managed this budget for a whole year?
If you like cars, it is the budget of a nice beautiful car. I spent about 17.000€. It was a little bit over my initial budget because I did some great stuff in Brazil and in Nepal. I also went in some very expensive countries like Australia and New Zealand.
So, how to fix a budget is quite easy; you look on the Internet because many travelers share a day-to-day budget. So you see some cheap countries and some expensive countries and there is a global average. You set up a target considering what kind of money you can spend, and then you decide the countries. If you don’t want such an expensive budget, don’t go in Australia for instance because it is really expensive and it is a big deal every day to keep your budget.
On the day-to-day life, I was just writing my expenses on an excel spreadsheet and I was trying to see if I could spend more money or less.
How did you manage to collect all that money for the world around trip?
I worked. I didn’t leave just after my studies. I worked a lot of years, I earned some money and then I left. I didn’t really feel the meaning of my life. I was working in Paris, what we say is “metro-boulot-dodo”; that mean we spent time in the subway, we work, we go back home and we just eat and sleep. So it is not meaningful that kind of life and I decided to leave.
It took me six months to get ready …get rid of everything (no apartment, no job everything). I used the money I earned make something of my life.
You completely changed your life actually?
Yeah! If there is one thing I will remember about this trip, it is not the places I have been (beautiful places, thousands of pictures and movies). For me it is just a life-changing experience. I am a new man, I don’t consider life the same way, I don’t want my old life back.
It is a completely new way of thinking. The only thing I am afraid is how long I am going to keep this new way because I know I am back and I feel the pressure all around me, the stress is back, not back from me but back around me.
I think one of my biggest challenges now is just to keep in mind all the learning of this experience and make it work for my entire life and not just for one year of life.
Are you ready to organize your trip around the world?
What did you think of that interview? Please let me know if you liked and do not hesitate to give me your advice!
Thank you Lenia for this video. Hope it will be usefull for your readers !!
Definetely, I have a very strong english accent
sorry about that.
Good luck with your blog and your new experiences,
Fabien
Fabien,
I am the lucky one because you gave me that great opportunity. I am sure that people who are interested in organizing a world around trip will find your interview really interesting and useful. Sharing your experience is the best way to give tips to future travellers.
You mean french accent, e? That is ok, I have a Greek accent too. I am sure the readers of this blog are enough open-minded and tolerant to accept our accent and even our mistakes!
Thank you!
Hi Lenia,
Sorry I’m just now getting by to watch your other video.
Wow, that boy has traveled now hasn’t he. I admit, his accent was pretty heavy and with the wind I had a hard time hearing some of it but glad you put the highlight in the post for us. I enjoyed hearing about his trip and how he chose those destinations. Very interesting indeed.
Really enjoyed this interview so thanks for sharing it with us. You’re getting so good at shooting videos now.
~Adrienne
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Well, I am working on my accent :-p but the results are not quite there. Sorry about that
I have met a lot of foreigner during this trip, some Americans as well and I have always been happy to realize how people are patient and tolerant when non-english speaking people speak english (especially french with this stupid accent…).
Thanks Adrienne for your comment. And Yes, the wind was a problem. Do you have any advices to avoid this wind sound ? (except shooting video inside)
Fabien
Don’t apologize at all Fabien, I love your accent. I enjoy hearing you speak even if I can’t understand all of it. That’s my problem, not yours. It’s beautiful!
I don’t do many videos outside I’m afraid and when you’re shooting them you don’t always know the wind is masking what you said. I’m sure they may have some type of guard you can put close to it to shield the wind, at least I would think they would. That would be my suggestion.
I enjoyed it either way though so you keep up the great work and enjoy your travels. How exciting for you.
~Adrienne
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Hey Adrienne,
I hope you are fine. I am sorry for the late answer to your comment. Lately I run a lot!
Fabien has a typical French accent! I love it! French people are doing a great effort to learn and speak English. But there are some sounds that do not exist in the French language and vocabulary. That is the main reason why it is difficult for them to pronounce these sounds. A typical example is the letter “h”. This letter is not pronounced at all in the French accent and so it is difficult for French people to get used to it!
I am sorry about the wind. It was annoying especially at the beginning of the video but I couldn’t cut that part because it was an interesting answer.
Anyway, if you ever have questions about how to organize a trip you could ask Fabien. He travelled for so long time around the world and he can give some great tips
Have a great day.
Lenia
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