How to Build Community in New Places as a Traveler
Building a community even in a place you’ve lived for years can be a challenge. Trying to find it in a completely new place can be even more daunting, but it can also be an incredible opportunity.
Building a community even in a place you’ve lived for years can be a challenge. Trying to find it in a completely new place can be even more daunting, but it can also be an incredible opportunity.
You’ve heard of vice versa, right? Well, instead, this is about the vice visa.
As someone who’s spent most of her life in a city, spending five months in this tiny little village in the North York Moors has been a trip.
You know those outdoorsy solo adventure photos with one person in the shot looking all adventure-y?
Back in September, I went on a weekend camping trip in Northumberland National Park and it was beautiful. Not only that, I was tent testing, so it was all in the name of work.
Last week, I went on a solo weeknight bike adventure for fish and chips on the coast. It was an absolute DREAM, until it wasn’t.
Last week, I bought a cabbage for £1.20 from Lealholm’s village shop in the North York Moors.
For the start of 2020 I went to England for a month. I got there on the 29th of December and less than a week later I sprained my ankle.
I’ve spent the past month living in Sheffield, England and I have only good things to say. Sheffield might not be your classic tourist city with any big attraction like the Empire State Building, Big Ben, or Eiffel Tower, but it does have one huge draw: the outdoors.