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Away for Christmas
This is now my fourth Christmas spent away from home and it never gets any easier or feel anything like the Christmas’s I hold close to my heart. Christmas at my house back home in Scotland is one big chaotic party. I have quite a large family, who are all very close to each other, […]
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Finding Community
I want to share my first sense of authentic community and human selflessness here in rural New Zealand, that has been beautifully surprising in a time when we are told to be afraid of strangers. While we were exploring the Abel Tasman region, we were camping at a campsite called The Barn in Marahau. It […]
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From Apartment to Campervan
It has been exactly one month since me and my beautiful partner, Lior, sold all of the belongings we had accumulated over a year and a half of living the city life in Wellington and moved into a van indefinitely. It has been a month full of adventure, as well as an overall sense of […]
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Who I Am
Hello, my name is Eilidh. I left my home of Glasgow, Scotland what seems like a lifetime ago – just over 4 years. In that time I have travelled Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Australia and now New Zealand. Looking back at the person who took that first flight from Edinburgh to Bangkok makes me feel […]