Trip Preparations and Leaving London!
So here we are folks :D the time has arrived. Today I packed up all my stuff and left my tiny room in London for the last time in a while (I’m sure I’ll be back at some time its where the jobs are). I am returning back to my parents in Devon.
I don’t have too much to say about London really, I’ll say for sure I’ll definitely miss the friends I’ve made and the people who have enriched my lives and vice versa, but the place itself not so much.
You have to have a lot of money to enjoy London properly, you cannot get away from that fact sadly, although its fine for sure if you don’t want to save anything. But for me its always been about experiences over material things, and I don’t see there are very many experiences to be had here or any sort of quality of life and 2 years is enough for me. Anyway I don’t wanna make this post too negative lol so I’ll leave it at that. I think really I’m looking for a quieter life :D which I will recieve in rural Eonyang.
Last weekend I went to visit my friend in Manchester and he recommended portable camera and audio equipment for me, he is good with this kinda stuff. I am going to start doing vlogs and posting them up on YouTube and for this I need both good quality video and audio. I ordered some cheap equipment off Amazon 1 day delivery so the last few days I have been running round picking this up from the amazon locker at Snow Hill, Farringdon. Generally because its easier and I can collect in bulk.
I ordered the sjcam 4000 action camera and the zoom h1 portable audio recorder and accessories for both for under £200. I need the greater flexibility that comes with an action camera and my phone (Xioami Mi4) has started getting slow recently, me and my friend up in Manchester confirmed it was a hardware issue when we installed another ROM on it.
This concludes my purchases, from now on I will be spending purely on experience: accommodation where necessary, food, and travel. I am hoping that the things I have bought now last, the camera has a waterproof case, and I have a backup phone as well now which is waterproof dust proof and shockproof.
As well as my friend in Manchester I visited my other London friend for a bit last Friday. So many people to see lol.
A few weeks ago I ordered backpacker travel insurance for the next year for Dec 3rd onwards. It has included medical care.
Tommorow I am going to change my address of my bank back to my parents and research into where I want to go and places I want to see in Japan when we go. We will start the process for the Working Holiday Visa for Australia when we meet in Korea.
On Sunday we are going for a meal for my birthday at a French style restaurant called Pierre.
I also plan to make some test videos while I’m here to get used to filming, its good to do because it builds self confidence, which I need to gain from hearing my own voice. I already watch many different bloggers on YouTube, people who blog on a daily basis about their lives, and I admire their confidence.
I hope I haven’t made this too long but I like to keep everyone up to date :D