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This Is The Worst Part of Travelling

Tom Stevenson
3 min readMay 15, 2019

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There are a lot of things that are great about travelling.

Exploring new places, meeting new people, doing things you never dreamt you would.

But, for me, there is undoubtedly one thing that is horrible about travelling.

It’s not the long flights or journeys by bus over long distances.

It’s not the searing heat, or freezing temperatures you can find in some places.

It’s certainly not the dodgy food you can find in certain places.

No, the worst thing about travelling is saying goodbye to the people you meet along the way.

I’ve travelled a lot by myself, and the experiences have been eye-opening and helped me to grow as a person.

But travelling by yourself has its limits.

You miss the company of others. The places you experience are much better with company. It really is the people that make the places and not the places themselves.

Saying Goodbye

During the past five years, I have met so many people, I actually got tired of meeting new people. Going through the same routine with someone else every other day got tiresome.

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