1. Travelling with purpose; the birth of a dream

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Alice

On adventure, amongst my essentials, along comes my toolbox. My toolbox I call "Lifey". Filled with skills on the ready to be sharpened, experiences awaiting on cue to be expanded, and unopened chambers ready to be filled with new collectibles uncovered along my journey. After all, is not exploring the world is an exploration of the mind.

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Labanean

You'll understand once you know the story behind my name that for me the good life is one of adventure, jumping over the moon and pure wit.

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Helen

Turning Tasting into Knowledge - An adventure of the world's wine regions, working towards a London based goal. I will be tasting, exploring, learning and meeting those in the "trade" to develop a better understanding of the options out there before starting my own London based shop. I look forward to taking you on this journey with me.

For me, travelling with a purpose was, firstly, to get there (wherever “there” was), visit the top 10 attractions, tick the bucket list and, perhaps most importantly, to say, “oh yes! I’ve been there, it’s really amazing”.Last year, towards the end of a 32-day trip, that perspective shifted, dramatically.

The purpose of this trip had been a fourfold celebration of my friends, their milestones and the world:

1. An engagement celebration in Dubai;

2. A wedding in Australia;

3. The birth of a dear friend’s first child in Oman;

4. The christening of my godson in Ireland (who is a twin just like me).

But as it turned out, the higher purpose was to fully disengage from a job that I disliked, and a career path that was going nowhere beyond the perpetual 9 to 5. Very quickly I realised that I needed a plan! Although it was “a holiday”, deep down I knew it had to be a journey, a journey with the purpose of discovering “my plan” – and boy oh boy did it deliver!