Aoife Hegarty
Aoife’s first trip was at the age of 19, in the form of the ever popular Interrail (Eurail) taking in France,Italy,Greece and Slovenia. During the next five years, while planning and saving for her Round-the-World trip, she had several little travel ‘fixes’ which took the form of 3-4 week holidays: Hamburg to Amsterdam, Warsaw to Budapest, Zagreb to Bucharest.
In 1999 she started an 18 month trip which took in East Africa, India, south East Asia, Austrailia, New Zealand and the south Pacific, and the west coast of the US. During her trip she kept a web diary mainly for friends and family, which awakened an interest in travel and observational writing. She returned to her native Irel! and broke but happy in early 2001 and after spending some years in Switzerland, she now lives and works in Rwanda.
Travel Philosophy
“I’ve often thought that my travel bug had no beginning, it was a desire as old as
myself. As i prepared for my RTW trip, the resounding question from friends and family was “when did you decide to go travelling?”. It was a question for which i had no answer. It was a question for which i had no understanding. There never was a decision, there was only a burning need, bigger than anything else, a compulsion, bigger than me. My mother confirmed that I had always been crazy about travelling, to the extent that as a child, when we would go on family holidays they could not tell me in advance because i would routinely and without fail make myself sick with excitement…”
Quote: “I’m not old, I just have a lot of mileage!” :)
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