Tour Groups & Claustrophobia

Adapting to life on the road has been surprisingly easily for me. I think it’s because I live quite the nomadic lifestyle in Perth. Two weeks in and I already feel like a seasoned traveller.

I spent three days travelling through Southern Italy with a tour group I booked some months before I left. I was worried about getting lonely and I thought it would be something I would enjoy.

BUT I just do not get tour groups. The people who join tour groups are these people;

And although couples dressed in matching outfits and seeing people take photos on their iPads has become the GREATEST joy in my life, immersing myself in them made me feel way out of my element.

Now, I’m being slightly dramatic.
It’s not that I didn’t have fun, or that I didn’t like all the people but having someone tell you where you can go, sleep, eat and presenting you with a printed itinerary isn’t my idea of adventure (despite our attractive tour guide producing some weird fantasies that had an amazing resemblance the movie Ghost).

 

They just take all the uncertainty out of travelling. 

I found myself mindlessly going from day to day. There’s something addictive in arriving at a new destination and being so petrified and excited that your stomach feels like it’s going to escape from your mouth.

I did do some things that I probably wouldn’t have done on my own like;
Ride a chairlift on Capri Island,

Experience the Sorrento nightlife,

(Merry Italians flood the streets until late at night, so much so that cars don't drive down them because they wouldn't be able to get though. It's the most amazing thing to be apart of.)

Have someone with me to take this gem of a photo,

Drive down the Amalfi Coastline,

Tours arn't bad... they're just not right for me. It’s not the type of travelling that I’m falling so madly in love with.

Real uninhibited freedom has become horribly addictive and I found my feet getting itchy far too often stuck on the bus.

I’m much more of an ‘illegal Red Vespa driving’ kind of person. More of a bad ass.