HOW TO CHOOSE A VEGAN FRIENDLY TRAVEL DESTINATION

There is a great simple exercise that takes just a few minutes, it will give you some holiday decision making clarity. 

By the end of this post you'll be able to start making holiday plans.

You would love to go on holiday and you would love that holiday to be vegan friendly. 

You’ve booked time off work and that holiday feeling (the one that has you running out to buy those cute travel sized bottles of shampoo) has set in and then you realise that you actually need to decide where to go, hmmm.

Half a packet of biscuits and a few hours of surfing the web later and you're left

wondering:

"How on earth do I choose a vegan friendly travel destination"?

A few years ago I was back in the UK, it was November and I'm not a lover of

the cold, or rain, or any kind of adverse weather conditions, at all. 

I  was staying with friends who had a charming wooden chalet that was literally, on top of a hill in the middle of a field, tucked into the deepest darkest depths of the British countryside, and I had no car. November in the UK can be, if I'm going to be honest, a bit bleak, it was time for a holiday.

I was feeling cold, somewhat uninspired and I wanted to experience; wonderful vegan food, sunshine,  a completely different culture, the adrenaline rush of doing some off road motorbike riding alongside the peacefulness of hiking in the mountains.

The next day I was on a plane to Marrakech, Morocco, sorted. I had a lovely trip,(I was still there three months later) and it fitted all the requirements I had at that time. After you have worked your way through the logistics of your holiday, what your budget is, how much time you have, whether to go abroad or stay closer to home, grab a pen and paper and fill in the blanks:

I'm feeling  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

And I want to experience _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

Holidays provide a beautiful and often much needed break in routine, travel rewards you with the time and space for clarity of mind allowing you to reconnect with your values and sense of purpose, new experiences begin to make you feel nourished and memories made become stories shared down the line.

While I think about it, stories are the building blocks for cultural identity, change and growth but I won't rave on about that now as I appreciate you probably just want to sit on a beach sipping on an obviously vegan, possibly virgin margarita.

On my trip to Morocco I had an experience, (when to keep your underwear on and when to take it all off) which deserves a whole blog post to itself, but that heart stopping, hilarious moment is now a beautiful travel tale, a memory made and an important cultural lesson learnt that has been shared at many a dinner party.

Reality check; I must be honest here, I don't really go to dinner parties, I was referring more to the future Emma, the Emma that I believe will go to dinner parties looking elegant in a black dress with a slick and sophisticated hairstyle, in reality the story mentioned above has been told many times, in cheap and cheerful tapas bars in Spain, in coffee shops in Guatemala, at various airports throughout the world and at my mums house in the UK, I would not have been wearing  a black dress in any of these situations so please, feel free to invite me to a dinner party and I'll showcase the Morocco story.

After you have down the above exercise, you can start jotting down destinations that suit your present needs and requirements, shortly followed by the purchase of tiny travel sized bottles of shampoo, happy vegan adventure holidays!

Em x

OVER TO YOU                                                                                                 

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