Hey! Welcome to this blog introduction post. My name is Sander. I’m a 19-year-old Belgian university student and I have a dream. I want to travel the world. In order to do this, I’m planning on getting some solo travel experiences first. My goal is to take a year off after getting my Master’s degree to travel the world, so from now until then, I’ll be visiting as many places as possible on my own, starting with Dublin in February 2017. (UPDATE: I went to Dublin and it was amazing!)

Blog title

I’m actually quite proud of this blog’s name, Ars Currendi. It’s Latin for the art of travelling (at least, I think it is). I think it sounds quite sophisticated and impressive, which is pretty much what I was going for. If, somewhere down the line, I realise that Ars Currendi isn’t actually a correct translation of ‘the art of travelling’, I will cry and probably delete this blog out of pure humiliation.

Anyway. In this post, I will be talking a little bit about why I started this blog and how the idea of it evolved in my brain. After a three-day road trip in the south of England with my dad, I realised I actually like travelling A LOT. I started casually looking at some travel blogs and YouTube channels, and I quickly found myself hooked to them. I loved looking up information about travelling and I started focusing more on one specific aspect of travel: solo travel. Keep in mind, I have never been anywhere abroad all by myself. I decided that I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and I booked a flight to Dublin. And then it started hitting me. I would be alone in an unknown city for five days.

I am incredibly excited. There’s so much I want to do there, but I’ll tell you about that in another post. The point is, I went with my gut feeling and I’ll soon find out whether I made the best or the worst decision of my life. Either way, it’ll be a mind-changing experience and I couldn’t be more excited.

The best is yet to come

After browsing the Internet some more, I found out about the digital nomad lifestyle. I looked into it quite a bit and decided to start up a blog. My travelling experiences might turn out to be no more than a once-a-year thing. On the other hand, they might become what my life revolves around. There’s only one way to find out!

The one thing I’m most looking forward to during my time alone will be discovering myself. I’ve often heard people say “When you’re travelling alone, you find out who you really are along the way” or things like that. I’m sure everyone knows what I’m talking about. Well, I want to figure out if that’s true, and if it is, I want to get to know everything there is to know about myself.

Anyway, this is where I leave you. Thank you for reading my blog introduction post. The next post on this blog will be something along the lines of why I chose Dublin for my first solo trip. If not, you should soon be able to read about my adventures there.

Thanks for reading!

-S