Hey! I thought it would be fun to take you through some travel pictures of my adventurous past. All of these are from holiday trips I took with my family (parents and sister). I hope you enjoy these and maybe get a good laugh out of them!
I’ll make one big distinction. The first big category will contain some funny pictures from summer trips (mostly sunny countries like France and Spain). The second category will include travel pictures from – you guessed it – winter trips. This is limited to skiing trips, because that’s generally the only type of travel we do during the winter. I’m not complaining, though.
Summer Pictures
Me looking like I’ve had it with life during a gas station pit stop on our way to a nice family summer vacation in Saint-Matré [2004]
The start of my alcoholic career. Sipping on my mom’s sangria and thinking I’m drunk in Sevilla [2005]
Once more, me having had it with life in my dad’s arms in the centre of the shopping district of Madrid [2010]
Casually looking as if I had smoked weed (which I obviously hadn’t) while being sunburnt at the airport of Porto [2014]
This is probably one of my favourite pictures of myself. Even though my arms look like skinny straws and my face looks like I’m dropping a massive deuce, my hair was on point and this picture brings back good memories of Amsterdam [2015]
Winter Pictures
Yet another time, I look like I’m about to give up on living life. Somehow I manage to combine looking like this with a joyous activity like making snow angels. Kronplatz (Italy) [2005]
You see where I’m going with this. Somehow, I had decided I was so done with it all that I just kind of put my head in the snow. I probably did this to get a funny travel picture, though. Obergurgl (Austria) [2012]
Somewhere in the 2015-2016 area, I decided to stop looking terrible (yet hilarious) when pictures were taken. This one in particular is a cheeky selfie in a pair of ski goggles while I was waiting for my lunch. Kronplatz (Italy) [2016]
This is the only travel picture I’ll include that doesn’t have my beauty of a face on it. This was what it looked like from the ski lift on our third day here. There was heavy rain, snow and hail and you basically couldn’t see anything. It was pretty terrifying. Kronplatz (Italy) [2016]
Finishing thoughts
As you can probably tell by the older pictures (basically anything from before 2009), I didn’t used to be so keen on being photographed. However, now, I absolutely love having the opportunity to look back at something that happened years ago and still remember how it made me feel at the time, just because of one photograph. These trips with my family will be things I’ll always cherish and I’m very thankful to my parents for taking me (and my sister) with them on holiday.
I recently purchased a GoPro Hero 5 Session and as far as I’ve used it – which is basically only shooting short fragments of no more than one minute at home – I love it. So I think that I’ll resort more to travel videos instead of travel photos. This won’t mean I’m not taking any more pictures, but I feel like I can convey a lot more in a video than I ever could in a couple of pictures. Anyway, we’ll see how that goes. (UPDATE 30 November 2018: I now love making travel videos more than I like taking pictures and I’ve made quite a few of them!)
Lastly, I apologize for this not being an incredibly long blog post. I felt like a collection of pictures didn’t really lend itself to me typing long paragraphs of text in between each one, so I decided to keep the gist of the talking for the end of the post. If there’s anything you’d like me to do differently, please tell me! It helps me make posts that better suit your needs 🙂
Do you have any funny or embarrassing travel photos? Be sure to let me know on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Thanks for reading!
-S
