Why Are We Addicted To Travel?

Here at BBM we are addicted to travel and so are our writers. Scouring every corner of the globe, we ask all our contributors hailing from the UK to remember the first time they realised they were addicted to travel and why they’re addicted to travelling the world. You can find out more about their adventures in our Travel Ideas section as they carry on their quest to keep finding the most inspiring tours and adventures throughout the world.

“I realized I was hooked on travel when, as a teenager, I took off on a three week holiday to Bali and flew back to London 4 months later with 20p to my name… which I used to text my parents for a lift from the airport. Traveling makes me feel rich in an entirely different and much more satisfying way.”
Alex Saint

“I was terrified by the comfort of our modern lives. Oblivious to the obvious certainty that our belongings are shackles that tie us down. Tied to electricity bills, credit cards, monthly Internet bills so we can Google picturesque islands and go their for a week a year at a push. Travelling for me is exhilarating. It’s inhabiting a world with no foreseeable horizons; you don’t know where you’ll be a month, a week, a day from now. You meet people with the same, youthful, direction and perspective.” Michael Fenn

“Why am I addicted to traveling? Because the career, mortgage and 2.4 children can wait until you have seen some of what the rest of the world can offer. Like lying on Coogee Beach without a care in the world.”
Omar Soliman

“I realized I was addicted to travel whilst on top of a mountain in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Colombia. What I love about travelling is that it gives you the chance to live rather than to just exist. It’s an education that opens doors, presents challenges and forces you to learn what matters to you. It scares, intrigues but most of all makes you jump around just like when you were five and every new day was the best thing ever.”
Amy Baker

“The World is your oyster. You only live once. These two simple phrases stick with many people, and yes things are easier said than done, but we are put on this planet to explore, question, taste, smell and live other cultures. Whilst I have never undertaken a gap year, I have been fortunate enough in my work to travel from Abu Dhabi to New York, South Korea to now Australia. You don’t even have to travel overseas to broaden your knowledge and appreciation of the simple things in life.”
Ash Leszczuk

“My love of traveling began the moment I climbed into the battered camper van my parents had just bought and we took off around Europe for a summer when I was twelve. Travelling means not knowing what or who is over the next horizon. It means endless possibilities and freedom. That’s why I love it.”
Matthew Richards    

“Travelling goes from being an escape, to being inescapable. It’s addictive because it means always finding the good bits of every new place- and getting better and better at doing so each time. Currently, I don’t really know how to stop, bring it on, world.”
Lillie Almond