Pommie Travels

About

Pom- (also Pommie, Pommy) n Austral. & NZ slang offens. A British Person esp. a recent immigrant.

There are several theories as to where the word Pommie comes from. Many people think it comes from the acronym POHM- Prisoner Of Her Majesty- which was apparently emblazoned on the back of immigrants unifroms when they arrived. But actually it is more likely that it was an abbreviation of the word pomegranate and referred to the flush complexion of Brits (like a pomegranate’s flesh) or it was chosen as rhyming slang with immigrant.

My name is Victoria Brewood and I am a 20 something Pommie from Manchester which is unfortunate since I don’t like the cold or the rain!   When I’m travelling I mostly get “So you support Manchester United!!” Well actually I don’t watch football but I say I do to please people anyway. Thanks to my mother I went to some pretty cool countries as a child and I had always thought to myself “imagine if I could just stay and not go home.” I’ve always wanted to escape the mundaneness of home but I hadn’t always thought about travelling, yet alone backpacking by myself.

I finished my degree in Broadcast Journalism in 2008 not knowing what to do next and realised that what I wanted to do was be happy, enjoy myself and see and do everything in the world. Oh and most importantly always be warm. I worked so I could go on one big 2-and-a-half month trip by myself around Australia but on coming home I realised I was never going to get travelling “out of my system”.  I can’t sit at home working when I know there’s a world out there to explore. And for all those people who think it’s not possible to work and travel and do all the things you want, it is possible. Just book the ticket, take the ride and worry about the rest later.

So now I’ve sold all my stuff, I’m packing my bags and I’m on a one-way ticket to Indonesia and I’ll be residing in Bali for at least the next few months. Except this time I’m not by myself, I’m with a stupid American named Steve. After that who knows…i have no plans just a plan to travel. This is no round-the-world-in-a-year trip, I’m on a one-way ticket out of here, and I hope to travel, work and sustain a life away from home.

I’ll be blogging about it here!

Some factoids about me:

I speak a little French- Je parle un petit peu de francais.

I have travelled to Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore,  Tunisia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Portugal and the Dominican Republic.

I am terribly afraid of house spiders.

Mosquitoes don’t bite me- ever

I’ve eaten snails and kangaroo. Snails-bad. Kangaroo-good.

My favourite city is Paris

I sleep like a baby on transport.

I love road trips.

I don’t burn and I love the heat- the hotter the better.

Beer + Tropical Beach= my idea of heaven

This year alone I have taken 13 flights- flight to Indonesia will be my 14th.

Favourite place to get wasted- Lagos, Portugal

I would like to run a hostel

My favourite drink is Jager

I get terrible hangovers

I am a wee 5′1″ in height