It is wonderful to be able to feature a second travel highlight from Alison Galilian. Thank you for taking part Alison and best of luck in the competition.
There are just 3 weeks left to enter your 50-100 words in the 2017 Travel Highlights Competition. For more details go to the Competitions page. There are great cash prizes to be won and the opportunity to be included in the 2018 Edition of Travel Stories and Highlights.
There are just 3 weeks left to enter your 50-100 words in the 2017 Travel Highlights Competition. For more details go to the Competitions page. There are great cash prizes to be won and the opportunity to be included in the 2018 Edition of Travel Stories and Highlights.
Maybe Tomorrow…
Life was easy in the tiny Indian village. I couldn't bring myself to leave. ‘Where next?’ the locals often asked me? 'Pakistan’, I'd reply. 'When?’ they'd ask. 'Maybe tomorrow’, I'd say. Then one day I stood under bending palms waiting for a bus to take me on the next leg of my journey. The bus was crowded. Sweating bodies packed like sardines. I squeezed inside. The conductor insisted I take the spare seat. Spare seat? Where? I don't think so! He insisted. I found it at the front and sat down next to my future husband. I never got to Pakistan.
Life was easy in the tiny Indian village. I couldn't bring myself to leave. ‘Where next?’ the locals often asked me? 'Pakistan’, I'd reply. 'When?’ they'd ask. 'Maybe tomorrow’, I'd say. Then one day I stood under bending palms waiting for a bus to take me on the next leg of my journey. The bus was crowded. Sweating bodies packed like sardines. I squeezed inside. The conductor insisted I take the spare seat. Spare seat? Where? I don't think so! He insisted. I found it at the front and sat down next to my future husband. I never got to Pakistan.
| Alison Galilian I was born and brought up in Scotland, but left in my early twenties. I've worked and travelled in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Poland, Israel, Egypt, most of Asia, Australia and Africa. I returned to Israel in 1998 where I took up a post as Senior Teacher at the British Council in Tel Aviv - with occasional stints at the British Council in Egypt. I love travel - the more adventurous the better! Since the birth of my daughter in 2008, I have had to settle down and become an armchair traveller instead! I currently live in rural Northumberland with my husband, daughter and two rescue cats. |  |
