First off, shout out to my friend and travel buddy Maria for buying me my scratch map!
The first time I heard about a scratch map was on my trip to Toronto last October, and from then, I knew I had to get my hands on one. This was way before I had started my travel blog and it was around that time that I decided to make this year my year of travelling, which I have since decided to extend indefinitely lol (too many countries and so little time).
Welcome to the first entry of the Black Girl Travel Diaries.
I’m starting this series of blog posts to share my experiences of travelling as a black woman. So it’s going to be all about race and gender and how I feel that affect my travels to different countries, both positively and negatively.
14th February, Valentine’s Day. The day of love in which people profess their love, or just another commercialised holiday, depending on how you want to look at it.
This year, I spent Valentine’s Day in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. I thought I’d share a funny story of how I nearly (nearly being a bit of a stretch) found love in Kota Kinabalu.
When I told my friends and family that I was going to Gran Canaria, a lot of their responses was “where is that?”. Gran Canaria is a Spanish Island off the coast of Morocco and is a part of the Canary Islands.
Picture beautiful blue skies, a white sandy beach, sparkling blue green seas and a vibrant green forest with monkeys swinging from tree to tree. This is what greeted me when we arrived at Sapi Island in Malaysia. I’m actually jealous of myself right now lol, I wish I was still there rather than here writing this blog post in a very windy and rainy London.
 