rachellcuthbert

5 places I’d love to visit

 

  1. The Golden temple of Amritsar

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It looks so beautiful and there is something so alluring about it, that I have wanted to see it for many years.

2. Yoyogi Park, Tokyo

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There are many parks in Tokyo, but Yoyogi Park on a Sunday is a different place altogether.  Families come together to picnic and play and live bands are permitted to play outdoors here.  I love walking through parks and I love live music (although I don’t like paying a lot of money to do so) and this is the perfect blend. I’d love to see it and experience it.

3. Venice Beach, Los Angeles

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I find this a strange one, as I don’t want to go to L.A.  I flew in and out of it on my way to New Zealand once and it just reminded me of how insignificant we all really are.  However, there is something about Venice Beach, the gym, the painted buildings, the fact it is featured in so many tv shows and films.  I would just really like to see it, it looks fascinating.

4. Monet’s garden, Giverny, France

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He is my favourite artist and France is my second favourite country closely beaten by New Zealand.  This garden is so beautiful and it looks so calming and peaceful, I would love to spend time looking around the gardens and taking it all in.

5. Machu Pichu, Peru

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This 15th Century dry stone citadel is situated remotely on the top of a mountain in the Andes.  No one really knows what it was intitially built for and I think it is that mystery and the almost impossible journey to get there is what really makes this a desirable place to visit.  Unless I become miraculously cured, however, it will only ever be a desire and a fantasy as I dont have the stamina, strength or energy to make this trip.

There you go, my 5 top places to visit, not necessarily in order and there are more Id love to see, but these came to me first when I started to think on the challenge.

Published by rachellcuthbert

I am a fat, forty something, fibromyalgia warrior who is a wife, a mother to 3 incredible teenagers/young adults and 2 dogs. After having my children, I trained for 6 years to become a midwife, which was a dream of mine. 5 years into my job, I was working on the community, holding clinics, visiting pregnant women and new mums at their homes as well as helping women give birth. Stress was always part of my life as we were a busy family and I didnt realise how much it was affecting my health, also the stress from fear of being sued whilst working as a midwife and the stress from trying to give women all the care they needed whilst being understaffed, therefore feeling failure regularly. I became ill, diagnosed with; Fibromyalgia, vertigo, depression, anxiety, tempero mandibular jaw dysfunction, hypermobility, oesophagitis, migraines, gastric ulcer, premature menopause as well as dermatillomania and trichotillomania. After battling to get disability benefits (even though it was impossible to function as a standard human, let alone work!), i was finally given a pittance. So, sat at home all day long, grieving about being taken away from a job that i had adored and worked so hard to achieve, staring at my increasingly messy and unclean house (couldnt stand for more than a minute, no strength to hold anything and exhausted and the slighted activity), watching mind numbing television, I decided to try to do something about it. I refused to accept that this was my life from now on and I definitely refused to accept that I was to receive such an insulting benefit after working most of my adult life (other than to have my beautiful babies), so I looked at ways I could make money, that suited my irregular hours, days etc of work ability, but that could also make enough to allow me to tell the benefit people what exactly they could do with the pennies i received. Initially, i taught myself to crochet and I am now able to make beautiful toys for babies, that are safe to use and beautiful to look at, but unfortunately, because of the pain i get in my fingers and wrists, it takes a long time to make and so was not suitable as a way of making money. Then I started to make jewellery again (I made and sold bits and bobs as a teenager) and found my passion in doing this and also, that I was good. My friend and I discussed my options and between us decided that we would both create handmade items to sell in an online boutique initially, then, if we were successful enough, a walk in boutique, with a big side room to hold workshops. And this is where we currently are working towards, I have high hopes and ambition for my future now and it is helping me with a lot of my illnesses and symptoms. I have found I am passionate about a lot of things, equality/feminism, environment, self sufficiency, herbalism, holistic health care and I want to share my research, ideas and achievements with you all. Hopefully, I will achieve my dreams, and I would also love it, if, I can help some of you too. Loves xx

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