Barbados Today
From Ireland to Barbados – Yvonne’s Year on a Paradise Island
Article by Natasha King
To say that Yvonne Campbell loves to travel and explore the world would be an understatement. She picked up her affinity for wanderlust during her university years and in her early 20’s Yvonne decided that long term travelling would be a part of her life going forward. At that point she had never travelled on her own but that all changed one day when she looked for the cheapest flight she could find and made her way to Montego Bay, Jamaica for three weeks. “It was a defining moment for me because it kind of gave me the attitude that if I could get through that I could get through anything, and not because it was a bad experience but it was certainly challenging travelling on my own as a woman and there were many cultural differences and even though I had lived in London which is very multicultural…..a culture within a context is very different to what you experience in people’s own homeland. So that was quite a challenge, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and came away from it thinking yes I’m ready for anything.”