Leaving tomorrow, I need advice / Is familty discouraging me justified?
TL;DR: I am leaving tomorrow to travel around Europe, and I need advice. And is my family justified for disouraging me from travelling?
I'm a [21M] Belgian college student taking a gap year to travel around Europe. Mostly Central Europe, south-east and the baltics. I'm leaving tomorrow wednesday from Belgium to Dresden. The bus is leaving at 10:15am.
I have already prepared everything that I need. I have a 50l backpack, and the stuff that I have are:
- one liter cooking pot
- Mini sleeping bag that can hande 7 degrees celsius
- two person tent
- Water filter
- Lots of clothes that are packed in a packing cube
- Socks and underwear
- Toilet kit
- Magnesium fire starter, and a lighter
- 3 in one armband with a magnesium firestarter, compass and a whistle
- Paracord
- Map of Europe
- Travel insurance
- Mastercard with various amounts of money
- Cash
- Belgian ID card
- Belgian passport and a Russian (international/domestic) passport
- Blood type card
- Rain gear
- Medic kit
- Binoculars
- Pocket towel
- Multitool
- Two pens and a pencil
- Notebook
- A math book and an SAS survival book
- Tape
- Power bank
- E-reader
-My phone with earbuds
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That was my list.
I have already vaccinated myself against Hepatitis A and Typoid.
My college told me that I don't have to resign, and that I'm free to travel around.
I have in total around 650 euros. I am planning to do couchsurfing, workayay.info and sleep at camping sites or hostels and AirBnb. Or ask restaurants for rests of food they don't need. Regarding water, I am planning to filter the water with a water filter. Am I going to be able to get around this way?
I'm from a very religious conservative Russian family. I don't have much freedom at all. They won't let me go solo travel. No matter what I do, they won't let me go. They want me to keep studying, even though I can't concentrate on my studies, and don't have a clear goal yet in life. They don't give me free time to decide what to do. I am already suffering from severe depression and other health problems. I need to do something before I regret this later in life.
I am leaving without informing my family. If I did, they would stop me. But I'm leaving a note telling them that I'm going, and I'm going to send an e-mail every week telling them that I'm fine.
My family discouraged me from travelling and other stuff. They tell me that I can become anything I want, but I have to do it withing their boundaries. But I have to do something about this before I become their slave for life. I feel like I haven't been able to a lot of stuff in life because my family is holding me back, especially with the travel part.
The places I'm planning to go are: Czech republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Italy, Monaco.
I am very stressed since I'm leaving at 6am, without them knowing that I'm going for several weeks. My heart is pounding really hard this entire day. If I stay home, I feel like I'm going to rot away. My health problems are going to get much worse.
Sorry for ranting, but I hope you guys could respond. I am leaving tomorrow, so can I ask you guys to respond please? I know that you might be busy, but I really need your help. I would really appreciate it. Thank you!
Submitted May 01, 2019 at 09:02PM by UnnamedGrunt http://bit.ly/2WqxBFa
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