GirlGI | Girl Gone International GirlGI Issue 3 | Page 21

Confessions of a girl gone world wild Michelle Lim of mishlovinlife.com ‘fesses up! My boyfriend Verner and I decided to quit our jobs and sell everything we owned in order to travel the world. After 5 months of saving and selling we managed to accrue $26,000 and whittle all of our possessions down to just a suitcase each – and then we were off! 1. We only climbed to the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower. 2. I ate ‘special’ brownies in Amsterdam and didn’t feel a damn thing. 3. We attempted the Cinque Terre hike in Italy and got completely lost. 4. The one and only time I got food poisoning in all of my ‘exotic travels’ was when I was in Koh Samui, Thailand. At an Australian bar. After eating a cheese omelet. Cinque Terre, Italy