GEORGIA MAY

The Traveller

sunburnt to sun-kissed
cheap coffee
empty hotel corridors
4 am airport burgers and beers
where time doesn’t exist
repetitive buffets
danger and boredom
talking in broken languages
google translate
bitten and burnt 
back ache from rucksacks
muscles numb from sitting down too long
late night trains and early morning flights
being delayed, being rushed
paying for everything in notes you don’t understand
jangling with foreign change
vending machines
snacking on the go 
street food
living on a budget
lonely, vibrant, expensive 
neck stretches after sleeping on planes
telling secrets to strangers and one-hour friendships
snatches of sleep
head rattling on coach windows
waiting, running, living
dirty tap water
no roots
sunrise
sunset
new horizons
eyes stinging from dust and incense
turmeric stained hands
farmers markers
quartzy ocean waves
handmade wristbands, never asked for
two euros
sunbaked houses
cracked clay pavements
cigarettes on the balcony
palaces, people, places
photo bombing tourists
audio description
hard seltzer
clementine trees
berry picky
safari hunting
surfing
skiing
flying
one night stands and lifetime pen pals
palm trees
balmy nights
interrailing
drinking from coconuts
dirty clothes, cold showers
running out of battery
passport checks
holiday blues
throwback thursdays
living on the wind
never home
home everywhere

Georgia May is a Portsmouth-based film journalist with a handful of poetry publications, both in print and online. Several of her scripts and experimental short films have also been Officially Selected by over a dozen film festivals around the globe.