In the early days of dating my now husband, I had a trip booked with a friend to travel through India for a month.  Still in the love-bird stage, this month was going to feel like forever!

Being a traveler himself, my before-I-knew-it husband had a few travel songs that he always listened to on the road.  He insisted I put them on my iPod, and they soon enough became my favourite travel songs too.  These songs were prefect for ‘living the dream’.

Fast forward 6 years later and we’re packing our bags for another adventure together; this time with our two kids in tow.

We live in France now, and have been here long enough that the French pop music I hear on the radio has grown on me.  My husband knows this, along with my love for cheesy 80’s music, so as I’m packing he announces that he’s got a new travel song for me.

As the synthesizer chimes in, I can’t help laugh as this 80’s French pop tune about traveling takes over our house.

The song has become our family travel anthem without meaning too.  It’s a joke that got carried away.  All it took was a few times of it appearing out of the blue for a laugh while packing, or as we’re road tripping.  Now when we’re prepping for a holiday our kids have caught onto our little joke. “Put on Voyage, Voyage!” our older daughter chirps as they both bounce from suitcase to suitcase,  unpacking each item that I have put into the luggage, while they climb in and see if they can fit.

I’m not gonna lie; when they ask, I put it on every. single. time.  Not just because they want to hear it; but like Pavlov’s dog, I’ve had classical conditioning to love this song because it now gets me excited to be traveling.

Have a listen.  Give it at least until the chorus, and once you get past judging me for loving such a weird song, try to tell me it’s not catchy.  If it helps, you can picture me doing embarrassing killer dance moves to this song, as I throw half the contents of our house into the open suitcases that surround me.

And here’s the remix.  I like it better….but now that I saw the video, maybe not so much.  I think I’ll just stick to the audio version….although she does have great hair. 😉

So?  What do you think?  How about you?  What song is your “Voyage, Voyage?”