I’ve been on the road for seven months now and feel like my skills as a traveller have improved considerably during that time. When I started out I was a little shy, nervous and always looking at a map. Now a more hardened traveller with a lot of experience under my belt, here are some … More Travel Tips to Enhance Your Trip
Iced coffee with condensed milk, freshly brewed in Vietnam. The random animals that are everywhere – dogs, cats, birds, geckos hanging out in restaurants, shops, massage parlours and on the streets. Service staff with impeccable manners and big smiles, even if they don’t understand that catching their eye means you want something. Fresh fruit juices … More These are a few of my favourite things… about Southeast Asia
At the end of May I have booked a flight to Thailand and I will be setting off to travel, beginning in Southeast Asia for five months or so. I’m excited and nervous, but most of all can’t wait to get out there and start seeing the world. However… It wasn’t supposed to be like … More When your travel plans fall through…
When you tell people you are going on a Round The World trip usual responses include: “I’m so jealous, I wish I could do that!” and “If only I could afford such a trip!”. People assume you’ve got masses of savings or your parents must be paying for it. The truth is, myself and my … More Long-term travel: how are we doing it?
When you have spent months and months saving up and planning for the trip of a lifetime, the few months before you actually leave can become rather daunting and uncomfortable. For so long our trip has been 18 months away, a year away, six months away – now all of a sudden it is only … More Pre-departure Jitters
Travelling Hippy 