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This week I’ve been chatting to Nicole from Suitcase Stories who, along with her partner Michael, gave up her career, sold her possessions and left…
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“In Soweto we are trendsetters. People watch us and they follow what we do,” our guide Tanbo told us before we headed out on a…
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One of the things I’ve always thought was quite unfair, considering how much I love travelling, is that I get incredibly bad motion sickness on…
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You know those never-ending journeys when you were kids? The ones that went on and on and were only punctuated by the eternal question: “Are…
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I never really thought of myself as a control freak. I always considered myself to be quite a laidback, go-with-the-flow, kind of traveller. (I can…
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It’s Friday and time for another edition of It Could Only Happen To Me – the weekly series where I feature those travel mishaps which…
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It feels like I’ve been talking about it for ages but I am so excited to finally be able to announce the plans for our…
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Featuring on this week’s If We Can Do It are Jake and Em. Jake works in the construction industry and Em is an ESL (English…
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Is it just me or does anyone else become way more patriotic when they’re travelling? At home I never really consider the fact that I’m…
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I got thinking about this post after reading something a fellow traveller had written on Facebook about being laughed at by locals. Although this is…