If We Can Do It, So Can You with Suitcase Stories

If We Can Do It, So Can You with Suitcase Stories

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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A tour of Soweto - The first stop on our South African roadtrip

A tour of Soweto – The first stop on our South African roadtrip

“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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It Could Only Happen To Me - Seasickness during a surf lesson in Peru

It Could Only Happen To Me – Seasickness during a surf lesson in Peru

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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It Could Only Happen To Me - The Never Ending Journey in China

It Could Only Happen To Me – The Never Ending Journey in China

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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Standing in the way of control

Standing in the way of control

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 Could Only Happen To Me - An unusual gift in China

It Could Only Happen To Me – An unusual gift in China

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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Our South Africa roadtrip plans

Our South Africa roadtrip plans

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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If We Can Do It, So Can You - Featuring Em and Jake from Our Asian Stomping Ground

If We Can Do It, So Can You – Featuring Em and Jake from Our Asian Stomping Ground

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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Happy St David's Day

Happy St David’s Day

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 smile because I am different

I smile because I am different

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…

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