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Updated: 30/01/24 Travelling solo on Valentine’s Day can be a weird feeling. In the past it was easy enough to ignore such events. But nowadays,…
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Updated: 07/09/23 If you’re wondering “so what is a grown-up gap year?” then you’ve come to the right place. Put simply, a grown-up gap year…
It has now been a year since I landed back at Heathrow and returned home to a London that was in love with the Olympics. …
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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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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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There’s nothing worse than being ill on the road. No matter how old you are when sickness strikes the first thing you want to do…
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When you move away from a place there is always going to be stuff you miss. Mostly it’s your friends and family, occasionally it’s your…
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One of the things I’ve noticed a lot on Twitter lately is people saying that they “don’t have enough time” or they’re “too busy”. Not…
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As I mentioned in a previous post one of the big differences I noticed about travelling on my 30b430 trip, compared to the ‘traditional’ gap…
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Setting a budget for my trip It’s all very well getting super-organised about your saving but how should you go about setting a budget for…