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…
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…
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…
Over the years I’ve done a number of voluntary placements in different countries around the world. Some have been organised in advance, such as working…
My attendance at a geisha tea ceremony wasn’t something I really planned. During my visit to Japan I serendipitously happened to be in Kyoto during…
It had already been a stressful day. We were in the south of Laos, sitting in the boiling heat at the side of the road…
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…
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…
When you’re travelling long-term it’s inevitable that you’re going to have a few bumps and scrapes, along the way. Plans don’t always run smoothly, things…
As a journalist I’m used to being the one asking the questions and staying out of the limelight. So it came as a bit of…