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…
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…
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…
There are countless reasons why 2012 was such a great year for me. Here’s 30 of them: You can find out more about my 30b430…
When the table first started to shake at my hostel in Huacachina it took a second for me to process what was going on. At…
I love this suggestion from my friend Ruth. When you’re on the road for a long time you have the tendency to forget about the…
So the South American part of my adventure has come to an end. On one hand it feels like a lifetime ago that I was…
It was shortly after discovering the Inca Trail was 26 miles that I began to panic. Following my last disastrous attempt to cover that distance…