Are you a budget backpacker?
I’ve been travelling for a while now and I have gotten pretty good at spotting the signs – tattered trousers, expert haggling skills and the ability to walk pretty much anywhere – a budget backpacker...
View ArticleTaking A Break To Save The World
Summer is approaching. Classes are ending, the final semester beckons. Have you given thought about what the heck your going to do with yourself during a three month break? No doubt some of you will...
View ArticleWhy do I travel?
Yesterday a good friend of mine said something to me which got me thinking… ‘I get what you do and I respect it but why do you travel, what’s the actual reason that keeps you on the road with no desire...
View Article10 Reasons Everybody Should Travel
Everybody should travel. You, your friends, your family, your colleagues, your grandmother – it is never too late to hit the road on a life-changing adventure. Many people are scared that they are not...
View ArticleHow Volunteering Abroad Changed My Life
I was 19. Fresh out of school, not really sure what to do with myself. I wanted to join the Marines, It was my life’s ambition. I figured I would take a year out, travel the world, have a gap year...
View ArticleHow to Become a Blogger (and why I love my job!)
Every week, I get dozens of emails from friends, acquaintances, stalkers and newbie travel writers…. “Your job looks awesome, how the hell did you become a professional travel blogger?” It’s an easy...
View ArticleA New Adventure: UK to PNG
Papua New Guinea…. A land of head-hunting tribes, WWII battlefields, stunning islands, steaming jungles and mysterious peaks. This is one of the most remote countries in the world. I have wanted to go...
View ArticleHitting The Road Alone…
The year is hurtling to an end, Christmas beckons with outstretched hands, and I shall be found, once again, in foreign lands as the first frost of Winter creeps across England. It has been one hell of...
View ArticleLove, Loss and Change on the Road
She came at me again, yelling and screaming and spitting like a wild animal. I grabbed at her wrists, intent on stopping her before she could lash out. All of this, over a packet of cigarettes? She...
View ArticleTop Adventurers to Follow in 2016
The year has hurtled to an end, bumping and grinding, spinning and whirling, spitting me out, dazed and excited, upon the flip-side of 2015. When I look back upon the year just gone, it has been a...
View Article7 Things Nobody Tells You About Backpacking
I bought my first plane ticket for a solo trip to Africa when I was 18. I had decided to climb Kilimanjaro, pretty much on a whim and with the vague hope of impressing girls, and was looking forward to...
View ArticleThe Power of Positivity
I lurched up the stairs, the floor rushing to meet me with reckless abandon. It occurred to me that I may be a tad intoxicated. I span on one foot, dancing to a tune only I could hear, a madman...
View ArticleIs It Still Worth Volunteering Abroad?
Recorded voluntourism dates back to the christian missionaries and Saints who were driven by a spiritual calling to venture out into the (often very hostile) world to feed and wash the poor. But is it...
View ArticleKick Ass Female Adventure Bloggers to Follow in 2016!
It’s a man’s world right? Well no, not quite… Marco Polo, Michael Palin and Will Hatton (!!) are all globetrotting vagabonds whose world straddling escapades have rightly passed into legend. But what...
View ArticleTop Twelve Snapchat Stars On The Rise…
Snapchat stars are on the rise, ah how the times have changed… When I first installed Snapchat onto my phone two or so years ago, it’s uses were limited to exchanging naked pictures with girls I was...
View ArticleFrequently Asked Questions
How many countries have you been to? Aw man, to be honest, I’ve kind of lost count – I’ve been to 70 plus countries I think and have plans to visit many more. Saying that, I’m not into chasing passport...
View ArticleTravel Bibles in A Digital Age
Exploring the world is a fantastically fun, dizzying and intoxicating experience. When you hit the road you encounter mystery, wonder and awe at each turn. Much of the joy of travelling is the chance...
View ArticleTop Snapchat Tips from Snapchat Gurus
Snapchat is changing social media forever. Snapchat has matured from a simple sexting app into the world’s leading vertical video platform and there are now plenty of weird and wonderful people making...
View ArticleHitting The Road Alone…
The year is hurtling to an end, Christmas beckons with outstretched hands, and I shall be found, once again, in foreign lands as the first frost of Winter creeps across England. It has been one hell of...
View ArticleThe 10 Cheapest Places to go Backpacking…
Did you know it’s possible to travel on as little as $10 a day in some parts of the world? Well, if you get creative with your travel destinations, it most certainly is. Most people know that India and...
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