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10 Places I LOVE Which Aren’t Even In The Lonely Planet!

I use the Lonely Planet Guide Booksquite a lot when I travel and I like them. Usually they are correct, mostly they are useful but sometimes they are horrendously wrong and ill-informed. As soon as they go to press they are out of date, as prices go up, bus timetables change, visa regulations change etc. Read more about 10 Places I LOVE Which Aren’t Even In The Lonely Planet![…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Walnut Bites in Shangri La, Yunnan Province, China

It seems a lifetime ago since I was backpacking in Shangri La, yet it was just over 6 months ago now when life to me to this amazing part of China. “Amazing” is an over used word, but I loved Shangri La, here are my 3 previous posts on it: 1. Things to see and Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Walnut Bites in Shangri La, Yunnan Province, China[…]

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Random Rant: How Apple Tried to Ruin Don’t Stop Living!!!

How Apple tried to ruin Don’t Stop Living by Jonny Blair. Random rant time again. OK so you’re thinking “what has this post got to do with travel?” but it has EVERYTHING to do with my travel lifestyle, and for that reason I’m happy to name and shame the WORST three companies  to deal with Read more about Random Rant: How Apple Tried to Ruin Don’t Stop Living!!![…]

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World Travellers: Ran Zilca, Author of Ride Of Your Life

A nice twist for you today in my latest World Travellers interview as I catch up with Ran Zilca, not just a traveller, but also an author, a scientist, an entrepreneur and a coach! Who are you?  Ran Zilca, author of Ride of Your Life – a Coast to Coast Guide to Inner Peace, and Chief Scientist at bLife, Inc. Where are Read more about World Travellers: Ran Zilca, Author of Ride Of Your Life[…]

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Thirsty Thursdays: Peach Wine in Xiaoqi, Jiangxi Province, China

Last week it was time for some peach wine, Chinese style. I found myself touring the Jiangxi Province in China and we arrived at an old style village called Xiaoqi. Itself, enough to hold my interest for its very name. How many cities in the world boast an X and a Q in its name? Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Peach Wine in Xiaoqi, Jiangxi Province, China[…]

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Working Wednesdays: Barman at an Oasis Concert at the BIC, England! D’You Know What I Mean?

What a dream Working Wednesdays when you find out you’re working at a rock gig of one of your favourite bands! It was 2008 when I finally got free entry to an Oasis gig as I was working on the bar there! Between 1996 and 2008 I had been to 13 Oasis gigs as a Read more about Working Wednesdays: Barman at an Oasis Concert at the BIC, England! D’You Know What I Mean?[…]

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Peru For Less! Gotta Love the Inca Trail…

  If you’ve followed me on my YouTube Channel, you’ll know how much I love to make random “on the road videos” (almost 5,000 travel videos since 2007!) well today I got reminiscing about the Inca Trail (I did it back in 2010) and came across a cool site in Peru/ South America. A bit Read more about Peru For Less! Gotta Love the Inca Trail…[…]

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Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Luggage Storage

I often get asked how on earth I can keep travelling the world with big backpacks. The question is usually asked by those who haven’t travelled that much and so this post is for the benefit of you guys – to show you how easy it is to travel the world with a lot of Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Luggage Storage[…]

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World Travellers: Agness From eTramping

You’ve got to love connecting with other travellers and bloggers as everyone has their own story. Time for Polish girl Agness from eTramping (also run by Cez) to tell us all about how she escaped the town of Zagan to travel the world…but with one slight twist before we read her story… So I was backpacking in Read more about World Travellers: Agness From eTramping[…]

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Monday’s Money Saving Tips: DON’T Buy Things in Bulk

Right – here’s a scenario for you to think about today and just maybe you will agree with me, or maybe not but here goes… OK so you want to buy two bananas (for example) and you head to a supermarket. You pick up your two bananas and the cost of them will be 50 Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: DON’T Buy Things in Bulk[…]