On Tuesdays, Don’t Stop Living highlights the top travel essentials as you backpack round the globe!
If you have followed my journey the last 10 years on here, you will know that I love to be the tourist, every day of my life. I am a very spontaneous tourist who ventures anywhere and everywhere I can. “If it exists as a place, I’ll go there” – Jonny Blair. I am a Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Using Lonely Planet Guides on Your Travels[…]
You might have read that around 2 years ago, I visited a dentist in Hong Kong and had a few problems with my teeth. Well this month was dentist time again for me as I visited the dentist twice in the space of a week in my hometown of Bangor, Northern Ireland. I went to the Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Taking The #CB12testdays Challenge with my New Mouthwash – CB12![…]
Down the years of backpacking, people always ask me about travel insurance and though I’ve had some serious issues with insurance companies, it pains me to say that we need insurance, as I did on my times backpacking in Afghanistan and Antarctica. But with so many companies out there, so many different figures brandished around, Read more about Top 5 Reasons For Getting Travel Insurance When Backpacking[…]
As I whackpacked my way through the Stan countries and India the last 4-5 months, there were some real challenging moments as an online worker. It was infuriating, I’ll be honest. I tore my hair out and yelled at people and I cursed at my computer and the sh*t internet day on day. Yes, initially Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Using Slick VPN to Access The Internet Abroad[…]
On my journeys down the years I have backpacked through more places than I can remember. While I keep an actual list of all those towns, cities and villages, I know there are those that I will forget until I check that list again. Some people start off as backpackers and then become suitcase travellers. With Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Introducing My New Rucksack – An Osprey Aether 70[…]
This post was posted by The Hipmunk on Hipmunk’s Tailwind blog on 10th October 2015. It’s an age-old traveler’s dilemma: How do you to keep clothes clean while traveling around the world? Clean clothes may be easy to maintain if you’re visiting popular U.S. tourist destinations like Disney World or Washington, D.C., but laundry can be considerably less accessible (or Read more about How to Keep Clothes Clean While Traveling Abroad[…]
I’ve been travelling for years on end, it seems like a crazy dream of a life. I sleep in about 230 different beds/floors/seats every year. I never have a set home, but yet I managed to survive money wise through the jobs I’ve had along the way, and thankfully now through my blogs, websites, app Read more about Why It’s Important to Travel With Cash and Cards When You Travel[…]
On my journeys down the years I have slept in more places than I can remember. Though one day, I will try to remember them all (through photos it will help) and make a list of all the places I have slept or stayed on my journeys. I’d had the same sleeping bag for the Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: My New Sleeping Bag – Snugpak by Chrysalis[…]