On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
This week on Monday’s Money Saving Tips I’m looking at avoiding contracts for flats. I simply hate them. I refuse to pay them and I totally refuse to pay deposits – completely outrageous. I detest deposits (dead money) with a passion. Imagine paying two weeks rent for a place before you have even moved in! Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Avoid Contracts for Flats[…]
It’s almost three years since I went backpacking in Antarctica, and though I’ve written about 40 articles about it already, I haven’t yet done an actual “Top 5”. The main reason for this will be that I tend to write about each part separately, but also that every moment of the trip was a highlight Read more about Backpacking in Antarctica🇦🇶: My Top 5 Moments![…]
In the latest in my series of World Travellers I catch up with another couple. Married for almost 40 years, running a marvellous website and travelling the world! Meet Billie and Steve from Santa Fe Travelers! Who are you? We are Billie Frank and Steve Collins and together we’re the Santa Fe Travelers. Billie is Read more about World Travellers: Billie Frank and Steve Collins from Santa Fe Travelers[…]
You might have read how I like to travel light, and while it’s true with certain things (toiletries for example), I don’t always travel light in regards to other travel traits. Football shirts are one – I carry a few with me to represent the teams I support and just because I love football! However, Read more about Travel Collectables: Random T-Shirts as Memories of the Places I’ve Been[…]
Friday’s featured food today comes from Yangshuo in China’s Guangxi Province. Despite visiting France countless times I never once tried snails. Or l’escargots as they are known in France. So when I heard that Guilin and Yangshuo have their own speciality dish of pan fried snails I had to try them. If you have followed Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Pan Fried Snails🐌In Yangshuo, Guangxi Province, China🇨🇳[…]
Another of those “you had to be there” travel stories and this time it comes from Iceland. That magnificent island country that most backpackers in Europe forget about as they’re too busy inter-railing round the mainland. We had booked onto a Golden Circle tour. I was with about 6 or 7 travel buddies and after Read more about The Day I…Wore Pink🩷Ladies Pants👙to the Blue🔵Lagoon🏞️in Iceland🇮🇸[…]
Today’s Thirsty Thursdays comes from South Africa. I backpacked down to Durban from Johannesburg in 2011 and stayed in the Happy Hippo Hostel. I met a cool Scottish dude in there called Macc. I was travelling with Grace, a lovely English lady from County Durham and we ended up in Durban (Durham to Durban!). After Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Three Monkeys🙈🙉🙊Bar in Durban, South Africa🇿🇦[…]
The latest in my series of world travellers is with Charli and Ben who run the adventure travel blog Wanderlusters. Over to you guys… Who are you? We are Charli and Ben, and we run a niche adventure travel blog. We’re perpetual travellers and use house sitting and road tripping as a low cost way of Read more about World Travellers: Charli and Ben From Wanderlusters[…]
Today’s working Wednesdays takes me back to the seaside town of Bournemouth in England. It’s a town I spent about 5-6 years in or around. I had a lot of different jobs there, some of which I have already written about (selling ice cream, barman in a hotel). Bournemouth was a really decent base for Read more about Working Wednesdays: Serving Tea and Coffee at Ballroom Dances in Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre, England[…]
“oooh Jonny come lately, the new kid in town, will they still love you when you’re not around?” and “Even your old friends treat you like you’re someone new”. You probably didn’t need that Eagles lyric to tell you that today’s Tuesday’s Travel Essentials is about making new friends…”I get by with a little help Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Making New Friends[…]