On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
“Take me back to the town where I was born, because I’m tired of being a stranger and I’m miles from home. We can hide by a lonely windowpane. We can walk the streets of my life while they still remain.” – Noel Gallagher. We have all had a ridiculously crazy journey on this planet. When we were Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: The Street I Grew Up on, 35 Years Later[…]
While some enjoy visiting tropical locations with resorts or urban centres filled with malls and other tourist attractions, the diehards will always love backpacking across vast expanses, parks, and other more rural areas. Canada is a massive country and as such is loaded with experiences just like this thanks to its natural beauty and largely Read more about FlightHub’s Best Canadian Destinations For Backpackers[…]
A long overdue article on here today and one I have been buzzing about for a brace of years – Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem, Israel. One thing shocked me when I was in Israel – the food! It’s amazing, it’s healthy, it’s nutritious, it’s plentiful and it’s diverse. Which is completely the opposite from I Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Shabbat Dinner in Jerusalem, Israel[…]
Earlier in the year, I lost my travel photos for about the fourth or fifth time as well as 47 chapters of a book I’ve been working on. Did I back up my data? Yes I did, the back up ideas all failed (hard drive had broke, laptop was beyond repair, dropbox was full) and Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Problems: Losing Data, Backing up Data[…]
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[…]
If you’ve followed the blog from the early days, you’ll know I covered my job history on here as I did it, especially the farming and bar work. Yet the Working Wednesdays feature still has at least 50 jobs I’ve done and not yet written about, so in an attempt to eventually get this blog Read more about Working Wednesdays: Being Part of a Focus Group in Northern Ireland[…]
The city of Gloucester sits proud and unknown to most backpackers that venture to England. A few things have put this city on the map and there is no longer a need to neglect it. I didn’t, so you shouldn’t either. Gloucester is the capital city of the county of Gloucestershire. I was actually in Read more about Backpacking in England: Top 5 Sights in Gloucester[…]
When you are backpacking in a country it is a cool idea, awesome in fact, to check out the top backpacking sights in some cities, towns or villages within that country. You will be totally inspired and you will love it. So if you are heading backpacking to country “x” (let’s called it Underbaijan, Countryonia, Read more about Backpacking in a Country: Top 5 Sights in A City, Town or Village in That Country[…]
“You’re here. It’s a reality show” – Nik (Ten Coins Hostel, Sofia) Upon checking into the incredible Ten Coins Hostel in Sofia in Bulgaria a year ago this month, I was greeted by Nik the owner and invited to eat and drink with him. When I arrived he said to his wife and to myself, Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Your Life, It’s a Reality Show[…]
It’s been such a long and crazy journey since my time backpacking in Taiwan, yet week after week I remind myself and pinch myself that I was really there. I think visiting Taiwan was the turning point in my travels. It was 2009 and though I’d been to China, Russia and Belarus before, it felt Read more about Backpacking in Taiwan: Top 5 Sights in Anping[…]