After fifteen years of travelling the world there are so many places that I genuinely love and even many that I would happily call home, but no region has ever affected me more than south east Asia. This diverse, enigmatic…
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How Can I Afford To Travel The World?
I get asked this a lot. There is often an assumption that you need to be rich to travel the world, or that you need to be of a certain background to be able to throw some things in a…
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Posted in Travel Talk
Is The United Airlines PR Debacle A Line In The Sand For Passenger Rights?
A video of a United Airlines passenger being dragged off flight 3411 against his will has gone viral and has left United Airlines with yet another PR disaster in an ever increasing line of them, but will this incident bring…
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Posted in Travel Talk
The Art Of Backpacking, Be Spontaneous.
Travelling spontaneously is an age old travel custom and a backpacking art that is slowly being lost in the age of pre booking apps and gap year itineraries. I want to put that spirit of adventure back into travel and…
Tagged with: backpacking, gap year, how to travel spontaneously, independent travel, travel slowly, travel spontaneously, travel without a plan
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Posted in Travel Talk
Making And Breaking Friendships When You Travel The World.
Travelling the world is a glorious adventure, and one where you will meet some of the most amazing, decent, crazy and sometimes downright mental people on the planet. But playing the game of social roulette and constant hellos and goodbyes…
Brexit Package Holiday Surcharge? Just Travel Independently Instead!
Some travel companies are starting to add surcharges to already paid for holidays because the pound has supposedly crashed since Brexit, and traditional holidaymakers are not happy. Is this right? Mark Warner Holidays are the latest company to invoke a…
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Posted in Travel Talk
Why United Airlines Basic Economy Tickets Worry Me.
United Airlines has just introduced a new basic economy ticket, which strips away the already bare bone ‘luxuries’ of economy class travel completely, including the use of the overhead bin. This is just another landmark in a worrying race to…
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