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Making And Breaking Friendships When You Travel The World.

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Bemused Backpacker — 28 Comments

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. You can meet some amazing friends on your gap year, but you can grow distant from some old ones too, and even the new ones you meet can be in your life for years, a week or so or just one night. Playing the game of social roulette and constant hellos and goodbyes can sometimes be hard, and as a long term traveller you do have to be prepared for that.

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Posted in Travel Talk

The Importance Of An Exit Strategy On Your Gap Year.

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 16 Comments

Would you know what to do in a travel emergency? Or if something went horribly wrong on your gap year and you need to get out or go home in a hurry? If something terrible happens while you are travelling and you need to bail quickly, it is essential that you have an exit strategy that will get you out of that situation and to a place of safety as quickly as possible. Here are the top expert tips to keep you from getting stuck in a situation you don’t want to be in.

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Posted in Travel Safety

Top 10 Solo Female Travel Safety Tips.

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 152 Comments

Top 10 expert safety tips for solo female travellers.

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Posted in Solo Travel, Travel Lists, Travel Safety

Hitting The Language Barrier Hard When Travelling.

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 10 Comments

The language barrier is always a bit of a problem on any gap year, and learning a new foriegn language is not always easy, but as long as you make the effort and try, the language barrier can be overcome in more ways than you can imagine.

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Posted in Travel Talk

10 Things You Have To See And Do In Granada, Spain.

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 6 Comments

Granada in Spain is a huge cosmopolitan city with a ton of things to keep even the most ardent traveller occupied for weeks and no travel itinerary would be complete without at least a short stop here, so here are the top ten best things to see and do to help you maximise your time in this amazing, must see city.

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Posted in Travel Lists

Travel Safety Advice For Arriving At A New Destination.

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 18 Comments

For many travellers, arriving in a new city or country for the first time is often when they are at their most vulnerable, especially for those travelling solo. Here are some basic but expert travel safety tips that will decrease any risk to you and keep you safe.

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Dropping Out And Living The Yoga Life In Sri Lanka.

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 20 Comments

Ulpotha appears to be the ultimate yoga retreat, a health and wellness getaway in the middle of Sri Lanka. Is it all it is cracked up to be?

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Posted in Travel Health

10 Realities Of Quitting Your Job To Travel The World.

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 12 Comments

Quitting your job to travel the world is a romantic ideal, and one that is frequently pondered by almost everyone as they struggle with the morning commute on another wet and miserable Monday morning, but is the reality all it is cracked up to be? Read on to find out what actually happens when you do finally quit and get on that plane!

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Posted in Travel Lists, Travel Talk

Just One More Thing In Colombo.

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 39 Comments

A short visit to Colombo in Sri Lanka opened my eyes to what an amazing city it really is, and here is exactly why more backpackers should make it a part of their gap year itinerary.

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Posted in Destinations

A Gap Year Is For Life, Not Just When You Graduate!

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Bemused Backpacker — 4 Comments

A gap year is still seen as a privilege of youth, as an indulgence of time and lack of responsibility that only those just graduating from university or still in their early twenties can afford. At no time as that ever been more wrong than it is today.