Beyond a certain age (right about your late teens) the thought of travelling with your parents fills the average person with a sense of dread. The chance to holiday with friends on drunken adventures in Ibiza, backpacking around South East Asia or simply taking trips with a beloved understandably holds a far greater appeal than a trip with the old folks. Even though, like you, I have experienced much…
I have been travel writing for about four years. I follow several people who write about and promote travel on social media yet I have not once met someone, face to face, who does the same as me. So, when the opportunity came up to attend, holiday price comparison site, icelolly.com‘s Blog at the Beach event in Leeds, I snapped up the chance to take Pulped Travel out…
Apart from visits to Amsterdam and Cork to catch up with the friends I made on previous trips, I rarely return to a destination I have travelled to before. So, heading back to Copenhagen, the Danish capital ten months after first visiting was something out of the ordinary for me. My first visit, in the autumn, was brilliant! I fell in love with the city’s sights, the food…
I was mesmerised the first time I saw it. This was something that ‘spoke’ to me. The main protagonist felt the way I did and still do! I watched it again and again! And, this moment of revelation? Just a spoof music video by the Swedish house DJ behemoth, Avicii (and Nicky Romero)! The song, ‘I Could Be The One’ is brilliant and one of many successive hits…
In the 10 or so years I have been travelling solo, I have noticed a distinct change in the way we travel; a shift in how we negotiate the journey. Back in the summer of 2005, jetting off on my first big solo trip to Australia and New Zealand; a trip I had booked over the telephone. I worked my way north, up the coast from Sydney arranging…