Three stars! That is all it takes to please me. I write this blog post (in my Moleskine) as I lounge by the infinity pool in my three star hotel in Mauritius. Up to this point, I have apologised four times already for a number of things I need not apologise for; namely the numerous attentive staff just doing their job. As a regular user of hostels and…
You’re a virgin?! You mean you have never experienced one before?! A bit scared about it? Well…let me help you; I’ve done it loads of times before! With my advice, I guarantee you will have a pleasurable experience EVERY time! Is this sexual nirvana, I’m referring to? Nope…I’m talking about your first stay in a hostel. These FIVE top tips will help you through your first hostel stay.…
In my last post, I wrote about, and included some pictures, of my climb to the top of Zadar’s highest building, the Bell Tower at the Cathedral of St Anastasia. I gushed about how the ascent to the top of this fine bell tower afforded some fantastic views over the Old Town and across the sea to the islands that lie off Zadar. Even before I started the…
After two years of blogging about travel, I have realised I am writing in an overcrowded part of the Internet. Blogs about travel, independent travel, budget travel and backpacking are numerous. Many of those writing have established their space on the web longer than Pulped Travel and have reached further around the globe than I can possibly hope to do at this current moment in time. So, why…
Do you know that moment when you go shopping or to a bar in your home town and you bump into a member of your family or one of your friends? It is a nice surprise, isn’t it! Exaggerate that feeling a hundred times and add a ‘WOW’ moment; because that is what it is like when you meet those people on your journeys around the world. Over…