I want to get one thing straight from the start. I had avoided Japan, when the opportunity arose in the past, simply because I had perceived it to be too expensive a country to visit. Stories of sky-high accommodation costs and the need for bucket loads of cash for transport, food and activities had put me off heading to the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan’s reputation as…
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…
I have been getting myself a bit of a reputation, these past few years, among my friends, family and work colleagues. The gadabout, the one flush with cash and the line everyone says (or variants of)…”you’re always going on holiday!” Granted, I do take a fair few trips here and there, particularly in the last three years. Last year alone, I visited 7 countries and this year I…
When you travel, and especially when you travel solo, you are bound to meet a whole host of characters in hostels. I have touched on this in previous posts ‘The Freak Parade – Oddballs on the Road‘ and ‘Embrace Your Fellow Traveller…‘. What HostelBookers have done brilliantly is sum up the 15 types of weird and wonderful backpackers you are likely to meet in hostels. I would say I am…
Stockholm. The Swedish capital and home to superb architecture, great food and beautiful people! I explored the historical Gamla Stan, tried to be hip and happening in hip and happening Södermalm, wandered the rarefied streets of the Östermalm, strolled the Djurgården and sampled lots of great places to eat across this fantastic Scandinavian city. I took the free tour (as I always recommend), with a sweet, if a little hapless,…