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How Can You Afford it?! (AKA – The Art of Funding Your Travel)

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…

Hostels and the Backpackers You Meet

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…

Embrace Your Fellow Traveller

As you might expect, being on the road as a solo traveller can be a lonely affair.  It doesn’t have to be and it is up to you to decide what you want from your trips.  Personally, I enjoy meeting people on my travels.  As I have mentioned before, I have been lucky enough to make (what I consider) some lifelong friends from my backpacking trips.  It is a great aspect…

Travel…One of Life’s Great Teachers

Travelling as an activity is a hugely satisfying leisure pursuit that can result in you seeing, tasting and experiencing much of what the World has to offer.  What has surprised me the most about travel, is how much I have got out of travelling. There is a danger this is going to sound like a CV or job application, but the things I have been lucky enough to…

USA…Tick! France…Tick! Azerbaijan…erm…

On a recent flight, I was surrounded by a party heading to Slovenia to…erm, party.  One of the group, exclaimed to the others a few minutes after we took off, “when we land, this will be my 50th country!  And, all before my 30th birthday too!”  The milestone birthday, it turns out, was being celebrated in Slovenia, so the girl in question made it to her target by a…