Your itinerary is boring and it doesn’t matter
There is a lot of talk out there about boring itinerary’s and getting off the tourist track but contrary to popular belief, travel doesn’t need to be a game of destination one upping your friends. You need to ask yourself what you actually want out of your holiday. There are many reasons we go on holiday; to relax and unwind, to party, to explore a different culture, to see an amazing site, just to be somewhere different away from your responsibilities and none of those thing
Budget Airlines Need To Pull Their Pants Up
It is an unwritten rule of commercial travel bloggers to not write about negative experiences they have with specific companies. Luckily there is nothing commercial about my blogging, so I am free to share my experiences more openly and I think it’s time to call for some accountability by the budget airlines. Everyone who travels regularly has a story of incompetent customer service by the budget airlines. I have personally done a lot of travelling and consider myself lucky t
A Brief History of Travel
Human bodies are designed to move, ever since our ancient hunter and gather ancestors mastered farming we have found one reason or another to get us back on the road. Below is a very brief history of travel from fraught but essential for trade to modern yearly overseas vacations. The spoked wheel was invented around 5400 BCE though without an extensive roading system, ocean and river travel was still the most popular form of transport. Exploration in the early years was gener
The highs and Lows of travel blogging – where to from here
There are hundreds of articles out there telling you how to become a travel blogger and nearly as many telling you how nearly impossible travel blogging is. This is my frank account of my first 15 months as a relatively unsuccessful travel blogger and where I want to go from here to turn all that around. I started a travel blog for two reasons. I wanted to improve my writing by setting myself a regular schedule and taking feedback from a wide range of sources and I love trave
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