All posts by Sofia

What is a Hostel? When you are out exploring the world on your backpacking trip, staying at hostels is the best way for you to live for many reasons, the main one being that they’re always a lot cheaper to stay at than in the traditional hotels. Hostels are also a great way for you [...]

7 Reasons Why I Hate Traveling I love traveling, I really do. But there are parts of it that I can’t stand. I have to be honest and say that me and travel have a typical love-hate relationship. As well as bringing out the ‘best me’, traveling also has a habit of bringing out the [...]

Swiss Punctuality – Does It Make Life Easier? I used to always be the kind of girl who was late for everything. The closer I was to the place, the later I got there, since I often left when I was supposed to be there. I was a hopeless time optimist. But do you know [...]

The last 5 months we have been hiding in a tiny village called Scuol in the middle of the Swiss alps, surrounded by forest and high mountains. We made our decision to come here, just like we normally do – by a photo we saw online. You know one of those photos where you go [...]

The worst jetlag I’ve ever had was going from London to New Zealand, a 36 hour flight east. Now what does it matter that it was a flight going east? A huge matter, it makes almost all the difference between severe jetlag and no jetlag – although we didn’t know that back then. We could [...]

The funniest travel news from the past weekend comes (once again) from Ryan Air. Ah, what would travel news be without Ryan Air? Last friday a man travelling with Ryan Air from Krakow to East Midlands won 10 000 Euro on one of Ryan Airs scratchcards – and ate the winning ticket… yes I wrote [...]

It is now official – we will be leaving Switzerland in three weeks. The tickets are booked and some sort of travel plan has been made. On the 6th of March, after I’ve finished cleaning a holiday apartment (a 3-hour-job that pays for both mine and Nathan’s flight tickets. Gotta love the Swiss money!) we’re [...]

A new way of travelling is starting to emerge – some call it ”the rise of the voluntourist”. So what does being a Voluntourist mean? A voluntourist, also known as a chadventurer, is simply a tourist/traveller who combines travelling / backpacking around the world with volunteer work or fund raising for charity to help the [...]