Whether you’re spending your summer holidays inter-railing around Europe, your gap year volunteering in South East Asia or you’ve taken a year off work for a round-the-world trip, it’s important to stay safe whilst travelling. Here are 5 safety tips for first time backpackers … Don’t Flash Your Cash. Although most places are tourist-friendly, you’re [...]

While they say the best way to learn a lesson is to learn from your own mistakes, we have a tendency to forget what we learn over a period of time. Sometimes, that’s a good thing – for example when we forget just how much a broken heart hurts, and throw ourselves right back in [...]

One thing we all have to buy before leaving on our long-term travels is travel insurance – traveling the world without an insurance is really not worth it in case something serious happens. But the travel insurance industry is like a jungle, it’s really difficult to know which one to choose and what they normally [...]

The word “cheap” can have many meanings – very often, the word is just a synonym for “crap quality”. Nobody, really, wants a cheap car.  Telling someone else that their car is “good value” is not a good compliment! But when it comes to cheap holidays, there is no shame – everyone wants the cheapest deal. [...]

Many of us have probably had the idea to teach English overseas for a year or so, some of us might even have tried to find some information about how it works. But often, that’s also where it normally ends. Not because we lost interest in teaching English abroad, but because …

Being a traveler and an environment hero is not easy – it’s close to impossible actually (anyone who wants to take on the challenge?). Since we became more aware of the destructive effect our lifestyles have, eco travel has become more and more popular …

I’ve traveled with quite a few different types of people, both friends, family and boyfriends. Some have been awesome, and some have been really terrible. Although I had an overall good time with them, I’ve often returned home promising myself never to do it again …

For us, as for many other travelers, taking a travel guide book with us on trips is a thing of the past. We haven’t traveled with a proper guide book for years, the first reason is that they’re often really heavy, bulky and take up a lot of space in your bag. Secondly, guide books give [...]