How I got a free flight to Bilbao
If I´ve learned anything over the past two years, it´s to always trust your intuition. When four of us left the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao that sunny Saturday morning in July, after our first fresh...
View ArticleHow to travel twice as much for half the effort
I´m going to let you in on a little traveller´s secret. For minimum effort and maximum results, fool your friends and family into thinking you´re more well travelled than you actually are by making a...
View ArticleHow to tell when you’re in love
One day when I was walking through Seville I got goosebumps. I wasn’t cold, it was forty degrees. The goosebumps were the pleasant kind. The kind that make you want to skip, even though you haven’t...
View ArticleThe best of Tulum
Avenida Tulum, downtown Sunday Within 12 hours we had dubbed Tulum ‘paradise.’ “We” being two Australian blokes and myself. We were the only ones staying at La Cigana, a small hostel off Centauro...
View Article24 hours in Palenque
For the past two weeks I’ve been consistently told that Mexico is in it’s low season (apparantely hurricane season.) Tulum was quiet, definitely. But Palenque? Palenque was deserted. You wanna see a...
View ArticleI could look at you forever
I knew it would happen eventually. I hit a wall. A travel wall. Pretty much right in the middle of my trip, two and a half months after I first left London and two and a half months before I was due to...
View ArticleMy Top Five Worst Travel Experiences
I really hate a dramatic headline but this one really kind of sums up a post where I don’t sugar coat anything. Despite the fact it kind of implies that I’ve had a lot of terrible travel experiences...
View ArticleHow to take your friendship on the road
I hadn’t realised how used to traveling solo I was until Mark and I got to Iguazu Falls in Argentina. I queued for a ticket and only bought one. Another time, leaving Vienna with a group of, oh I don’t...
View ArticleHow I know I’m not done with travel
My best friend Kate used to talk about moving to England for a few years and doing some travel before she settled down and got married. The phrase bandied about between us a lot was, “Getting it out...
View ArticleA Girl in New York
A group of journos were sitting in the pub when Darren Hayes’ embarrassing nineties song came on the music video channel. I knew I loved you before I met you. Oh how sad and cliche we all laughed. Is...
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