Long term solo travel on a budget.
Depending on your route, time schedule and goals, you could spend anything from a few hours to 7 days on the train. My longest was a 57 hour journey from Vladimir to Krasnoyarsk, followed immediately by a 17 hour journey to Irkutsk, and thankfully I was well prepared. Here's everything you need to know, and …
Continue reading "How to survive your Trans Mongolian adventure"
If you take the train regularly at home you might not even have to think about planning your journeys past choosing your departure time and destination. If only it was that easy to ride the Trans Mongolian. I first had the idea to ride one of the longest railways in the world while I was …
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It's no secret that humans are slowly destroying the planet thanks to global warming and a whole host of other problems we've caused, like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. According to Greenpeace, an estimated 12.7 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans EVERY YEAR."Travelling on ocean currents this plastic is now turning up …
Privilege can show in many forms for many people, but it's very prevalent in the travelling world today. With so many travel bloggers (myself included) telling people to "just quit your job and travel", do we really understand the meaning of privilege?
I previously wrote a post on things every traveller hates to hear, but us travellers are just as bad for talking sh*t. We want everyone to think our lives are perfect, but trust me, they aren't. If there's a traveller in your life and you want to know how they really feel, here are your answers. …
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Travelling changes you. It forces you to leave the comforts of home behind and step out into the unknown. You can read all the blogs and books you want, but nothing can prepare you for it. It makes you feel free, brave and incredibly bad ass. Coming home is a different matter. It's always lovely …
Continue reading "8 ways to get over your post-travel blues"
Here's an unnecessarily angry post about being a good human while travelling, fuelled by 8 years of wondering how some people even survive in life and also from doing some of them myself because I'm not perfect ok!?
