To say 2013 was an eventful year in my backpacking lifestyle is a bit of an understatement. I’ve covered 12 countries spanning 4 continents – from the heat of the desert to the chill of...
To say 2013 was an eventful year in my backpacking lifestyle is a bit of an understatement. I’ve covered 12 countries spanning 4 continents – from the heat of the desert to the chill of...
Wow, this year has flown by hey?! It seems only yesterday that I was seeing in the new year in Morocco working as a surf instructor and now I’m sat in Thailand on a dive boat writing about my final...
A month or so ago I launched my 2013 reader survey off the back of things I learnt from the TBEX Blogger Conference. I had a great response from you guys and was stoked to read through all your...
Although I’m primarily a backpacking surfer I’ve found myself doing a lot of scuba diving in the last year or so. Perhaps it’s a way to keep close to the ocean whilst travelling in...
As a long term traveller I lead a rather odd life to say the least. Many people I know don’t really understand what I do or how I can be away for such prolonged periods and to be honest I can...
I often get asked by readers what I keep in my rucksack. It’s something I’ve written about a few times but recently I’ve made some rather big changes to both the way I travel and what I travel with...
It seems only yesterday that I was sat in Zurich airport with my stomach doing flips as I boarded my Easyjet flight. It was the most nervous I’d been in a long while. I was returning home after 18...
The TBEX event I hit up in Dublin last month gave me a few things to think about and implement – one of the major things I took away from it all was that the best way to find out what I...
After 18 months solidly on the road, spanning 12 countries and too many bottles of beer on the beach I returned home 2 weeks ago for a brief UK pitstop – attending the TBEX Travel conference...
I bounced back from the lovely land of Asia to surprise my family and friends in the UK and I’ve now been back nearly 2 weeks, 2 weeks of adjusting to life back in Devon, catching up with people and...
You might have noticed on my social media over the last week that I’ve been mingling with a lot of fellow travel bloggers – and there’s been heavy useage of the hashtag #TBEX – this has...
Backpacking long term isn't all cocktails and hammocks - so I thought I'd share some of my biggest fears about travelling long term...
Through this blog you’ve probably learnt alot about me (if you’ve just found yourself on the site check out the about me and start here page as well), how I travel and generally who the hell I am...
I’ve been moaning a lot recently over on twitter and to my unfortunate travel buddies about the amount of arduous overland journeys I’ve been taking in the last few months – specifically when...