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I’ve only just left but there’s already certain things I miss about backpacking South America through Ecuador and Peru, but also equally things I don’t – so here’s my Top 10 Things I Miss and Don’t Miss;   I DO miss the sun, yes it’s meant to be the beginning of summer, and yes I [...]

Backpacking travel is a very unique and amazing experience. It’s something that distinctively changes your perception on the world, the need to explore and most significantly the way you interact with people as a whole. For me travel presents a great opportunity to meet a whole heap of new faces, faces whose backgrounds, viewpoints and [...]

A few weeks ago I made the seemingly rash decision to travel Thailand on a 25litre rucksack. Literally nothing but. Camera gear, clothes, everything in a day sack! My mother thought I was nuts, as did my colleagues at work – but was this a stroke of deluded genius or simply an epic fail waiting [...]

It’s September – which means summer is all but gone (well actually did it really actually start properly?!) and winter is starting to envelop the UK. I’ve deliberately missed out Autumn as a season because lets face it summer was so half arsed it might as well not exist! The nights are drawing in faster [...]

I can’t believe it’s now only a week until I jump on a plane for my next backpacking adventure – this time to the chaos that is Thailand! I’ve kept you all in the dark somewhat about where I’ll be heading and what I’ll be getting up to so I thought it was about time [...]

This week the news has been filled with A Level results. Thousands have passed and dream of heading to university, yet due to the frankly quite stupid rules on tuition fees (cheers Lib Dems!) there’s a massive oversubscription for places. Which means unis have their pick of the bunch and thousands will be left stuck [...]

We’re all becoming more and more aware of the fact the whole world is going down the pan and the economy in Britain is pretty diar. So alot of people are heading abroad in the hope of making some dollar and escaping the suffocating mess our government has got us into. Yet it’s not just [...]

With my next adventure taking me to Thailand in less than a month I’m once again getting really stoked for traveling! Oddly enough it’s not the prospect of exploring South East Asia that’s the main reason for this excitement (although of course this is something to do with it!), the main reason behind my eagerness [...]

Throughout my travels I’ve also been on the lookout for a job that would allow me to continue on the road and earn a bit of dollar at the same time. I’m a photographer by trade and that’s been extremely good to me – I can literally base myself anywhere and work isn’t too hard [...]

s a traveller you enter a wonderful community of people from around the world – people from all manner of backgrounds, cultures and age groups. And with an abundance of people comes a whole new train of thought to tap into and experience. You’ll find throughout your travels that people have a huge range of [...]

Ok so we’ve dealt with where you might head and how you’re going to lug all your kit there – but what are you going to do once you’ve got there? Another massive divide amongst the backpacker world is how much planning you should actually do. And that’s what the third part of our Gap [...]