2012 has been a pretty dam epic year for my backpacking travels and indeed the blog too! In the past 12months I’ve left rainy cold England behind and spent pretty much all year basking in the...
As a surfer I’ve long been fantasizing about taking an Hawaii vacation – arguably the most famous place on the planet to surf and the birth place of the sport that has consumed my life. All the...
As you may have already figured out from Mondays Photo of the Week I’ve said good bye to Switzerland (for now!) and I’ve headed off on the next leg of my RTW2012 adventure. I left Switzerland as I...
I first published my bucket list late last year and as with all things travel it’s snowballed since I’ve been back on the road backpacking again! I’ve added a few things here and...
If you know me, know my blog or simply stereotype me by the fact I’m male you’ll already know how useless at planning I am! …my travels are no exception! I worked at STA Travel for...
The post I did a couple weeks ago for the Travel Blog Relay got me thinking about what tops my list of travel memories and was a tough one to narrow down to 3 of the best. But it also got me thinking...
I’m sure I’ve featured this image as a Photo of the Week in the past – it was shot during my 6 month in the surf mecca of Byron Bay and it reminds me of heaps good times! But not...
It’s been going a couple of weeks now but my time to pick up the baton for Team Purple in the LowCostHolidays.com blogger relay – kindly passed to me by @laura_davies80 from...
Last week I ticked one of my most anticipated items off my bucket list – one of the pilgrimages of surfer worldwide – by heading out around Indonesia on a surf charter boat from Bali...
If you’ve been paying attention to my twitter feed over the last few days you’ll have noticed it’s been full of surfing updates – as I’m currently somewhere off the...
I’m currently kicking back in the sunny climates of Bali, Indonesia at the moment. It’s world renowned as a Mecca for surfers, unfortunately as a long boarder my options are rather...
Having finally left the beauty, surf and party scene that was my home in Montanita, Ecuador for the past 3 months it was going to be tough to find somewhere that matched it’s lure for me. I had no...
I’ve spent the last week of my travels at my first stop in Peru – the small surfing town of Mancora. It’s been great to simply chill out, not worry about work and enjoy the waves...
Last week I received an epic parcel from the USA – a big bundle of awesomeness courtesy of the guys at GoPro. I’ll be uploading a post very soon about their products and how they are an...
Every action in life has an opposite and equal reaction. You can call it many things – fate, karma, ying and yang. It’s how the world works. So it was pretty inevitable that with my epic dream...