Category: Thoughts on Travel
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The Journey Continues…
In June 2024 we quit our jobs to travel for one year. We’re now just over 7 months in and what a wild ride it has been, but not without it’s challenges. As everything on this blog will elude to, I LOVE travelling, it is 100% my happy place, but this year I’ve had to…
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We’re out and ready to go!
Wow, what a weekend!! What a week!! And honestly it still doesn’t feel real that we’re going… Dave sold his car this week, so this weekend we hired a car from the airport to help us with the last runs to the storage. Emptying the flat took a little longer, and a lot more boxes,…
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How to quit your job and go backpacking
The last time I went backpacking, I had just finished my PhD. I had been living for free in student accommodation as a welfare tutor, and I had next nothing in terms of wordly possessions. I remember thinking about what to do with my stuff, I already had a self-storage in the UK, since my…
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Is everyone who writes a travel blog a narcissist?
Ok that’s a bold statement, especially since I have my own travel blog, but it’s a serious thing that I have thought about a lot because, I don’t want to be, but I probably am… First of all, why do people write travel blogs? Having read quite a lot of ‘about’ pages and also thinking…
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How travelling ‘didn’t’ change me…
You see a lot of people talking about how travelling and backpacking for a prolonged period of time changes them. I’d like to talk about how I think travelling did the exact opposite. I didn’t change. In fact, travelling prevented me from changing… Just think about it. When we are younger, generally speaking, we have a…
Travel Alchemist 