“Quit your job, sell your stuff, travel the world” is possibly our generation’s most misguided millennial mantra. Dramatically quitting your job to travel around the world with nothing but a backpack and a dream is often sold as a cure to all life’s problems. Unhappy with your 9-5? Travel. That…
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine,” – Rick Blaine. Having strutted into many dive bars in destinations worldwide, I’ve yet to have my steamy Casablanca moment, but I’ve had many a poor imitation. Intense travel romances have always been the…
After the monumental, unpredictable shitshow that was 2020, you would have thought predicting travel trends in 2021 was a fool’s errand? Despite corona cases hitting 2.33M in 2020, breezy emails from travel PRs assure me that ‘road trips’ and ‘wellness travel’ will be big in 2021. And here’s me thinking…
How do you deal with a lost year of travel when you happen to be a travel writer? It’s a burning question that has been on my mind for a while now. From my window I can see the rain is coming down in icy sheets, steadily drumming on the…
Romance on the road can be one of the biggest travel life lessons we can experience when travelling to new destinations and chasing our travel drams, Our romantic travel love stories can become a big part of our adventures and linger for years in our memories. I still fondly remember…
Travel has been my life since I was 18 years old. It has left an indelible mark on my soul and forever altered how I live. I was hooked from the first mildly chaotic solo trip to Paris at 18. Being alone in a busy city scared, thrilled and challenged…